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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
born (1807); Horace Greeley born (1811); Elisha Kent
Kane born (1820); Spencer F. Baird born (1823).
Josiah Quincy born (1772); John Marshall born (1801);
Mark Hopkins born (1802); Southern Confederacy
formed (1861); Philippine insurrection started
(1899).
John Witherspoon born (1722); Zebulon M. Pike born
(1779).
Aaron Burr born (1756); William M. Evarts born (1818);
James E. B. Stuart born (1833); capture of Fort
Herry, Tenn. (1862); Constitution ratified by Massa-
chusetts (1788).
Long distance telephone opened between New York and
Boston (1893).
First United States bank incorporated (1791); Richard
S. Ewell born (1817); William T. Sherman born
(1820); Jefferson Davis elected President of the Con-
federacy (1861).

Luther Martin born (1748); William Henry Harrison
boru (1773); Samuel J. Tilden born (1814); John A.
Logan born (1826).

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
(1822).

St. Valentine's Day; William and Mary College_char-
tered (1693): Winfield S. Hancock born (1824); Oregon
admitted (1859): first telephone patented (1876).
John Bell born (1797); Susan B. Anthony born (1820);
S. Weir Mitchell born (1829); battleship Maine de-
stroyed in Havana Harbor (1898).

Henry Wilson born (1812): Henry Adams born (1838);
Fort Donelson surrendered (1862).

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).

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MARCH.

Ash Wednesday; William Cushing born (1732); Terri-
tory of Illinois organized (1809); William D. Howells
born (1837); Augustus St. Gaudens born (1848); Ne-
braska admitted (1867).

De Witt Clinton born (1769); Samuel Houston born (1793);
Carl Schurz born (1829); William B. Allison born
(1829); Declaration of Independence of Texas signed
(1836).
Independence of Texas recognized by the United States
(1837); Florida admitted (1845); Alexander Graham
Bell born (1847).
Inauguration Day; Casimir Pulaski born (1748); First
Congress under the Constitution met (1789); Ver-
mont admitted (1791).
Quadragesima Sunday; Boston Massacre (1770); James
Monroe inaugurated President (1821); Zachary Tay-
lor inaugurated President (1849); Rutherford B.
Hayes inaugurated President (1877).

Philip H. Sheridan born (1831); Massacre of the Alamo
(1836); battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. (1862).

Millard Fillmore died (1874).

Simon Cameron born (1799); Matthew C. Butler born
(1836); Niagara Suspension Bridge opened (1855);
the Cumberland sunk by the Merrimac in Hampton
Roads (1862).

Americus Vespucius born (1451); Isaac Hull born (1773);
Edwin Forrest born (1806); David Davis born (1815);
Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac (1862).
Dudley Buck born (1839).

Robert Treat Paine born (1731); Francis Wayland born
(1796).

John L. Worden born (1817): Simon Newcomb born (1835).
System of standard time established (1884).
Purim; Thomas H. Benton born (1782); cotton gin pat-
ented by Eli Whitney (1794); Battle of New Berne,
N. C. (1862).
Purim; Andrew Jackson born (1767); Battle of Guilford
Court House (1781); Maine admitted (1820); Michael
C. Kerr born (1827).

James Madison born (1751); West Point Military Acad-
emy established (1802); Edmund Kirby Smith born
(1824).
St. Patrick's Day; William Pinkney born (1764); Roger
B. Taney born (1777); Walter I. Gresham born
(1832).

John C. Calhoun born (1782); Grover Cleveland born
(1937).

Thomas McKean born (1734); William J. Bryan born
(1860).

Neal Dow born (1804); Charles W. Eliot born (1834).
Battle of Somerset, Ky. (1863).

Stamp Act became a law (1765); Braxton Bragg born
(1815).

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).
John Tyler born (1790).

Ether first used as an anesthetic (1842); Alaska pur-
chased from Russia (1867); Fifteenth Amendment
to the Constitution went into force (1870).
Alexander B. Mott born (1826); John LaFarge born (1835).

APRIL.

All Fools' Day; James McCosh born (1811); Henry B.
Anthony born (1815); Simon B. Buckner born (1823);
Edwin A. Abbey born (1852); Battle of Five Forks,
Va. (1865).
Thomas Jefferson born (1743): United States Mint estab-
lished (1792); Richmond evacuated (1865).
Washington Irving born (1783); Mississippi Territory
established (1798): Edward Everett Hale born (1822);
John Burroupglis born (1837).

Thaddeus Stevens born (1793); James Freeman Clarke
born (1810); Edward C. Walthall born (1831); Presi-
dent William Henry Harrison died and John Tyler
succeeded to the Presidency.
Elihu Yale born (1649); Samuel F. Miller born (1816).
Confederate Memorial Day in Louisiana; William R.
King born (1785); Battle of Shiloh begun (1862).
William Ellery Channing born (1780); Battle of Shiloh
ended (1862).

