Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-12-21

lIl3-f lrSt regular LllSllsH aihahAohs
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 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
1G5G-Treaty of Liebau signed by
Charles X and the Great Elector.
| 1G99-Treaty of alliance signed between
Peter of Russia and Augustus ii.
of Poland.
I1112-Duel between Duke Of Hamilton
and Lord Mohun. Both killed.
1T37-Queen Caroline of England died.
1772-Three hundred chests of tea
thrown overheard at Boston be-
cause of the duty imposed by
England.
1117-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
ish
17S5-Sir David Wilkie. English paint
er, born; died 1871.
11S9-North Carolina ratified tho Con-
stituton of the United States.
1196-Catherine II. Ghe Great. en-
press of Russia, died at st. Pe-
tersburg; born l129.
1191-Thurlow Weed born.
1SO5-Brtish and Russian forces land
in Naples.
1SOG-Napoleon issued decree declar-
ing the British Isles in a state OK
blockade.
1S11-Great riots Mt Nottingham. Eng
land. John Bright, great Eng
lish statesman, born.
1Sl3-Battle of Leipsic.
1S15-Second Peace of Paris.
1S16-Bells of Notre Dame, Paris, bap-
tised.
1S34-Melbourne ministry dissolved.
1S46-Cracow annexed to Austria.
MISREPRESENTATION of Count Rossi. first
minister to Piux IX. at Rome.
1S49-Steamer Louisiana exploded at
New Orleans. Nearly 100 killed.
1SJo-Labos islands difficulty between
United States and Peru settled.
1S57-Relief 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. II. post instituted at
Decatur, Ill.
1S7O-Duke of Aosta elected King OF
Spain.
S73-Encyclical letter issued by Plus
TX. against Old Catholics.
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 15 degrees, 90
degrees. 100 degrees and 120 de-
grees west of Greenwich.
1SS6-Chester Alan Arthur, twenty first
President of the United States.
died in New York City; born 1880.
1SSS-Rear Admiral Charles II. Bald
win. Union naval veteran, died in
New York City; born there 1890.
1S91-Ex-King Milan of Servia re-
nounced all rights to the throne.
lS93-Town of KuchaI, province Of
Khorassan, Persia, destroyed by
an earthquake; over 1000 peo-
pie killed
lS94-Jose Salvador, anarchist who
threw bomb in Barcelona thea
ter and killed many persons. gar
roted
1S97-President 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 tho
Corner, died in New York, aged
a..
1SgS-Michigan State Supreme Court
declared boycotting illegal.
S99-Admiral Dewey transferred to
his wife the Washington house
given him by the American people
Garrett A. Hobart. Vice Pres
ident of the United States, died.
19O1-James J. Jeffries defeated Gus
Rubin in a battle for the worlds
pugilistic championship at San
Francisco.
19O3-A canal treaty with the new re-
public Of Panama signed at
Washington.
loO4-King Edward VII. of England ar
rived in Portugal on q visit to
King Carlos.