Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20

1Ivo -lIeAty H. VI Englanu granted u
patent to John Cabot.
1492-Jews banished from Spain by
Ferdinand V.
| 1539-Sir Nicholas Carew beheaded
15S5-Dr. Parry executed for plot to as
sassinate Queen Elizabeth.
1634-First colony arrived at Potomac
for settlement of Maryland.
1641-Archbishop Laud sent to the
Tower.
16S6-James II. of England forbade the
bishops to preach on controverted
points.
1714-Gibraltar and Minorca ceGed to
the English.
| 1716-Aurora borealis first seen in Eng
land.
| 1770-Boston massacre
1776-South Carolina instructed her del
egates for independence. :. 8. /. d. Gen.
Washington fortified Dorchester
Heights.
1779-Americans defeated at Brier
Greek, Ga.
1791-District of Columbia organized.
| 1S11-Massacre of the Mamelukes at
Cairo by Mehemet Ali.
1S15-Napoleon, having escaped from
Elba, landed at Cannes Ell route 20
Paris. United States declared war
| against Algiers.
| 1S17-Suspension of habeas corpus act.
1S25-Great earthquake in Algiers lasted
five days.
1S30-Willian 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-Departplent of the Interior es.ab-
lished.
1S54-City of Glasgow lost between Liv-
erpool and Philadelphia; $50 lives
lost. III Il. S. steamer Black Warrior
seized by Cuban authorities at Ha-
| vana.
1SJG-Free State Legislature in Kansas
constituted. =. Covent Garden thea
ter, London, burned.
1S57-Supreme Court decided bred Scott
case
President of the United States.
1S62-Gen. Beauregard took command
of the Army of the Mississippi.
1S63-Act of Congress suspended the
habeas corpus act during the Civil
War.
1S67-Terrible earthquake at Aletekenc,
Levant.
1S6S-Barnum's museum burned at New
| York.
1SG9-Pardon of Arnold and Sprrgler
assassination conspirators.
1870-President Lopez of Paraguay de-
feated and killed at battle of Aqui-
daban.
1ST1-Congress set apart Yellowstone
valley for national park g. . Treaty
of peace between Germany and
France.
1S73-Great fraud on the Bank of Eng
land discovered.
1S7S-Hot Springs, Ark, nearly destroy
ed by fire. -. Bland silver bill pass
ed over the Presidents Veto
1S79-President Hayes vetoed Chinese
restriction bill.
1SS4-Great snow blockade on Canadian
Pacific and Grand Trunk railroads.
| 1SS5-General strike Of Missouri Pacific
railroad employees.
1SS6-Eruption of Mount Etna.
1S87-China ceded 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.
1SSS-Local option. Kansas City, closed
every saloon for the first time
1SS9-Violent earthquake in South Amer
lea.
1S9O-British steamer Quetta sunk in
Torres Strait Australia; 100 lives
lost.
1S91-Eleven Italians accused of killing
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. Gar of Russia
prohibited use of knout in furnishing
peasants.
1S97-Japan adopted gold standard
1905-John H. Regain, last surviving
member of Confederate cabinet died.