St. Landry democrat., 1891-04-25
TIMELY ANNIVERSARIES.
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April 10.

mus the greatest sch0lar III Europe.
l775-Battles of Lexington and Concord fought;
beginning of the American Revolutionary
186l-Bloody riots in Baltimore; 4 Federal SOL
diers killed and Is wounded; 10 citizens re-
ported killed and many wounded.
18eO-Henry NJ. Stanley reached Brussels and
was received at the royal palace with extra
ordinary honOrs.
April 30.
1sOs-Birth of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, son
IIortense. daughter of Josephine, known as
Louis Napoleon. Third BOnaparte."
1812-George Clinton, vice-president, died, aged
70; promoter OF the Erie canal.
convention met at Charles
166l-Destruction of Norfolk navy yard, arsen-
al. vessels, etc, begun; Union mass meeting
in New York city troops from all sections OF
the North fastening to Washington.
1S63-Battles at Celina. KY; Patterson, Mo; Nc
Mlnnviile, Tenn, and Butte La Rose, La.
1S65-Seventeenth Indiana, mOunted infantry,
OF Wilson's command, have sharp fight at 70
hosofkee, Ga; battle in progress same time at
Macon, Ga.
ApriI2I
1926 p. C.-Alcxander the Great and Diogenes
the Cynic died.
1lO9-AnSeln, the learned archbishop OF Can
trrbury, died.
1~142-Pierre Abelard, scholar, teacher and re-
former. died born 1919; his relations with
Eloist furnished the basis for many poems
anu EDUlaItfS.
lG6J-Jeal Racine, French dramatist. died.
l7r3-keginald Heller, poet-bishop OF Calcutta,
born died April 3, 1926; wrote From Green
lands ley Mountains.
1Sl6-Elarlutte Brontc born died 1855
1886 -i.nttle of -au Jacinto; $50 MtXicans killed
out of / 500 by 1873 American Texans. who lost
but y killed and rs wounded Texas indcpend-
tlrt secured.
1851" Panic sunday in northern states; COM
municatinns with Washington cut off and its
capture reported.
April 23.
l509-.ienry WI OF ENGLAND assembled the
throne born 1891. died 1917; beheadcd 2
" vrs, divorced 2 l died and one uutlived
him
Acknowledgements born at Stratford -on-Avon ;
G' Il Ii. re- \ prit 25. 1916.
i701-Henry FI,ldlng, dralnatist and novelist
Kant, German philosopher,
l79l-james Buchanan, fifteenth president born
at stony ga ter. Franklin county, Pa; died
at Lancaster June |, 1868.
lSI5-AnilreW &. Curtin, war governor of Penn
sylvaIia. born.
iS47-Grneral Worth captures Perote. Mexico;
Aiupuiia, wi h 5000 cavalry, retreats.
1S4S-ollips tIehlIs and terror, Of Sir JOIN
FIankllllS expedition, abandoned.
raiders tght at Ta]ladega, Ala.
l%89o-French defeated in Dahol,oy. with loss Of
so French soldiers aud 20 natives.
April 23.
997-Martyrdom OF st. Adalbert, bishop OF
Prague.
Caesar Sevliger, eminent scholar,
1Sl3-steplen Arnold Douglas, statesman, born
in Brandon, VT; died 1861.
ls20-Volney, French deist and philosopher,
died.
1S34-Chauncey Mitchell Depew. lawyer, rail
roai manager, orator and humorist. born.
s50-William Wordsworth, poet, died at Royal
Mount. England, aged so.
1S64-HarU fighting at Mpuafis RlnH and TloII.
%tierville, La. Banks Red river expedition.
1S72-Alexauder Robinson, chief Of the Potta-
Wattomles, died, 100 years old.
steamer burned at New Orleans;
so lives lost.
April "a.
1888 3. C.-Date assigned for the founding of
Rome it was taken Aug. "a. 4l0, by the GOths
under Alaric, and ravaged and taken in 455
by Genseric and the Vandals in 476 the en-
pre- was finally destroyed.
