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 Albert Sidney Johnston born (1803); Joseph E. Johnston 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) William 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); Philip H. Sheridan born (1831); Massacre of the Alamo Millard Fillmore died (1874). 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). James Madison born (1751); West Point Military Acad- John C. Calhoun born (1782); Grover Cleveland born 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 Rumford) born (1753). Florida discovered by Ponce de Leon (1513); Vera Cruz captured (1847). Wade Hampton born (1818). Ether first used as an anesthetic (1842); Alaska pur- APRIL. All Fools' Day; James McCosh born (1811); Henry B. Thaddeus Stevens born (1793); James Freeman Clarke Louisiana admitted (1812); Howell E. Jackson born Lewis Wallace 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. Mon. St. Philip and St. James; New Orleans occupied (1862); 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- Jacob Brown born (1775); John Brown born (1800); Confederate Memorial Day in North and South Caro- Convention assembled to draft the Constitution (1787); Maximilian abdicated as Emperor of Mexico (1867); Bat- William H. Seward born (1801): Levi P. Morton born 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 Month. Day of Year.... Day of Week... Day of JUNE. Kentucky admitted (1792); Tennessee admitted (1796); John Randolph born (17713); Philip Kearney born (1815); Jefferson Davis born (1808); Holiday in Florida, Georgia Bushrod Washington born (1762); Battle of Sandusky, Nathan Hale born (1755); John Trumbull born (1756); Resolution for independence introduced in Congress Thomas Sully born (1783); David D. Porter born (1813); John Howard Payne born (1791): Edmund Randolph Battle of Big Bethel (1861); Battle of Rich Mountain, Trinity Sunday; Joseph Warren born (1741); Eli Thayer John A. Roebling born (1806); United States Army Winfield Scott born (1786); Fitz-John Porter born (1822); Corpus Christi; Arkansas admitted (1836); patent to Battle of Camden, S. C. (1780). Battle of Bunker Hill (1775); Washington chosen com- British evacuated Philadelphia (1778); war against Great First Colonial Congress met (1754); Maine separated Death of De Soto (1542); John T. Morgan born (1824); William Penn made his treaty with the Indians (1683); St. John the Baptist; Henry Ward Beecher born (1813); Custer massacre (1876). Arthur Middleton born (1742); Constitution ratified by Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. (1864). |