Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05

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1213-Tirst regular English Parliament
assembled at Oxford.
1499-Perkin Warbeck. pretender to the
throne of England, executed at
Tyburn.
153S-Proclamation issued by Henry
VIII, declaring Thomas Beckett
not a saint.
1572-First Presbyterian meeting house
in England opened.
1621-The little ship Fortune from
England arrived at Plymouth,
Mass.
1644-Henry McMabone executed at
Tyburn for conspiring Irish mas
sacre.
1656-Treaty of Lebau signed by
Charles y. and the Great Elector.
1699-Treaty of alliance signed between
Peter of Russia and Augustus Ii.
of Poland
1712-Duel between Duke of Hamilton
and Lord Mohun. Both killed.
1737-Queen Caroline of England died.
1772-Three hundred chests of tea
thrown overheard at Boston be-
cause of the duty imposed by
England.
1777-ArticleS of Confederation of the
United States agreed to. =. Amer
lean Congress recalled Silas Deane
from Paris and appointed John
Adams. Passage of ~le 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 1871.
17S9-North Carolina ratified tho Con-
stitution of the United States.
1796-Catherine II. (he Great, en-
press of Russia, died at st. Pc
tersburg; born 1929.
1797-Thurlow Weed born.
1SO5-British and Russian forces land
in Naples.
1S06-Napoleon issued a decree declar-
ing the British Isles in state of
blockade.
1S11-Great riots at Nottingham, Eng
land. John Bright, great Eng
lish statesman, born.
1S13-Battle of Leipsic.
1S15-Second Peace of Paris.
1S16-Bells of Notre Dame, Paris, bap-
tised
1S34-Melbourne ministry dissolved.
1S4G-Cracow annexed to Austria.
1S4S-Assassination of Count Rossi, first
minister to Piux TX. at Rome
1S49-Steamer Louisiana exploded at
New Orleans Nearly 100 killed.
1S52-LabOs islands difficulty between
United States and Peru settled,
1S57-Relef of Lucknow.
1S62-Gen. Sumner demanded surreu-
der of Fredericksburg Va.
1864-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.
lS73-Encyclical letter issued by Plus
TX. against Old Catholics.
1SS3-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 IS degrees, 90
degrees, 105 degrees and 100 de-
grees west of Greenwich.
1SS6-Chester Alan Arthur, twenty first
President of the United States,
died in New York City; born 1880.
1SSu-Rear Admiral Charles II. Bald
win, Union naval veteran, died in
New York City; born there 1922.
1S91-Ex-King Milan Of Servia re-
nounced all rights to the throne.
1S93-Town of Kuchan, province of
khorassan, Persia, destroyed by
an earthquake; over 1900 peo-
pie killed.
1S94-Jose Salvador, anarchist who
threw bomb in Barcelona thea
ter and killed many persons, gar
roted.
1S91-Presldent Mckinley signed the
treaty adopted by the Universal
Postal Congress. Rev. George
Hendricks Houghton, rector of
the Church of the TRANSPORTATION
(the Little Church Around the
Corner, died in New York, AGED
II.
1S9S-Michigan State Supreme Court
declared boycotting illegal
1S99-Admiral Dewey transferred 10
his wife the Washington house
given him by the American people
-. Garrett A. Hobart, Vice Pres
ident of the United States, died
1901-James ]. Jeffries defeated Gus
Rubin in battle for the worlds
pugilistic championship at San
Francisco
l902-Attempted assassination Of King
Leopold of Belgium.
l903-A canal treaty with the new re-
public Of Panama signed at
Washington.
l9O4-King Edward VII. of England ar
rived in Portugal on a visit to
King Carlos.