1906, July 22. 1906, July 23.
Russell Sage died, leaving fortune of nearly $80,000,000.
Pan-American Conference called by United States opened at Rio de Janeiro. 1906, August 8. Standard Oil Company indicted at Chicago for accepting rebates. 1906, August 13. Colored troops of United States army killed and wounded several persons in riot at Brownsville, Tex.
1906, August 24. 1906, September 8. 1906, September 8. 1906, September 22. 1906, September 29. 1906, October 2.
President ordered simplified spelling in Government publications. President held great naval review at Oyster Bay.
President Palma appealed to United States for intervention in Cuba. Atlanta, Ga., placed under martial law after anti-negro riots. United States intervention in Cuba proclaimed.
Sugar Trust indicted in New York for taking rebates.
Charles E. Magoon appointed provisional governor of Cuba. San Francisco excluded Japanese from regular public schools. Mrs. Jefferson Davis died in New York.
1906, October 12. 1906, October 15. 1906, October 16. 1906, November 8-26. 1906, November 21. 1906, December 14. 1907, February 7. 1907, February 25. 1907, March 12.
1907, March 21. 1907, April 5. 1907, April 26. 1907, August 3.
President visited Panama City, Zone, and Canal. Colored battalion disbanded for the Brownsville (Tex.) riots. President withdrew simplified spelling order.
John D. Rockefeller gave $32,000,000 to General Education Board. James Bryce received at Washington as British Ambassador. Mrs. Russell Sage gave $10,000,000 to improve social conditions. American marines landed in Honduras in threatening revolution. Andrew Carnegie gave $6,000,000 to Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. President opened Jamestown Tercentenary Exposition.
1907, October 16.
1907, October 17.
Standard Oil Company fined $29,240,000 at Chicago for taking rebates. Secretary Taft opened first Philippine Assembly.
1907, November 16.
1907, December 16.
1908, January 15.
First commercial wireless messages crossed the Atlantic. Oklahoma admitted as a State.
Battleship fleet left Hampton Roads for the Pacific.
Congress remitted $10,800,000 of Chinese "Boxer " indemnity.
1908, February 25. First tunnel between New York and New Jersey opened.
Governors confer on conservation of natural resources, Washington. Congress restored "In God We Trust" to coins.
President approved Act of Congress authorizing issue of $500,000,000
emergency currency to be retired at end of panic.
William H. Taft, Republican, nominated for President. United States broke relations with Venezuela. Former President Grover Cleveland died.
1908, June 24. 1908, July 6.
Robert E. Peary sailed again for the North Pole.
1908, July 10.
1908, July 22.
William J. Bryan, Democrat, nominated for President. Court set aside $29,240,000 fine against Standard Oil.
1908, September 29-October 4. International Tuberculosis Congress held at Washington. 1908, November 3. Republicans carried Presidential election.
1908, November 4.
1908, November 10.
navy, launched.
Charles W. Eliot resigned Presidency of Harvard University. "North Dakota," 20,000 tons, largest battleship in United States
1908, November 30. United States and Japan made agreement on Pacific Ocean affairs. 1909, January 11. Treaty for settlement of disputes between the United States and Canada was signed at Washington.
Prof. Abbott L. Lowell was elected President of Harvard University. 1909, January 19. Elihu Root was elected a United States Senator from New York. 1909, February 13. President-elect Taft and special Board of Engineers decided against changing Panama Canal plans.
1909, February 22. President reviewed the returned battleship fleet at Hampton Roads. 1909, March 1. It was decided that President Taft's Cabinet would consist of Philander C. Knox (Pa.), Secretary of State; Franklin MacVeagh (Ill.), Secretary of the Treasury; Jacob M. Dickinson (Tenn.), Secretary of War; George von L. Meyer (Mass.), Secretary of the Navy; Richard A. Ballinger (Wash.), Secretary of the Interior; George W. Wickersham (N. Y.), Attorney-General; Frank H. Hitchcock (Mass.), Postmaster-General; Charles Nagel (Mo.), Secretary of Commerce and Labor; and James Wilson (Ia.), Secretary of Agriculture.
1909, March 4. William Howard Taft and James Schoolcraft Sherman were inaugurated
President and Vice-President.
