The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-04-07

1496-Henry VII. of England granted
patent to John Cabot.
1492--Jews banished from Spain By
Ferdinand V.
1539-Slr Nicholas Carew beheaded.
1595-Dr. Parry executed for plot to as
sassinate Queen Elizabeth.
1634-First colony arrived at Potomac
for settlement of Maryland.
1641-Archbisho Laud sent to the
Tower.
16S6-James II. of England forbade the
bishops to preach on controverted
points.
1714-Gibraltar and Minorca coded to
the English.
1716-Aurora borealis first seen in Eng
land.
.1770-Boston massacre.
1776-South Carolina instructed her del
egates for independence. 49,. Gen.
Washington fortified Dorchester
Heights.
1779-Americans defeated at Brier
Greek, Ga.
1I91-DiStrict of Columbia organized.
1S11-Massacre of the Mamelukes at
Cairo by Mehemet Ali.
1S15-Napoleon, having escaped from
Elba, landed at Cannes en- route 70
Paris. -. United States declared war
against Algiers.
1817-Suspension of habeas corpus act.
1S25-Great earthquake in Algiers lasted
five days.
1S30-William Cramp established his
shipyard at Philadelphia.
1S43-Congress of United States grant
ed $4,000 to Morse for telegraph
... Thames tunnel opened.
1S4S-Income tax riots in London.
1S49-Department of the Interior estab-
lished.
1854-City of Glasgow lost between Liv-
erpool and Philadelphia; $50 lives
lost. U. s. steamer Black Warrior
seized by Cuban authorities at Ha-
vana.
1S56-Free State Legislature in Kansas
constituted. -. COvent Garden thea
ter, Londbn, burned.
1857 Supreme Court decided bred Scott
1S61-Abraham Lincoln inaugurated
President of the United States.
1S62-Gen. Beauregard took command
of the Army of the Mississippi. =
1S63-Act of Congress suspended the
haheas corpus act during the Civil
War.
1S67-Terrible earthquake at AIetekene,
Levant.
1S68-Barnums museum burned at New
York.
1S69-Pardon Of Arnold and Spangler,
assassination conspirators.
1970-President Lopez of Paraguay de-
feated and killed at battle of Aqui-
daban. q
1S71--Congress set apart Yellowstone
valley. for a national park. -. Treaty
of peace between Germany and
France.
1973-Great fraud on the Bank of Eng
land discovered.
1878-Hot Springs, Ark, nearly destroy
ed by fire. Bland silver bill pass
1S79-President Hayes vetoed Chinese
restriction bill.
1S84-Great snow blockade on Canadian
Pacific and Grand Trunk railroads.
1SS5-General strike of Missouri Pacific
railroad employees.
Eruption of Mount Etna.
1SS7-China coded Chusan Island TO
Germany. =. Henry Ward Beecher
stricken with apoplexy. Score Of
lives lost in burning of steamer w.
II. Gardner near Gainesville, Ala.
-. Mrs. r. Druse hanged at Her
kimer, n. Y, for numbering her hus-
band.
1SS8-Local option, Kansas City, closed
every saloon for the first time.
1SS9-yiolent earthquake in South Amer
lea.
1S9O-British steamer Quetta sunk In
Torres Strait, Australia; 100 lives
lost.
New Orleans chief of police lynched
by mob.
1S94-Mr. Gladstone resigned as Prime
Minister of England.
1S95-Great fire in Toronto. :. japanese
carried Nechwang after a battle of
thirteen hours. Car of Russia
prohibited use of knout in furnishing
peasants.
1S97-Japan adopted gold standard.
19O5-John III. Regain, last surviving
member of Confederate cabinet, died
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