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Charleston Harbor shut by sinking stone fleet, Dec. 21. Gatling gun invented by J. Gatling. Death of Sam Houston, Oct. 8. Kentucky admitted into Confederate States, Dec. 9.
Battle of Martinsburg, Va .; Gen. Pope, Union, captures 1,300 prisoners, Dec. 18.
1862 Indian massacre in Minnesota. Battle of Blue Gap, Va., Jan. 8. Death of John Tyler, Jan. 8.
"Ericsson" Monitor launched at Green- point, Jan. 30.
Edwin M. Stanton, of Pennsylvania, be- comes Secretary of War, Simon Cam- eron, of Pennsylvania, retiring Jan. 13. Battle of Mill Springs, Ky .; Zollicoffer defeated by Union troops, under Gen. George H. Thomas, Jan. 19.
Fort Henry, on Tennessee River, cap- tured by naval forces, under Com- modore A. H. Foote, Feb. 6.
Roanoke Island, N. C., captured by Gen. Burnside and Commodore Goldsbor- ough, Feb. 8.
Fort Donelson, Tenn., surrendered to Gen. Grant, Feb. 16.
Confederate Congress meets at . Rich- mond, Va., Feb. 18.
Jefferson Davis inaugurated President of Southern Confederacy, for six years, Feb. 22.
Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark .; Gen. Mc- Culloch killed March 8.
Confederate ram, sinks "Merrimac" "Cumberland" and "Congress," U. S. naval vessels in Hampton Roads, Vir- ginia, March 8.
"Monitor," U. S. iron-clad, attacks and drives "Merrimac" back, March 9. Manassas Junction evacuated and occu- pied by Union forces, March 10. Battle of Winchester, Va .; Union loss, 115 killed, 450 wounded; Confederate loss, 869 killed, wounded, and missing, March 13.
Battle of Newbern, N. C .; March 14. Battle at Pittsburg Landing; Grant, Union commander; Gen. A. Sidney Johnston killed; Union loss, April 6 and 7, 18,573; Confederate loss, - 10,- 699.
Capture of Island No. 10, by Union forces, April 8.
Raid of Gen. Mitchell; capture of Huntsville, Ala., and Russellville, Fort Pulaski, Ga., surrendered after three days' bombardment, to Union Tenn. forces, under Gen. Gilmore, April 11. Slavery abolished in District of Colum- bia, April 16.
Bombardment of Fort Pillow, by Com- modore Foote, April 17.
Union fleet, under Farragut, passes up the Mississippi river and takes New Orleans, passing Forts Jackson and Philip, April 24.
Gen. Butler in command, at New Or- leans, May 1.
Yorktown evacuated, May 4.
Surrender of New Orleans to Commo- dore Farragut.
Battle of Williamsburg, Va., May 5. Battle of West Point, May 7. Norfolk surrendered to Gen. Wool, May 10 Destruction of the "Merrimac," by the Confederates, May 11.
Natchez, Miss., surrenders to Commo- dore Farragut, May 13. Gen. Banks defeated at Winchester, May 25.
Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia, May 29. Corinth evacuated, May 30. Little Rock captured, May 31.
Battle of Fair Oaks; Union loss, heavy; renewal of battle of Fair Oaks, suc- cess of Unionists. Unionists lose Brashear City, June 13. Slavery abolished by all the Territories, June 19. Forts Pillow and Randolph evacuated, June 4.
Surrender of Memphis, June 6. Repulse of Confederates, at Springfield, Mo., June 8.
Seven days' fight before Richmond, un-
der Mcclellan, June 26; Mechanics- ville, June 26; Gaines' Mills, June 27; Savage Station and Peach Orchard, June 28; White Oak Swamp, June 30; Malvern Hill, July 1; change of base to James river.
President Lincoln calls for 300,000 vol- unteers, July 1.
Murfreesborough captured by Forrest, July 5.
Raid of Morgan in Kentucky, July 7. Surrender of Port Hudson, July 8. Death of Martin Van Buren, July 24.
Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9; Union forces under Banks, lose 1,500 killed, wounded, and missing; Confed- erates, under "Stonewall" Jackson. Raid of Phillips into Mississippi, Aug. 16. Battle of Sulphur Springs, Va., Aug. 24. Fighting on Rappahannock under Pope, Confederates under Ewell and Jackson, Aug. 27.
Gen. Bragg invades Tennessee and Ken- tucky. Battle of Kettle Run, Va., Aug. 27. Battle of Groveton, Va., Aug. 29. Defeat of Union forces at Richmond, Ky., Aug. 29.
Surrender of Memphis, Aug. 29. Second Battle of Bull Run; defeat of Federals, Aug. 30.
Battle of Chantilly, Va .; Union Generals Kearney and Stevens killed, Sept. 1. Confederates cross Potomac into Mary- land, at Poolsville, Md., Sept. 1. Battle of South Mountain, Md .; Union victory; Gen. Jesse L. Reno killed. Harper's Ferry surrendered, after three days' fighting by General Miles, Sept. 15.
Battle of Antietam between Gen. Mc- Clellan and Gen. Lee. Retreat of the Confederates, Sept. 17.
Battle of Iuka, Miss., between Gen. Rosecrans and Gen. Price, Sept. 19. Reoccupation of Harper's Ferry by Fed- erals, Sept. 22. President Lincoln issues preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, Sept. 22.
Battle of Corinth, Miss., between Gens. Rosecrans and Price, defeat of the lat- ter, Oct. 3, 4.
Battle of Perryville, Ky., between Gens. Buell and Bragg; charge of * Sheridan wins the day, Oct. 8.
Raid of Confederates under Stuart into Pennsylvania; Chambersburg seized and looted, Oct. 10-12. Union Gen. O. M. Mitchel, astronomer, died at Beaufort, S. C., Oct. 30. La Grange, Tenn., occupied by Gen. Grant with Union forces.
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Union forces under Gen. Burnside defeated. Union losses, 13,771.
Battle of Kingston, N. C. Confederates defeated, Dec. 14.
Murphy surrenders Holly Springs to General Van Dorn, Dec. 20. Jefferson Davis issues a proclamation outlawing Ben. Butler, Dec. 23. Porter's fleet open fire upon Vicksburg, Dec. 26.
Sherman's unsuccessful attack upon Vicksburg, Dec. 27, 28. Iron-clad "Monitor" founders at sea, off Cape Hatteras.
West Virginia admitted as a State of the Union, Dec. 31.
Battle of Murfreesboro; Rosecrans de- feats Bragg, Jan. 1.
Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln goes into effect, liberating all slaves in Southern States. Death of Lyman Beecher, D. D., aged 87, Jan. 10.
U. S. steamer "Hatteras" sunk by South- ern privateer "Alabama" off Texas, Jan. 11.
Capture of Arkansas Post by Gen. Mc- Clernand, Jan. 11.
Battle of Winchester, Va .; Sheridan cap- tures 5,000 prisoners, 5 guns, and all the wounded, Sept. 19.
Defeats of Early, by Sheridan, in Shen- andoah, Sept. 19-22.
Thirteenth Amendment passed, forever abolishing slavery. Pilot Knob evacuated by Unionists, Sept. 27. Death of Chief-Justice Roger Brooks Taney, Oct. 12. Overwhelming defeat of Early at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19. .
Raid of Confederates on St. Albans, .Vt., Destruction of ram "Albemarle" by a torpedo affixed to her by Lieut. Cush- ing, Oct. 27. Oct. 19.
President Lincoln re-elected; Andrew Johnson Vice-President, Nov. 8. Sherman commences his "March to the Sea," from Atlanta, Nov. 16. Incendiarism by Confederates in New York, Nov. 25.
Battle of Franklin, Tenn., between Hood and Thomas, Nov. 30.
Battle of Nashville, under Gen. Thom- as. Great victory. Confederates un- Savannah, Ga., occupied by Gen. Sher- der Hood retreat, Dec. 15, 16. man, completing the "March to the Sea," December 21. - President orders a draft for 300,000 more men, Dec. 19.
