The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-23
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1153-Death Of David L., King of the
Scots, at Carlisle.
1402-Scots defeated at Ncsbit.
1J02-Coumbus sailed on his fourth
voyage to the New World
1534-Hessians defeated Austrians at
Lauffen.
1J6S-Mary Queen of Scots defeated at
battle of LangSide.
16O7-English colonists began to build at
jamestown.
l645-Montrose defeated the Covenant
ers at battle of Auldean.
l763-The Indian chief Pontiac began
his blockade of Detroit.
1670-Hudson Bay Company founded.
1671-Col. Thomas Blood made a daring
attempt to steal the Crown jewels
from the Tower of London.
17S1-The Spaniards captured Pensa-
cola, Florida, from the British.
17S3-society of the Cincinnati organ
1T97-Walter Cotton, who made the first
public announcement of the discov-
cry of gold in California, born in
Rutland, VT Died Jan. Do 1851.
1SOO-John Marshall of Virginia became
Secretary of State.
1S1O-First agricultural exhibition in
the United States opened at George
town, ID. c.
1S12-Mr. Perceval. British premier, as
sassinated by Bellingham.
1S43-Hugh S. Legare of South Carolina
became Secretary of State.
1S46-Battle of Palo Alto, first engage
ment in the war with Mexico.
1S4S-Daniel Webster resigned as Secre-
tary of State.
1S49-Astor Place riots made by friends
of Edwin Forrest to break up Mac
ready's acting at Astor Place Opera
House.
1S53-Jacob Burnet, one of the early
Whig leaders in the Senate, died.
Born ITO. First transatlantic
steamer arrived at Quebec.
1S57-Outbreak of the Indian mutiny at
Meerut. Delhi captured by the
Sepoys.
1s61-Baltimore occupied by federal
troops.
1s64-Battle of Rrurys Bluff, Va.
Sheridan's famous raid commenced.
1S65-Capture of Jefferson Davis at Ir-
winvlle, Ga.
1S71-Treaty of Washington signed, pro-
viding for the settlement of the Ala
bama claims.
e Al .ol
ton at Philadelphia.
1SSO-Sir Alexander I'illoch Gait ap-
pointed first High Commissioner for
Canada in London.
1SS2-Dominion government created the
four provisional districts now COM
prising the western provinces of Al
berta and Saskatchewan.
1SS9-Father Damien died at the leper
settlement in the Sandwich Islands.
1S91-Cardinal Martinelli invested with
the red berretta at Baltimore. The
Chilean steamer Itata escaped from
the harbor of San Diego. Cal.
1S93-Earl of Aberdeen became governor
general of Canada Carlyle w.
Harris, the murderer of Helen Potts,
eAcNuteu dl SluS StuS.
1S94-Several villages destroyed and
1000 lives lost by earthquake IN
Venezuela.
1S95-Treaty of peace between Japan
and China ratified at Chefoo.
1S96-H. II. Holmes, the multi-murderer,
executed at Philadelphia.
1S97-French steamship Vile de st.
Nazaire foundered off Cape Hatteras,
with loss of many lives. The pow
ers intervened in the war between
Turkey and Greece. ;. Turkish army
occupied Volo. United States Su-
prcme Court decided the Berliner
patent case in favor of the Bell
Telephone Company.
1S9S-China paid the last of the war in
demnity to Japan.
1S99-Fatal collision on the Reading rail-
road: % killed and many injured.
19O2-Eruption OF Mont La Soufriere.
st. Vincent's: 1000 lives lost
Thirty Thousand lives lost by the
eruption of Mont Pelee. Martinique.
19O5-Tornado at Snyder, Okla. killed
100 people, and injured many others.
l9O6-Anthracite miners in Pennsylya-
MIA accepted terms offered by the
operators.