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Birthdays 



3. Albert Sidney Johnston, 1803. 

 Joseph E. Johnston, 1807. 



Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809. 

 Horace Greeley, 1811. 

 Sidney Lanier, 1842. 



4. Mark Hopkins. 1802. 



5. James Otis, 1725. 

 Zebulon M. Pike, 1779. 

 Sir Robert Peel, 1788. 

 Dwight L. Moody, 1837. 



6. Queen Anne, 1665. 

 Aaron Burr, 1756. 



7. Sir Thomas More, 1478. 

 Millard Fillmore, 1800. 

 Charles Dickens, 1812. 



8. William T. Sherman, 1820. 

 Jules Verne, 1828. 



9. William Henry Harrison, 1773. 

 Samuel J. Tilden, 1814. 



John A. Logan, 1826. 



10. Charles Lamb, 1775. 



11. Alexander H. Stephens, 1812. 

 Thomas A. Edison, 1847. 



12. Peter Cooper, 1791. 



Abraham Lincoln, 1809. 

 Charles Darwin, 1809. 



14. Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824. 



15. Galileo, 1564. 



Susan B. Anthony, 1820. 

 Elihu Root, 1845. 



18. Queen Mary of England, 1516. 



19. Copernicus, 1473. 

 David Garrick, 1717. 



20. William H. Prescott, 1726. 

 Joseph Jefferson, 1829. 



21. John Henry Newman, 1801. 



22. George Washington, 1732. 

 James Russell Lowell, 1819. 



23. George Frederick Handel. 1685. 



24. George William Curtis, 1824. 



25. Charles C. Pinckney, 1746. 



26. Victor Hugo, 1802. 



W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") 



27. Henry W. Longfellow, 1807. 



28. Raphael, 1483. 



Marquis de Montcalm, 1712. 



1845. 



Events 



1. King Carlos of Portugal assassinated, 1908. 



2. First Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland met, 1801. 



3. Territory of Illinois created, 1809. 



4. Last day of hostilities in Revolutionary War, 1783. 



5. Victoria Cross instituted, 1856. 



6. Reconstruction Act brought forward In Congress, 1867. 



8. Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded, 1587. 



Inhabitants of Schenectady, N. Y., massacred by Indians, 1690. 

 Temporal power of the Pope ended, 1849. 



9. English gained control of New Amsterdam, 1674. 

 John Q. Adams elected President, 1825. 



Jefferson Davis chosen Confederate President, 1861. 

 Robert E. Lee took command of forces of Confederacy, 1865. 

 Nebraska admitted to the Union, 1867. 



10. By Treaty of Paris, France surrendered Canada, 1763. 

 Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1840. 

 Upper and Lower Canada reunited, 1840. 

 Spanish-American War closed by treaty, 1899. 



12. Lady Jane Grey beheaded, 1554. 

 Settlement established at Savannah, Ga., 1733. 

 Independence of Chile secured by Battle of Chacabuco, 1818. 



13. Crown of England offered to William and Mary, 1689. 

 Warren Hastings brought to trial, 1788. 

 Mutsuhito became Japanese emperor, 1867. 



14. Canada became a royal province, 1663. 

 Oregon admitted to the Union, 1859. 



Yuan Shih-kai made first President of China, 1912. 



15. The Maine blown up In Havana harbor, 1898. 



16. Surrender of Fort Donelson, 1862. 



17. Dual government adopted by Austria-Hungary, 1867. 

 Suez Canal first opened to ships, 1867. 



18. Inauguration of Jefferson Davis, 1861. 



Germans began submarine blockade of Great Britain, 1915. 



20. Congress passed reconstruction bill, 1867. 

 Leo XIII became Pope, 1878. 

 Revolution began in Cuba, 1895. 



21. Washington monument dedicated, 1885. 



22. Florida ceded by Spain to the United States, 1819. 



25. John Adams appointed first minister of United States to England, 1785 



26. Napoleon escaped from Elba, 1815. 

 English Test Acts repealed. 1828. 

 Treaty of Versailles signed, 1871. 



28. Upper Mississippi River exploration by Hennepin begun, 1680. 



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