EVENTS INIOUR HISTORY. 
1492 Columbus discovered America. 
1519 Cortez began the Conquest of Mexico. 
1607 Jamestown, Va., was settled. 
1620 Pilgrims by the Mayflower landed. 
1623 Manhattan Island settled. 
1634 Maryland settled by Roman Catholics. 
1636 Rhode Island settled by Roger Williams. 
1664 New York taken from the Dutch. 
1682 Pennsylvania settled by William Penn. 
1690 First newspaper in America, at Boston. 
1759 Canada taken from the French. 
1773 Steam engine perfected by Watt. 
1773 Tea destroyed in Boston Harbor. 
1775 Battle of Lexington, April 19. 
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17. 
1776 Declaration of Independence. 
1777 Burgoyne’s surrender, October 17. 
1781 Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown. 
1787 United States Constitution adopted. 
1789 Washington first inaugurated President, April 30. 
1803 Louisiana purchased from the French. 
1807 Fulton’s first steamboat voyage. 
1812 Second war with Great Britain began. 
1813 Perry’s victory on Lake Erie. 
1815 Battle of New Orleans, January 8. 
1819 First steamboat crossed the Atlantic. 
1820 Missouri Compromise adopted. 
1823 Monroe Doctrine declared, December 2. 
1828 First passenger railroad in the United States. 
1832 South Carolina Nullification Ordinance. 
1835 Morse invented the telegraph. 
1835 Seminole war in Florida began. 
1845 Texas annexed. 
1846 Sewing machine completed by Elias FI owe. 
1846 War with Mexico began. 
1848 Gold discovered in California. 
1859 John Brown’s raid in Virginia. 
1861 Outbreak of Civil War. 
1861 Battle of Bull Run, July 21. 
1863 Slavery abolished in the United States, January 
1863 Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 to 3. 
1865 Lee surrendered at Appomattox, April 9. 
1865 President Lincoln assassinated, April 14. 
1867 Emperor Maximilian of Mexico executed. 
1871 The great fire in Chicago. 
1872 The great fire in Boston. 
1876 Centennial Exposition. 
1881 President Garfield shot, July 2. 
1889 Brazil became a Republic. 
1893 Columbia Exposition at Chicago. 
1897 Klondike gold discovery. 
1898 War with Spain. 
1900 Leaksville Woolen Mills enlarged. 
