Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-11-28
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1171-Henry II. landed in Ireland and
styled himself King of All Hibernia.
144S-Turks defeated the Hungarans at
battle Of Cossovo.
1520-Magellan discovered and entered
the strait which bears his name.
154O-De Soto and his force engaged in
battle with the Mobile Indians in
Alabama.
1582-Ihe Gregorian calendar introduced.
1612-Champlain arrived in Canada to
take up his work as governor OF the
country.
163O-First general court in America
held at Boston.
1G31-Massachusetts Puritans limited
suffrage to members of the church.
166S-Jean Talon resigned his Office as
Intendant of New France.
1G75-Hatfeld, Mass, repulsed an at
tack of Indians under King Philip.
690-Nlassachusetts invaders retired
from before Quebec without making
an attack. An English feet from
Massachusetts, attacked Quebec.
1692-British government took away
William Penn's proprietary rights in
Pennsylvania.
1710-Port Royal, s. c., captured by an
English feet.
1725-First issue of the New York Ga
zette first newspaper in that city.
1746-Bll introduced in the New York
Assembly to raise money for the erec-
tion of Columbia college.
1775-Town of Falmouth (PortlanD,
Maine, burned. American troops
captured Chamby, Quebec. .Pey-
ton Randolph, first president of the
Continental Congress, died.
1777-Americans repulsed British attack
on Fort Mercer, Red Bank, n. j.
1781--Lord CORVALLIS surrendered at
Yorktown, Va.
17SS-President Washington started on
a tour of the Northern States.
1793-Marie Antoinette guillotined.
1SOO-Spain ceded the territory Of
Louisiana to France.
1SO3-Congress assembled in extra ses-
sion to act on the Louisiana Purchase
treaty.
1SO5-Horatlo Lord Nelson killed at the
battle Of Trafalgar.
1812-American sloop Wasp defeated the
British brig Frolc off the coast of
Virginia.
1S13-Napoleon defeated at the battle
of Leipsic.
1S26-The last State Lottery" drawing
held in England.
1S2S-The Delaware and Chesapeake
canal opened.
1S31-Arms bill passed for the repres-
sion of crime and insurrection in Ire
land.
1S3i-British Parliament houses, West
minister, destroyed by fire.
1S39-Charles Edward Pouett Thomson
succeeded Sir John ColbOrne as gov
ernor of Canada.
1S42-First submarine telegraph in Amer
lea laid between Governors Island
and New York.
Sarah Bernhard, French
tragedienne, born.
1S46-Nathan Clifford of Maine became
Attorney General of United States.
1949-Chopin, the great musical COM
poser, died in Paris.
1S52-Abd-el-K Kaedir, deposed ruler of AL
giers, released from his confinement
by Louis Napoleon.
1S53-Filibusters, under Col. William
Walker, sailed from San Francisco
to establish a pro-slavery colony in
lower California.
1S56-Seven persons killed in panic in
London while Mr. Spurgeon was
preaching.
1S59-Col Robert e. Lee captured John
Brown and his men at Harper's
Ferry.
1S61-Col Baker, friend Of Lincoln, kill
ed at battle of Balls Bluff STRAIT
ford-on-Avon purchased the birth
place of Shakespeare.
1SG3-Gen. Grant appointed to the COM
mand of the western armies.
1S64-Gen.l Sheridan turned defeat into
victory at Cedar Creek.
1S66-Austria evacuated Lombardy.
Missouri burned at sea
with loss of 81 lives.
1SS3-Cetewayo king of the Zulus, sur
rendered to the British.
1SS4-Marqus Of Lansdowne sworn in
as governor general of Canada.
1SS9-King Carlos of Portugal ascended
the throne.
1S92-World's Columbian Exposition at
Chicago formally dedicated.
l0O4-Frederick Augustus Ill, ascended
the throne of Saxony.