DAYS THAT HAVE GONE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3168, 2 December 1914, Page 73

DAYS THAT HAVE GONE.

THE. WEEK’S ANNIVERSARIES. Nov. 29.—Wolsey died, 1520. John Bunyan born, 1623Oliver Goldsmith born, 1628. Battle of Argaum, 1803. Times first printed by steam, 1814. New Zealand Education Act passed, 1877. Martin F. Tapper died, 1889. Nov. 30.—-Cape Horn discovered by Drake, 157 R Swift born, 1667. Mexico declared war against France, 1838. Fleet and Marshalsea prisons closed, 1842. Mark Twain born, 1835. George Henry Lewes died, 1878. Dee. 1. —Henry I died, 1135. Death of Pope Loo X, 1521. Queen Alexandra born, 1844. Anniversary of Westland. Railway opened Christchurch to Ferrymead Junction, 1863. Railway opened Oemaru to Maerewhenua, 1875. Dec. 2.—First service in present St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1697. Napoleon crowned, 1804. Austerlitz, 1805. Monroe Doctrine declared, 1823. First Tasmanian Parliament, 1856. Gold standard adopted in Russia, 1897. Dec. 3. —-Belzoni died, 1823. Lord Leighton born, 1830. Francis Joseph became Emperor of Austria, 1848. Robert Montgomery died, 1855. Archbishop Tait died, 1882. Arabi Pasha banished, 1882. Rolrert Louis Stevenson died, 1894. Dee. 4. —Pope John XXII died, 1334. Cardinal Richelieu died, 1642. Thomas Hobbes died, 1679. John Gay died, 1732. Queensland made, a province, 1859. Insurrection in Korea, 1884. Treaty of peace signed between Turkey and Greece, 1897. Dec. 5. —Francis II of France died, 1560. Mozart died, 1791. Alexander Dumas (pere) died, 1870. Rome declared to be capital of Italy, 1870. Dom Pedro died, 1891. Sir Henry Tate died, 1899.