Butler and Porter attack Fort Fisher, N. C., and fail, Dec. 24, 25.
1865 Establishment of the Freedman's Bu- reau.
Fort Fisher, N. C., captured by Gen. Terry and Commodore Porter, Jan. 15. Sherman leaves Savannah, and starts northward, Feb. 1.
President's Conference with Confed- Evacuation of Charleston. S. C., by Con- federates, Feb. 17. erate Commission, Feb. 3.
Its occupation by Union forces, Feb. 18. Re-inauguration of President Lincoln, March 4.
Confederate Congress adjourns for the last time, March 18.
Desperate fighting Richmond. Battle commences before of Five Forks, April 1.
Gen. Grant advances upon Petersburg, April 2.
Richmond and Petersburg evacuated during night of April 2.
Flight of Davis from Richmond, April 2. Richmond and Petersburg occupied by Union forces, April 3. Selma, Ala., captured with large stores, April 5.
Battle of Sailors' Creek; defeat of Ewell and Custis Lee, April 6. Grant demands the surrender of the Southern army, April 7.
Lee surrenders to U. S. Grant at Ap- pomattox Court House, Va., April 9. Mobile evacuated by the Confederates, April 10.
Montgomery, Ala., surrenders to Wil- son, April 11.
President issues orders to stop draft- ing and further purchase of war ma- terial, April 13.
President Lincoln assassinated, in Washington, by Wilkes Booth, April 14.
Attempted assassination of Seward, April 14.
President Lincoln dies, April 15.
Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, Vice- President, takes oath of office as Presi- dent.
Macon, Ga., occupied by Union forces; great amount of army stores taken, April 20. .. Capture and death of Wilkes Booth, April 25.
Disaster to Union forces in Florida, un- der Gen. Seymour, Feb. 20. Kilpatrick's raid into Virginia. Gen. Gen. Johnston's army surrenders to Gen. Sherman, April 26.
Dahlgren killed, Feb. 28.
1864 General Grant made Lieutenant-Gen- eral, March 2.
A Free State government inaugurated in Louisiana, March. Admiral Porter's Red River expedition, March 4. Gen. U. S. Grant appointed Commander- in-Chief of army of United States, March 16. March 12; assumes command, March 17. A call for 200,000 more men, March 15. Arkansas votes to become a Free State, Battle of Jenkins Ferry, Ark .; defeat of Kirby Smith, April 4.
New York Sanitary Commission Fair receipts over one million dollars. Union expedition to Mansfield, La., foiled, April 8; Union forces, rein- forced, repulse Confederates at Pleas- ant Hill.
Fort Pillow massacre, April 12.
Wessels surrenders Plymouth, N. C., to Confederates, April 20.
Severe fighting between Confederates, under Lee, and Union forces, under Grant, in Virginia, in advance on Richmond, May 3-11.
Battle of Wilderness, May 5.
Occupation of City Point by General Butler, May 4. Sherman begins his march toward At- lanta, May, 7.
Execution of assassination conspirators, Harold, Payne, Atzeroth, and Mrs. Surratt, July 7.
Rebel Indian Chiefs sign treaty of loy- alty, Sept. 14.
Execution of Capt. Wirz, the Anderson- ville prison commandant, Nov. 10.
1866 Death of Rufus Choate, Jan. 15. Passage of the Freedman's Bureau Bill over the President's veto, Feb. 20. President's proclamation declaring the insurrection ended.
Death of General Winfield Scott, May 29. Fenians invade Canada, June 1. Fourteenth Amendment passed the Sen- ate, June 8. Successful laying of the Atlantic Cable, July 27.
Massacre in New Orleans, July 30.
1867 Nebraska admitted as the thirty-seventh State. Tenure of Office bill passed, June 4. Confiscation and Amnesty bill passed, Jan. 4. Purchase of Alaska, for $7,200,000, March 3. Jefferson Davis admitted to bail, in the sum of $100,000, May 13.
Southern States organized as military districts, Jan.
