Kentucky admitted (1792); Tennessee admitted (1796);
Brigham Young born (1801); John, B. Hood born
(1831): John M. Harlan born (1833).

John Randolph horn (1773): Philip Kearney born (1815);
John G Saxe horn (1816).

Jefferson Davis born (1808); Holiday in Florida, Georgia
and Virginia; Battle of Cold Harbor (1864); Gar-
rett A. Hobart born (1844).
Whitsunday (Pentecost); John Eager Howard born
(1752).

Bushrod Washington born (1762); Battle of Sandusky,
Ohio, with the Indian Alliance (1782).

Nathan Hale born (1755); John Trumbull born (1756);
Nathaniel Gorham born (1786).

Resolution for independence introduced in Congress
(1776); Alfred Pleasanton born (1824).

Thomas Sully born (1783); David D. Porter born (1813);
Tennessee seceded (1861).

John Howard Payne born (1791): Edmund Randolph
born (1820); Battle of Brandy Station_(1863).

Battle of Big Bethel (1861); Battle of Rich Mountain,
W. Va. (1861).

Trinity Sunday; Joseph Warren born (1741); Eli Thayer
born (1819).

John A. Roebling born (1806); United States Army
sailed for Santigo, Cuba (1898).

Winfield Scott born (1786); Fitz-John Porter born (1822);
federal attack on Port Hudson repulsed (1863).
Flag Day; Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress (1777);
Lafayette arrived in America (1777); Harriet Beecher
Stowe born (1811).

Corpus Christi; Arkansas admitted (1836); patent to
Goodyear for making rubber (1844).

Battle of Camden, S. C. (1780).

Battle of Bunker Hill (1775); Washington chosen com-
mander in chief of the army (1775).

British evacuated Philadelphia (1778); war against Great
Britain declared (1812).

First Colonial Congress met (1754); Maine separated
from Massachusetts (1819); West Virginia admitted
(1863); battle between the Kearsarge and the Ala-
bama (1864).

Death of De Soto (1542); John T. Morgan born (1824);
Benjamin H. Bristow born (1832): West Virginia ad-
mitted (1863); Battle of Peach Tree Creek, Ga. (1864).
Alexander J. Dallas born (1759); Daniel D. Tompkins
born (1774); Constitution ratified by New Hamp-
shire (1788), and became effective, New Hampshire
being the ninth state to ratify; Horatio King born
(1811); American army arrived in Cuba (1898).
Richard Hildreth born (1807); James H. Lane born
(1814).

William Penn made his treaty with the Indians (1683);
John Jay born (1817).

St. John the Baptist; Henry Ward Beecher born (1813);
Battle of Las Gunsimas, Cuba (1898).

Custer massacre (1876).

Arthur Middleton born (1742); Constitution ratified by
Virginia (1788); Abner Doubleday born (1819); Battle
of Mechanicsville, Va. (1862).

Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. (1864).
Battle of Fort Moultrie (1776); Battle of Monmouth, N.
J. (1778); Battle of Donaldsonville, La. (1863).
Ss. Peter and Paul; St. George Tucker born (1752);
John Q. A. Ward born (1830); Battle of Savage's
Station and White Oak Swamp. Va. (1862).
William A. Wheeler born (1819; Battle of Frazer's Farm
(1862).

Massacre of Wyoming, Penn. (1778); Gideon Welles born
(1802); Battle of Malvern Hill (1862); Battle of Gettys-
burg began (1863); Battle of San Juan, Cuba (1898).
Richard H. Stoddard born (1825); Francis A. Walker
born (1840); Battle of Gettysburg continued (1863);
James A. Garfield shot (1881).
Samuel Huntington born (1731); John S. Copley born
(1737); Battle of Gettysburg ended (1863); Idaho ad-
mitted (1890); Cervera's fleet destroyed (1898).
Independence Day; Congress adopted the Declaration of
Independence (1776); Nathaniel Hawthorne born
(1804); Reuben E. Fenton born (1819); John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson died (1826); James Monroe
died (1831); Vicksburg surrendered (1863).

