The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-02-24


154O-Henry VIII. married to Anne.
daughter Of Duke of Cleves.
15S9-Catherine De Medici died.
16O4-Jesuits reinstated in France.
1649-Anne of Austria, Queen Regent
Of France, fed from Paris to St.
German.
1651-Charles II. crowned King of Scot
land.
l661-First appearance of women actors
said to have been made at Lin
coin Inn Fields theater, London.
1695-Marshal Luxembourg died.
1698-Whitehall Palace, London, de-
stroyed by fire.
1717-Tr1ple alliance formed by Eng
land, France and Holland.
1724EPhilip " Of Spain abdicated in
favor of his son.
1725-Pope Benedict XIII. opened the
Holy Gates.
1729-Many persons killed or injured as
result of great fog enyeloping
London.
1735-Paul Revere born.
1737-John Hancock born.
174O-Benedict Arnold born.
1745-Gen. Anthony Wayne born.
1757-Attempt made to assassfnate
Louis XIV. of France.
1757-Calcutta retaken by the English.
1762-England declared war against
Spain.
1776-Union flag raised at Cambridge,
Mass.
1777-Battle between American and
British forces at Princeton, N. j.
1781-French invaded island of Jersey
and met with defeat.
1764-Treaty between United States and
Great Britain signed.
1787-Arthurs Middleton, one of the sign
ers Of the Declarat ton of Inde-
pendence, died.
1788-Georgia ratified the constitution
of the United States.
179a-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
S12,8OO to Kosciusko. the Polish
patriot who aided in the American
revolution.
18O1-Union of Great Britain and Ire
land.
1804-Insurreetion of Irish convicts in
New South Wales.
18O6-Breslau surrendered to the French.
1814-Dantdc surrendered to Duke of
WustembeRg.
1822-Declaration of independence by
the Greeks.
1625-Ferdinand ", King of Naples,
died.
1828-Fall of the Villele ministry in
France.
S2o-Protests received at Washington
ai- against dispatch or delivery of
mails on the Sabbath -. Forty
killed in mine explosion at
Lyons. France.
1880 first introduced in
oCiAA0Ays
1S35-First newspaper issued in Buffalo,
n. y. Charles Lamb died.
1S42-English began retreat from Cabul.
1913 Steven F. Mason, Ex-Governor of
Michigan, died.
1848-Girard College, Philadelphia,
opened. >. .Insurrection at Mes
sina, Sicily.
1849-DiscOvery of the magnetic clock
by DR.. Locke Of Ohio.
1853-Gen. Aristas resigned and Ceval-
los chosen president Of Mexico. ;.
Spain enacted stringent law
against liberty Of the press.
1854-French and English fleets enter
the Black sea on their way to the
Crimea.
1855-Vict0ria Bridge across st. Law
renee river carried away By ice.
l851-Assassination of the Archbishop
Of Paris (Sibous,.
1858 State Of West Virginia admitted
to the Union.
1073-Trial Of the Beecher-Tilton case
begun. !. .Garibaldi refused pen.
UA01B AIOnA At0Ay Ou dCCUuut VI u8.
tons low finances.
1666-Narthquake shocks felt in Mary
land, Virginia and New Hamp-
shire. Archbishop Ryan Of
Philadelphia invested with the
pallium.
1601-Nmma Abbott. famous opera
singer. died ). Settlement of from
tier dispute between Persia and
Afgha nistan.
1898 spike driven in the Great
Northern extension to the Pacific
coast.
1896 Million dollar Ere at Toronto, Ont.
Many lives lost in great storm
on English coast. Mrs. Mary T.
LAthrop. w. G. T. u. leader, died.
1898 John d. Rockefeller donated
100000 to University Of Chicago.
1899 Formal delivery of Cuba to the
United States.