Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
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1521-Island of Guam discovered by Ma
gellan.
1566-David Rizzio, secretary to Mary
Queen of Scots, murdered by Lord
Darnley.
167S-Ghent surrendered to Louis XIV.
of France.
1702--King William III. died and Queen
Anne came to the throne of England.
1872 Kouli Khan usurped the Persian
throne
1T65- The stamp act passed by the
British House of Lords.
1T92-Gustarus III. -of Sweden assas-
sinated
1S01-British naval and military expedi-
ton arrived in Aboukir Bay, Egypt.
-. British defeated the French at
battle of Aboukir, Egypt. James
Madison of Virginia became Secre-
tary of State.
1S11-British defeated French at battle
of Barrosa, in Spain.
1S14-Lord Wellington defeated the
French and entered Bordeaux.
Battle of Laon, in which Napoleon
was defeated by Marshal Butcher.
1922 President Monroe recommended
recognition of independence of Mex
leo and the South American States.
1S25-Henry Clay of Kentucky became
Secretary of State.
1S29-Catholic emancipation proposed in
England. John Mcpherson Ber-
rien of Georgia became Attorney
General of United States.
1S30-Petroleum discovered in Kentucky,
bottled and sold as medicine. -.
The Book of Mormon" written by
Solomon Spaulding, published in
New York. First gold from Georgia
mines received at United States mint.
1S36-Arkansas adopted constitution.
-. Massacre of the Alamo.
1S37-Bank of British North America
opened its first Office at Montreal.
1S42-Income tax proposed by Sir Rob-
ert Peel.
1S44-John c. Calhoun of South Caro-
lima became Secretary Of State....
First issue of the Toronto Globe.
1S4o-SteamD0at swallow wrecked IN
Hudson river, with loss of many
lives.
1S47-Battle of Vera Cruz.
1S49-Thomas Ewing of Ohio took Office
as first Secretary of the Interior.
1S5O-Robert Stephenson sent the first
locomotive through the Britannia tu-
bular bridge over the Menai straits.
1S53--Jeferson Davis of Mississippi be-
came Secretary of War.
1854 Election riots in Milwaukee be-
tween Germans and Irish.
1S55-First steam fire engine exhibited
in Baltimore.
1S56-Covent Garden theater, London,
destroyed by fire.
1S59--Aaron " Brown of Tennessee be-
came Postmaster General of the
United States
1S61-Gen Beauregard took command of
the troops at Charleston.
1S62-Battle of Pea Ridge. Battle of
the Merrmac and Monitor in Hamp-
ton Roads . Gen. Mcclellan took
command of the Army of the Poto-
mac.
Usefulness Alexandra of Denmark
arrived in England to become the
bride of the Prince of Wales.
1S64-Reservoir near Sheffield, England,
burst, and go persons drowned
1S66-Queen Victoria instituted the Al
bert medal as reward for heroic ac-
tions among mariners.
Impeachment court convened to
try President Johnson.
1S71-Treaty of Washington, between
the United States and England.
1S74-First meeting of the Prince Ed
ward Island Legislature
1873 Steamer Sphinx burned and sunk
on Island of Cyprus; 700 lives lost.
1S79-Peruvian port of Iquique block
AIDED by Chile.
1S66-Knights of Labor strike on the
Gould South Western railroad sys-
TEN.
1889 King Milan of Seryia abdicated in
favor of his son.
1S91-France consented to arbitration
on Newfoundland fisheries question.
1S95-Mrs. William K Vanderbilt Sc
cured an absolute divorce from her
husband. Harry Hayward convict
ed in Minneapolis of the murder Of
Catherine Cling
1S97--lueen Ranavalona III. of NADIA
gascar exied by the French.
1S9S-China leased Port Arthur to Rus
STA for ninety-nine years.
1900-Theater Francois in Paris de-
stroyed by fire.
1901-Great Britain declined to accept
Senate amendments to Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty.
190J-General strike Of elevated railroad
employees in New York City.
1906-American Cotps killed 600 Moros
in battle meas !olo.