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Montpelier (Vermont, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
e surplus funds in the United States treasury over $5,000,000. This money subject to recall by the United States treasurer at any time, but not in sums of over $10,000 per month. Money to be paid to the States quarterly, viz., Jan. 1, April 1, July 1, Oct. 1, 1837. Although but three instalments were paid, it aggregated $28,000,000. This money had never been recalled, and is carried on the treasurer's report as unavailable funds. Approved......June 23, 1836 James Madison dies at Montpelier, Va., aged eighty-five......June 28, 1836 Territory of Wisconsin organized......1836 First session adjourns......July 4, 1836 Treasury issues a specie circular, requiring collectors of the public revenue to receive only gold and silver......July 11, 1836 [This proceeding hastened the panic of 1837.] Aaron Burr dies at Staten Island, aged eighty......Sept. 14, 1836 Samuel Houston elected first President of the republic of Texas......Oct. 22, 1836 Presidential election....
Elberon (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
tes Supreme Court judge, born 1803, dies at Cornish, Me......July 25, 1881 Wrangell Island or Land, off the Siberian coast, taken possession of in name of the United States by Captain Hooper and Mr. Reynolds of the revenue-cutter Corwin......Aug. 12, 1881 Forest fires in Huron and Sanilac counties, Michigan, spread over 1,800 square miles, making 2,900 families homeless, and destroying 138 lives......September, 1881 President Garfield removed from Washington to Francklyn Cottage, Elberon, N. J.......Sept. 6, 1881 Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, born 1824, dies at Bristol, R. I.......Sept. 13, 1881 President Garfield dies at 10.35 P. M.......Sept. 19, 1881 Vice-President Arthur sworn as President at his residence in New York City between 2 and 3 A. M. by Judge John R. Brady......Sept. 20, 1881 President Arthur formally takes the oath of office in Washington......Sept. 22, 1881 President calls the Senate in extra session for Oct. 10......Sept. 23, 1881 Funeral tra
Bluff Point (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
htered......April 12, 1864 Enabling act to admit Nebraska approved......April 19, 1864 Motto In God we trust first stamped upon the bronze 2-cent coins authorized by act......April 22, 1864 Hon. Daniel Clark, of New Hampshire, elected president of the Senate pro tem........April 26, 1864 Army of the Potomac, 130,000 strong, crosses the Rapidan......May 4, 1864 Sherman advances southward from Chattanooga......May 4, 1864 Sassacus defeats the Confederate ram Albemarle in Albemarle Sound......May 5, 1864 Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia......May 5-6, 1864 Battle of Spottsylvania Court-house, Va.......May 10, 1864 Battle at New Market, Va.; Sigel repulsed by Confederates......May 15, 1864 Confederates under Johnston evacuate Resaca, Ga......May 15, 1864 Act for a postal money-order system......May 17, 1864 Offices of the New York Journal of commerce and World, which had published a forged proclamation of the President, calling for 400,000 troops, seiz
Hampton Falls, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
mship Moravia brings to New York the first cases of cholera (out of 385 steerage passengers, twenty-two die during the voyage)......Aug. 30, 1892 George William Curtis, born 1824, dies at West Brighton, Staten Island......Aug. 31, 1892 President Harrison orders twenty days quarantine of all immigrant vessels from cholera-infected ports......Sept. 1, 1892 President Harrison's letter of acceptance published......Sept. 5, 1892 John Greenleaf Whittier, poet, born 1807, dies at Hampton Falls, N. H.......Sept. 7, 1892 Ex-Senator Francis Kernan, born 1816, dies at Utica, N. Y.......Sept. 7, 1892 Lieutenant Peary and party arrive at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the steamer Kite, sent to the Arctic regions in search of them......Sept. 11, 1892 Cabin passengers of the Normannia prevented from landing at Fire Island, by injunction restraining the health authorities from using the island for quarantine purposes, Sept. 12, injunction dissolved, and two regiments of National G
Clark (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
es of the United States......Aug. 6, 1861 Gen. U. S. Grant assumes command of the District of Ironton, Mo......Aug. 8, 1861 Battle of Springfield, or Wilson's Creek, Mo., and death of General Lyon......Aug. 10, 1861 Kentucky and Tennessee constituted the Department of the Cumberland, under command of Gen. Robert Anderson......Aug. 15, 1861 President by proclamation forbids commercial intercourse with seceding States......Aug. 16, 1861 General Butler captures Forts Hatteras and Clark, at the entrance of Hatteras Inlet, with 715 prisoners, and twenty-five guns......Aug. 29, 1861 General Fremont proclaims martial law in Missouri, with freedom to the slaves of active rebels......Aug. 31, 1861 [This act was disapproved by the President.] General Grant assumes command of southeastern Missouri......Sept. 1, 1861 Advance of the Confederates into Kentucky, and capture of Columbus......Sept. 3-12, 1861 Paducah, Ky., occupied by General Grant......Sept. 6, 1861 G
