[He is obliged to leave the city by force sachusetts to New York of Boston Cora few days afterwards.] ner, the southwesterly corner of Berkshire county.... .Jan. 3, 1855 Sumner's speech in the United States Senate on the admission of Kansas, known as the "Crime against Kansas" Capt. Henry Purkitt, the last survivor of the "Boston Mohawk Tea Party," dies (aged ninety-one) . . . . . . . . March 3, 1846 John Quincy Adams dies at Washington, aged eighty.... ... Feb. 23, 1848 Water introduced in Boston through new water-works..........Oct. 25, 1848 Shadrach, colored waiter, arrested as a slave in Boston..... .... Feb. 15, 1851 [Rescued by colored persons and sent to Canada.] Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave, arrested in Boston and sent back into slavery April 12, 1851 [He is sold in New Orleans to a brickmason of Vicksburg, from whence he escapes in 1863 to the besieging army of General Grant, who sent him North.] Senatorial contest in the State legislature between Charles Sumner (Freesoil) and Robert C. Winthrop. Charles Sumner elected on the twenty-sixth ballot April 24, 1851 Daniel Webster dies at Marshfield, aged seventy..... ...Oct. 24, 1852 Law fixing the hours of labor for a day, from Oct. 1, 1853, to April 1, 1854, at twelve hours; from April 1, 1854, until Oct. 1, 1854, at eleven hours; and after Oct. 1, 1854, at ten hours.... May 17, 1853 New constitution framed by a convention met at Boston, May 7, 1853; completes its work...... .............Aug. 1, 1853 [Submitted to the people, but not rati May 20, 1856 Senator Sumner assaulted and beaten down by Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, in the Senate chamber.. May 22, 1856 Adjutant-general's report shows the State to have 147,682 men enrolled in the militia, and 5,771 are in active service 1858 Pemberton mills, at Lawrence, fall by reason of defect in building, and afterwards take fire; 115 of the operatives perish and 165 more or less injured .1861 Jan. 10, 1860 John A. Andrews, the war governor," elected...... Annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society at Tremont Temple, Boston, suppressed by the mayor Jan. 24, 1861 Seven commissioners to the peace conference at Washington appointed by Governor Andrews... . Feb. 5, 1861 Legislature appropriates $25,000 for supplies for 2,000 troops.... April 3, 1861 Sixth Regiment, mustered at Lowell, April 16, leaves Boston for Washington, 17th; attacked by a mob in Baltimore, April 19; three soldiers are killed, twentythree wounded; arrives at Washington and is quartered in the Senate chamber 5 P.M., April 19, 1861 Legislature convenes in extra session May 14, and passes an act for the maintenance of the Union and the Constitution, creating the "Union Fund," and authorizing the issue of $3,000,000 in scrip, supplemented afterwards by an act empowering the governor to issue scrip for $7,000,000 to be loaned to the United States..... May, 1861 First Massachusetts, the first threeyears' regiment to reach Washington, leaves the State...... .June 15, 1861 San Jacinto arrives at Boston with Mason and Slidell, Nov. 19; they are incarcerated in Fort Warren Nov. 24, 1861 Maryland legislature appropriates $7,000 to be transmitted to the governor of Massachusetts for distribution among the families of those of the Massachusetts regiment who were killed or wounded in the Baltimore riot.......December, 1861 New England women's auxiliary association organized, with headquarters at Boston..... ...December, 1861 Mason and Slidell released and sail for England..... ......Jan. 1, 1862 In response to a proclamation by Governor Andrews, calling for more troops, issued Sunday, May 25, 3,100 of the regular militia report at his headquarters on Boston Commons... .May 26, 1862 Fifty-fourth Regiment (colored), the first formed in the free States, leaves Boston for Port Royal......May 28, 1863 [This regiment, in the unsuccessful as sault on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, immediately on its arrival at the front, was almost annihilated. Its colonel, Robert G. Shaw, aged twenty-six years, was killed in this assault and buried by the Confederates in the same pit with the dead of his regiment.] Mob of non-Unionists, attempting to force the doors of the armory of the 11th Battery, Boston, fired upon and dispersed; several killed and many wounded July 14, 1863 Boston College, Boston, chartered and