Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-09

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Suppression of the Order of
Knights Templar by a papal decree.
1421-French defeated British at battle
of Anjou.
1549-Thomas Seymour, lord high ad-
miral of England, sttainted and be-
headed.
the French after siege of seven
days.
1i52-First issue of The Halifax Ca
zette, first newspaper printed in
Canada.
1I65-The British stamp act became law.
1791-British under CORVALLIS took
Bangalore, India, by storm.
1I99-Princess of Furstenberg killed at
the battle of Stoekache.
lSOl-Paul, Gar of Russia. assassinat-
Ell. Sir Ralph Abercromby NOR
tally wounded at battle of Alexan-
dria.
1S01-Alexandria taken by the British
under Fraser.
1S10-Bonaparte issued general am
nesty to prisoners of state in France.
1S15-Sloop of war Hornet captured
British warship Penguin off Cape of
Good Hope.
Commodore Stephen Decatur NOR
tally wounded in duel with Commo-
dore James Barrow Jesuits ban
ished from Russia by decree of Gar
Alexander
1S31-Austrian troops entered Bologna
and subdued Italian revolution.
1S34-First issue of the New Yorker"
by Horace Greeley and two associ-
ates.
1S36-Col. Fannin. Texas soldier. surren-
dered to the Mexicans with 500 men.
who were massacred one week later.
1S3S-Sir George Arthur took office as
lieutenant governor of upper Canada.
-. Sir Francis Bond Head resigned
Office as lieutenant governor of upper
Canada.
1S41-Duke of Clarence defeated and
killed by the Earl of Buchan.
l847-Bombardment of Vera Cruz, Mex
leo, began by American ships.
1S49-Charles Albert, King of Sardinia,
abdicated in favor of his son.
1S52-"Uncle Toms Cabin" by Harriet
Beecher Stowe, published in book
form.
1S55-The Arabs defeated at Hasheon.
Unsuccessful attempt at revolution
made in San Domingo. Ramon
Pinto, eminent Cuban lawyer, gar
rotted at Havana for conspiracy
against the government.
1S62-Battle of Winchester.
1S63-John Morgan, with 1000 men. de-
feated near Milton, Tenn, by troops
under Col. Hail.
1S64-Battle of Henderson.
federates and retaken by the Union
troops.
lS77-John d. Lee, convicted of COM
plicity in the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre executed.
lSS1-Opera house at Nice burned, sixty
two lives lost
1882 dmunds law, aimed at Mormon
ism in Utah, passed.
1SS3-Chnese troops attacked the CAPT
tai Of Tonqun, in French possessions.
1S91-Prince Napoleon buried at Turin.
1S92-Col. Barnaby crossed English
channel in a balloon. !. . Standard
Oil trust dissolved.
1S93-Mayor of Moscow assassinated.
1896 Manitoba defied the Dominion gov
eminent to enforce its order to re-
store to Roman Catholics the separ-
ate schools.
1S97-Christian and Turks fought near
Maaxa, Crete. Fleets of the pow
ers began the blockade of Crete.
1S9S-Ten lives lost in hotel fire at
Butte. Mont. .Forty-eight seal hunt
ers persisted on ice foe off Bay de
Verde, n. f.
1S99-Mrs. Place electrocuted at Sing
Sing for the murder of her step
daughter. . . France and England
signed agreement on Nile boundary
question.
1S9O-Great cyclone in South Carolina.
1900 Canadian troops arrived at Cape
Town to engage in war with the
Beers.
1901-Eighteen people killed in tornado
at Birmingham, Ala.
1903-Irish land bill introduced into the
British House of Commons. Mis-
sissippi river at New Orleans reached
height of 1913 feet.