Cherbourg (France) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
Dickinson 17, Hamlin 9.] Vallandigham returns to Dayton, O., from Canada......June 15, 1864 General assault of Federals on Petersburg, Va......June 16-18, 1864 Confederate cruiser Alabama fights the United States ship Kearsarge off Cherbourg, France, and surrenders in a sinking condition......June 19, 1864 Battle of Weldon Railroad, Va.......June 21-22, 1864 Lincoln accepts the renomination by letter, dated Washington......June 27, 1864 Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.......Junn. 30, 1894 Income-tax clause attached to the tariff bill in the House by 175 to 56, Jan. 31, and the bill amended passed by 204 to 140; not voting, eight......Feb. 1, 1894 Old corvette Kearsarge, which fought and sank the Alabama off Cherbourg, France, during the Civil War, is wrecked on Roncardo Reef, about 200 miles northeast from Bluefields, Nicaragua; no lives lost......Feb. 2, 1894 Bland silver bill, providing for the coinage of seigniorage to the amount of $55,000,000, introduc
Pleasantville, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
w York......Oct. 23, 1872 Emperor of Germany, arbitrator in the San Juan difficulty, awards the islands to the United States......Oct. 23, 1872 General election: Grant and Wilson carry thirty-one States......Nov. 5, 1872 Great fire in Boston; loss $80,000,000......Nov. 9-10, 1872 Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other females prosecuted for illegal voting in Rochester, N. Y.......Nov. 18, 1872 Modoc war in California......Nov. 29, 1872 Horace Greeley, born 1811, dies at Pleasantville, N. Y.......Nov. 29, 1872 Nicaragua expedition, in charge of Commander E. P. Lull, sails from the United States (returns July, 1873)......December, 1872 Third session begins. Dec. 2, 1872 President's annual message received......Dec. 2, 1872 Resolutions of Mr. Blaine adopted in the House, to investigate the accusation in the public press that members of the House had been bribed in behalf of the Union Pacific Railroad by stock in the Credit Mobilier of America, and Luke P. Poland, of
Tumwater (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
ish184655,045 30Wisconsin1669Green BayFrench184853,924 31California1769San DiegoSpanish1850188,981 32Minnesota1846St. PaulAmericans185883,531 33Oregon1811AstoriaAmericans185995,274 34KansasAmericans186181,318 35West VirginiaEnglish186323,000 36NevadaAmericans1864104,125 37NebraskaAmericans186775,995 38ColoradoAmericans1876104,500 39North Dakota1780PembinaFrench188970,795 40South Dakota1857Sioux FallsAmericans188977,650 41Montana1827Fort UnionAmericans1889146,080 42Washington1845TumwaterAmericans188969,180 43Idaho1834Fort HallAmericans189084,800 44Wyoming1834Fort LaramieAmericans189097,890 45Utah1847Salt Lake CityAmericans189684,928 On Sept. 9, 1776, the Continental Congress resolved that in all continental commissions where heretofore the words United Colonies have been used, the style be altered for the future to the United States. This domain now numbers forty-five States, six Territories, and one District, and various possessions, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Philippine
Harrison, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
red in States whose quotas are not filled by Aug. 15.] Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va.......Aug. 9, 1862 Property in Louisiana belonging to John Slidell, Confederate commissioner to France, confiscated by order of General Butler......Aug. 11, 1862 Army of the Potomac evacuates Harrison's Landing......Aug. 16, 1862 Sioux Indians attack the frontier settlements of Minnesota......Aug. 19, 1862 Confederates, under Gen. Braxton Bragg, invade Kentucky, crossing the Tennessee River at Harrison above Chattanooga......Aug. 21-24, 1862 Secretary of War directs the military governor of the coast islands of South Carolina to enlist 5,000 volunteers of African descent......Aug. 25, 1862 [The first permission by the government to employ negroes as soldiers.] Battle of Groveton, Va., between the advance of General Lee's army and General Pope......Aug. 29, 1862 Battle of Manassas, or second Bull Run, a continuation of Groveton......Aug. 30, 1862 Kirby Smith, with Bragg's r
Copenhagen (Denmark) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america
sculptor.] Icelandic manuscripts mention a bishop in Vinland in 1121, and other voyages there in 1125, 1135 and......1147 Madoc, Prince of Wales, according to tradition, sails westward, and reports the discovery of a pleasant country. ......1170 [The tradition is further that he returns to this western country with ten ships, but is never heard of again.] [The fullest relation of these discoveries is the Codex Flatoiensis, written 1387-95, now preserved in the royal library at Copenhagen, found in a monastery on the island of Flato, on the western coast of Iceland.] Eskimos appear in Greenland......1349 Pizigani's map of the Atlantic......1367-73 Nicolo Zeno with three ships belonging to Sir Henry Sinclair, Earl of the Orkney Islands, visits Greenland and possibly Vinland......1394 Communication with Greenland ceases about......1400 Berthancourt settles the Canary islands......1402 Madeira Islands rediscovered by the Portuguese......1418-20 These islan
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