Atlanta.... ....1887 Inter-State farmers' convention held at First State convention of People's parAugust, 1887 ty at Atlanta nominates W. L. Peck for Legislature increases Supreme Court governor and a full State ticket from three judges to five..... Opening of the Technological School at Atlanta, a branch of the State university October, 1888 New capitol at Atlanta finished and accepted by State; cost, $1,000,000 March 20, 1890 National Military Park established at Chickamauga battle-field by Congress Atlanta.... Aug. 19, 1890 Direct-trade convention, delegates from six cotton-producing States, organizes at .Sept. 10, 1890 William J. Northen, president of State Agricultural Society, nominated by Farmers' State Alliance in June, and by Democratic State Convention in August, is elected governor. Ex Governor Gordon States Senator... ..Oct. 1, 1890 elected United Nov. 19, 1890 July 20, 1892 L. Q. C. Lamar, of United States Supreme Court, dies at Macon Jan. 23, 1893 Statue of Alexander H. Stephens unveiled at Crawfordsville.... May 24, 1893 Cyclone on the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, 1,000 lives lost Aug. 28, 1893 Sept. 18, 1895 Ex-Speaker C. F. Crisp dies at Atlanta Tornado at Arlington, eight killed Ex-Gov. James Milton Smith dies at Columbus... Nov. 25, 1890 Monument to Henry W. Grady unveiled at Atlanta.... .Oct. 21, 1891 Southern States exposition opens at Augusta..... Nov. 2, 1891 Charles F. Crisp elected speaker United States Congress... nan.... HAWAII government was formed, in the interest of those advocating annexation to the United States. There are 56 miles of railway in the islands, and 250 miles of telegraph, and Honolulu is lighted by elec tricity. Area of the islands, 6,740 square miles-viz., Hawaii, 4,210; Maui, 760; Oahu, 600; Kauai, 590; Molokai, 270: Lauai, 150; Niihau, 97; Kahoolawe, 63. Hawaii, a Territory of the United throned January, 1893, when a provisional States, is a group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, discovered December, 1778, by Captain Cook, who, on Feb. 14, 1779, was killed here by the natives. These islands, called Hawaiian, or Sandwich, Islands, were united into a kingdom under Kamehameha I. Kaméhaméha II. and his Queen died in England in 1823. Under Kaméhaméha III. the kingdom was recognized by England, France, the United Population, 1884, 80,578; 1890, 89,990; States, and other governments. A constitution was granted in 1840; revised in 1852. On the death of the King in 1854, he was succeeded by Kaméhaméha IV., his nephew; died 1863; succeeded by Kaméhaméha V.; died Dec. 11, 1872; succeeded by Prince Lunalilo, crowned Jan. 8. 1873; died 1874; succeeded by King Kalakaua; he by Queen Liliuokalani, his eldest sister, Jan. 20, 1891, who was de 1900, 154,001. Honolulu. on the islland of Oahu, the capital; population, 20,487. At the discovery by Captain Cook, 1778, the population was probably 200.000. John L. Stevens, United States minister at Hawaii, writes to his government in favor of annexation Nov. 19, 1892 Detachment of marines (160 men), with two pieces of artillery, from the United Commissioner Blount arrives at WashStates ship Boston, lands at Honolulu Queen Liliuokalani dethroned Jan. 16, 1893 Jan. 16, 1893 ington..... .Aug. 22, 1893 Albert S. Willis, of Kentucky, appointed minister.... ..... Sept. 8, 1893 Minister Willis presents his credentials [A provisional government established to President Dole, of the provisional govand commissioners sent to the United ernment.... States to ask for annexation.] Hawaiian commissioners arrive at Washington..... . Feb. 3, 1893 John L. Stevens, United States minister at Hawaii, assumes a protectorate pending instructions from Washington Feb. 9, 1893 President Harrison, by message to the Senate, recommends annexation of the islands under a treaty concluded between Secretary Foster and the Hawaiian commissioners... .Feb. 15, 1893 