Abercrombie, General James, sent to America, I., 300; appointed commander-in-chief, 304; ex- pedition against Ticonderoga, 306
Acadians, the, driven from home, I., 300
Adams, Abigail, sketch of, IV., 254
Adams, Charles Francis, III., 140; sketch of, IV., 18, 248 Adams, John, nominates Wash- ington for commander-in-chief, I., 358; favors Declaration of Independence, II., 10; letter to wife, 11; signs terms of peace, 171; minister to England, 190; elected vice-president, 199; re- elected, 215; elected president, 222; death of, 314 Adams, John Quincy, elected president, II., 309; death of, 359
Adams, Mrs. John Quincy, sketch of IV., 255
Adams, Samuel, condemns pres- ence of troops in Boston, I., 342; protests against landing of tea, 347
Aerial navigation, V., 233, 239 Agaña, capital of Guam, V., 289 Agricultural and mechanical col- leges, V., 253
Aguado, Juan, commissioner from King Ferdinand, I., 26 Aguinaldo, Emilio, leader of the Filipinos, V., 27; portrait of, 30; | proclamation of war by, 27; asks for flag of truce, 36; takes oath allegiance, 214; issues address to Filipinos, 214; account of capture of, by General Funston, 204
Airships, V., 233, 239 Alabama claims, settlement of, IV., 18, 19 Alabama, brief history of, V., 311 Alamo, defense of the, II., 343 Alaska, purchase of, IV., 10; ex- plorations in, 74; census of 1890, V., 123; brief history of, 319 Albemarle, destruction of the, III., 251
Alden, Colonel Ichabod, killed by Indians, II., 71 Alden, Captain John, accused of witchcraft, I., 203 Alexander, Indian chief, I., 270 Alien and Sedition laws, II., 226
Allen, Captain, of the Argus, II., | Apache Indians, troubles with,
Allen, Ethan, leads Green Moun- tain Boys, I., 357; made pris- oner, 367
Allen, Samuel, governor of New Hampshire. I., 270
Allies, in war with China, V.. 55 Almirante Oquendo, Spanish war- ship, IV., 388
Alvarado, Luis Moscoso de, ex- plorer, I.. 37, 38 American character, traits of. V., 108
American Monetary Union, IV., 316 American
Life-saving Service.
IV., 210 American "pigs," V.. 10 American citizens, duty of, V., 82 American soldiers, desertion of. to the Philippine insurgents, V.,
American Peace Society, V., 202 American history, events in, V., 349
Ames, Fisher, speech of, in Con- gress, II., 218
Amherst, Lord, English general, I., 306; captures Crown Point and Ticonderoga, 307 Anarchists, account of, IV., 207; definition of, by President Roosevelt, V., 137 Anarchy, V., 136 Anderson, Major Robert, occu- pies Fort Sumter, III., 3; sur- renders, II
Anderson, General Thomas, com- manding first expedition to Ma- nila, V., 20
André, Major John, deals with Benedict Arnold, II., 115-121; arrested, convicted, and exe- cuted, 122-127 Andros, Major Edmund, govern- or of New York, I., 166; gov- ernor of New England, 191- 194; governor of Virginia, 214, 238
Annapolis, Naval Academy at, IV., 389; Admiral Cervera and his officers quartered at, after surrender, 389
Animal life in the Philippines, V., 280
Antietam, battle of, III., 152 Anti-Imperialist Convention, V.,
231-237 Apia, V., 291 Appendix, V., 275 Arbitration, Pan-American, treaty of, IV., 316; in labor contests, V., 224 Arbuthnot,
Admiral, Charleston, II., 99 Archdale, John, governor of the Carolinas. I.. 159
Arctic Expedition, account of the, IV., 124-146
Argall, Captain. captures Poca- hontas. I., 75: governor of Jamestown, 78, 99
Arista, General, in command of Mexicans. II., 347