1868 Impeachment, trial, and acquittal of President Johnson.
Death of Kit (Christopher) Carson, trap- per and guide, May 23. Death of James Buchanan, June 1. Death of Matthew Vassar, June 23; he donates $800,000 for endowment, etc., of Vassar College.
Wyoming Territory organized, July 23. Death of Thaddeus Stevens, Aug. 11. Cornell University, of Ithaca, opened, Sept.
Election of Gen. Grant as President, Nov. 3.
1869 Pacific Railway completed, May 10. Death of Franklin Pierce, Jan. Nolle Prosequi ends prosecution of Jef- ferson Davis, Feb. 6.
Fifteenth Amendment passed, Feb. 25. Supreme Court pronounces Confederate currency to be worthless.
Great peace jubilee at Boston, June 15- 20.
French frontier cable laid, July 27. Great Wall street panic, ""Black Fri-
day," Sept. 24.
Death of George Peabody, Nov. 4.
Death of Edwin M. Stanton, Dec. 14.
1870 Ratification of the Fifteenth Amend- ment by the States.
Death of Admiral David G. Farragut, Death of Gen. R. E. Lee, Oct. 12. The Nathan murder, New York, July 28. Aug. 14. Proclamation of neutrality in Franco- German war.
First narrow-gauge railway built, Den- ver & Rio Grande.
Ku-Klux bill passes Congress.
1871 Treaty of Washington with -Great Brit- ain. Great fire at Chicago; 17,450 buildings Oct. 8. destroyed; loss . about $196,000,000, The Yellowstone National Park bill passed.
Visit of the Grand Duke Alexis to United States.
The Credit Mobilier scandal.
1872 Settlement of the Alabama Claims.
Congress removes the political disability of the Southern people. .
Re-election of President Grant.
Great fire at Boston; loss about $78,000,- 000, Nov. 9.
Death of Horace Greeley, Nov. 29. Death of Samuel F. Morse, inventor of the electric telegraph. Northwestern boundary question settled by the Emperor of Germany. Death of James Gordon Bennett, June 1. Epizootic throughout the United States. National Granges organized.
Death of William H. Seward.
1873 Wreck of the Atlantic, 535 lives lost, April 1. Modoc massacre, death of General Can- by, April 11. Colfax massacre, La., by White League, April.
Death of Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice, May 7.
Beecher and Tilton scandal, Brooklyn, July.
The Salary Grab Bill.
Failure of Jay Cooke & Co .; great finan- cial panic, Sept. 19.
Trial and conviction of William M. Tweed, Nov. 22.
Seizure of the "Virginius," and execu- tion of a number of her passengers by the Spanish authorities in Cuba. Surrender of the "Virginius" to the United States by Spain, Dec. 12. Death of Louis Agassiz, Dec. 14.
1874 Woman's Temperance Crusade. Visit of Kalakaua, King of Hawaii. Compromise Currency Bill signed by the President.
Death of Charles Sumner, March 11. Grasshopper raid in the Northwest. Abduction of Charley Ross, July 1. A second large fire in Chicago, July 14. Presidential election; result disputer, November 7. .
1875 Passage of the Act for the Resumption of Specie Payments in 1879. March 4. Colorado admitted into the Union, Centennial celebration at Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill.
Death of Andrew Johnson, July 31. Trial of Henry Ward Beecher for adul- tery.
Trial of Prof. Swing for heresy, May 5. Death of John C. Breckinridge, May 17. Military rule discontinued in the South- ern States.
Suspension of the California Bank, and suicide of President Ralston. Death of Henry Wilson, Nov. 22. Great fire in Virginia City, Nev., Oct. 25.
Foundering of steamship "Pacific," be- tween San Francisco and Portland, Nov. 4.
Death of William B. Astor, Nov. 24. Escape of Tweed from the custody o' the Sheriff, Dec. 4. ..
Great revivals, under Moody and San- . key. Great inundation in Texas.
Copyright, 195, by Geo. A, Ogle & Co.