An envoy of Queen Liliuokalani arrives at Washington..... ... Feb. 17, 1893 Princess Kaiulani reaches New York from England... .March 1, 1893 President Cleveland withdraws the Hawaiian treaty....... March 9, 1893 Ex-Queen Liliuokalani sends circulars to the different powers explaining her course, and protesting against the attempts to deprive her of her throne, etc. March 9, 1893 Ex-Representative James H. Blount, of Georgia, sent on a special mission to Hawaii from the United States government.... . March 20, 1893 Commissioner Blount orders the United States flag lowered at Hawaii April 13, 1893 Commissioner Blount appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Hawaiian islands May 9, 1893 Lorin A. Thurston, Hawaiian minister to the United States, presented to President Cleveland... Nov. 7, 1893 Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, offers a resolution requesting the President to transmit to Congress all correspondence and other papers relating to Hawaii; adopted... .Dec. 6, 1893 President's message regarding Hawaiian affairs sent to the Senate..Dec. 18, 1893 Republic proclaimed and a constitution adopted.... ..July 4, 1894 [Sanford B. Dole, elected president for the term 1894-1900.] Ex-Queen Liliuokalani renounces her right to the throne of Hawaii June 30, 1895 June 16, 1897 Joint resolution for annexation of March 6, 1899 Act providing a government for the Territory of Hawaii, to take effect June 14, 1900, approved ................ .. April 30, 1900 Governor Dole inaugurated June 14, 1900 Wilcox elected Territorial representative in the United States House of Repre.June 9, 1893 sentatives.. ...November, 1900 IDAHO and Washington on the west. Area, 84,800 square miles, in eighteen counties; population, 1890, 84,385; 1900, 161,772; capital, Boise City. Idaho (Indian, Edah hoe), one of the States of the northwestern division of the Union. Its name signifies "light on the mountains." It lies between lat. 42° and 49° N., and long. 111° and 117° W. The Dominion of Canada bounds it on the north, Montana and Wyoming on the east, Utah and Nevada on the south, and Oregon Wyeth First white men in Idaho, Lewis and Clarke's exploring expedition......1805-6 First settlement at Fort Hall, by N. J. 1834 Cœur d'Alene mission established..1842 Gold discovered on the Oro Fino Creek, followed by a large immigration. 1858-60 Idaho created a Territory. March 3, 1863 General school law passed..Jan. 12, 1877 Test-caths abjuring polygamy and plural and celestial marriages required of all county and precinct officers.. 1884-85 New capitol completed at Boisé City 1887 Feb. 3, 1890 Lieutenant-Governor Willey succeeds Governor Shoup, resigned...Dec. 20, 1890 Election of Dubois being deemed illegal, William H. Claggett is chosen Shoup's successor.. . Feb. 11, 1891 Law allowing verdict by three-fourths of a jury in a civil action, and an Australian ballot law enacted at session ending..... March 14, 1891 United States Senate seats Dubois (vote 55 to 5)...... .March 3, 1892 Lockout involving 3,000 striking miners begins in the Cœur d'Alene mining dis trict in Shoshone county, April 1. An attack on men employed in the Gem mines, made by union men, results in the killing of several miners. .....July 11, 1892 Martial law put in force in Shoshone county.... .July 14, 1892 Proclamation of President Harrison commanding all persons in insurrection in Idaho to disperse..........July 16, 1892 Two thousand United States troops, by order of President Harrison, occupy Wardner, July 14; suppress disturbance; withdraw... July 23, 1892 Trial of insurrectionary miners at Cœur d'Alene city for conspiracy; four convicted, ten acquitted......Sept. 29, 1892 Riot at Cœur d'Alene.... April 29, 1899 Snake River irrigation enterprise affecting 250,000 acres of land, at a cost of Dec. 18, 1890 $1,500,000 begun.... .1900 ILLINOIS Illinois, one of the northern central Marquette, purposing