The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1905-12-23

l2l3-First regular English Parliament
assembled at Oxford.
1499-Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the
throne of England, executed at
Tyburn.
153S-Proclamatio issued by Henry
VIII, declaring Thomas Beckett
not a saint.
l572-First Presbyterian meeting house
in England opened.
l621-The little ship Fortune from
England arrived at Plymouth,
Mass.
l644-Henry McMabone executed at
Tyburn for conspiring Irish mas
sacre.
1656-Treaty of Liebau signed by
Charles X. and the Great Elector.
l699-Treaty of alliance signed between
Peter of Russia and Augustus IL.
of Poland
Il1l2-Duel between Duke of Hamilton
and Lord Mohun. Both killed.
1131-Queen Caroline of England died.
1772-Three hundred chests of tea
cause of the duty imposed by
England.
1177-Articles of Confederation of the
United States agreed to. Amer
lean Congress recalled Silas Deane
from Paris and appointed John
Adams. Passage of the Amer
lean forts on Delaware river by
the British. Fort Lee, n. j., on
the Hudson, opposite upper New
York City, captured by the Brit
ish.
17S5-Sir David Wilkie, English paint
er, born; died 1841.
17S9-North Carolina ratified the Con-
stitution of the United States.
1796-Catherine II. 0he Great, en-
press of Russia. died at st. Pc
tersburg; born 1929.
1797-Thurlow Weed born.
1S05-British and Russian forces land
in Naples.
1S06-Napoleon issued a decree declar-
ing the British Isles in a state Of
blockade.
land. . John Bright, great Eng
lish statesman, born.
1S13-Battle of Leipsic.
1815-Second Peace of Paris.
1916-Bells of Notre Dame, Paris, bap-
tised.
1834-Melbourne ministry dissolved.
1846-Cracow annexed to Austria.
of Count Rossi, first
minister to Piux TX. at Rome.
1S49-Steamer Louisiana exploded at
New Orleans. Nearly 100 killed.
1852-Labos islands difficulty between
United States and Peru settled.
of Lucknow.
1S62-Gen Sumner demanded surren-
der Of Fredericksburg, Va.
1S64-Treaty of peace between Den
mark, Prussia and Austria rati-
fed Gen. Sherman began his
march to the sea.
1S66-First G. A r. post instituted at
Decatur, Ill.
1S7O-Duke of Aosta elected King of
Spain.
S73-Encyclical letter issued by Plus
TX. against Old Catholics.
lSS3-Standard time adopted in States
east of the Rocky mountains.
Four standards adjusted to be an
hour apart and to differ by exact
hours from Greenwich were
adopted The divisions are east
ern time, central time, Rocky |
mountain time and Pacific time,
being respectively rs degrees, 80 |
degrees, 105 degrees and 120 de-
grees west of Greenwich.
.SS6-Chester Alan Arthur, twenty -frst |
President of the United States,
died in New York City; born 1880.
SS8-Rear Admiral Charles H. Bald
win, Union naval veteran, died in
New York City; born there 1922.
691-Ex-King Milan of Servia re-
nounced all rights to the throne.
893-Town Of Kuchan, province Of
Khorassan, Persia, destroyed by
an earthquake; over 1900 peo-
pie killed.
SQ4-Jose Salvador, anarchist who
threw bomb in Barcelona thea
ter and killed many persons, gar
roted.
Mckinley signed the
treaty adopted by the Universal
Postal Congress. :. Rev. George
Hendricks Houghton, rector Of
the Church of the TRANSPORTATION
Cthe Little Church Around the /!
Corner, died in New York, aged
II.
State Supreme Court /
declared boycotting illegal 6
Dewey transferred to I
his wife the Washington house
given him by the American people |
80. Garrett A. Hobart, Vice Pres l
ident Of the United States, died
J. Jefries defeated Gus :
Rubin In battle for the worlds :
pugilistic championship at San
Francisco.
90S-A canal treaty with the new TO
public Of Panama signed at
Washington.
hdward VII. of England ar a
rived In Portugal ON q visit 10
King Carlos.