1865 Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinsville, Ga., with part of his cabinet, May 10. Engagement at Boco Chico, between 500 Confederates and 400 Union troops, being the last in the "War of the Re- bellion," May 12. Grand review of the army, at Washing- ton, May 23, 24. Gen. Kirby Smith surrenders all his command, Trans-Mississippi Army,
May 26.
Amnesty of President
Proclamation Johnson, with fourteen different ex- ceptions, May 29
Georgia declares slavery abolished, etc., December 4.
Secretary Seward officially declared slavery abolished throughout the U. S., Dec. 18.
Mississippi nullified secession ordinance, Aug.
Alabama declared ordinance of secession null and void, Sept. 12.
South Carolina repealed the secession ordinance, Sept. 15. Florida annulled secession ordinance, Oct. 25.
Proclamation opening all ports in South- ern States, and ending blockade, June 23.
Battle of Resaca, Ga., between Generals Sherman and Johnston, May 15. Failure of Butler to capture Drury's Bluff, May 16.
Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne, May 19. Fighting between Lee and Grant at the North Anna, May 21-24.
Battle of Dalton, Ga., May 28; Union victory.
Sheridan captures Cold Harbor, May 31. Evacuation of Allatoona Pass, June 1. Battle of Cold Harbor, June 2, 3. Battle of Piedmont, Va., June 5. Hunter attacks Lynchburg; retreats into West Virginia, June 8. Army of the Potomac crosses to south side of James River, June 12-15. Assaults on Petersburg; Union forces losing 10,000 men in four days, June 16-18.
Confederate privateer "Alabama" sunk by the United States steamer "Kear- sarge," off Cherbourg, France, June 19. Hood attacks Hooker at Kennesaw and fails, June 22.
Emancipation Amendment submitted to the States by Congress, June 22. Butler occupies Deep Bottom, ten miles below Richmond, June 22.
Maryland abolishes slavery, June 24. Repulse of Thomas and McPherson at Kennesaw, June 27.
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 repealed by Congress, June 28. Early begins his raid into Maryland, July 2.
Wallace defeated by Early at Frederick, Md., July 9.
Rosseau's raid into Alabama, July 10. Early's entire army within six miles of Washington, July 12.
Gold reaches highest premium, viz., 284 per cent, July 16.
erates, at Niagara, July 18. Confed- Greeley's negotiations with Battle around Atlanta between forces under Hood, Confederate, and under Sherman, Union, July 22. Chambersburg, Pa., burned by General Stuart, July 30.
Explosion of a mine under Confederate Works, Petersburg, July 30.
Farragut captures Mobile, Aug. 3. Great naval victory, under Farragut, at Mobile, Ala., Aug. 5.
Atlanta evacuated and occupied by Sher- man, Aug. 31.
Confederate ram "Atlanta" captured off Savannah, Ga., by Union monitor. "Weehawken," Jan. 17.
First U. S. colored regiment enrolled in South Carolina, Jan. 25.
Act to provide a national currency be- comes a law, Feb. 25.
Farragut runs batteries at Grand Gulf, April 1.
Com. Porter successfully runs the bat- teries at Vicksburg, April 16.
Port Gibson and Grand Gulf, on Missis- sippi river, taken by U. S. Grant, May 1.
Col. Grierson's raid through Mississippi arrives at Baton Rouge, May 2. Arrest of C. L. Valandigham.
Severe fighting between Union forces, under Hooker, and Confederates, un- der Lee, about Chancellorsville, Va .; Confederate Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson killed; Hooker defeated, May 2, 3, 4. Battle of Jackson, Miss .; captured by Gen. Grant, May 14.
Battle of Baker's Creek; Pemberton routed by Grant, May 16.
Battle of Black River Bridge; retreat of Pemberton to Vicksburg, May 17. Vicksburg besieged by Grant, May 21. Colored troops first brought into action at Port Hudson, May 27. Battle at Milliken's Bend, June 6, 7. Retreat of Milroy from - Winchester, June 14.
Invasion of Pennsylvania by Lee's en- tire army, June 15-25.