to establish a misStates of the United States, its western sion among the Illinois Indians, makes a boundary the Mississippi River, which portage from the Chicago to the Desseparates it from Iowa and Missouri; plaines, descends the Illinois River nearly Wisconsin bounds it on the north, Lake to Utica, where he meets a large conMichigan touching the northeastern cor- course of chiefs and warriors ner; Indiana on the east, and Kentucky on the south. It is limited in lat. by 36° 59′ to 42° 30′ N., and in long. by 87° 35' to 91° 40′ W. Area, 56,650 square miles, in 102 counties. Population, 1890, 3,826,351; 1900, 4,821,550. Capital, Springfield. April 8, 1675 Father Claude Allouez, successor to Marquette, who died May 18, 1675, enters the Chicago River on his way to the Indian mission..... . April, 1676 Robert Cavalier Sieur de la Salle, with Henry Tonti, Father Hennepin, and a party of thirty-three, descending the Kankakee and Illinois rivers, pass through Peoria Lake, Jan. 3, 1680, and erect Fort Crevecœur on the east shore of the outlet 1680 Father Hennepin descends the Illinois from the fort to explore the upper Mis- ent county of Randolph made by Colonel sissippi.......... . Feb. 28, 1680 Wilkins to John Baynton, Samuel WharLa Salle, returning from Montreal with ton, and George Morgan, merchants of supplies for Fort Crevecœur, finds the Philadelphia.... .April 12, 1769 town of the Illinois Indians burned by the A freshet destroying a part of Fort Iroquois, the fort destroyed, and the gar- Chartres, it is abandoned by the British rison dispersed.... .1680 garrison, who occupy Fort Gage, opposite La Salle and Tonti, seeking the mouth Kaskaskia, and fix the government there of the Mississippi, descend the Illinois, 1772 arriving at its mouth........ Feb. 6, 1682 They build Fort St. Louis on Starved Rock on the Illinois, near the site of Utica November, 1682 La Salle returns to France, 1683; sails for the mouth of the Mississippi in August, 1684. Tonti, with twenty-five Frenchmen and five Indians, intending to meet him at the mouth of the Mississippi, leaves Fort St. Louis Feb. 13, 1686 Fort Chicago, probably built by M. de la Durantaye in 1685, appears on a map of Lake Michigan dated... .1688 Mission established at the great town of the Illinois is removed down the river to the present site of Kaskaskia before 1690 Philip Renault, with 200 mechanics and laborers, and 500 negro slaves for working supposed mines in Illinois, founds St. Philipps, a village a few miles above Kaskaskia ..1719 Pierre Duque Boisbriant, sent by the Western Company, builds Fort Chartres on the east side of the Mississippi, 22 miles from Kaskaskia... .1720 Jesuits establish a monastery and college at Kaskaskia........ 1721 Kaskaskia becomes an incorporated town 1725 Renault sells his slaves to the French colonists in Illinois. ... .1744 Fort Massac, or Massacre, on the Ohio, about 40 miles from its mouth, established by the French about 1711, is enlarged and, garrisoned Deed to the Illinois Land Company from the chiefs of Indian tribes in Illinois for two immense tracts of land in southern Illinois, bought July 5, recorded at Kaskaskia.... .Sept 2, 1773 American expedition under George Rogers Clarke conquers Illinois without bloodshed, occupying Kaskaskia Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair, elected by Congress governor of the Northwest Territory, arrives at Kaskaskia February, 1790 By act of Congress 400 acres are granted to every head of family who had improved farms in Illinois prior to 1788.......1791 By the treaty of Greenville, sixteen tracts 6 miles square in Illinois are ceded by the Indians; one at the mouth of the Chicago River, "where a fort formerly stood ".. ..Aug. 3, 1795 Site of Peoria fixed by the abandonment of a settlement called La Ville de Maillet, located farther up the lake in 1788...1796 ..1756 Jean Baptiste Point de Saible, a