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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
10. The legislature of Louisiana voted $500,000 to arm the State. —22. The Crittenden Compromise voted down in the United States Senate.—24. The South Carolina delegation in Congress offered their resignation, but it was not recognized by the speaker, and their names were called regularly through the session. —31. The Senate committee of thirteen reported that they could not agree upon any plan of adjustment of existing difficulties, and their journal was laid before the Senate. 1861.—Jan. 2. The authorities of Georgia seized the public property of the United States within its borders.—4. Governor Pickens, having duly proclaimed the sovereign nation of South Carolina, assumed the office of chief magistrate of the new empire, and appointed the following cabinet ministers: A. G. Magrath, Secretary of State; D. F. Jamison, Secretary of War; C. G. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury; A. C. Garlington, Secretary of the Interior; and W. W. Harllee, Postmaster-General.—7. The
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
s in Maine begins......Sept. 8, 1879 Indian massacre at the White River agency, Colorado, of N. C. Meeker and twelve others......Sept. 29, 1879 Henry C. Carey, political economist, born 1793, dies at Philadelphia......Oct. 13, 1879 French ocean cable landed at North Eastham, Mass......Nov. 15, 1879 Second session meets; President Hayes's third annual message received......Dec. 1, 1879 Secretary of War McCrary resigns......Dec. 10, 1879 Parnell and Dillon arrive at New York, Jan. 2, and Parnell addresses a large meeting......Jan. 4, 1880 Second proclamation of President to prevent settlement of Oklahoma......Feb. 12, 1880 Ferdinand de Lesseps banqueted in New York......March 1, 1880 Dennis Kearney, sand-lots agitator of San Francisco, sentenced to six months imprisonment and $1,000 fine......March 15, 1880 United States steamer Constellation, commissioned under act of Feb. 25, 1880, to carry contributions for relief of suffering poor in Ireland, sails fro
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colorado, (search)
inted Secretary of the Interior in President Arthur's cabinet......April 6, 1882 Act passed providing for the establishment of a State home and industrial school for girls at Denver, and the first Monday in September of each year designated as Labor Day, a public holiday, by legislature in session......Jan. 5–April 4, 1887 A soldiers' and sailors' home at Monte Vista, a State normal school at Greeley, and a State reformatory in Chaffee county provided for by legislature in session......Jan. 2–April 1, 1889 Last spike of the Pike's Peak Mountain Railroad driven......Oct. 20, 1890 Australian ballot law passed in session......Jan. 7–April 7, 1891 Troops called out to suppress disorder in the legislature owing to collision of rival factions in the lower house......Jan. 14, 1891 Discovery of gold in Cripple Creek......February, 1891 Verdict of Not guilty in the Millington murder trial .at Denver......April 29, 1891 Trans-Mississippi commercial congress, 1,200 deleg<