| Show CENTURY OF TIME now that christmas day lias pass U ed that part 0 the world reckoning the Gree orlan calendar Is looking rd to new year day when a new 1 century will be ushered in the last ol 01 december will be the closing of the nineteenth century a period ot time attended by the greatest progress in the authentic history ot man with the exception ol 01 the generation which listened to the teachings of christ the first day ot 1901 should be known as new century day so far in christian history only nineteen such days have been recorded and now we ot this generation are about to witness the coming of the twentieth event of that kind when another century day rolls around nothing will be left of the people of today save the footprints of the mightiest with the possible further exception of a few centenarians centen arians now babes who then in their dotage and imbecility might as well be dead contemplation of the significance of a century of time ends with the full realization of our dwarfed position in relation to the armies of humanity which make this world a parade ground and then pass from view the christian herald bas summarized the greatest events of the century and we give them as follows WARS AND revolutions battle of austerlitz napoleon defeats lans and russians 1803 battle ot trafalgar nelson sinks french fleet 1805 moscow burned by the russians to entrap napoleon 1812 battle of waterloo napoleon vanquished qui shed 1815 battle of navarino securing greek independence 1827 crimean war great britain france and sardinia against russia 1853 55 india mutiny in which native soldiers massacre english men women and children 1857 franco austrian war 1859 followed by Gari baldis campaign unifying italy 1860 the great civil war in 65 surrender of lee to grant at appomattox po mattox april 9 1865 austro brusslan war decisive battle july 3 1866 franco prussian war decisive battle sedan september 1 1870 followed by federation of german states in german empire russo turkish war battle of plevna december 10 1877 bombardment of alexandria by the british 1882 followed by the occupation of egypt war between chinese and japanese 1894 spanish war manila may 1 1898 santiago july ard 3rd war by great britain against south african republics 1899 1900 france becomes an empire 1801 a republic 1848 an empire again 1852 third republic 1870 general outbreak of revolutions throughout europe 1848 rome seized from the pope becomes capital of united italy 1870 exploration in the arctic expedition of sir john franklin 1845 de long 1879 greely 1881 peary 1892 nansen 1894 duke of the abruzzi farthest north 1900 in the antarctic biscoe 1831 bal leny 1838 durville 1840 ross 1841 walkes 1842 1898 in africa livingstone 1840 73 stanley 1875 87 speke band grant 1863 in america john C Fr emonts journey westward to the pacific INVENTION first steamboat the clermont made a voyage from new york to albany 1807 the first steamboat to cross the atlantic the savannah 1819 first railroad stockton and darlington england 1825 baltimore and ohio fourteen miles long 1830 lighting the streets by gas first experiment in london 1807 electric light produced by Edi sons application of subdivision sub division 1878 the mccormick reaper invented 1834 howes sewing machine 1846 the electric telegraph samuel F B morse 1837 first line in the united states 1844 the telephone first exhibited 1876 the phonograph 1877 88 cable laid across the atlantic 1857 perfected electric railroad at Edi sons home at menio park 1880 photography first experiments by daguerre 1829 first successful portraits by morse 1839 the spectroscope first used 1802 perfected 1859 boentgen rays found to penetrate solids 1890 SOCIAL AND humanitarian slavery abolished in the british dominions 1833 alexander II 11 emperor of russia emancipates twenty three million serfs 1801 Lincol ns emancipation proclamation 1862 first international exposition in hyde park london 1851 first settlement of an international quarrel by arbitration instead of war alabama claims of the united states against england 1871 international peace congress summoned by russia meets at the hague 1899 organization of the red croes society at geneva 1864 organization of the comans womans christian temperance union 1873 first college settlement established 1866 the christian herald adopts children orphaned by the india fam ine 1900 irreligious organization ot the american board of commissioners tor foreign 1810 missionaries scab out 1811 organization of the first sunday school union in london 1803 american 1824 british and foreign bible society founded 1804 american bible society organized 1816 first young mens christian assida alon established by george williams in london 1844 the inquisition abolished by the spanish cortes 1820 beginning of aha salvation army 1865 doctrine of papal infallibility formally endorsed by the ecumenical council 1870 bible revision new testament issued 1881 old 1885 organization of the farst young peoples society of christian endeavor 1881 organization of the order of kinga daughters 1886 DISASTERS earthquakes caracas 1812 india 2000 persons killed 1819 canton china perished 1830 calabria 1000 persons burled 1835 ban domingo killed 1842 southern italy lives lost 1852 calabria killed 1857 quito deaths 1839 mendoza south america deaths 1860 manila 1000 deaths 1863 euylene 1000 deaths 1867 arequipa and district deaths 1868 san jose colombia deaths 1875 scio deaths 1881 1990 deaths 1883 charleston S C property worth destroyed and 41 lives lost 1887 in the riviera 2000 deaths 1887 japan dead bounded voun ded 1891 famines 1846 russia america contributed through the christian herald a cargo of corn sent on board the leo 1891 in india 1837 1868 1876 1897 1899 in the last two named years there were large american contributions in money and grain through the christian herald in 1897 these contributions amounted to including corn on board the city of everett in 1899 and 1900 including corn on board the quito the great alre in chicago 1871 the conemaugh flood destroying johnstown pa 1889 tidal wave at galveston 1900 tidal wave in japan sweeps away houses and kills 2419 persons 1889 literature goethe publishes faust 1808 victor hugo writes les Mise 1862 thomas carlyles history of the french revolution published 1837 ralph waldo emersons essays 1841 71 john modem painters published 1843 60 poems 1836 75 harriet beacher uncle toms cabin 1851 52 carwins Dar wins origin of species 1859 statesmanship president monroe propounds the doctrine that bears his name 1823 sir robert peel premier of great britian 1834 john U S secretary of treasury resumes specie payments 1879 abraham lincoln elected president of the united states 1860 W E gladstone becomes premier of great britain 1868 bismarck made president of the cabinet prussia 1862 count cavour liberator of italy appointed premier 1852 louis kossuth dictator of hungary 1849 miscellaneous gold discovered in california 1848 in australia 1851 in the transvaal 1887 to the klondike 1897 diamond mines worked in the transvaal 1870 opening of the mont cenis tunnel 1871 last spike of the union pacific railroad driven 1869 trans siberian railroad operated 1899 opening of the suez canal 1869 alaska ceded by russia to the united states 1867 first session of the parliament of united canada 1867 the Au under one government 1900 maximilian executed in mexico 1867 expulsion of the emperor from brazil 1889 assassinations lincoln garfield 1881 emperor alexander IL 1881 garnet president of france 1891 shah of persia 1896 king humbert of italy 1900 expulsion of jews from russia 1882 91 massacre Mase acre of christians in armenia 1895 massacre of and converts in china 1900 army draft riots in new york 1863 chloroform first used 1847 vaccination legalized 1803 pasteur discovers remedy for hydrophobia by inoculation 1884 the rosetta stone furnishes key to hieroglyphs 1841 |
