Date. Day of Notable Anniversaries in January. I Monday CIRCUMCISION OF OUR LORD. The importation of slaves into the United States prohibited, 1808. 2 Tuesday Edmund Burke born, 1730. Most Rev. John Hughes, Archbishop of New York, died, 1864. Georgia accepted the Constitution, 1788. 3 W'd'sday The British defeated at Princeton, N. J., by Washington, 1777. 4 Th'rsday The Northern Star, the organ of the United Irishmen, first published, 1792. 5 Friday First provisional Constitution declaring the people the only source of power, adopted by New Hampshire, 1776. Richmond, Va., devastated by Arnold, 1781. 6 Sat'rday EPIPHANY. 1839. Great storm ("The Big Wind") in Ireland, 7 SUNDAY Fenelon died, 1715. 8 Monday Battle of New Orleans-the British defeated by General Jackson, son of Irish parents, 1815. 9 Tuesday Trinity College, Dublin, opened, 1593. Battle of Sunbury, Ga., 1778. Connecticut accepted the Constitution, 1788. IOW'd'sday Father O'Leary died, 1802. Penny Post commenced, 1840. II Th'rsday Numerous deaths from starvation in Ireland reported an everyday occurrence in 1848. 12 Friday Major Sirr, the assassin of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, died, 1841. 13 Sat'rday O'Connell's first public speech against the Union in Dublin, 1800. 14 SUNDAY Bishop Berkeley died, 1753. 15 Monday Trial of O'Connell and the Repeal Martyrs commenced, 1844. Last session of the Irish Parliament opened, 1800. 16 Tuesday County and City of Dublin proclaimed, 1866. 17 W'd'sday Battle of the Cowpens, 1781. Bishop Maginn died, 1849. 18 Th'rsday True bills under the "Algerine Act" found against O'Connell for alleged illegal meetings in Dublin, 1831. 19 Friday Repeal banquet at Newcastle, county Limerick, 1843. 20 Sat'rday Preliminary articles, acknowledging American Independence, signed at Versailles, 1783. 21 SUNDAY Proclamation requiring all Catholic clergymen to quit Great Britain and Ireland in forty days, 1623. 22 Monday Annals of the Four Masters commenced, 1632. 23 Tuesday William Cassidy, editor of the Albany Argus, died, 1873. 24 W'd'sday Miles Byrne, a '98 hero, died at Paris, 1862. 25 Th'rsday Daniel Maclise, the painter, born in Cork, 1811. 26 Friday Michigan admitted into the Union, 1837. 27 Sat'rday Paris capitulated to the Germans, 1871. 28 SUNDAY Lord Clare (the Fitzgibbon of '98) died, 1802. 29 Monday Kansas admitted into the Union, 1861. 30 Tuesday The body of Oliver Cromwell hanged at Tyburn, and buried under the gallows, 1660. William Carleton died, 31 W'd'sday The Lehigh, Pa., coal mines discovered, 1793. Date. Day of Notable Anniversaries in February. 1 Th'rsday First Presidential election in the United States, 1789. Aaron Burr arrested for treason, 1803. 2 Friday Purification of B. V. M. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ceding California to the United States, signed, 1848. 3 Sat'rday Ratification of Treaty of Peace at Paris, 1783. 4 SUNDAY Suppression of the Catholic Association, 1829. 5 Monday American Independence acknowledged by Sweden, 1782. James Duane, first Irish-American Mayor of New York, installed, 1784. 6 Tuesday Massachusetts accepted the Constitution, 1788. 7W'd'sday Charles Gavan Duffy tried for High Treason, 1849. 8 Th'rsday California annexed to the United States by Commodore Stephen W. Kearney, 1847. 9 Friday William Carleton, the Irish novelist, born, 1796. 10 Sat'rday Boston plundered by the British, 1776. II SUNDAY De Witt Clinton, who projected the Erie canal, and was four times chosen Governor of the State of New York, died, aged fifty-nine, 1828. 12 Monday Wolfe Tone arrived in Paris from America, 1796. 13 Tuesday Col. Ethan Allen died, 1789. 14 W'd'sday Ash Wednesday-Valentine's Day. Captain Mooney and Captain Maguire executed in Dublin, for enlisting men for foreign service, 1732. 15 Th'rsday" The Irish Volunteers" at Dungannon resolved unanimously 'That the claim of any body of men other than the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland, to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance," 1782. 16 Friday Quarantotti's rescript in favor of the "Veto," 1814. 19 Monday Florida ceded to the United States, 1821. 20 Tuesday The British sloops of war Cyane and Levant, captured by the United States frigate Constitution, 1815. 21 W'd'sday Commodore Thurot took Carrickfergus Castle, 1760. 22 Th'rsday George Washington born, 1732. Ogdensburgh, N. Y., taken by the British, 1813. First "Know-Nothing" Convention, in Philadelphia, 1856. 23 Friday Rinuccini left Ireland, 1648. French Revolution, 1848. 24 Sat'rday First Catholic colony, under Leonard Calvert, landed in Maryland, 1634. Robert Fulton died, 1815. 25 SUNDAY Negro slaves first introduced into Virginia, 1620. American Independence acknowledged by Denmark, 1782. 26 Monday Thomas Moore, the poet, died, 1852. 27 Tuesday Battle of Moore's Creek, N. C., 1776. 28 W'd'sday Sir Toby Butler, Sir S. Rice, and Counsellor Malone heard against the "Bill to prevent the further growth of Popery," |