NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16209, 11 May 1918, Page 7

NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES.

MAY 11. Constantino the Great removed the eeat of the Eastern Empire to Constantinople .. .. .. .. 330 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, died .. 1778 Earl Granville, statesman, born .. 1815 Mme. famous French social leader, died .. .. 1849 Treaty of Peace between France and Germany signed .. .. .. 1871 Czarevitch (now Czar Nicholas II.) attacked by a fanatic and wounded at Kioto, Japan. .. .. 1831 General Buller reoceupied Glcnooo and Dundee (South African Wax) ... 1903 Desperate fighting for Carency .. 1915 Russians retire to the San .. .. 1915 British capture Eseka (Cameroon®) .. 1915 Belgian troops advance in German East Africa; .fighting there between South Africans and Germans .. 1916 Germans capture British trenches gear Vermellc3 .. .. 1916 2IAY 12. Cissar Borgia died .. 1507 Execution of the Earl of Stratford .. 1611 Passage of tho Douro and defeat of the • French by Wellington .. .. JBO9 Florcnco Nightingale born .. .. 1820 Dante Gabriel Koeaolti t celebrated PreRaphaelite painter' and poet, born 1828 Departure of the preliminary expedition of New Zealand Company from England .. .. .. .. 1839 Sir John Herschel, great astronomer, T , tx >™ •• •• ... ..''lß7l John Henry Acwman made Cardinal 1879 Lord Roberts entered Kroonstad .. IDOO General Botha occupies Windhoek, capital of Germsn South-Wee t Africa 1913 British battleship Goliath torpedoed in the Dardanelles .. .. .. 3915 Carc-ncy and Notre Dame do Loretti captured by the French .. 1915 Slight British advance in Gallipoli .. 1915 British regain eome of the trenches lost at VermeUes .. 1916Fighting for llort Homme .. .. 1916