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mouth of the Rio Janeiro river.
15l5-Louis MI. of France died
l52l-Martin Luther accommodated.
1523-Knights of Malta driven from
the Island of Rhodes by the
Turks.
Io4o-Henry VIII. married to Anne,
| daughter of Duke of Cleves.
l5S9-Catherine De Medici died.
l6o4-Jesuits reinstated in France.
1649-Anne of Austria, Queen Regent
OF France, fed from Paris to st.
German.
l6ol-Charles II. crowned King of Scot
land.
l66l-FIrst appearance of women actors
said to have been made at Lin
coin Inn Fields theater, London.
1695-Marshal Luxembourg died
169S-Whitehall Palace, London, de-
stroyed by fire.
1717-Triple alliance formed by Eng
land, France and Holland.
1l24-Philip V. of Spain abdicated in
favor of his son.
1725-Pope Benedict NH. opened the
Holy Gates.
1129-Many persons killed or injured as
result of great fog enveloping
| London.
1135-Paul Revere born.
| 1I3I-John Hancock born.
1140-Benedict Arnold born.
1745-Gen. Anthony Wayne born.
lI3I-Attempt made to assassinate
Louis Nv. of France.
1157-Calcutta retaken by the English.
| 1762-England declared war against
Spain.
177G-Union flag raised at Cambridge,
Mass.
lUI-Battle between American ana
British forces at Princeton, n. j.
17S1-French invaded island of jersey
and met with defeat.
17S4-Treaty between United States and
Great Britain signed.
17S7-Arthur Middleton, one of the sign
ers of the Declaration of indie
pendence, died.
17SS-Georgia ratified the constitution
of the United States.
1193-State canal of Pennsylvania be-
gun. Alien bill passed in Eng
land. >. Third partition of Poland
arranged between Russia, Austria
and Prussia.
1795-Josiah Wedgewood, inventor of
Wedgewood ware, died.
179S-American Congress made gift of
ST., 800 to Kosciusko, the Polish
patriot who aided in the American
revolution
1SO1-Union of Great Britain and Ire
land.
1S04-Insurrection of Irish convicts in
New South Wales. ...s..--
1S06-Breslau surrendered to the French.
1S14-Dantzic surrendered to Duke of
Wustemberg.
1S22-Declaration of independence by
the Greeks.
sS25-Ferdinand ", King of Naples,
died.
1S2S-Fall of the Villele ministry in
France.
1S29-Protests received at Washington
against dispatch or delivery of
mails on the Sabbath. -. Forty
killed in a mine explosion at
Lyons, France.
1S30-Methodism first introduced in
Germany.
1S35-First newspaper issued in Buffalo,
n. Y. f.. Charles Lamb died.
1S42-English began retreat from Cabul.
1S43-Steven T. Mason, Ex-Governor of
Michigan, died.
1S4S-Girard College, Philadelphia,
opened. -. Instruction at Mes
sina, Sicily.
1949-Discovery of the magnetic clock
by DR.. Locke of Ohio.
1S53-Gen. Aristas resigned and Ceval-
los chosen president of Mexico. -.
Spain enacted stringent law
against liberty of the press,
1S54-French and English fleets enter
the Black sea on their way to the
Crimea.
1S55-Victoria Bridge across st. Law
renee river carried away by ice.
of the Archbishop
of Paris (Sibous).
1S63-State of West Virginia admitted
to the Union.
1S75-Trial of the Beecher-Tilton case
begun. =. .Garibaldi refused pen
sion from Italy ON account of ma
tons low finances.
85-Earthquake shocks felt in Mary
land, Virginia and New Hamp-
shire. -. Archbishop Ryan of
Philadelphia invested with the
pallium.
1S91-Emma Abbott, famous opera
singer, died. d. j.. Settlement of from
tier dispute between Persia and
Afghanstan.
1S93-Last spike driven in the Great
Northern extension to the Pacific
coast.
1895-Million dollar fire at Toronto, Ont.
-. Many lives lost in great storm
on English coast . . Mrs Mary T.
Lathrop, w. C. 7. U. leader, died.
189S-John d. Rockefeller donated
100000 to University of Chicago.
1899-Formal delivery of Cuba to the
United States.
1900-Gen. Leonard Wood released forty
prisoners unjustly detained in Gu
ban jails. British steamer Glas-
cow sunk in collision in Dover
Straits.
1901-Philip D. Armour, Chicago mill
ionaire, died.
1904Confederate Gen. Longstreet died.
The steamer Oueen Civ from tha