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1322-Bavarians defeated the Austrians
at Muhldorf.
1396-Turks defeated the Christians at
Nicopolis.
1459-Yorkists victorious at Bloreheath.
(War of the Roses.)
1493-Columbus sailed from Cadiz> on
his second expedition to America.
1513-Balboa discovered the Pacific
1565-Menedez, the Spanish conqueror
of Florida, murdered 200 ship.
wrecked French.
= 1597-City of Amiens taken by Spanish
and English.
163O-Death of Ambrosia, Marquis of
Spinola, the great Spanish captain.
| 1664-The French in America made their
first treaty with the Iroquois In.
dams. .t..
+ 169O-"Publick Occurrences" first news
paper printed in America, issued at
Boston.
1692-Martha Cory hanged at Salem,
Mass, for witchcraft.
1732-First issue of The Rhode Island
Gazette.
1743-Gov. Clinton dissolved the New
York Legislature,
1T59-The Tilbury wrecked off st. Es-
prit, Cape Breton, with loss of 200
lives. . Military force from Caro-
lima attacked the Cherokees in Ten
nessee and destroyed many of their
towns.
1763-Montagu Wilmot succeeded Jona-
than Belcher as Lieutenant Governor
of Nova Scotia.
Legislature dis
solved by the royalist governor.
1775-The Americans made an unsuc-
cessful attack on Montreal.
1779-Savannah, Ca, besieged by the
French fleet and a part of the
Southern army John Jay chosen
as the American commissioner to-
Spain. . Paul Jones, with the Bon
homme Richard, defeated the British
frigate Scraps off the coast of Scot
land.
17SO-Major Andre, who plotted with
Benedict Arnold for the betrayal Of
West Point, captured near Tarry-
town. WI. Benedict Arnold fled to the.
British sloop Vulture
S1-Washington's army and the.
French allies arrived at Yorktown
and began the siege.
Thomas Jefferson of Virginia be-
came Secretary of State.
1903 Wellington's victory at Assaye.
1S04-The remodelng of 1.-The White
House at Washington was started.
1s13-Gen. William Henry Harrison in-
vaded Canada from Detroit.
1S14-James Monroe of Virginia became
acting Secretary of War.
1S15-The Holy Alliance ratified at
Paris.
1S29-Thirteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States ratified
by a two-thrds vote. A mill for
cleaning rice was invented by Raw
enel of South Carolina.
ashanti Masons nominated a national
ticket at Baltimore.
expedition reached the
Columbia river, in Oregon.
1846-The planet Neptune discovered. -.
Monterey, Mexico, surrendered to the
Americans
1854 Russians closed the harbor Of
Sevastopol by sinking ships in the
entrance. Allies advanced upon
Balaklava. 49,. Over 300 lives lost by
collision of a British steamer and a
French bark near Cape Race.
1S69-"Black Friday" financial panic as
result of attempt to corner gold.
1871-Joint high commission organized
at Washington to adjust private
claims against Great Britain and the
United States growing out of the
Civil War.
lS74-Typhoon at Hongkong resulted In
loss Of over 1000 lives.
Institutional fast day appointed for
the death of President Garfield
lSS4-Mormon colcny in Wilson county,
Tenn, ordered by regulators to leave
the State.
lS92-Nancy Hanks trotted a mile in
2:04 at Terre Haute, Ind.
Cuban flibusters aequit-
ted by jury at Wilmington, Del.
LS9S-Chile and Argentina agreed to
submit their boundary dispute to ar
bitration.
Jose Pardo proclaimed Presi-
dent Of Peru.
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