Battle of Gettysburg, Pa .; Gen. Lee defeated by Union forces, under Gen. Meade, July 2, 3. Morgan begins his raid through Indiana and Ohio, July 3. Vicksburg surrendered by Gen. Pember- ton to Union forces, under Grant, July 4.
Port Hudson surrendered to Gen. Banks, and Natchez occupied by Gen. Grant- Mississippi river being thus opened to navigation, July 8.
Anti-draft riots in New York; 2,000 riot- ers killed, July 13, 14, 15.
Riot in Boston, July 15.
Gen. Tenn., Sept. 3. Burnside occupies Knoxville, Confederates evacuate Fort Wagner, Sept. 6.
Burnside captures Cumberland Gap,
Sept. 9.
Battle of Chickamauga; Union forces, nooga, Sept. 19. under Rosecrans, fall back to Chatta- Quantrell raids Lawrence, Kan., Aug. 21.
Gen. Wheeler starts on his raid into Tennessee, destroying much Govern- ment property, Oct. 2.
Hooker takes Lookout Mountain, Oct. 28
First Fenian Congress held in the United States.
Gen. Meade crosses the- Rappahannock, Lee retiring; Nov. 7.
Longstreet begins the siege of Knox- ville, Nov. 17. Battle of Missionary Ridge; success of Federals, Nov. 24.
Nov. 28, 29. Repulse of Longstreet at 'Knoxville, Banks starts on his expedition into Texas, Nov. 29.
Longstreet raises the siege of Knox- ville, Dec. 5.
President Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty, Dec. 8.
1864 Draft of 500,000 men ordered by Presi- dent Lincoln, Feb. 1. Colt's armory, at Hartford, destroyed ' by fire, Feb. 8.
1863
SUPPLEMENT XXII.
ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY.
1882 The Pendleton Civil Service Bill passes Senate, Dec. 27.
1883 Civil Service Reform bill passes the House, Jan. 4. Presidential Succession Bill passed Sen- ate, Jan. 9; not considered in the House. Burning of Newhall House, Milwaukee, 59 lives lost, Jan. 10. Great flood in Ohio River, 50,000 people homeless, Feb. 10-15. Tariff and Tax Amendment Bill passes both Houses, March 2. .
Death of Alexander H. Stephens, aged 71, March 4.
great rejoicing throughout the United States, July 4.
Castle Garden, N. Y., destroyed by fire, July 9.
Younger Brothers and Northfield Bank robbery, Sept. 7.
Arrest of W. M. Tweed, at Vigo, Spain, Sept. 8.
Yellow fever in Georgia, September. Trial of Molly Maguires, October. Dastardly attempt to rob the grave of President Lincoln, Nov. 7.
Burning of the Brooklyn Theater, 276 lives lost, Dec. 5.
First furnace for cremation .built; at Washington, Penn., Dec. 6.
1877
The Ashtabula railroad horror, Dec. 29. Close of the Indian War. The Electoral Commission Bill passed by Congress, Jan. 25, 26.
Rutherford B. Hayes declared President, March 2.
Blue Glass mania.
Death of Cornelius Vanderbilt, June 4. Great Railroad riots, East and West, July and August.
1878
Yellow fever epidemic along the Lower Mississippi.
Meeting of the Alabama Claims Commis- sion, Feb. 27.
Fenians attempt a second invasion of Canada, May 29.
Death of Robert Dale Owen, June 24. The Colorado, Petrified Giant humbug. Return of Henry. M. Stanley from Afri- can explorations, August. Death of Brigham Young, Aug. 29. Death of Oliver P. Morton, Nov. 1. Earthquake shocks in New England and middle States.
Ku-Klux Bill passed by Congress. Death of Benjamin F. Wade, March 2. Development of the telephone and phonograph.
Bankrupt Repeal Bill passed, May 10. Death of William Cullen Bryant, June 12. Indian outbreak in Washington Terri- tory, July.
Chinese Embassy visits . the United States. Silver Bill passed by both Houses of Congress.
Yellow fever in the South. -
Gold sold at par- the first time since 1862-Dec. 17.
