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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
British Peninsular and Oriental steamship Bombay collides with and sinks the United States corvette Oneida, about 20 miles from Yokohama, Japan; 112 lives lost......Jan. 23, 1870 Prince Arthur, of Great Britain, reaches New York, Jan. 21, and is presented to President Grant......Jan. 24, 1870 Virginia readmitted by act approved Jan. 26, and government transferred to civil authorities by General Canby......Jan. 27, 1870 George Peabody buried at Peabody (South Danvers), Mass......Feb. 8, 1870 Congress authorizes the Secretary of War to establish a weather bureau for the United States......Feb. 9, 1870 Northern Pacific Railroad begun at the Dalles of the St. Louis, Minn......Feb. 15, 1870 Anson Burlingame, born 1822, dies at St. Petersburg, Russia......Feb. 23, 1870 Mississippi readmitted by act approved......Feb. 23, 1870 Hiram R. Revels, of Mississippi, first colored member of the Senate, sworn......Feb. 25, 1870 Act removing legal and political disabilities
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
peace jubilee in Boston......June 15, 1869 Legislature establishes a bureau of statistics, a State board of health, abolishes the district system of public schools, and adjourns after a session of 171 days......June 25, 1869 Landing at Duxbury, July 23, of the French Atlantic cables celebrated......July 27, 1869 Labor Reform party organized at Worcester......Sept. 28, 1869 Horace Mann School for the deaf at Boston opened......1869 George Peabody buried at Peabody, Mass......Feb. 8, 1870 Wendell Philipps nominated for governor by the Prohibition party......Aug. 17, 1870 Wendell Phillips nominated for governor by the Labor Reform party......Sept. 8, 1870 Boston University, Boston, chartered 1869; opened......1871 World's peace jubilee and international musical festival begins in Boston......June 17, 1872 Great fire in Boston; 709 brick and stone and 67 wooden buildings burned; loss $70,000,000; nearly 65 acres burned over; fourteen lives lost......Nov. 9-10,
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69 Virginia adopts new constitution by a majority of 39,957......July 6, 1869 [Gilbert C. Walker elected governor.] Legislature assembles at Richmond......Oct. 5, 1869 Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments ratified......Oct. 8, 1869 Act admitting Virginia into the Union without further conditions, approved......Jan. 26, 1870 General Canby turns the State over to the civil authorities......Jan. 27, 1870 Governor Walker proclaims the final reconstruction of the State......Feb. 8, 1870 Capitol at Richmond falls, the galleries giving way; about sixty persons killed and 120 injured......April 27, 1870 Freshets in the James and Shenandoah valleys; $5,000,000 worth of property destroyed......September, 1870 Burning of the Spotswood Hotel at Richmond......Dec. 25, 1870 State board of health organized in Virginia......1872 General Grant has a majority for President of 1,975 over Horace Greeley......1872 State board of immigration established......1873 Com