The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-05
SEVEN DAYS IN 81
AMERICAN HISTORY

151s-Fernando Magellan, the Portu-
guese navigator, sails on his
great voyage of discovery.
| 1703-Frencn and Indian outbreak
against Maine settlers; $50 per-
sons massacred or enslaved.
| 17S1-Livingston made the first Sec
rotary Of foreign affairs.
| 1821-President issues proclamation
admitting Missouri to the Union.
1861-Gen. Lyon killed in the battle
of Wilson's Creek, in Missouri.
August H.
164S-Lord Baltimore dismisses Green
the Catholic governor Of Mary
land, and appoints William
Stone, Protestant, to succeed
him.
1693-Abnald Indian war, in Maine,
ended.
1894 mob in Charlestown, Mass,
burns the Ursuline convent and
drives seventy nuns into the
the street at night, it being al
legged a giN was confined IN the
convent against her will.
1S52-The Free Soil party meets at
Pittsburg and dominates John
p. Hale, Of New Hampshire, for
president.
1S57-The Atlantic cable breaks, after
300 miles have been paid out.
August s.
1u9-Pineda enters the mouth of the
Mississippi river.
1583-Sir Humphrey Gilbert, leading
an expedition patronized by Sir
Walter Raleigh, lands at St.
Johns, Newfoundland, and takes
possession of the island in the
name of the English Queen.
1620-The Pilgrims sail from South
ampton in the Mayf1ower and
Speedwell; the latter vessel
leaks and compels the expedi-
ton to return to Dartmouth.
1857-Laying OF the Atlantic cable
commences at Valantia, Ire
land. =
185S@Atlantic cable successfully laid
between Newfoundland and Ire
land.
1864-Beginning of the naval battle
of Mobile Bay.
1867-President Johnson requests Sec
rotary Stanton to resign for
public considerations" but Stan
ton refuses.
|1885-New York suspends business
for three days to honor the
memory of Gen. Grant; funeral
procession six miles long.
August O.
16S9-The leading men of New Haven
adopt the Bible as the consti-
tuition of the colony, and exclude
nonchurch members from the
rights of citizenship.
17S6-F'irst issue of the Virginia Ga
zette, at Williamsburg.
177S-Gerard. ambassador from France
and first from any nation. intro
duced to Congress.
17S0-Andrew Jackson, aged fourteen
years, participated in his first
battle, an engagement with the
British at Hanging Rock, 8. c.
l7S7-A draft of a constitution, in
twenty'three articles, reported
to the convention sitting in
Philadelphia.
1So7-Joint occupation of Oregon by
American and British troops ex-
tended indefinitely by treaty.
1846-Wisconsln authorized by Con.
gress to form a constitution
and organize state govern
ment.
1S61-Congress passes an act confis-
eating all property, including
slaves, Of enemies of the Unit
ed States.
1S62-The Confederate ram Arkansas
hl0w,, I'M NV hor nfRoar. roor
Baton Rouge.
1S90-Wfiliam Kimmler, the first per-
son to suffer the death penalty
by electricity, executed at Au-
burn, N. Y.
August p
/ 1646-Gov. Calvert, of Maryland, de-
sends ON st. Mary's, and re-
captures the province from the
insurgents.
1679-Ia Sale sails in the Griffin
=, from Niagara on his voyage OF
discovery through the Great
IN Lakes 4ii-
17S9AThes WAR; department is organ
---'~ lied by congress.
1S46-Flrst prohibitory law against
the liquor traffic enacted by the
Democrauc legislature OF Maine.
1S55-Bloody riot in ST. Louis be-
tween the Irish and American
panty.
1S61-Col. U. s. Grant promoted to be
brigadier general of volun-
teers.
1S64-Gen. Phil Sheridan given COM
mand of the army Of the She
nandoah
1S93-The fifth-third congress con-
venes in extraordinary session,
called by President Cleveland,
to repeal the Sherman silver
purchasing law.
1S9S-The Rough Riders leave San.
tiago for Montauk Point.
August g.
1607-The second English colony
planted in Maine. at the mouth
of the Kennebec river. aban-
doned the next year.
1776-Paul Jones commissioned Z can