Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-03-15

1266-Charles of Anjou defeated Man
fred at Benevento.
1GS6-Conte Godefroy D'Estrades re-
signed his commission as Viceroy of
New France.
1714-Gibraltar and Minorca coded to the
English.
1776-Battle of Moore's Greek, n. c..
17SO-Bank of Pennsylvania. first in the
United States, chartered.
1!9O-Act ordering n United States
census passed by Congress.
1799-Congress authorized the revenue
marine service flag.
1SO1-Congress assumed jurisdiction over
the District of Columbia.
1SO5-Napoleon started on his second
journey across the Alps into Italy.
The first Trappist monks arrived in
Lexington, KY. Thomas Jefferson
inaugurated for the second time Pres
ident of the United States.
1S11-Massacre of the Mamelukes at
Cairo.
1S14-French defeated by the allies in
battle of Troyes.
1S15-Napoleon I. escaped from Elba.
1S17-Alabama territory formed.
1S21-Missouri admitted to the Union as
the twenty-fourth State.
1S3O-William Cramp established his
shipyards at Philadelphia.
1SA-Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of
State, and other eminent public men
killed by the bursting of a gun on
the steamer Princeton.
1S49-Emigrant ship Floridian wrecked
off English coast; 200 lives lost.
1S51-Macready's farewell at Drury
Lane theater, London.
1S52-British troopship Birkenhead
wrecked on South African coast 43S
lives lost.
1s59-Explosion on steamer Princess
near Baton Rouge; % lives lost.
1S61-Territorial government established
in Colorado. Abraham Lincoln in
augurated President of the United
States. . l.. Revenue cutter Dodge sur
rendered to the Confederates at Gal
weston.
Observation-Disclosures blockade runner Nash
vile destroyed near Fort McAllister.
1S64-U. S.. Grant made lieutenant gen.
eral.
1S67-NeDraska proclaimed a State by
the President. f,
1S6S-Articles of impeachment of Presi-
dent johnson adopted by House of
Representatives.
1SGo-Congress by joint resolution
passed Fifteenth amendment to the
Constitution.
1s71-Treaty of peace between France
and Germany concluded at Versailles.
1S72-Yellowstone National Park estab-
lished ~. Thanksgiving service in
London for recovery of the Prince of
Wales from typhoid.
1S75-Civil rights bill passed by the SEN
ate.
1S7S-Bland silver bill passed over veto
of President Hayes.
1SS1-Wiliiam II. of Germany married
to Princess Augusta of S~chleswig-
Holstein.
1SSS-Explosion on ferry boat Julia at
South Vallejo, CAL. 80 lives lost.
1S90-Firth of Forth bridge, near Edin-
burgh, inaugurated.
1S92-Supreme Court ARMED constitu-
tionality of the Mckinley tariff act.
1S93-Grover Cleveland ~inaugurated
President of the United States.
lS3i--Brudente MOraeS elected EfeSl-
dent of Brazil. 8
1S95-Wedding of Anna Gould to Count
de Castellane in New York.
1S97-Fifty persons killed and injured
by explosion of gas mains in Boston
....Japan adopted a gold standard.
1S9S-Rebellion broke out in Venezuela.
Attempt to assassinate the King Of
Greece.
19OO-Relief of Ladysmith. British de-
feated Beers at. battle of Paardeberg.
19Oo-Paris celebrated centenary of Vic
tor Hugo's birth.
19O3-Fire in Cincinnati caused $1,000
0 property loss. /. F. Edwin l.. Bur-
dick murdered in Buffalo.
19O5-Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated
President of the United States....
Beginning of the battle of Mukden,
Manchuria.