opened..... .....1863 Edward Everett dies at Boston Jan. 16, 1865 Monument erected in Lowell to the first martyrs from Massachusetts in the Civil War..... ..June 17, 1865 Commemoration day at Cambridge in honor of the patriot heroes of Harvard College.... ....July 21, 1865 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Boston, chartered 1861; opened..1865 Massachusetts State Primary School at Palmer opened..... ..1866 Legislature adopts the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States... . March 20, 1867 Clark Institute for deaf mutes at Northampton opened ..1867 Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, chartered 1863; opened Governor and council contract with Walter Shanly, of Montreal, and Francis Shanly, of Toronto, to complete the Hoosac tunnel before March, 1874, for $4,594,268.. ...Dec. 24, 1868 Ebenezer R. Hoar appointed United States Attorney-General... March 5, 1869 Legislature adopts the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States... .......March 9-12, 1869 George S. Boutwell appointed Secretary of the Treasury.... .March 11, 1869 Great 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 gov ernor by the Prohibition party Aug. 17, 1870 Wendell Phillips nominated for gov ernor by the Labor Reform party Sept. 8, 1870 Boston University, Boston, chartered 1869; opened..... World's peace jubilee and international musical festival begins in Boston ...1871 October, 1867 State legislature adjourns after the longest session ever held in the State up to date, being 165 days....June 12, 1868 Worcester Polytechnic Institute at Worcester, chartered 1865; opened..1868 held.... Hoosac tunnel completed. Nov. 27, 1873 Prof. Louis J. R. Agassiz, scientist, born 1807; dies at Cambridge anniversary of the birthday of Daniel Webster (postponed from Oct. 3) Oct. 11, 1882 "Tom Thumb" (Charles H. Stratton), born 1838, dies at Middleborough 66 Dec. 14, 1873 United States Senator Charles Sumner, born in Boston, 1811, dies at Washington July 15, 1883 March 11, 1874 Foreign exhibition opens in Boston, conGovernor Washburn, elected United tinuing until Jan. 12, 1884..Sept. 3, 1883 States Senator to succeed Sumner, resigns Wendell Phillips, born 1811, dies at executive office to Lieut.-Gov. Thomas Tal Boston.... . Feb. 2, 1884 bot...... ......April 30, 1874 Charles O'Conor, born 1804, dies at NanBursting of a reservoir dam on Mill tucket.... May 12, 1884 River, near Williamsburg, Hampshire Statue of John Harvard unveiled at county, nearly destroys Williamsburg, Cambridge...... Leeds, Haydensville, and Skinnerville; 200 lives and $1,500,000 worth of property lost...... .................May 16, 1874 Prohibitory liquor law repealed April 5, 1875 Centennial celebration of the battles of Lexington and Concord.... April 19, 1875 Centennial celebration of the battle of Bunker Hill............. ......June 17, 1875 Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the day Washington assumed command of the army, at Cambridge....July 3, 1875 Smith College at Northampton, chartered 1871, opened......... September, 1875 Wellesley College, Wellesley, chartered 1870, opened... ...1875 Vice-President Henry Wilson dies suddenly at Washington....... Nov. 22, 1875 Public address in Faneuil Hall, Boston, by Dennis Kearney, the "sand-lot orator " of San Francisco, Cal......Aug. 5, 1878 Act abolishing nine separate State boards, and creating the board of health, charity, and lunacy, passed by legislat ure, which adjourns.. .April 30, 1879 French ocean cable landed at North Eastham, Cape Cod........ Nov. 15, 1879 Cape Cod ship-canal from Buzzard's Bay to Barnstable Bay begun.... ....1880 Anti-screen liquor-saloon law, enacted 1880, goes into effect..... .1881 National law and order league organ ized at Boston.... .....Oct. 15, 1884 William C. Endicott appointed United States Secretary of War....March 6, 1885 Elizur Wright, abolitionist, born 1804, dies at Medford...........Nov. 22, 1885 Charles Francis Adams, Sr., born 1807, dies at Boston..... Nov. 21, 1886 State property in the Hoosac tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad sold to Fitchburg Railroad Company............1887 First Monday in September (Labor Day) made a legal holiday at session of legislature, which adjourns June 16, 1887 Spencer F. Baird, naturalist, born 1823; dies at Wood's Holl.......Aug. 19, 1887 Asa Gray, botanist, born 1810, dies at