The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-31

1174-Henry II. paid penance at n.
tomb of the murdered Archbishop .
I Beckett.
1191-Acre taken by Richard I and
other Crusaders after two vears
siege.
13O2-Flemings defeated the Count a,
Artois at Courtray.
1850 Jack Cade, who raised an insu,
rection in Kent, killed.
146O-Henry vi. taken at Northamnto,
(War of the Roses).
1537-Almagro defeated Alvarado at
Abancay.
1584-William, Prince of Orange, assss
sinated. Sir Walter Raleigh land
ed on the island of Wocokon and
named the country Virginia.
609-Samuel Champlain discovered the
lake which bears his name.
1619-First legislative body of English.
men in America met at jamestown.
Virginia.
1675-Lord Culpeper appointed Governor
of Virginia for life.
16S5-Duke of Monmouth beheaded.
11O9-Swedish army under Charles XII.
defeated the Russians under Peter
the Great at battle of Pultowa.
1853 French victorious at battle of II
conderoga.
1776-British soldiers under Sir William
Howe landed on Staten Island. -.
Pennsylvania adopted a State con.
stitution.
177S-Articles of confederation signed by
the delegates from eight States.
118O-Count de Rochambeau and 5000
French soldiers arrived at Newport
to aid Americans.
17S1-Congress ratified the Articles Of
Confederation.
17S2-Savannah evacuated by the Brit
ishA
1787-Slavery abolished in the territory
north of the Ohio river.
1870 Congress decided to meet at Phia-
delphia for ten years, and thereafter
on the Potomac.
1903 -Murat made King of Naples.
1812-Gov. Hull of Michigan made IN
successful attempt to capture Fort
Maiden.
1S14-A British fleet captured Eastport,
Maine.
1815-Napoleon 1. surrendered to the
captain of the Bellerophon at Roche
fort.
1S26-Luther Martin, counsel for Aaron
Burr in the latter's trial for trea-
son, died.
1S32-Eirst steamboat arrived at UNI
cago. Henry NJ. Schoolcraft dis
covered the source of the Mississippi
river.
1S35-Liberty bell cracked while belhs
tolled in memory of Chief JUSTICE
Marshall.
1843 = Fremont's expedition sighted
Pixies Peak, Colorado.
1916 Commodore Sloat hoisted tne
American flag at Monterey.
1S49 Restoration of the temporal power
of the Pope proclaimed
1S56-United States Senate rejected oln
to admit Kansas. as free State' 80
British forces evacuated the Crlnea'
1S57-Massacre at Cawnpore by Mana
Sahib.
1868 Cincinnati proclaimed under mal
tial law Indiana invaded by Gen'
Morgan's Confederate cavalry.
1S64-First organized national pan.
opened in Philadelphia. .hiotlus
Of anti-draft mobs in New LUZ
City.
1865 Barnum's museum, at Ann SD SUI
and Broadway, New York, des1ro'''
by FIRE.
1878 British flag hoisted at Cyprus
1882 Bombardment of Alexandra
1S83-"Gen. Tom Thumb" &c. H. o''''
toni, famous dwarf, died.
1884 National Democratic convent n,.ss
at Chicago nominated Grover WV
land for President.
1890 The President signed the W.! cr,
ing admission bill. The ne" vork
ton aqueduct opened in New w.
Idaho admitted to the Union MN.
Many lives lost BY tornado Ill
\ nesota.
1891-Attempted assassination Oh
dent Carnot of France. IN
1892 Stewart Free Silver Colnase ,.nt.
defeated in the House of RepreSs snd
at;ves Rayachol, anarchist aD'
dynamiter, guillotined in Parls ".,l,
st. Johns, Newfoundland, Inch, n,
destroyed by fire. ...An aVa; ;11aces
from Mount Blanc destroyed sn'''
and 200 lives. .+b.
1894 Constantinople shaken oy .,.a
quake; over 1000 persons klll liz de-
American Railway Union striA'
clared off. .h;ldrep
1S95-Remains Of the Pitezei e s1aa BY
supposed TO have been muroe, to
II. H. Holmes, discovereu .
ronto. 80 vss
1898 The Anglo-American Leas'
organized in London. IL pres
1900 Gen. Porfrio Diaz re-elec'eu
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