Louisiana admitted (1812); Howell E. Jackson born
(1832); Mergenthaler linotype patented (1890).
Palm Sunday; Rufus Putnam born (1738); Army of
Northern Virginia surrendered (186).

Lewis Wallace born (1827); The New-York Tribune first
issued (1841).

Edward Everett born (1794); Fort Pulaski surrendered (1852).

Henry Clay born (1777); Fort Sumter fired on (1861).
First Day of Passover; present United States flag first
raised (1818); Pennsylvania Railroad Company or-
ganized (1846).

Good Friday; Justin S. Morrill born (1810); President
Lincoln assassinated (1865).
Marriage of Pocahontas (1614); first American theatre
opened in Philadelphia (1754); John Lothrop Motley
born (1814); Joseph E. Brown born (1821); Henry
James, jr., born (1843); Andrew Johnson became
President, succeeding President Lincoln, who died
this day (1865).

Easter Sunday; Charles Wilson Peale born (1741);
slavery abolished in the District of Columbia (1862).
Samuel Chase born (1741); J. Pierpont Morgan born
(1837); Virginia seceded (1861).

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);
Stephen A. Douglas born (1813).

John Trumbull born (1751); Farragut passed the forts
below New Orleans (1862).

St. Mark; Confederate Memorial Day In Alabama,
Georgia and Florida; Frederick Law Olmsted born
(1822).

War with Mexico declared (1846); General Joseph E.
Johnston surrendered to General Sherman (1865).
Samuel F. B. Morse born (1791); Ulysses S. Grant born
(1822); Matanzas, Cuba, bombarded (1898).

James Monroe born (1758); Constitution ratified by
Maryland (1788); Baltimore & Obio Railroad or-
ganized (1828).

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);
Battle of Chancellorsville begun (1863); Battle of Port
Gibson (1863); Battle of Manila Bay (1898).
Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia
(1787); Stonewall Jackson died (1863); Battle of Chan-
cellorsville continued (1863).

Jamaica discovered (1494); Lot M. Morrill born (1813).
William H. Prescott born (1796): Horace Mann born
(1796); Haymarket riot in Chicago (1886).
Delaware ratified the Articles of Confederation (1779);
Battle of the Wilderness began (1864).

Arkansas seceded (1861); Sherman's March to the Sea
began (1864).

William Bainbridge born (1774); Territory of Indiana or-
ganized (1800); Joseph G. Cannon born (1836).
Battle of Palo Alto (1846); Battle of Spottsylvania Court
House, Va. (1864).

Jacob Brown born (1775); John Brown born (1800);
Battle of Resaca de la Palma (1846).

Confederate Memorial Day in North and South Caro-
lina; Fort Ticonderoga captured (1775); Montgomery
Blair born (1813); John Sherman born (1823); William
Windom born (1827): Centennial Exposition opened
at Philadelphia (1876); Pacific Railroad completed
(1869).
Charles W. Fairbanks born (1852); Minnesota admitted
(1858).
Charleston, S. C., captured by the British (1780); Rob-
ert C. Winthrop born (1807); Battle of Spottsylvania
(1864).
Society of the Cincinnati organized (1783); Zebulon B.
Vance born (1830).

Convention assembled to draft the Constitution (1787);
Lewis and Clark expedition begun (1804).

Maximilian abdicated as Emperor of Mexico (1867); Bat-
tle of Resaca, Ga. (1864).

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
(1863).

Johns Hopkins born (1794); Cervera's fleet arrived in
Santiago, Cuba (1898).

North Carolina seceded (1861).

Rogation Sunday; Reverdy Johnson born (1796).
Aaron Burr's trial for treason began (1807); Preston S.
Brooks assaulted Charles Sumner (1856).
Constitution ratified by South Carolina (1788); Ambrose
E. Burnside born (1824); Henry M. Teller born (1830).
Stephen Girard born (1750); Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
opened (1830); Morse telegraph line from Baltimore
to Washington first used (1844).
Ascension (Holy) Thursday; Ralph Waldo Emerson born
(1893).
Jonathan Edwards, jr., born (1745); Edward Livingston
born (1764); General Kirby Smith surrendered in
Texas, ending the Civil War (1865); President John-
son acquitted (1868).

Nathaniel Green born (1742); Charles Francis Adams
born (1835).

Pierre G. T. Beauregard born (1818); B. Gratz Brown
born (1826).

Patrick Henry born (1736); Rhode Island ratified the
Constitution (1790): Wisconsin admitted (1848).
Memorial Day; John A. McClernand born (1812).
Horatic Seymour born (1810); Walt Whitman born
(1819); Battle of Fair Oaks, Va, (1862); Johnstown,
Penn., flood (1883).

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JUNE.

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

John Randolph born (17713); 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 Guasimas, Cuba (1898).

Custer massacre (1876).

Arthur Middleton born (1742); Constitution ratified by
Virginia (1786); 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).