David G. Farragut born (1801); Battle of Chippewa, Can-
ada (1814); Battle of Carthage, Mo. (1861).
John Paul Jones born (1747).

John B. Gordon born (1832); Hawaii annexed (1898).
Battle of Ticonderoga, N. Y. (1758); Fitz-Greene Halleck
born (1790); David Turpie born (1829).

British and Colonial forces under General Braddock defeated at Monongahela, Penn. (1755); Articles of Confederation signed (1778); Elias Howe born (1819); William F. Vilas born (1840); Port Hudson surrendered (1863); Battle of Monocacy River, Md. (1864).

George M. Dallas born (1792); Robert Toombs born (1810); Wyoming admitted (1890).

John Quincy Adams born (1767); duel between Hamilton and Burr (1804); Battle of Rich Mountain, W. Va. (1861).

Alexander Hamilton died (1804); Henry D. Thoreau born
(1817).

Ordinance of 1787 passed; Nathan B. Forrest born (1821);
anti-draft riots in New York City (1863).
Nathaniel Lyon born (1818).

Stony Point, N. Y., captured (1779); Battle of Lundy's
Lane (1814).

District of Columbia established (1790); Santiago, Cuba,
surrendered (1898).

Elbridge Gerry born (1744); Timothy Pickering born
(1745); British attack on Fort George repelled (1814).
Unsuccessful attack on Fort Wagner, S. C. (1863).
Robert J. Walker born (1801).

First Battle of Atlanta, Ga. (1864).

Stanley Matthews born (1821); first Battle of Bull Run
(1861).

Mary Magdalen; second Battle of Atlanta (1864).
Charlotte S. Cushman born (1816).

John M. Clayton born (1796); John A. Dix born (1798);
J. G. Holland born (1800); Salt Lake City founded
(1847); Martin Van Buren died (1862).

St. James; Henry Knox born (1750); Battle of Lundy's
Lane, Canada (1814); George H. Pendleton born
(1825).

George Clinton born (1739); Constitution ratified by New
York (1788).

Fort Ticonderoga captured from the French (1759)
laying of the Atlantic cable completed (1866)
Alaska Territory organized (1868).

Third Battle of Atlanta (1864).

Thomas Corwin born (1794); Edwin A. Stevens born (1795); Hiram Powers born (1805).

William Penn died (1718).

James Kent born (1763); John Ericsson born (1803) George H. Thomas born (1816); Abram S. Hewit born (1822).

AUGUST.

George Ticknor born (1791); Richard Henry Dana born
(1815); Colorado admitted (1876).

John P. Stockton born (1826); F. Marion Crawford born
(1854).
Columbus sailed on his first voyage from Palos (1492);
first bombardment of Tripoli by the American forces
(1804); Hamilton Fish born (1808).

Crown Point, N. Y., captured from the French (1759);
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen born (1817); Oliver P.
Morton bor (1823).

Atlantic_telegraph cable completed (1858); Battle of Mo-
bile Bay (1864).

Transfiguration; Battle of Oriskany (1777).

Joseph Rodman Drake born (1795); second bombardment
of Tripoli (1804); Thomas Ewing born (1829).
Charles A. Dana born (1819); George Stoneman born
(1822); Nelson A. Miles born (1839).

Francis Scott Key born (1780); Ashburton Treaty con-
cluded (1842): Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. (1862).
Edmund Randolph born (1753); William L. Yancey born
(1814); Missouri admitted (1861); Battle of Wilson
Creek, Mo. (1861).

David R. Atchison born (1807); Fulton's Clermont made
her first trip up the Hudson (1807); Judah P. Benja-
'min born (1811).

Death of King Philip and end of his war (1676); protocol
signed ending war with Spain (1898).
Manila surrendered (1898).

Oregon Territory organized (1848).

Edward Preble born (1761); John B. Magruder born
(1810); Charles G. Leland born (1824).

Battle of Bennington, Vt. (1777); Battle of Camden, S.
C. (1780); Mirabeau B. Lamar born (1798); Henry
Winter Davis born (1817).