De Foe, author of =" Robinson Cru
soc" died; born 1861.
l843-Edmund Cartwright, inventor of tho
power loom, born ; died 1923.
of the battles of Lexington and
Concord reached New York city and excited
an immediate uprising.
s62-Admiral Farragut ran by Forts jackson
and st. Philip and commanded New Orleans.
cloud burst at GAINESVILLE, Tex,
covering large area several feet deep with
water and sweeping away many houses.
April 25.
l2s4-Edward II of England horn in Carnarvon;
assembled throne in 1907; murdered in a most
horrible manner Sept. 81, 1927.
l5e5-Torquato Tasso, Italian poet, died.
Cromwell born at Huntington Dec.
l6, 1868 he was made lord Protector of Great
Britain, ETC.; died at Whitehall Sept. 8,
l7s5-samuel Wesley, father of John and
Charles. died.
lsoo-Wiliam Cowper. poet, died; born Nov.
26, 1871.
ls64-Desperate battle at Marks Mills, Ark.
Federal brigade defeated and captured by
General Pagan (Steele's Arkansas campaign
April 90.
l521-Ferdinand Magellan Tor Magalhaen) died
Portuguese navigator.
l7l1-David Hume. historian and philosopher,
born died Aug. 25, 1776.
I726-Jeremy Collier, noted preacher and writer
against theaters, died.
lS19-Firs lodge of Independent Order Odd
Fellows in the United States organized at the
Seven Stars tavern, Second street, Baltimore
-" Washington Lodge, No. l."
Farrar Browne c' Artemus Ward y
born at Waterford, Me-. died 1867
IS64-Battle near Alexandria,, La: Banks re-
treating with heavy loss ludicrOus attempt
of Confederate infantry to capture a gunboat;
steele's command in battle same day at Moro
creek, Ark.
s65-Gen. Joseph Johnston surrenders near
Durham station, Orange county, N. c.; the
virtual end Of the civil war John Wilkes Booth
was killed the same day.
.S90-Emin Pasha started again for interior Al
RIGA with 600 pOrters and a large body of MI
bian soldiers.
April %.
4o4-Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, died;
born 1912.
737-Edward Gibbon, the historian, born died
1894.
794-Sir William Jones. eminent oriental schol-
ar, died born 1746 he recovered the Sans
krit language, translated the sacred books of
India and founded the present system of
philolOgy.
s05-General William Eastou, with a motley
force of Americans, Greeks aud Arabs, storm
ed and captured Derne, T1ipoli; first time the
United States flag was raised oyer a foreign
S63-Coloned Streight started on his raid from
Tuscumbla, Ala; captured May Q; on the
same day General stonenlan began his raid in
Virginia.
s70-RevolutiOn in Venezuela successful Gen.
eral Guzman Blanco made provisional presi
dent.
April 2s.
5O9-Henry VIII of England began his reign.
s62-Battles at Cumberland Mountain and
Monterey, Tenn; & 'nfederate troops in Forts
Jackson and St. Philip, La, mutlny and COM
pei surrender. $500 N''
s75-Fire at Oshkosh, Wis, destroyed 81, OoO, 900
worth OF property.
April 20.
" of England born at Rouen:
died April 8. 1883; he established the House
of York on the throne, ordered g no quarter"
at Towton, and 10000 Lancastarians were
slaughtered.
s5e-WaF in Italy begun by Austrian army
crossing the SieinO.
'63-Territ1c bombardment OF Grand Gulf,
Miss; Grants Vicksburg campaign.
April 80.
24-Chevalier Bayard killed.
's9-George Washington ~inaugurated first
president of the United States.
Cavalry tghts-one in advance OF
each Federal army 10 the Acid,
'64-Sanguinaay battle at Jenkinson's ferry,
Saline river, Ark. l5teele's commandl Feder-
al loss in killed and wounded 800, Confederate
unkI0Wn. |,
In Paraguay with much blood
shed political revolution results.