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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
rs the antarctic continent, 66° 20′ S. lat., 154° 18′ E. long......Jan. 19, 1840 [He coasted westward along this land 70 degrees.] Washingtonian Temperance Society founded in Baltimore......1840 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, Md. Martin Van Buren nominated for President, leaving the States to nominate for Vice-President......May 5, 1840 Sub-treasury or independent treasury bill passed and approved......July 4, 1840 Britannia, the first regular steampacket of the Cunard line, arrives at Boston, fourteen days and eight hours from Liverpool......July 19, 1840 First session adjourns......July 21, 1840 Log-cabin and Hard-cider campaign, in the interest of William Henry Harrison, begins......July, 1840 [Modern methods of conducting a Presidential campaign were now introduced.] Steamship Arcadia arrives at Boston from Liverpool in twelve days and twelve hours, the shortest passage up to that time......Oct. 17, 1840 Alexander McLeod arrested in the <
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
19, 1882 Six American schooners founder off St. George's bank; seventy-six lives lost......November, 1883 American steamship City of Columbus wrecked on Devil's Bridge, off Gay Head light, Mass.; ninety-nine lives lost......Jan. 18, 1884 Belgian White Cross line steamship Daniel Steinman struck on rock off Sambro Head, N. S.; 131 lives lost......April 3, 1884 Three American schooners lost at sea between Gloucester and St. George's Bank; forty-two lives lost......Dec. 26, 1885 Cunard steamer Oregon, from Liverpool to New York, run into by an unknown schooner, 18 miles east of Long Island; all the passengers (631) and crew (205) taken off in safety, the ship sinking eight hours afterwards......March 14, 1886 Three Atlantic steamers stranded in one day: the Persian Monarch on the Portland breakwater, the Cunard steamer Pavonia on High Pine Ledge, Massachusetts Bay, and the Beaver line steamer Lake Huron on Madame Island, 7 miles below Quebec; each owing to heavy fog...