Cambridge... ..Jan. 30, 1888 Ballot law modelled on the Australian system adopted by legislature at session ending.. May 29, 1888 Gen. P. H. Sheridan, born 1831, dies at Nonquit.... .Aug. 5, 1888 Maria Mitchell, astronomer, born 1818, dies at Lynn....... .June 28, 1889 Maritime exhibition opens at Boston Nov. 4, 1889 Great fire at Lynn; 296 buildings destroyed; 80 acres burned over; loss, $5,000,000.... Haverhill celebrates sary... ...Nov. 26, 1889 its 250th anniver.....July 2, 1890 Cyclone visits the suburbs of South ...Feb. 22, 1882 Lawrence, the most severe ever recorded Henry W. Longfellow, born 1807, dies in the New England States; over $100,at Cambridge... .March 24, 1882 000 worth of property destroyed Ralph Waldo Emerson, born 1803, dies at Concord..... ...April 27, 1882 Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, "Harvard Annex," organized Jan. 14, 1879, incorporated Aug. 16, 1882 Celebration at Marshfield of the 100th July 26, 1890 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish patriot, born 1844, dies at Hull....... ..Aug. 10, 1890 First annual convention of the lettercarriers of the United States held at Boston; 100 delegates........Aug. 13, 1890 Accident on the Old Colony Railroad near Quincy; twenty killed, thirty-one injured.... ..Aug. 19, 1890 Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, the creator of "Mrs. Partington," born 1814, dies at Chelsea... .Nov. 25, 1890 Associate Justice Charles Devens, exAttorney General of the United States, dies at Boston.... .Jan. 7, 1891 James Russell Lowell, born 1819, dies at Cambridge.. .....Aug. 12, 1891 Phillips Brooks consecrated bishop of Massachusetts in Trinity Church, Boston Oct. 14, 1891 James Parton, author, born 1822, dies at Newburyport..... ......Oct. 17, 1891 First world's convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union opens at Boston.... ...Nov. 10, 1891 Governor's salary raised from $5,000 to $8.000.... ....March 24, 1892 City of Quincy celebrates its centennial July 4, 1892 Ex-Gov. Henry J. Gardner dies at Milton... .July 22, 1892 Lizzie Borden arrested at Fall River charged with the murder (Aug. 4) of her father and stepmother.....Aug. 11, 1892 Celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Gloucester opens Aug. 23, 1892 J. G. Whittier dies at Hampton Falls, N. H., Sept. 7; buried at Amesbury Sept. 10, 1892 Celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Woburn begins Oct. 2, 1892 Gen. Benj. F. Butler, born 1818, dies at Washington, D. C., Jan. 11, buried at Lowell.... .Jan. 16, 1893 Phillips Brooks, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, dies at his home, Boston.... .Jan. 23, 1893 Great fire in Boston; loss, $5,000,000 March 10, 1893 Tremont Temple destroyed by fire March 19, 1893 Lizzie Borden tried and acquitted June 20, 1893 Statue of William Lloyd Garrison unveiled at Newburyport......July 4, 1893 Mrs. Lucy Stone, one of the earliest champions of women's rights, dies at Boston.... .Oct. 18, 1893 Francis Parkman dies at Jamaica Plains, at the age of seventy years Ex-Gov. William Gaston dies at Boston, aged seventy-four..........Jan. 19, 1894 Miss Helen Shafer, president of Wellesley College, born 1840, dies. .Jan. 20, 1894 Fast Day abolished and April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, substituted as a holiday (to be called Patriots' Day)..... ....March 16, 1894 Sixty-eight factories closed in Fall River.... ..Aug. 13, 1894 Nathaniel P. Banks dies at Waltham Sept. 1, 1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes dies at Boston Oct. 7, 1894 Ex-Speaker Robert C. Winthrop dies at Boston.... ..Nov. 16, 1894 The veterans of the 15th, 19th, 23d, and 58th Massachusetts volunteer regiments return captured flags, and the 7th Massachusetts return the State flag to the State officers... .Dec. 22, 1894 State census taken, showing a total population of 2,500,183... ...1895 Manchester celebrates its 250th anniver......July 18, 1895 Samuel F. Smith, author of America, dies at Boston. ...Nov. 16, 1895 The Pilgrim Society celebrates the 275th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims Dec. 21, 1895 sary... Cambridge celebrates its fiftieth anniversary as a city, and its 266th anniversary as a settlement.......June 30, 1896 Ex-Gov. W. E. Russell dies at Adelaide, Quebec.... ..July 16, 1896 Monument in memory of Col. R. G. Shaw, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, unveiled