Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-12-22
Leading One Hundred Events
%=of the Closing Century.

Christian Herald: An eventful cen
fury truly has beer this nineteenth
century of the Christian era, now with
N q month OF its close. From whatSo-
ever standpoint II is regarded, its his
tory is marvellous. In the knowledge
we have gained during its progress OF
our own globe IL stands unparalleled.
There has been wonderful progress,
also, in science, In education n In
adaptation of natural forces to human
purposes. Political and territorial
changes, too, hay made this a very
different world from that Of 1900. 1t is
not possible In small space to even mem
ton the vents which make the cen-
fury memorable, but IL may be inter-
esting to recall a hundred, which, If
not the most important, are those that
have had the greatest influence in
shaping and developing the condition
OF the nations.
Wars and Revolutions.
Battle OF Austerlitz, Napoleon de-
feats Austrians and Russians, 1905.
Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson sinks
French fleet, 1895.
Moscow burned by the Russians to
entrap Napoleon, 1872.
Battle OF Waterloo, Napoleon van
quishei, 1915.
cattle OF NaYarino, occurring Greek
Independence, 1927.
Crimean war, Great Britain, France
and Sardinia against Russia, 1885.
India mutiny, in which native SOL
diers massacred Ell fish men, women
and children, 1857.
Franco-Austrian war, 1859, followed
by Garibaldi campaign unifying
Italy, 1860.
The great civil war in America, 1851
%. Surrender Of Lee to Grant at APP
pomattox, April 3, 1865.
Au~stro-Prussian war. Decisive bat
tie, Sadowa. July 3, 1Sc6.
Franco-Prussian war. Decisive bat
tie, Sedan, September /, 1870; followed
by federation Of German states in Ger
man empire.
RusSo-Turkish war. Battle of PleV-
ma, December 10, 1877.
Bombardment of Alexandria by the
British, 1882, followed by the occupa-
ton of Egypt.
Wal between Chinese and Japanese,
1894.
America-Spanish war, Manila, May
/, 1898; Santiago, July 3, 1898.
Wan by Great Britain against South
African republics, 1S90-19GO.
Franco becomes an empire, 1904: a
republic, 1913; an empire again 1852;
third republic, 1870.
General outbreak of revolutions
throughout Europe, 1S4S.
Rome, seized from the pope, becomes
capital of United Italy, 1870.
Exploration.
In the Arctic: Expedition of Sir John
Franklin, lS45; De Long, 1879; Greedy,
1881; Pcary, 1892; Naneen, 1894; duke of
Abruzzi (farthest north), 1900.
In the Antarctic: Biscoe, 1881; BAL
leny, 1898; D'Urville, 1870; Ross, 1S4l;
wilkes, 1912; Borchgreyink, 1888.
In Africa: Livingstone, I840-73,
Stanley, ~1S75-S7; Spoke and Grant, 1868.
In America: John G. Fremont's jour
ney westward to the Pacific, 1S42-46.
invention.
First steamboat, the C,ermont, made
a voyage from New York TO Albany,
1907; the first steamboat to cross The
Atlantic, the Savannah, 1919.
First railroad, Stockton and Darling
ton, England, 1925, Baltimore and Ohio,
fourteen miles long, 1890.
Lighting the streets by gas, first eX-
pertinent in London, 1907.
Electric lights produced by Edison's
application Of subdivision, 1873.
The Mccormick reaper invented
1884.
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The electric telegraph, Samuel +. b.
Morse, 1887. First line in the United
States, 1914.
The telephone first exhibited, 1876.
The photograph, lS77-SS.
Cable laid across the Atlantic, 1857;
perfected, 1896.
Electric railroad at Edison's home at
Menlo Park, 1880.
Photography: First experiments by
N .ar,. 1000 Ltrgf e.,,annaf,,l NOR
traits by Morse, 1889.
The spectroscope first used, 1902; per-
feCted. 1889.
Roentgen rays found to penetrate
solids, 1896.
Social and Humanitarian
Slavery abolished in the British do
minionS, 1888.
Alexander III. emperor of Russia,
emancipated twenty-tEree million
serfs, 1861.
Linco!n's emancipation proclamation,
1862.
First international exhibition in
Hyde park, London, 1851.
First settlement of an international
quarrel by arbitration instead of war
alabama claims of the United States
against England), 1871.
International Peace Congress sum-
moned by Russia, meets at The Hague,
1899.
Organization Of the Red Cross So
ciety at Geneva, 1864.
Organization Of the Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union, 1878.
First college settlement established,
1866.
The Christian Herald adopts 5000
children orphaned by the India famine,
1900.
Religious.
Organization of the American Board
Of commissioners for Foreign missions,
1870. First missionaries sent out, 1911.
Organization of the first Sunday
school union in London, 1903. Ameri-
can, 1924.
British and Foreign Bible Society
founded, 1904.
American Bible Society organized,
1916.
First Young Mems Christian associa-
ton established by George Williams in
London, 1874.
The InquisitiDn abolished by the
Spanish Cortes, 1920.
Beginning of the Salvation army,
1905.
Doctrine of papal infallibility formal
ly Endorsed by the Ecumenical council,
1870.
Bible Revision: New testament is
sued, 1881: Old testament, 1885.
Organization of the first Yourg Peo-
pies Society of Christian Endeavor,
1881.
Organization Of the Order of Kings
Daughters, 1886.
Disasters.
Earthquakes: Caracas, 1872; India
1900 persons killed., 1919; Canton,
China 5000 perished), 1890; Calabria
Q,000 persons huried), 1895; San Do
,,;,un ~ Onn liIlndN 1910. gnt,tharp