negro who settled at Chicago about 1779, sells his cabin to a French trader named Le Mai and moves to Peoria.... ..1796 Illinois part of Indian Territory, created by act.... May 7, 1800 British flag raised over Fort Chartres Oct. 10, 1765 Colonel Wilkins, sent to Fort Chartres to govern the Illinois country, assumes by proclamation the civil administration, appointing seven magistrates or judges Nov. 21, 1768 Memorial to Congress by a committee called to Vincennes by Governor Harrison, requesting the repeal of the sixth article of the organic act prohibiting slavery Dec. 20, 1802 Laws of the Territory revised by Nathaniel Pope, and printed by Matthew Duncan under date...... June 2. 1815 Bank of Illinois incorporated at Shawneetown ... ..1816 Fort Dearborn rebuilt.. ..1816 Charter for Cairo city granted by the legislature 1817-18 By treaty of Fort Wayne, June 7, ratified at Vincennes, Aug. 7, 1803, the Indians cede to the United States 1,634,000 acres of land, 336,128 in Illinois; and by treaty of Vincennes, Aug. 13, the Kaskaskias cede most of southern Illinois...1803 Fort Dearborn built on the south side of Chicago River by the federal government and garrisoned. The corner of Michigan Enabling act for the State of Illinois Avenue and River Street, Chicago, marks approved.... April 18, 1818 the site..... .1803 Northern boundary of Illinois extended Congress establishes land offices at Kas- 50 miles to lat. 42° 30′............ 1818 kaskia, Vincennes, and Detroit Convention at Kaskaskia to frame a constitution adopts an ordinance accepting the enabling act.......... Aug. 26, 1818 First general assembly under the constitution meets at Kaskaskia March 15, 1804 John Kinzie, of the American Fur Company, buys Le Mai's trading-house; is the first permanent settler at Chicago....1804 By the treaty of St. Louis, Nov. 3, 1804, the united Sac and Fox Indians cede to the United States land on both sides of the Mississippi River, extending on the east from the mouth of the Illinois to its head and thence to the Wisconsin Nov. 3, 1804 Piankeshaw Indians cede to the United States 2,616,921 acres west of the Wabash, opposite Vincennes..... .Dec. 30, 1805 Territory of Illinois created with Kaskaskia as the seat of government Feb. 3, 1809 Ninian Edwards commissioned governor by Madison.... .April 24, 1809 Mail route established by law from Vincennes to St. Louis, via Kaskaskia, Prairie du Rocher, and Cahokia.. . . .1810 Illinois raised to second grade of territorial government..... . May 21, 1812 Owing to Indian murders and outrages a cordon of forts and block-houses is erected in Illinois; the most noted is Fort Russel, near Edwardsville.... ...1812 Garrison of Fort Dearborn, by order of General Hull, Aug. 7, 1812, though reinforced by Captain Wells and fifteen friendly Miamis, evacuate the fort Aug. 15. They are attacked and massacred by Indians; thirty-nine killed, twenty-seven taken prisoners, and the fort burned Aug. 15-16, 1812 Captain Craig, of Shawneetown, under instructions from Gen. Samuel Hopkins, burns Peoria and removes the captured French inhabitants suspected of complicity with the Indians to Alton.. October, 1812 Legislature convenes at Kaskaskia Nov. 25, 1812 Oct. 5, 1818 Illinois admitted into the Union, approved..... .Dec. 3, 1818 State bank of Illinois incorporated with four branches...... .March 22, 1819 Legislature re-enacts the "black laws" respecting free negroes, mulattoes, servants, and slaves........March 30, 1819 Ferdinand Ernst, from Hanover, locates a colony of twenty-five or thirty families at Vandalia ..1819 John Kelly and family the first white settlers at Springfield..... 1819 Seat of government removed to Vandalia 1820 State-house at Vandalia destroyed by August, 1824 ...March 2, 1827 United States troops under General Gaines, having burned the old Sac village on the Mississippi deserted by Black Hawk and his warriors, encamp at Rock |