The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-31

Sept 1, 1870; followed by federation Of German
states by German empire.
Russo.Turkish war. Battle Of Plevna, Dec. TO-
1877.
Bombardment Of Alexandria by the British
1882, followed by the occupation of Egypt.
War between Chinese and Japanese, 1891.
American.Spanish war, Manila, Nay I, 1903;
Santiago, July 8, 1s9s
War by Great Britain against South African
republics, 1s00l90O.
France becomes an empire, 1904; republic
1S4s; an empire again, 1852; third republic, 1870.
General outbreak Of revolutions throughout Eu
rope, 1s4s.
Rome. seized from the pope, becomes capital
Of United Italy, 1870
EXPLORATION.
In the Arctc Expedition of Sir John Frank.
lin. 1si5; De Long. 1870; Greeley, 1881; Pcary,
1892; Nanscn, 1894; Duke Abrazzi Qurthcst
north) 1900.
In the Antarctic: Biscoc, 1881; Balleny, 1898;
D'Urville, 1906 Ross, 1871; Wilkes, 1912: Borch.
grevink, 1898.
In Africa: Livingstone. 1s4O.73; Stanley, 1875.
81: Spekc and Grant, 1863.
In America: John G. Fremonts journey west.
ward to the Pacific 1si2.46.
INVENTION.
First steamboat, the Clermont, made a voyage
from New York to Albany, 1867; the first steam
boat to cross the Atlantic, the Savannah, 1910.
First railroad. Stockton and Darlington, Eng.
land, 1926; Baltimore and Ohio, fourteen miles
long, 1880.
Lighting the street by gas, first experiment in
London, 1907.
Electric light produced by Edisons application
OF subdivision, 1873
The Mccormick reaper, invented 1884.
lIowe's sewing machine 1S46
ola tnto all,
1897 First line in the United States, 1S44.
The first telephone exhibited, 1876.
The phonograph, 1s77.ss.
Cable laid across the Atlantic, 1867; perfected,
1906
Electric railroad at Edsons home in Menlo
Park 1880
Photography, first experiments by Daguerrc,
1920 First successful portraits by Morse, 1880.
The spectroscopc first used, 1902; perfected 1850.
1859.
Rocntgcn rays found to penetrate solids, 1906.
SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN.
slavery abolished in the British dominlons,
1888.
Alexander H., emperor OF Russia, emancipates
%. .00O,0 900 scrs, 1891.
Incoln's emancipation proclamation, 1862.
First international exposition in Hyde Park,
London, ISL.
First settlement of an international war by
arbitration instead of war alabama claims Of
the United States against England), 1871.
International peace congress summoned by Rus
sia meets at The Hague, 1890.
Organization of the Red Cross society at Gene
va. 1861
Organization OF the Womens Christian Tenn
pcrancc union, 1873.
First college settlement established, 1866
RELIGIOUS.
Organization of the American board Of COM
missoners for foreign missions, 1910. First mis-
sionaries sent out ISL
Organization of the first Sunday school union
in Londcn, 1903. American. 1924.
British and Foreign Bible society founded
1901.
American Bible society organized, 1916.
First Young Mems Christian association estab-
lished by George Williams, in London 1Sl4.
The inquisiton abolished by the Spanish cor
ties. 1920.
Beginning cf the Salvation Army, 1865.
Doctrine of papa infallibility formally en-
tlorsed by the ccumcnical council, 1870.
Rible Revison New Testament issued, 1851
Old Testament, 1856.
Organization OF the first Young Peoples Soci-
city OF Christian Endcavor, 1851.
Organization of the Order Of Kings Daugh-
tcrs, 1sSC.
DISASTERS.
Earthquakes: Caracas, 1872; India (2,OOO per
sons killed., 1919; Canton. China (G,0Oo per-
ishcd), 1880; Calahria Q,d)0 persons burcd)
1885; San Domingo 5000 killed., 1912; South
crn Italy Q4.0o0 lives lcsD, 1852; Calabria
10000 killed.. ls57 Quito 5000 deaths), 1885,
Mendoza, South America (7,O0O deaths), 1850;
Manila Q,0OD deaths), 1868; Mitylene Q,0c0
deaths), 1867; Arequipa and district (25,Oc0
,leaths), 1865. San Jose, Colombia $4,000
Ia 4 1 thsN
micciola q, 800 deaths), 1883; Charleston, S. c.
tproperty worth S5,0OOOOO destroyed and II
lives losD, 1857; in the Riviera (2,OOo deatlls),
1857; Japan 4OO0 deaths, 5000 wounded) 1891
Famines: Ireland 1916; Russia (America
contributed through the Christian Herald, a car
so of corn, sent on board the Lco), ls0l in
India, 1887, 1860, 1865, 1865, 1876, 1897. 1892
The great fire in Chicago 1871.
The Conemaugh flood, destroying ,Iohnstown,
Pa, 1859.
Tidal wave and tornado at Galveston. Texas,
1900.
Tidal wave in Japan sweeps away 5000 houses
and kills 2.4l0 persons, 1850.
CRAFTSMANSHIP.
President Monroe propoundcd the doctrine that
bears his name, 1928.
Sir Robert Peel, premier of Great Britain,
1884.
John Sherman, United States secretary OF the
treasury, resumes specie payments. 1870
Abraham Lincoln elected president United
States, 1860.
W. H. Gladstone becomes premier OF Great
Britain, 1865
Bismarck made president of the cabinet, Prus-
sa, 1862.
Count Cavour, libcrator Of Italy, appointed
premier, 1852.
Louis Kossuth, dictator Of Hungary, lsio.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Gold discovered in California, 1sis; in Aus,
tralia 1851; in the Transyaal, 1851; in the
Klondike, 1897.
Diamond mines worked In the Transvaal, 1870
Opening OF the Mount Gents tunnel, 1871
Last spike OF the Union Pacific railroad driven
1869.
Opening OF the suez canal, 1860,
Alaska ceded by Russia to the United States
1867.
Maximlian executed in Mexico, 1867.
Expulsion OF the emperor from Brazil.
Assassinations; Lincoln, 1865; Garfield, 1851 |;
Emperor Alexander II, 1881; Carnot, president
of France, 1854, shah Of Persia, 1896; King
Humbert OF Italy, 1900
Massacre OF Christians in Armenia, 1895.
Massacre OF missionaries and converts in China,
1900.
Vaccination legalized, 1903.
Paseur discovers remedy for hydrophobia by
incubation, 1851.
LITERATURE.
Goethe publishes Faust" 1903
Victor Hugo writes "Les Miserables," 1869
Thomas Carlyles 'lIistory OF the French Rev.
olution," published 1887.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays, ls4l-1.
John Ruskin's "Modern Painters" published
1880.