Arizona, brief history of, V.. 318 Arkansas, admitted into Union, II., 327; brief history of, V.. 312 Arlington, Earl of, proprietor of Virginia, I., 206 Armistice. granted by Spain to Cuban insurgents, IV., 363: granted by the United States to Spain. V., 24 Armstrong, Colonel John, con- quers the Delawares, I., 302 Arnold, Benedict, joins patriot forces. I., 357; leads expedition to Canada, 368; wounded at Quebec, 371; defeats St. Leger by strategy, II., 50; treason of, 114-124: raids Virginia and Connecticut, 140 Arthur, Chester A., elected vice- president, IV., 62; becomes president, 66; address of, at Yorktown.98; address at Wash- ington Monument, 144, 145: death of, 248; personal history of, 248
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union adopted by Congress, II., 47 Asgill, Captain Charles, con- demned to death, II., 165; set at liberty, 167
Ashe, General, out-generaled by British, II., 91 Ashley, Lord (Earl of Shaftes- bury), I., 151 Asosca, volcano, V., 179 Atienza, Blaze de, embarks upon South Sea, I., 34 Atlantic coast, subsidence of, V.,
Atlanta, fall of, III., 262; burning of, 266
Atlantic Cable, laying of the, II., | Beaufort, taken by Federals, III., | Bonaparte, Charles J., V., 257 380 Augusta, Georgia, founding of, I., 254
Austin, Anne, Quakeress, I., 133 Austin, Hon. O. P., article on Recent Commercial Period, V., iii
Automobile, V., 233
Bacolod. V., 34 Bacon, Nathaniel, leads rebellion in colonial Virginia, I., 207 Bad Lands, refuge of hostile In- dians, IV., 290
Bagley, Ensign Worth, death of, on board the Winslow, IV., 375 Bailey, Colonel Joseph, successful engineering of, III., 238 Bainbridge, Captain William, takes tribute to Algiers, II., 235; brilliant deeds in 1812, 267 Baker, Colonel E. D., killed at Leesburg, III., 40
Balboa, Vasco Nunez de, ex- plorer, I., 31
Baltimore, Lord, I., 217
Baltimore, affair of the, IV., 322; V., 7
Baltimore, great fire in, V., 227 Bancroft, George, II., 346 Banks, General, operations of, III., 104; at Cedar Mountain, 134; at Simmsport, 175; cap- tures Port Hudson, 203; at Pleasant Hill, 235 Baracoa, first city founded in Cuba, V., 184 Barclay, Robert, governor of New Jersey, I., 247 Barker, Warton, nominated for president, by People's party, V., 93
Barney, Commodore, bravery of, II., 286
Beauregard, Major-general, bom- bards Fort Sumter, III., 10; at Bull Run, 34; at Pittsburg Landing, 67; defends Richmond, 281
Belcher, Jonathan, governor of Massachusetts, I., 225
Bell, Professor Alexander, V., 240
Bellamont, Earl of, governor of New England and New York, I., 221, 238, 240 Benjamin, Judah P., III., 63 Bennett, Richard, provisional governor of Virginia, I., 146 Bering Sea Controversy, IV., 326 Berkeley, Lord, patentee of the Carolinas, I., 151, 162 Berkeley, Robert, royalist, I., 210 Berkeley, Sir William, governor of Virginia, I., 83, 143, 150, 166, 206
Bermuda City, settlement of, I., 75
Bernard, Sir Francis, governor of Massachusetts, I., 339, 342, 343 Berry, Sir John, I., 211 Bidwell, John, prohibition candi- date in 1892, IV., 333 Bienville, governor of Louisiana, I., 270, 282
"Bill of Rights," V., 285 Bird life in the Philippines, V.,
Blake, Joseph, I., 156; governor of Carolinas, 159 Blanco, General Ramon, succeeds General Weyler in Cuba, IV., 361
Blenker, General, at Bull Run, III., 38 Blennerhassett, Harman, joins Burr's schemes, II., 243 Block, Adriaen, explorer, I., 88 Blommaert, Samuel, patroon, I.,
Baron Fava, IV., Barre, Nicholas, colonist, I., 43 Barrett, Colonel, in charge of American militia, I., 354 Barron, Commodore Samuel, in command of squadron at Trip- oli, II., 241; attacked by Eng- lish, 252 Barrows, Dr. David P., V., 218 Bartholdi, Frederic A., IV., 168; portrait of, 173 Barton, Colonel, captures British major-general, II., 46 Bayard, Nicholas, I., 195 Bayard, Thomas F., sketch of, Bobadilla, Francisco, I., 27 Bonanza Creek, V., 120
