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Show TUIS DATK IN I1ISTOHV MA V 11. ItlO Jacques to Molar, grand master of the Templars, born Id Paris. ' 1M7 Arrival of Peter Stuyve-sant, Stuyve-sant, director general of New Amsterdam, now New York; the most popular of colonial governors. t tut French defeat English at Fontenoy. 1778 Peath of William Pitt, earl ahtit.ir onroK of Chatham, friend of the (Tichborne.) colonies In the revolution; born 1706. IB President Polk sends a message to congress, awl war with Mexico Is declared formally. Hostilities began In April. 18B7 Mutiny of the Sepoys at Heerut and Delhi, India. 1(58 Minnesota admitted Into the Union. 18M Passage of the Bed river forts by Porter's fleet, 18W Gen, Teff Thompson surrenders la Arkansas. Arkan-sas. 1968 Italian seat of government transferred to Florence. 1871 Trial of the Tichborne case in England. The court decides against the claimaint and he is sent to Newsmte. |