SHOWING RELIGIOUS, LEGAL AND OTHER HOLIDAYS, BIRTHDAYS OF PROMINENT AMERICANS AND DATES OF IMPORTANT Month. Day of Year.... Day of Week.. Day of EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. JANUARY. New Year's Day (Circumcision); Anthony Wayne born Philip Freneau born (1752); Battle of Murfreesboro Roger Wolcott born (1679); Utah admitted (1896). Twelfth Day; Charles Sumner born (1811). Israel Putnam born (1718): Millard Fillmore born (1800); Battle of New Orleans (1815); James Longstreet born Constitution ratified by Connecticut (1788); Mississippi Ethan Allen born (1737); Jeremiah S. Black born (1810); Alexander Hamilton born (1757); Bayard Taylor born John Hancock born (1737); John S. Sargent born (1856). Benedict Arnold born (1741); Matthew F. Maury born Philip Livingston born (1716); first locomotive for actual use built in United States (1831); Fort Fisher captured (1865). Henry W. Halleck born (1815). Benjamin Franklin born (1706); Charles Brockden Brown born (1771); Battle of Cowpens, S. C. (1781); Caleb Cushing born (1800). Daniel Webster born (1782). Robert E. Lee born (1807); Edgar Allan Poe born (1809); Richard Henry Lee born (1732); Robert Morris born John C. Fremont horn (1813); John C. Breckenridge born (1821); Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson born (1824). Raisin River Massacre (1813). Josiah Quincy, sr.. born (1744). Benjamin Lincoln born (1733); Charles F. Crisp born (1845); gold discovered in California (1848). Conversion of St. Paul; University of Virginia estab- Samuel G. Morton born (1799); Michigan admitted (1837); Webster's reply to Hayne (1830); Edison incandescent Mathew Carey born (1760); George S. Boutwell born (1814). Carnation Day; Thomas Paine born (1737); Albert Gallatin born (1761); William McKinley born (1843); Kansas admitted (1861). Nathaniel P. Banks born (1816); Ericsson's Monitor launched (1862). Gouverneur Morris born (1752); James G. Blaine born (1830). Month. Day of Year.... Day of Week... Day of FEBRUARY. David Porter born (1780); George F. Edmunds born (1828); Texas seceded (1861). Purification; Candlemas; treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo signed (1848). Albert Sidney Johnston born (1803); Joseph E. Johnston John Witherspoon born (1722); Zebulon M. Pike born Luther Martin born (1748); William Henry Harrison Isham G. Harris born (1818). Daniel Boone born (1735): Alexander H. Stephens born (1812): Thomas A. Edison born (1847). Septuagesima Sunday; Lincoln's Birthday; Abraham Lincoln born (1809); Peter Cooper born (1791); William W. Story born (1819). David Dudley Field born (1805); James B. Beck born St. Valentine's Day; William and Mary College _char- Henry Wilson born (1812): Henry Adams born (1838); William L. Dayton born (1807). George Peabody born (1795); Jefferson Davis inaugurated (1861). Sexagesima Sunday; Ohio admitted (1803); Francis P. Blair, jr., born (1821); Edison phonograph patented (1878). Joseph Jefferson born (1829). Ebenezer R. Hoar born (1816); Washington Monument dedicated (1885). Washington's Birthday; George Washington born (1732); Rembrandt Peale born (1778); James Russell Lowell born (1819); Florida ceded to United States by Spain (1819); Battle of Buena Vista (1847); Wilmington, N. C. captured (1865), Henry Dearborn born (1751); John Quincy Adams died (1848) Willian H. Crawford born (1772); Henry S. Lane born (1811): George William Curtis born (1824); Arizona Territory formed (1863). Charles C. Pinckney born (1746); Vincennes, Ind., captured (1779). Quinquagesima Sunday; E'ihu Vedder born (1836); Eugene Schuyler born (1840). Henry W. Longfellow born (1807). Shrove Tuesday; Henry S. Foote born (1804); territorial government established in Colorado (1861). Month. Day