Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
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15O2-Columbus entered the harbor
which he called Porto Bello.
15SO-Sir Francis Drake returned from
his voyage round the world.
1609-Henry Hudson arrived at Dart
mouth, England, on his return from
his first voyage of discovery in the
new world.
162O-The Plymouth company was or
gained. The Mayflower cast an
Choir in Provincetown harbor, Cape
Cod.
17F5-Two hundred Scotchmen from
Nova Scotia were banished from
Boston.
1769-Rev. John Carroll made bishop of
Baltimore.
1775-Lord Dunmore declared Virginia
to be in a a state of rebellion.
1777-Gen Howe's army went into win
ter quarters in Philadelphia. -.
Americans repulsed British attack on
Mud Fort, which later became Fort
Mifflin.
11S2-The America, the first line-of-bat
tie ship built in America, launched
at Portsmouth, n. III.
1IS3-Continental army disbanded and
returned to their homes.
1S04-Rhodium discovered in platinum
ore by DIR. Wollaston of London.
1S11-Gen Harrison defeated the In
dams in battle of Tippecanoe.
1S13-Gen. Jackson defeated the In
dams in battle of Tallegada. Brit
iSb rarnlSa1 in attach DO
densburg, n. Y.
1S14HFort Erie destroyed by United
States forces.
1S16-Two hundred persons drowned in
the wreck of the transport Harpooner
off Newfoundland coast.
1S29-Brtish government opened the
West India trade to the United
States. President Jackson pro-
posed to reduce the number of navy
yards in the United States to four
Norfolk, Narragansett, Washington
and Charleston. New England
coast visited by a storm of unusual
violence
1S37-Elijah p. Lovejoy, anti-slavery ed
itor, mobbed and killed at Alton, Hi.
treal.
Wedding of Abraham Lincoln and
Mary Todd at Springfield, Ill.
1S47-First American missionary church
organized in China.
1S52-Fire destroyed large section of
the city of Sacramento, Cal.
1S61-Gen. Hunter superseded John G.
Fremont in command of the western
department of the army. .. Battle of
Belmont ended in victory for the
Confederate forces.
1S62-Gen. Burnside succeeded Gen.
McClelland in the command of the
army of the Potomac.
tS64-Federal forces won victory at bat
tie of Franklin, Tenn. &. &. Abraham
Lincoln reelected President of the
United States
1S65-Gen. Frederick Funston, Z. s. A.,
born in Ohio. The Confederate
privateer Shenandoah surrendered at
Liverpool after having destroyed
about thirty vessels.
1S6S-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant elected
President of the United States. -.
England and the United States
agreed to arbitrate the Alabama af-
fair.
1S71-Henry M. Stanley discovered DIR.
Livingstone at Ujiji.
1S72-Fire broke out in Boston and in
two days burned over an area of
sixty-fve acres and caused a loss of
$S0,0O0,0O0.
1S75-Richard p. Bland of Missouri ill
troduced free silver bill in the
House.
| 1S7S-Remains of Alexander 7. Stewart,
millionaire merchant, stolen from the
vault in st. Marks churchyard, New
York.
1SSO-James A. Garfield of Ohio elected
President Of the United States.
1SS3-South Dakota adopted a copstitu-
ton.
1SS4-Grover Cleveland of New York
elected President of the United
States.
1SS5-Last spike of the Canadian Pa
cific railway driven at Eagle Pass,
b. G..
| 1SS9-President proclaimed Montana
State of the Union.
1S93-The government of Sir William
Whiteway returned to power in New
foundland. -. Steamer City of Alex
andria, from Havana for New York,
burned at sea thirty lives lost.
| 1S9S-Wiliam A. Stone elected Governor
of Pennsylvania.
1oOO-Cuban constitutional convention
met in Havana.
19O3-The Republic of Panama recog-
nized by me United States. -. New
Irish land act went into operation.
19Of-President Roosevelt sailed for
Panama Sultan of Morocco re-
ceived United States Minister Guns
mere at Fee. ;. Stensland and Her
ing, Chicago bank wreckers, sentenc-
ed to the penitentiary.
"a prominent politician" of New York