The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-12-31
CENTURY RECORD
WITHOUT PARALLEL
Review of Wars, Revolutions,
Explorations and Literature.

Nav YoRE. Dec. 3l.-This has truly
been an eventiul century. lte history
is marvellous, from whatever standpoint
it is viewed. The record OF even the
very most important events is lengthy
one. Here are some OF them
Wars and Revolutions
Battle of Ansteritz, Napoleon defeats
Austrians and Russians, 1906
Battle OF Trafalgar, Nelson sinks
French fleet, 1905
Moscow burned by the Russians to
entrap Napoleon, 1912.
Battle Of Waterloo Napoleon van.
qushed, 1915
Battle OF Navarino. securing Greek
independence, 1927,
Crimean war, Great Britain, France
and Sardinia against Russia, 1880
India mutiny, in which native so'-
dicra massacre English men, women and
children, 1857.
Franco-Aus war. 1859, followed
iy Garibaldi's campaign unifying Italy,
1900.
The great civil war in America, 1861.
d5 Surrender Of Lee to Grant at Ap
pomatox, April y, 1865.
Ausiro-prussian war Decisive battle,
Sadowa, July 3, 1866
Franco Prussian war Decisive bat.
tic, Sedan, September ], lS70 TO- 81
by federation Of German states By the
German Empire.
Russo-Tnrkish war. Battle Of Plevna,
December 10, 1877.
Rombardment OF alexandria by the
Britieh, 1882, followed by the occupation
Of Egypt
War between Chinese and Japanese,
1874.
American-Spantsh war, Manila, May
l, 1898; Santiago, July 3, 1893.
War by Great Britain against South
African republics, ls9gl9OO.
France becomes an empire, 1904; re
public, ls4s ian empire again, 1852 third
republic, 1870.
General outbreak Of revolutions
throughout Europe, ls4s.
Rome, seized from the pope, becomes
capital Of United Italy, 1870.
Exploration.
In the Artc: Expedition Of Sir John
Franklin, 1915 DE Long. 1879; Greeley,
1881 ;Peary, 1892; Nansen 1894 duke
Of the Abrazzi (furthest northl 1900.
In the Antartic .Biscoe, 1888 Balleny,
1888; D'Urville, 1910; Ross, lSil wilkes,
1912; Borchgrevink, 1898.
In Africa: Livingstone, 1910 73 Stan
ley, 1875 81; Speke and Grant, 1853.
In America: John c. Fremont's jour.
ney westward to the Pacific 1926.
Invention.
First steamboat, tine Clermont, made
a voyage from New York to Albany, 1867
the first steamboat to cross the Atlantic,
the Savannah, 1919.
First railroad, Stockton Il Darlington,
England. 1926 Baltimore 4 Ohio, four.
teen miles long, 1880.
Lighting the street by gas, tirst expert.
ment in London, 1907.
Electric light produced by Edison's
application OF subdivision, 1879.
The Mccormick reaper, invented 1894. |
llowe's sewing machine, 1916.
The electric telegraph, Samuel +. B.
Morse, 1887 First line in tine Uni ted |
States, 1874.
The FIRST telephone exhibited, 1876,
The phonograph, ls77.ss.
Cable laid across the Atlantic, 1857;
perfected 1856.
Electric railroad at Edison's home in
Menlo Park, 1880.
Photography, first experiments by
Daguerre, 1920. First successful por.
traits by Morse, 1880,
The spectroscope first used, 1902
perfected, 1859.
Rocntgen rays found to penetrate
solids, 1896.
Social ana ROmanltaran.
Slavery abolished ia the British do
minions, 1888
Alexander H., emperor OF Russia,
emancipates 2S,OOO,OOO serfs, 1861.
lincoln's emancipation proclamation
1862.
Firet international exposition in
lis de PaIk, London, 1851.
First settlement Of an international
quarrel by arbitration instead Of war
Alabama claims OF the United States
against EnglAndl, 1871,
Organization Of the Red Gross So
'loy at Geneva, 1894. Il
Organization OF the Woman's Chris.
ian Temperance union, 1873.
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