of Year.... Day of Week... Day of MARCH. Ash Wednesday; William Cushing born (1732); Terri- De Witt Clinton born (1769); Samuel Houston born (1793); Inauguration Day; Casimir Pulaski born (1748); First Quadragesima Sunday; Boston Massacre (1770); James Simon Cameron born (1799); Matthew C. Butler born Americus Vespucius born (1451); Isaac Hull born (1773); Robert Treat Paine born (1731); Francis Wayland born John L. Worden born (1817): Simon Newcomb born (1835). Purim; Thomas H. Benton born (1782); cotton gin pat- Purim; Andrew Jackson born (1767); Battle of Guilford James Madison born (1751); West Point Military Acad- Thomas McKean born (1734); William J. Bryan born Neal Dow born (1804); Charles W. Eliot born (1834). Stamp Act became a law (1765); Braxton Bragg born Don Carlos Buell born (1818); Schuyler Colfax born (1823); Aguinaldo captured (1901). Joel Barlow born (1764); Rufus King born (1755). Annunciation (Lady Day); Lord Baltimore's first colony landed in Maryland (1634). Mid-Lent Sunday: Benjamin Thompson (Count Rum ford) born (1753). Florida discovered by Ponce de Leon (1513); Vera Cru captured (1847). Wade Hampton born (1818). John Tyler born (1790). Ether first used as an anesthetic (1842); Alaska pur chased from Russia (1867); Fifteenth Amendmen to the Constitution went into force (1870). Alexander B. Mott born (1826); John LaFarge born (1835) Month. Day of Year. Day of Week.. Day of APRIL. All Fools' Day; James McCosh_born (1811); Henry B. Thaddeus Stevens born (1793); James Freeman Clarke Elihu Yale born (1649); Samuel F. Miller born (1816). Louisiana admitted (1812); Howell E. Jackson born Lewis Waliace born (1827); The New-York Tribune first Edward Everett born (1794); Fort Pulaski surrendered (1852). Henry Clay born (1777); Fort Sumter fired on (1861). Good Friday; Justin S. Morrill born (1810); President Easter Sunday; Charles Wilson Peale born (1741); Battle of Cerro Gordo (1847). Roger Sherman born (1721); Revolutionary War begun at Lexington (1775); hostilities end (1783); ClaytonBulwer Treaty signed (1850). Siege of Boston begun (1775); Matthew C. Perry born (1794). Battle of San Jacinto Spain (1898). (1836); war declared against Oklahoma opened to settlement (1889). Low Sunday (St. George): James Buchanan born (1791); John Trumbull born (1751); Farragut passed the forts St. Mark; Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, War with Mexico declared (1846); General Joseph E. James Monroe born (1758); Constitution ratified by Oliver Ellsworth born (1745). President Washington inaugurated (1789); Louisiana Purchase consummated (1803); Louisiana admitted (1812). MAY. Week... Day of Month. Day of Year... Day of St. Philip and St. James; New Orleans occupied (1862); Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia Jamaica discovered (1494); Lot M. Morrill born (1813). Arkansas seceded (1861); Sherman's March to the Sea William Bainbridge born (1774); Territory of Indiana or- Battle of Palo Alto (1846); Battle of Spottsylvania Court Jacob Brown born, (1775); John Brown born (1800); Confederate Memorial Day in North and South Caro- Society of the Cincinnati organized (1783); Zebulon B. Convention assembled to draft the Constitution (1787); Maximilian abdicated as Emperor of Mexico (1867); Bat- William H. Seward born (1801): Levi P. Morton born (1824); Battle of Champion Hill, Miss. (1863). John F. Mercer born (1759). Père Marquette died (1675); Siege of Vicksburg begun Johns Hopkins born (1794); Cervera's fleet arrived in North Carolina seceded (1861). Rogation Sunday; Reverdy Johnson born (1796). Nathaniel Green born (1742); Charles Francis Adams Pierre G. T. Beauregard born (1818); B. Gratz Brown Patrick Henry born (1736); Rhode Island ratified the |