David Crockett born (1786).

Charles Francis Adams born (1807); Augustus J. Pleasanton born (1803)

James Lenox born (1800); naval batttle between Constitution and Guerriere (1812).

Robert F. Stockton born (1795); Benjamin Harrison_born (1833); battles of Churubusco and Contreras, Mexico (1847).

Oliver H. Perry born (1785).

James K. Paulding born (1779); Samuel P. Langley born
(1834).

State of Franklin, afterward Tennessee, formed (1784);
Francis Wayland born (1826).

St. Bartholomew; Theodore Parker born (1810); Battle
of Bladensburg, Washington occupied by the Brit-
ish forces (1814); John Newton born (1823); William
Walter Phelps born (1839).

Francis Bret Harte born (1839); Battle of Ream's Station (1864).

James Harlan born (1820).

Battle of Long Island (1776); Hannibal Hamlin born (1809); William H. English born (1822); James B. Eustis born (1834).

Menendez arrived at St. Augustine, Fla. (1565); John Stark born (1728); Battle of Warrenton, Va. (1862). New Amsterdam surrendered to the English and became New York (1664); Richard Rush born (1780); Oliver Wendell Holmes born (1809); George F. Hoar born (1826); David B. Hill born (1843); Battle of Manassas, Va., begun (1862).

Massacre at Fort Mimms, Ala. (1813); Battle of Manassas ended (1862).

Galusha A. Grow horn (1823); Elizabeth Stuart Phelps born (1844); Battle of Jonesboro (1864).

SEPTEMBER.

Deerfield, Mass., burned by Indians (1675); Battle of 'Chantilly, Va. (1862).

Henry George born (1839); Atlanta occupied (1864).
Henry Hudson arrived in New York Bay (1609); treaty
of peace with Great Britain signed at Paris (1783).
Labor Day; duel between Andrew Jackson and Thomas
H. Benton (1813); Confederate invasion of Maryland
(1862).

First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia (1774);
John G. Carlisle born (1835).

Mayflower sailed from England (1620); William L. Rose-
crans born (1819); President McKinley shot at Buf-
falo (1901).

Howell Cobb born (1815); Thomas A. Hendricks born
(1819).

Battle of Lake George, N. Y. (1755); Battle of Eutaw
Springs, S. C. (1781).

California admitted (1850).

Naval Battle of Lake Erie (1813): Randall L. Gibson
born (1832): Joseph Wheeler born (1836).
Battle of the Brandywine (1777); Battle of Plattsburg, N.
Y. (1814): Massacre of Mountain Meadow, Utah (1857).
Battle of Chapultepec, Mexico (1847); Walker, the fill-
buster, shot by the government of Honduras (1860).
Battle of Quebec (1759); bombardment of Fort McHenry
(1814); John M. Palmer born (1817).
Exaltation of the Holy Cross; James Wilson born (1742);
City of Mexico captured (1847); Battle of South
Mountain (1862); Alabama award made (1872); Presi-
dent McKinley died and Vice-President Roosevelt
took the oath of office (1901).

James Fenimore Cooper born (1789): Aaron Burr ac-
quitted of treason (1807); Richard Olney born (1835);
William H. Taft born (1857): Harper's Ferry, Va.,
surrendered to the Confederates (1862).

Samuel Adams born (1722); Battle of Antietam began
(1862).
Constitution of the United States adopted by Constitu-
tional Convention (1787); Lucius Q. C. Lamar born
(1825) Battle of Antietam ended (1862).
Joseph Story born (1779): President Washington laid the
cornerstone of the Capitol (1793).
Battle of Stillwater (1777); Washington's Farewell Ad-
dress issued (1796): Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., be-
gan (1863); Battle of Opequan Creek, Va. (1864);
President Garfield died at Elberon, N. J. (1881).
Charles Carroll of Carrollton born (1737); Battle of
Paoli, Penn. (1777); John F. Reynolds born (1820):
Battle of Chickamauga ended (1863); President Arthur
took the oath of office (1881).

