ROTABLE ANNIVERSARIES.
AUGUST 25. 7 lil Thorns* Cliatterton, poet, committed |||| i David° U Hanc, philoeopher and his- h-V jig i torian, died ... •• •• lIH First Church opened in. Sydney .. A™*. 111 J times Watt, inventor, died .. ■* ' Ml Faraday, great chemist, died . • • 100 ' 111 Gcfaeral Trochu ©spelled from Paws all . 11 who . were unable to support them- j Q<y i )| Bclvca in view of the siege .. 1870, II Britieli retreat continued to the line .. II Csmbrai-Le Catcau .. •• 181 » II Battlo of Londxecies: I<ast Aamur ; II forts silericcd . •• •• II B.ii3»isui Army near Koemgsborg •• II Fishtins in Togoland N .. *"}* II Allies invade Cameroono •• •• f",J; II Germans capture Brest-Litovsk M}®-. II Hcevv fi Jiting for Thiepval , ... II H.il.S. Duke of Albany budlc i... 13 1 ® AUGUST £G. • ■ ; VCook began liia first voyage of dis- .. cover* •• •*, , •' _*• H Political rights exUjndcd anions Kus- . _ ■ sian serfs •• ;• Volcanic eruption in rnkatou, in Straus ■ Yolvanic eruption at Krnkatoa.. in Straits of Sunda, followed by tidal , wave; eaveral towns destroyed and • 50,000 lives lost .. .. «• "J™®; If Battle of' Le Catpau .. * k II lientruction of.Louvain |l battle, of Tannonburg begins •• II Austrians evacuate Novi-Bo.zar •• 1 ™ 14 ; II British airmen destroy German bud- || marine off Ostcnd .. •» II Germans capture BiaJystok .. •' •• I"'° ||
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15989, 25 August 1917, Page 7
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198ROTABLE ANNIVERSARIES. Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15989, 25 August 1917, Page 7
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