The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
MEMORABLE DATES IN HISTORY.

iJ3 FOundatiOn OF Rome.
JSS Jerusalem was taken by Ncbuchad-
nczzar.
$50 Restoration of the Jews under Cy-
500 Expulsion of the Taruuins from
Rome.
4SO Xerxcs defeated Greeks at Their
mopylaC.
So Caesar conquered Britain.
Birth OF Jesus Christ.
A. D.
20 The Cruclfxion.
20 Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus.
3l3 Constantine converted to Christian
ity.
40 The Romans abandoned Britain
S27 Egbcrt. first king of all England.
1866 Battle of Hastings. Norman Con-
quest.
1906 The crIsades began.
ll72 ireland was conquered by Henry H.
1915 King John granted the Magma
Charta.
1860 First representative Parliament IN
England.
1il5 Battle of Agincourt
1881 Joan of Arc was burnt.
1ij3 Constantinoplc was taken by the
Turks.
1455 The Wars of the Roses began.
1iG2 The Bible was first printed at Mcntz.
1i7l CaXton set up his printing press.
1iSG The feuds of York and Lancaster
ended.
1892 Columbus discovered America.
1917 The Reformation began in Germany
1919 Cortez began the conquest of Mex
leo.
1885 The first English Bible printed.
1888 Monastcrics were closed i'm England.
155S Accession of Queen Elizabeth
1868 Revolt of the Netherlands began.
1872 The St. Bartholomew Massacre.
1888 The Spanish Armada was defeated.
1908 Union of England and Scotland
1905 The Gunpowder Plot in England.
1907 jamestown. Va. was settled.
1909 Hudson river first explored.
1916 Shakespeare died
1ClS Thirty Years War in Germany be-
gan.
1920 Pilgrims by the Maynower landed.
1923 Manhattan Island settled
1894 Maryland settled by Roman Cath
1896 Rhode Island settled by Roger VIII
liams.
1910 Cromwclls Long Parliament assem-
bled.
1919 Charles I was beheaded Jan. 80.
1868 Olverr Cromwell became Lord Pro-
tector.
1860 Restoration of the Stuarts.
1904 New York was conquered from the
Dutch.
1866 The great plague of London.
1879 Habeas Corpus Act was passed in
England
1852 Pennsylvania settled by William
Penn.
1856 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
1858 James II abdicated.
1859 Battle of the Boyne
1890 First newspaper in America, at Bos-
ton.
1904 Gibraltar was taken by the English.
1913 Peace of Utrecht
l7ll Accession of the House OF Hanover.
Ills First Jacobite Rebellion in Great
Britain.
1920 South Sea Bubble.
l145 Battle of Fontenoy.
l7i5 Second Jacobite Rebellion in Great
Britain.
1876 The Black Hole Suffocation in Cal
cutta.
l757 Give won the Battle of Plassey in
India.
1854 Canada was taken from the French.
1866 Stamp Act Enacted.
l713 Steam engine perfected by Watt.
l173 Tea destroyed in Boston Harbor.
l175 Battle of Lexington. April 10.
l775 Battle of Bunker Hill, June Il.
1916 Declaration of Independence, July 1.
III Burgoyne's surrender, october II.
l779 Captain Cook was killed.
17Sl Cornwalrs surrender at Yorktown,
October 10.
l7SS First settlement in Australia.
1883 The French revolution began.
1889 Washington first inaugurated Prcsi-
dent
1898 Cotton-gin invented by Whitney.
1893 Louis XVI. of France was executed.
1896 Vaccination was discovered by Jcn-
ner.
1898 The Irish rebellion.
1893 Battle of Seringapatam; death of
Tippoo.
1899 Bonaparte declared first consul.
1903 Louisiana purchased from the French
1904 Bonaparte became emperor of the
French.
1905 Battle of Trafalgar and death of
Nelson.
1907 Fulton's first steamboat voyage.
1872 Second war with Great Britain be-
gan.
1913 Perry's victory on Lake Erie.
1914 The printing machine invented.
1914 Scotts "Waverley" published.
1915 Battle of New Orleans, January s.
1915 Battle of Waterloo, June IS.
1919 First steamship crossed the Allan
tic.
1921 Missouri compromise adopted
1923 Monroe Doctrine declared, Dec. >.
1928 First pF ssenger railroad in the Uni
ted ates.
1880 Revo' .ton in France, Orleanist sue
Ce sion.
1882 So'.th Carolina Nullifcation Ordi-
nance.
1885 Morse invented the telegraph.
1885 Seminole War in Florida began.
1887 Accession of Queen Victoria, June 20.
1S45 Texas annexed.
| 1916 Sewing machine completed by Elias
Howe.
1916 The Irish Potato Famine.
1916 British Corn Laws repealed.
1916 War with Mexico began.
1913 French Revolution. Republic sue
CeCded.
lS4S Gold discovered in California.
1851 Gold discovered in Australia.
1851 Louis Napolean became Emperor.
1851 First International Exhibition, Lon
don.
1853 Crimcan War began.
1857 The Great Mutiny in India.
1857 The Dred Scott decision.
1859 John Browns raid in Virginia.
| 1860 South Carolina seeded, Dec. 20.
1861 Battle of Bull Run, July q.
1851 Emancipation of the Russian scrfs.
1868 Lincolns Emancipation Proclama-
tion, Jan. l.
| 1868 Battle of Gettysburg
1865 Lee surrendered at Appomatto%,
April 0.
1866 President Lincoln assassinated, April
1866 Battle of sadowa. Prussia beat
Austria.
1867 Emperor MaXimilian of Mexico ex-
| ccuted.
| 1867 The Dominion of Canada established
| 1870 Franco-Germa War began,
| 1870 Capitulation of the French at Sedan.
| 1870 Rome became the capital OF Italy.
| 1871 The German Empire was re-cstab-
| lshed.
| 1871 The Irish Church was discstah-
| lshed.
| 1871 The great fire i'm Chicago.
| 1872 Centennial Exposition at Philadel'
| phia.