NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES.
MAY 00.
Joan of Arc burnt, at Rouen ..3131 Rubena. great Flemish painter, died .. 1640 Peter tbe Great, of Ruwsia, bora .. 1672 Alexander Pope, poet, died .. .. 1744 Voltaire died at Paris .. .. 1778 British Baltic Fleet destroyed Russian dockyard's at Wienborg .. .. 18S4 Treaty of peace between Turkey, Bulgaria, Servia, Greece, and Montenegro signed at St. James's Palace 1913
MAY 31.
Reign of Terror in France: proscription -tion of Girondists; establishment of . Convention, etc. .. .. .. 1793 Walt Whitman, American poet, born . 1819 Canton taken by tho English ... 1841 Hottentot rebollion .. .. .. 1651 Charlotte Bronte", novelist, died . .. 1855 Arrival of Maori Chief, Tawbiao at Plymouth. .to claim redrets. of Xative grievance* from Qiieen Victoria .. .. .. .. ISB4 Johannesburg occupied by Lord Roberts .. . .. .. .. 1900 Peace of Pretoria: end of, South Afri-can-War ■• .. ..'.' " '..- 1902
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Press, Volume L, Issue 149814, 30 May 1914, Page 11
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126NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES. Press, Volume L, Issue 149814, 30 May 1914, Page 11
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