1879 Resumption of specie payments, Jan. 1. Death of Richard Henry Dana, Feb. 2. Great fire at Reno, Nev., March 2. New Constitution of California adopted, May 2.
Death of William Lloyd Garrison, May 24.
Terrible. tornado in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, May 30.
Bill to erect a monument on site of Washington's birthplace, passes both Houses, June 10.
Waterspout in Black Hills causes great loss of property and life, June 12. Disastrous storms east and west, July. Great fire at Deadwood, Dak., Sept. 26. Death of Gen. Joseph Hooker, Oct. 31. Death of Zachary Chandler, Oct. 31. Caleb Cushing dies at Madrid.
"Exodus". - of negroes from South to West.
James Russell Lowell made Minister to England.
1880
Death of Frank Leslie, Jan. 10. City Hall, Albany, destroyed by fire, Feb. 10.
Terrific tornado sweeps over parts of Western and Southern States, April 8. treat forest fires in Southern New Jer- sey, April and May. Collision on Long Island Sound destroys the : steamers "Narragansett" End "Stonington".
Centennial celebration of the capture of Andre, Sept. 23.
Garfield and Arthur nominated by Chi- cago Republican Convention, June 9; Hancock and English by Cincinnati Democratic Convention.
At the General Election, the Repub- lican candidates secured 218 out of 369 electoral votes, Nov. 6.
1881 Electoral College vote counted, Feb. 9. Three per cent. funding bill passed, March 2.
Steamer Corwin sails for the Arctic re- gions in search of the Jeannette, March 4.
Revised New Testament issued, May 20. Star route frauds exposed; May 26. The great comets of 1881 first seen, June 20.
Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux, sur- renders, July 31.
James A. Garfield inaugurated, March 4. Contest between Garfield and Senator Conkling (N. Y.) about New York Col- lectorship, May.
Commercial treaty with China signed, May 5.
Great Britain pays £15,000 award for damage done to American fisheries in Fortune Bay affair.
Assassination of President Garfield by Charles J. Guiteau, at Baltimore rail- way depot in Washington, July 2. Death of President Garfield at Elberon, N. J., Sept. 19, burial at Cleveland, Sept. 26.
Vice President Arthur becomes Prosi- dent, Sept. 26. Special session of the Senate, Oct. 10. The celebrated Gulteau trial begins, Nov. 14.
News of destruction of Jeannette, Arctic exploring vessel, Dec. 30.
1882 Guiteau convicted Jan. 25; sentenced Feb. 4: hanged June 30.
Anti-Chinese bill (twenty years) passed March 23; vetoed by the. President April 4.
Senate passes Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Bill, Feb. 16; approved March 23. Apportionment bill passes the House, Feb. 17.
Great Mississippi overflow, wide destruc- tion and loss of life.
tariff Commission Bill passes both Houses, May 6-9; approved May 15. Bill extending National Bank charters passed both Houses, May 19.
Violent cyclone at Grinnell, Ia., June 8. Second Anti-Chinese bill (ten years) passed; signed by President Arthur, May 6.
Collision of the Scioto on Ohio river, 59 persons drowned, July 4.
River and Harbor Bill passed over the President's veto, Aug. 2.
Return of the survivors of the North Pole expedition.
Star Route trial ended by verdict of Jury, Sept. 11, acquitting Turner, con- victing Miner and Rerdell, and dis- agreeing as to Brady, the Dorsey brothers, and Vail.
Steamer Asia founders on Lake Huron, 100 lives lost, Sept. 14. Utah Commission completes registration of voters, Sept.
Fisheries treaty with Great Britain signed at Washington, Feb. 15. Strike of engineers and firemen on the C., B. & Q. R. R. began Feb. 25-
1888 Deadlock in the House of Representa- tives over the Direct Tax bill, April 9. Death of Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, aged 72 years, March 23. Knights of Labor appeal to Congress for a system of Government telegraph, April 12. Death of Roscoe Conklin, ex-U. S. Sen- ator, aged 60 years, April 18. Daily sales of U. S. bonds began, April 23
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