Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-21

1OZ1-lSland 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.
Hooking William III. died and Queen
Anne came to the throne of England.
1732-Kouli Khan usurped the Persian
throne.
1165-The stamp act passed by the
British House of Lords.
1792-Gustavus 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.
1S14HLord Wellington defeated the
French and entered Bordeaux. -.
Battle of Laon, in which Napoleon
was uCIcdlCu W -hdl Siitli DiuNANi'
1S22-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.
1S3O-Petrolem discovered in Kentucky,
bottled and sold as a 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 a constitution.
49,. 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.
1S45-Steamboat 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.
1S50-Robert Stephenson sent the first
locomotive through the Britannia tu-
bular bridge over the Menai straits.
1S53-Jefferson Davis of Mississippi be-
came Secretary of War.
1S54-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 V. 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 Merrimac 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 &C
tons among mariners.
court convened to
try President Johnson.
1S71-Treaty of Washington. between
the United States and England.
1S1+First meeting of the Prince Ed
ward Island Legislature.
1S1S-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-
tenn.
1SS9-King Milan of Servia abdicated in
favor of his son.
1S91-France consented to arbitration
on Newfoundland fisheries question.
1S95-Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt Sc
cured an absolute divorce from her
husband. Harry Hayward convict
ed in Minneapolis of the murder of
Catherine Cling.
1S91-Queen Ranavalona III. of NADIA
gascar exiled by the French.
1S9S-China leased Port Arthur to Rus
STA for ninety-nine years.
19OO-Theater Francois in Paris de-
stroyed by fire.
1901-Great Britain declined to accept
Senate amendments to Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty.
1905-General strike of elevated railroad
employees in New York City.
1906-American troops killed 600 Moros
in battle near Jolo.