on Boston Common Memorial Day......1897 Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dies...... .Jan. 5, 1897 Gas main explodes in Boston; fifty persons killed and injured....March 4, 1897 Bradford's History of Plymouth Colony, usually called The Log of the Mayflower, delivered to Ambassador Bayard by the bishop of London...... .. April 12, 1897 The log of the Mayflower delivered by Mr. Bayard to the governor of Massachusetts in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives of Massachusetts.... May 26, 1897 Boston elevated railway bill passed June 10, 1897 The 100th anniversary of the State.Jan. 11, 1898 Nov. 8, 1893 house... Marblehead and Malden celebrate their chusetts legislature revoking the order 250th anniversaries.... ..... May, 1898 banishing Roger Williams in 1635 Torrens system of land registration, approved June 23, goes into effect April 18, 1899 Edward Everett Hale resigns his pasJuly 1, 1898 torate after forty-three years of service The new Southern Union station, one of May 16, 1899 the largest railway stations in the world, Dwight L. Moody dies at Northfield completed.... 1899 Dec. 22, 1899 Resolutions introduced in the Massa- Ex-Governor Wolcott dies.. Dec. 21, 1900 MICHIGAN Detroit attacked by the Fox Indians; after a three-weeks' siege the French gar rison of twenty soldiers, under M. du Buisson, drive the Indians back with severe loss.. ...May, 1712 Michigan, one of the north central missionary, commences the settlement of States of the United States, consists of Detroit.. .July 24, 1701 two peninsulas; the upper peninsula lies First grant of land (thirty-two acres) wholly south of Lake Superior and north made at Detroit by Cadillac to François of Wisconsin, lakes Michigan and Huron, Fafard Delorme... ...1707 and is 318 miles long, east and west. The lower peninsula extends north between Lake Michigan on the west and Lake Huron and the Detroit River on the east to the Strait of Mackinaw, a distance of 280 miles. Canada lies to the east, Lake Erie touches the southeastern corner, while Ohio and Indiana form the southern boundary. In latitude the whole State is limited by 41° 42′ to 48° 22′ N., and in longitude by 82° 86' to 90° 30′ W. Area, 58,915 square miles in eighty-three counties. Population in 1890, 2,093,889; 1900, 2,420,982. Capital, Lansing. Claude Dablon and Jacques Marquette establish a permanent mission at Sault Ste. Marie..... .....1668 Two Sulpician priests, with three canoes and seven men, pass through the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair...... ...1670 French under M. de St. Lusson permitted to occupy Sault Ste. Marie by the Indians, erect a cross at that place bearing the arms of France.... May, 1671 Marquette commences Fort Michilimackinac, starts a Huron settlement, and builds a chapel there... Pontiac, with Ottawa Indians, assists in the defence of Detroit against the combined Northern tribes under Mackinac 1746 Further emigration from France to Detroit.... ....1749 Maj. Robert Rogers is ordered by General Amherst, at Montreal, to take possession of the posts in Michigan and administer the oath of allegiance to the French subjects there...... .Sept. 12, 1760 Pontiac makes peace with Major Rogers, and attends the English to Detroit Nov. 7, 1760 English flag raised ...Nov. 29, 1760 Detroit capitulates, on the fort... British seize the forts at Mackinaw and Green Bay.... .Sept. 8, 1761 Indian tribes in the Northwest, incited by Pontiac against the English, capture Fort St. Joseph....... .May 25, 1763 ..1671 Pontiac plans an attack on the fort at Detroit. He asks for a council in the fort, so that the Indians allowed in the fort, at a given signal, might begin a general massacre; his plan is disclosed by an Indian woman to the commandant, Major Gladwin, who permits the council, but disAug. 28, 1679 poses the garrison so as to intimidate Antoine de la Motte Cadillac, lord of Pontiac.... May 9, 1763 Bouaget and Montdesert, under a com- Twenty batteaux, with ninety-seven men mission from Louis XIV., leaving Mon- under Lieutenant Cuyler, sailing to reintreal in June with 100 men and a Jesuit force the garrison at Detroit, are attacked Marquette is buried near present site of Ludington.... May 18, 1675 Robert la Salle, accompanied by Father Louis Hennepin and Chevalier de Tonti, sails up lakes Erie and Huron in the Griffon, reaching Michilimackinac |