Bloody Marsh, the, I., 263 Bloody Ridge, battle of, I., 324 Blount, James H., special com- missioner to Hawaii, IV., 338 Boabdil, Moorish king, I., II Board of Engineers Panama Ca- nal, report of, V., 183
Bonaparte, Napoleon, II., 228, 234, 250, 255 Booth, John Wilkes, assassinates Lincoln, III., 323; capture and death of, 326
Boscawen, Admiral, drives out the Acadians, I., 300, 304 Boston, Massachusetts, settle- ment of, I., III; massacre at, 343; "tea-party," 347; siege of, 377; evacuation of, 378; great fire at. IV., 26 Boston, United States cruiser, IV., 337; V., 8
Bouquet, Colonel Henry, tri-
umphs over Indians, I., 238-331 Boxer prisoner, execution of, V., 61
"Boxers," Chinese society, V., 54 Braddock, General Edward, sent to America, I., 293; in expe-
dition against Fort Du Quesne, 294. 296; death of, 296 Bradford, Andrew, editor of co- lonial paper, I., 235 Bradford, William, editor of co- lonial paper, I., 235 Bradford, William, colonial gov- ernor, I., 103, 106, 107 Bradstreet, Colonel John, cap- tures Fort Frontenac, I., 306 Bradstreet, Simon, opposes witch- craft, I., 203
Bragg, General, at Frankfort, III., 119; at Murfreesboro, 162; besieges Chattanooga, 207 Brant, Joseph, Mohawk chief, I., 247; II., 71
Breckinridge, John C., elected vice-president, II., 375 Breckinridge, General John C. at- tempts to regain Baton Rouge, III., 118; at Murfreesboro, 162; joins Lee, 281
Brent, Giles, deputy governor of Maryland, I., 142
Brewster, William, puritan, I.,
British Joint High Commission, IV., 19
Brock, General, in command of British, II., 262; death of, 265 Brodhead, Colonel Daniel, in ex- pedition against Iroquois, II., 83
Broke, Captain, captures the Chesapeake, II., 275 Brooke, General John R., Mili- tary Governor of Cuba, V., 24; 187 Brooker, William, editor of co- lonial paper, I., 235 Brookfield, Massachusetts, Idian assault on, I., 173 Brooklyn, flagship of Commodore Schley, IV., 380, 382, 383, 384 Brooklyn Bridge, IV., 71 Brooks, Preston S., assaults Sumner in Congress, II., 371
Brotherhood of Engineers, IV.,
Brown, General Jacob, at Sack- ett's Harbor, II., 272; captures Fort Erie, 282; victorious at Lundy's Lane, 282 Brown, John, raid of, II., 383 Brown University, founding of, I., 238
Bryan, Wm. J., nominated for president, V., 84; portrait of, 85; his views regarding finance, 87; opinion of, on constitu- tional liberty, 168 Buchanan, James, elected presi- dent, II., 375; death of, IV., 14 Buckner, General, surrenders to Grant, III., 60 Buddha, statue of, V., 53 Buell, General, at Pittsburg Land- ing, III., 66; possesses Louis- ville, 119; defeated at Perry- ville, 122
Buena Ventura, surrender of, first prize of the war, IV., 372 Buena Vista, battle of, II., 351 Buford, Colonel Abraham, patri- ot, II., 101
Bull, Henry, governor of Rhode Island, I., 238
Bull Run, battle of, III., 34; sec- ond battle of, 135 Bunker Hill, battle of, I., 363 Bureau of Education, V., 254 Burgoyne, Lieutenant general John, II., 49; surrenders General Gates, 51 Burnett, William, governor of Massachusetts, and New York, I., 223, 242
Burnside, General Ambrose E., captures Roanoke Island and Newbern, III., 62; at Antietam, 152; advances on Fredericks- burg, 155; deposed from com- mand, 167; at Knoxville, 209 Burr, Aaron, elected vice-presi- dent, II., 231; kills Hamilton, 243: schemes of, 243, 244 Burroughs, Rev. Stephen, exe- cuted as a witch, I., 203 Burwell, Lewis, governor Maryland, I., 217 Butler, General B. F., enters Bal- timore, III., 19; at New Or- leans, 86-94; movements against Richmond, 281; greenback can- didate, IV., 148 Butler, Colonel Zebulon, patriot commander, II., 67 Butterfield, General Daniel, death of, V., 264
Buttrick, Major John, of Con- cord, patriot, I., 354 Byllinge, Edward, part owner of New Jersey, I., 166 Byrd, William, I., 217