St. Matthew's; Battle of Monterey, Mexico, began and
lasted until September 23.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation first issued (1862);
Battle of Fisher's Hill, Va. (1864).

Jewish New Year: Major André captured (1780).

John Marshall born (1755); Zachary Taylor born (1784);
Henry W. Slocum born (1827); Black Friday in New
York (1869).

Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean (1513).
British troops occupied Philadelphia (1777).

Samuel F. Dupent born (1803); Raphael Semmes born
(1809).

Siege of Yorktown began (1781); naval battle on Lake: Ontario (1813): Frederick MacMonnies born (1863). Michaelmas; Charles Calvert born (1699); John M. Schofield born (1831): Battle of Newmarket, Va. (1864). Sargent L. Prentiss born (1808); Samuel S. Cox born (1824).

Year...

Day of

OCTOBER.

Richard Stockton horn (1730); Rufus Choate born (1799).
Major André hanged as a spy (1780).

Charles Jared Ingersoil born (1782); George Bancroft
born (1800); George Ripley born (1802).

Battle of Germantown, Penn. (1777); Rutherford B.
Hayes born (1822).

Jonathan Edwards born (1703); James Iredell born
(1750); Battle of the Thames River, Canada (1813);
Chester A. Arthur born (1830).

First German immigrants arrived in Pennsylvania
(1683); Joshua R. Giddings born (1795); Battle of
Allatoona, Ga. (1864).

Cæsar Rodney born (1728); Battle of Saratoga, N. Y.
(1777); Battle of King's Mountain, N. C. (1780).
John H. Reagan born (1818); Matt W. Ransom born
(1826); Edmund C. Stedman born (1833): John Hay
born (1838); Battle of Perryville, Ky. (1862); Franklin
Pierce died (1869).

Charter for Yale College granted (1701); Lewis Cass
born (1782).

Benjamin West born (1738); Samuel J. Randall born
(1828); United States Naval Academy opened (1845);
Galveston, Tex., captured (1862).

Naval battle of Lake Champlain (1776); Theodore
Thomas born (1835).

Columbus Day; Columbus discovered America (1492);
Lyman Trumbull born (1813).

Battle of Queenstown, Canada (1812); Bejamin H. Brew-
ster born (1816).

William Penn born (1644); Francis Lightfoot Lee born (1731); Daniel Huntington born (1816); Battle of Bristow's Station (1863).

Asaph Hall born (1829).

Noah Webster born (1758); Jonathan Dayton born (1760);
William P. Fessenden born (1806); John Brown's at-
tack on Harper's Ferry (1859).

Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga (1777); Richard M.
Johnson born (1781).

St. Luke; Thomas B. Reed born (1839); John Brown
captured (1859).

John Adams born (1735): Cornwallis surrendered at
Yorktown (1781); Battle of Cedar Creek, Va. (1864).
Boundary treaty between Great Britain and United
States concluded (1818); Daniel E. Sickles born (1825);
Marshall Jewell born (1825).

Magellan entered Magellan's Strait (1520); George Izard
born (1777); Battle of Ball's Bluff (1861).

Henry Middleton born (1775); Theodore S. Woolsey born (1852).

Thomas Pinckney born (1750); Adlai E. Stevenson born
(1835).

Second Federal Congress met in Philadelphia (1791);
Erie Canal opened between Utica and Rome (1809);
James S. Sherman born (1855).

Battle of Pine Bluff, Ark. (1863).
Erie Canal completed (1825).

Benjamin F. Wade born (1800); Jacob D. Cox born (1828);
Whitelaw Reid born (1837); John D. Long born
(1838): Theodore Roosevelt born (1858); Battle of
Wanhatchie (1863).

Simon and Jude: Harvard College founded (1636); Bat-
tle of White Plains, N. Y. (1776); Statue of Liberty
dedicated in New York Harbor (1886).

Thomas F. Bayard born (1828).

Roscoe Conkling born (1829).

Halloween: Theodore D. Woolsey born (1801); Joseph R.
Hawley born (1826): Richard M. Hunt born (1828);
Nevada admitted (1864).