Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-01
SEVEN DAYS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
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ic%o-bedtn ol Johh AdamS, 4ted
 ninety-one, and Thomas Jeifer-
 son, aged eighty-three, opS the
 tiftieth anniversary of A1Ierican
 independence of Baltimore and
 Ohio laid with ceremony at Baltimore. 1S34-Meeting of auti-slavery society broken up by a mob in New
 York. Abolition riots follow. 1Sf5SA ratification convention of cit
 izens votes to annex Texas to
 the United States. 1S46-Capt. John C. Fremont declares
 independence of California
 after defeating a superior force
 of Mexicans. lSiS-Corner-stone of Washington
 Monument laid by President
 Polk.
 1S4S-Peace with Mexico proclaimed. 1S56-Kansas legislature assembled at
 Topeka, dispersed by United
 States troops. 61-Thirty-seventh Cong.ess con
 venes and President Lincoln
 sends message outlipinG the pol
 icy he proposes pursuing toward
 the seeded States; asks for
 s400 100000 and 400, 900 men. lS63-Gen.1 Pemberton surrenders
 Vicksburg to Gen. Grant. 1S63-Ex-President Franklin Pierce makes his famous anti-war speech
 at Concord, ". H. lS66-Disastrous fire in Portland. Me, lS6S-President Johnson proclaims
 general amnesty to eX-Confed-
 crates.
 lSSj-The Supreme Court, having de
 cided the Edmunds anti-poly-
 gamy act constitutional. Nor
 mons at Salt Lake City placed
 the United States flag al half
 mast. July B.
 1742-Spanish fleet of fifty-one vessels
 with 5000 men attempts the in
 Vasion of Georgia. 175S-Abercrombie and Lord Howe
 embark on Lake George against
 TiconderOga and Crown Point
 with a force of l6.OOO men. lI16-New Haven plundered and pil.
 laged by the British. 1I11-Americans Abandon Fort Ticon.
 deroga.
 l119-New Haven captured by Gov
 Tyron, of New York. with a
 force of Hessians and Tories. 1S14-Americans victorious over Brit.
 ish at battle Of Chippewa. War
 of 1S12D
 July G.
 1630-Fourteen vessels arrive with
 1,500 colonists for Boston Bay
 These colonists founded Water.
 town, Dorchester. and RoXbury 175S-French ambuscade British ad
 vance near TiConderoga; Lord
 Howe killed 1o75-COntinental Congress issues a
 manifesto. iustifying its resis
 tence to England 17S1-French army joins Gen. Wash ington on the Hudson. 17S1-Gen. Wayne attacks COrnwallis
 and retireS in good order. 17S5-CongresS establishes the stand ard of the American dollar. 1S34-Boston and Worcester Railroad
 opened.
 1S39-Large portion of Passport. Me.
 burned. 1S45-PTesident requested to occupy the ports of Texas and to send
 an armed army for it's protec
 tion.
 1S6S-Democrats nominate Horatic
 Seymour for President. 1S92-RiOting begins in great Home stead steel strike. July 7.-
 1520-On the plains of Otumba, Co-tez
 decides the fate of Mexico by de feating the native army. 1G40-Providence R. l., has a govern
 ment formed by forty citizens
 after their own model. 175J-Gen. Braddock defeated near
 Fort Duquesne by French and Indians.
 17G-BurgOyne defeats Americans un
 der St. Clair at Hubbardton. 179S-Washington appointed lieuten ant-general of the armies of the United States. French treat ies annulled by Congress. ElI thusiastic preparation for wal with France. 1S44-Five thousand troops called out to suppress race rios in Phila delphia. 1865-Payne, HerroId, Atzerdot and Mrs. Surratt hanged 1T Washington for comp'icitv 1T the murder If President Lin cOln