Cabinet officers, of Mr. Cleveland, IV., 152, 334; of Mr. McKin- ley, 346 Cables-the Atlantic telegraph, IV., 6-8; from France to Mass- achusetts, 22
Cabot, John, navigator, I., 54; V.,
Cabot, Sebastian, navigator, I., 54; V., 282
Cadwalader, Colonel John, II., 34 Caldwell, Lieutenant, bravery of
at New Orleans, III., 87 Calef, Robert, on witchcraft, I., 203
Calhoun, John C., elected vice- president, II., 309; re-elected 316; resigns, 323 California admitted into Union, II., 363; brief history of, V., 314 Caloocan, battle of, V., 30 Calvert, Benedict L. (fifth Lord Baltimore), I., 217
Calvert, Cecil (Lord Baltimore), proprietor of Maryland, I., 138, 141, 146
Calvert, Charles (third Lord Bal- timore), governor of Maryland, I., 214; death of, 217 Calvert. Frederick (sixth Lord Baltimore), I., 217 Calvert, Sir George, I., 138 Calvert, Leonard, governor of Maryland, I., 138, 142; death of, 143 Cambon, Jules, French Ambassa- dor to the United States, V., 22; portrait of, 21; medium be- tween Spain and the United States for peace proposals, 22; signs Peace Protocol, 22 Camden, South Carolina, battle of, II., 103 Campbell, Colonel, at battle of
Kings Mountain, II., 108-110 Campbell, Lieutenant-colonel,
routs patriots in Georgia, II.,
82 Campbell, Major, killed by Indi- dians, I., 322 Campbell, John, publisher of first newspaper, I., 235 Campbell, Captain Lachlan, brings colony from Scotland. I., 245 Campos, Captain - general, de- clares martial law in Cuba, IV., 359
Canby, General Ed. S., death of, IV., 29
Canby, Colonel, at Valverde, III., 73
Cancer, cure for, V., 247 Canonicus, Indian chief, I., 115 Capitalists, V., 138 Cape Nome, V., 121
Cape Verde fleet, IV., 376, 378 Capron, Captain Allyn, killed at Guasimas, IV., 394 Cardenas, harbor of, IV., 400
Cardross, Lord (Earl of Buchan), I., 157
Carleton, governor of Canada, I., 368; humanity of, 372; com- mands British Army, II., 164 Carnegie, Andrew, portrait of, V., 259; provides fund of $10,000,000 for pensioning college instruct- ors, V., 260 Carolinas, the, patented and set- tled, I., 151-150 Carteret, Sir George, a patentee of the Carolinas, I., 151; in dis- pute about New Jersey, 166 Carteret, James, governor of New Jersey, I., 162
Carteret, Philip, governor of
New Jersey, I., 162 Cartier, Jacques, navigator, I., 40-
Carver, John, colonial governor, I., 102
Casey, Lieut. E. W., IV., 294 Cavendish, Sir Thomas, sails around the world, I., 57 Caygayan, island of, V., 200 Cavite, suburb of Manila, forti- fied, V., 7; batteries of, silenced, 17; arrival at, of General Mer- ritt with the second expedition.
Castilla, Spanish cruiser, V., 8 Cebu, island of, V., 34, 217 Cedar Mountain, battle of, III.. 134
Celestial Empire, V., 70 Centennial Exposition, general plan of, IV., 35-38; opening of, 39 Cerro Gordo, battle of, II., 353 Cervera, Admiral, of Spanish
fleet, IV., 376; surrender of, 386 Ceuta, Bishop of, I., 9 Chaffee, General Adna R., com- manding our forces in China, V., 57; succeeds General Mac- Arthur as military governor at Manila, 217
Champe, John, attempts to cap- ture Benedict Arnold, II., 127- 130 Champlain, Samuel de, explorer, I., 99
Chancellorsville, battle of, III.,
Chang Yen-Hoon, V., 61 Charles I., I., 82, 98; executed, 143 Charles II., I., 135, 142 Charles, cape, named, I., 62 Charleston, S. C., settled, I., 156; attacked by British, II., 3; sur- rendered, 99; burning of, III., 302; earthquake at, IV., 239-248 Charleston, cruiser, bombards Agaña, V., 19; aids at battle of Caloocan, 30
Charlestown, Massachusetts, set- tlement of, I., 110 Charter Oak, the, I., 194 Chatham, Earl of. (See William Pitt.)
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