The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-05-05

1496--Henry VII. of England granted a
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.
1624-First colony arrived at Potomac
for settlement Of Maryland.
1641-Archbisho Laud sent to the
Tower.
16S8-James II. of England forbade the
bishops to preach on controverted
points.
1714-Gibraltar and Minorca ceded to
the English.
1716-Aurora borealis first seen in Eng
land.
177O-Boston massacre.
1776-South Carolina instructed her del
egates for independence. 49,. Gen.
Washington fortified Dorchester
Heights.
1779-Americans defeated at Brier
Creek, 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 en- route TO
Paris. United States declared war
against Algiers.
1S17-Suspension of habeas corpus act.
1S25-Great earthquake in Algiers lasted
five days.
1S3O-William 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-Department of the Interior estab-
lished.
1S54-City of Glasgow lost between Liy-
erpool and Philadelphia $50 lives
lost. U. S. steamer Black Warrior
seized by Cuban authorities at Ha-
vana.
1S56-Free State Legislature in Kansas
constituted. .Covent Garden thea
ter, London, burned.
1S57-Supreme Court decided bred Scott
case.
1S61-Abraham Lincoln inaugurated
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 Aletekene,
Levant.
1S6S-Barnum's museum burned at New
York.
1S69-Pardon of Arnold and Spangler,
assassination conspirators.
lS70-President Lopez of Paraguay de-
feated and killed at battle of Aaui-
daban.
1S71-Congress set apart Yellowstone
valley for a national park 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.
1886 Eruption of Mount Etna.
1SS7-China ceded Chusan Island 70
Germany. -. Henry Ward Beecher
stricken with apoplexy. Score of
lives lost in burning of steamer w.
ii. Gardner near Gainesville, Ala.
-. Mrs. Z. 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.
1S90-British steamer Quetta sunk in
J Torres Strait, Australia; 100 lives
lost.
1S91-Eleven Italians accused of killing
( New Orleans chief of police Iynched
I by mob.
1894-Mr. Gladstone resigned as pr,m.
] Minister of England.
l1S9o-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.
19o5-John FL. Regain, last surviving
member of Confederate cabinet, died.
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