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Feb. 14, William Tecumseh Sherman died. 

 Feb. 21, the battle of Tokar, Egypt, was fought. 

 April 24, Helmuth Karl von Moltke died. 

 Aug. 12, James Russell Lowell died. 



1892. 



Jan. 31, Charles H. Spurgeon died. 



March 12, anarchists in Paris wrecked the house 



of a judge with dynamite. 

 July 12, Cyrus W. Field died. 

 Sept. 7, John Greenleaf Whittier died. 

 Oct. 6, Alfred Tennyson died. 

 In the spring of this year there was civil war, 



ending in revolution, in Venezuela. 



1893. 

 Jan. 16, the Queen of Hawaii was dethroned, and 



a provisional government was established. 

 Jan. 17, Rutherford B. Hayes died. 

 Jan. 23, Phillips Brooks died. 

 Jan. 27, James G. Blaine died. 

 May 1, the World's Columbian Exposition, in 



Chicago, was opened. 

 Aug. 6, the ship canal through the Isthmus of 



Corinth was opened to commerce. 

 Oct. 18, Charles Frangois Gounod died. 

 Nov. 8, Francis Parkman died. 

 Dec. 4, John Tyndall died. 



1894. 



Jan. 22, hundreds of anarchists were arrested in 

 Italy, and peasants and workingmen were dis- 

 armed. 



Jan. 25, French troops occupied Timbuctoo. 



Jan. 27, an earthquake destroyed the town of 

 Kuchan, Persia, and killed about 12,000 per- 

 sons. 



Feb. 7, an International Sanitary Conference met 

 in Paris. 



Feb. 11, war began between Peru and Ecuador. 



Feb. 27, Marietta Alboni died. 



March 20, Louis Kossuth died. 



May 9, an earthquake in Venezuela destroyed sev- 

 eral villages and more than 10,000 lives. 



June 24, President Carnot, of France, was assas- 

 sinated. 



July 4, a republic was proclaimed in Hawaii. 



July 27, war was declared between Japan and 

 China. 



Aug. 27, the Wilson tariff bill became a law with- 

 out President Cleveland's signature. 



Sept. 8, Hermann von Helmholtz died. 



Sept. 15, a battle was fought at Ping- Yang, in 

 which the Chinese lost about 16,000 men. The 

 Japanese loss was small in comparison. 



Oct. 7, Oliver Wendell Holmes died. 



Nov. 16, there was a great massacre of Armenian 

 Christians by Turks in Kurdistan neither the 

 first nor the last of the kind. 



Nov. 21, there was a massacre of Chinese by 

 Japanese troops at Port Arthur. 



81895. 

 . 17, Felix Faure was elected President of the 

 French republic. 



Jan. 30, Liliuokalani formally abdicated the Ha- 

 waiian throne. 



Jan. 31, the Japanese captured Wei-Hai-Wei. 



Feb. 7, the Japanese sank two Chinese war ships. 



Feb. 20, the Cuban revolution began. 



March 5, Sir Henry Rawlinson, the " Father of 

 Assyriology," died. 



March 5, the Japanese captured Neu-Chwang. 



May 8, a treaty of peace between Japan and China 

 was ratified at Chefoo. 



May 15, there was a revolt in the island of For- 

 mosa, and a republic was set up. 



May 20, the United States Supreme Court declared 

 the income tax null and void. 



June 17, the Harlem Ship Canal was opened. 



June 19, the Baltic Canal was opened. 



June 29, Thomas Henry Huxley died. 



Sept. 18, the Cotton States and International Ex- 

 position, at Atlanta, Ga., was opened. 



Sept. 27, the French captured Antananarivo, 

 Madagascar. 



Sept. 28, Louis Pasteur died. 



Nov. 28, Alexandre Dumas, ftls, died. 



1896. 



Jan. 1, the Jameson raiders were defeated by the 

 Boers. 



Jan. 2, the Jameson raiders surrendered to the 

 Boers. 



Jan. 4, Utah was admitted as a State. 



Jan. 5, Prof. W. K. Rontgen published his discov- 

 ery of the X ray. 



Jan. 23, the annexation of Madagascar to France 

 was proclaimed. 



March 2, an Italian army was disastrously de- 

 feated in Abyssinia. 



March 21, the Volunteers of America were organ- 

 ized by Ballington Booth. 



May 1, the Shah of Persia was assassinated. 



May 27, a cyclone struck St. Louis, Mo., causing 

 great destruction of life and property. 



July 1, Harriet Beecher Stowe died. 



1897. 



Jan. 22, appearance of the plague in India caused 

 a stoppage of all pilgrim traffic. 



March 1, Japan adopted the gold standard. 



March 7, the French exiled the Queen of Mada- 

 gascar. 



March 25, at Tokat, in Anatolia, 700 Armenians 

 were massacred. This was followed by several 

 similar massacres. 



April 13, the bill creating the city of Greater New 

 York passed the Legislature. 



April 17, Turkey declared war against Greece. 



May 1, the Centennial Exposition at Nashville, 

 Tenn., was opened. 



May 10, the Exposition at Brussels, Belgium, was 

 opened. 



June 14, the Venezuela boundary treaty was rati- 

 fied. 



July 19, Jean Ingelow died. 



July 24, the Dingley tariff bill was signed by 

 the President. 



Aug. 5, 6, a tidal wave on the coast of Japan 

 destroyed many villages and thousands of lives. 



Aug. 25, President Borda, of Uruguay, was assas- 

 sinated. 



Sept. 18, a treaty of peace between Turkey and 

 Greece was signed. 



Oct. 21, the Yerkes telescope, the largest in the 

 world, was dedicated at Lake Geneva, Wis. 



Oct. 29, Henry George died. 



Nov. 8, a treaty to protect the seals in Bering 

 Sea was signed for the United States, Russia, 

 and Japan. 



1898. 



Jan. 3, the British Government officially insisted 

 on the " open door " in China. 



Feb. 8, President Barrios, of Guatemala, was as- 

 sassinated. 



Feb. 14, the Maine was destroyed in Havana 

 harbor. 



March 7, China leased Port Arthur to Russia for 

 ninety-nine years. 



April 19, the United States declared war against 

 Spain. 



May 1, the American fleet destroyed the Spanish 

 fleet in Manila Bay. 



