The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-21
TODAY IN HISTORY
The PIetureeaue Philip II. Of Spain
SATURDAY, MAY Fl, 1910

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throughout Philips life fate dccrecu
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.'clol troops nau sHchcu Rome. la a
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,uueu lulu mOuIuJue.
Iue education O4 4 uInp, during the aD-
-ellv1 ot me -mpcrOf ltum spain, from
-.ususl, l5-!, 10 nIuS, IJvo, Mus Cvnuuvu.
- ,nc empress ana OIIU OI ner rOrLu6 uGIS
.tu'rs. LeouUr uU 4udscurvunUs. InIIr
"da d prStcrnalurauy grave and suGu,
Snuu, NILn tdlr, ptuh -dlIu- -wnltv skin ana
'iiNy ycnow naIr. me 5IOoluy euquet,o
II 'uc CaSullan court, tuC atmosphere "a
7Tlm Devotion that surIUunuCu enc en-
press. anu tnv eSur-rCCuTrms susScsuuu
NAT MS Gdtner WAS cngaseu AL Il sLrusglg
IN the sluc UG Coo against the powers "a
eNll. struck deeply mo luc nature OF the
cnlIu. ne WAS descendant OF line UI
ienSlous mysUcS, some OF whom hau
a.
sprang from the uulOn OF nrst cousins,
1hu tnS curse oI rpncpsy was IN his
oiood. IL Is not wonucrGuI. therefore. that
Inc effect OF MS ancestry ana ms sur
cummings were visible from ms earliest
years.
AZ the age OF 12 he lost his mother She
nad borne the emperor TWO otner sons,
DOlh oi whom died OF epilepsy in their
iuidncy, so lnat Hnlllp remained the sole
.Ier oi has father greatness. IN the
autumn OF 1oi2 the daupniu, with an
army OF tU,OUU men, oycrran ROusl!lion.
winch then belonged TO the crown OF
Aragon. and besIeged Perpignan. 1t was
MS lnIaGtion III warfare, but he say no
actual hghting, FOR Henry OF Nalois
Ddreiy 10 years OF age when ne was on
trusted with Charles secret system OF
government, which thenceiorward became
IA own and swaycd most OF the actions
Of his life.
On January 16. 1906. the crowns OF
Spain were transferred 10 Philip. and
Charles remained emperor only IN name.
me most powerful monarch In the world.
But he fought his way along 10 his own
death and the almost total ruin OF his
nation. Ills defeat by the English at
Cadiz gave the last blow 10 the naval
supremacy OF Spain. Suffering intense
agony, he was carried in litter TO the
great granite palace, the Escorfal. on
which be had squandered vast sums
wrung from his miserable people. where
lie died on September u. 1898.
on May 2l 1894 the Banchester ship
canal was opened and St Helena was dis
covered in 1901. II is the date on which
ne head OF the department of agricul-
ture was made member OF the presl-
dents cabinet i'm 1883. 1t is the birth
day of AleNa nder Pope. the poet Q6SSj
Bryan Edwards. the English historian
Oii3); Reverdy Johnson, attorney gen
eral under Taylor and Fillmore G59S)
and upon which Robert Harley, prime
minister under Queen Anne. died in 1724
and Or. Thomas Wharton. British poet.
in 1890.
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