AN EVENTFUL MONTH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 96, 22 April 1880, Page 4

AN EVENTFUL MONTH.

January would seem to be a month of evil omen for modern sovereigns, whose deaths and disasters form a very large proportion of its roost noteworthy anniversaries. On the Ist, Charles the Bold, of ' Burgundy, was killed by the Swiss in 1447, and the allied armis entered France in 1814 to begin the camp&ign that overthrew Napoleon. On the stb, the death of Edward the Confessor ushered in tbe series of complications which ended in the Norman conquest of England. Oo the 9tb Napoleon 111. died in exile. , Louis XVI. was beheaded on the 21st, and the 22nd brought the same fate to the ambitious Duke of Somerset, regent and virtual King of England during the minority of Edward VI. The 30.h was doubly fatal to tbe house of Stuart, haying witnessed both the execution of Charles 1., and the death of Pricce Charles Edward, the hero of the attempt to expel the Hanoverian dynasty in 1745, But apart from these tragedies the Wolf-month, as the Saxons called it, is rich in other and less gloomy associations. The present Emperor of Germany become King of Prussia on tbe 2nd. Sophia was taken by the Buesians on the 3rd (1877) and Cthe Turkish army captured at Sohipka Pass on, the Btb. The destruction of England's Kabul army in 1842 marka the 9tb. The 14th witnessed, tha — l^awror-Lfifirmrßai ps~rn & r i nsfi ports (1801), which produced the destruction of the whole Danish fleet by Nelson at Copenhagen two years later. Fort Fisher fell on the 16th. General Skobeloff'a brilliant victory at Shenovo, whtch virtually ended tbe RussoTurkish war, marka tbe 17th, which has also tbe greater renown cf tbe birth of Benjamin Frauklyc. On the 18th the German Empiieva* established by King William's assumption to the Imperial Crown at Versailles. The same day witneeeed the birth of Louis XlV.'s famous Minister, Louvois. Lords Bacon end Byron were born on the 220 d. On the 23rd the Duke of Edinburgh married the Czar's ocly daughter, Marie Texandrovna. The 24th is the buthday of Frederick the Grept. Paris was taken on the 28tb, (1878), and Ehrenbreitstein for t he lirst end laet lime, on the 29th, (1799). The 30th witnessed the execution of Guy Fawkes, acd the marrioge of Napoleon 111. to Eugenic de Moniijo. To the same list may be added tbe firßt sailing of Warren Jlast'nga for India as an unknown civilian (1750), the Storming rf tbe great Sikh fonriss of Mooltan by the British (1849), and the re-orgßnizatibn of the Russian army (1874).

The " Immediate Jewell " — If you don't want to be robbed of 3 T our good name, don't have it engraved on your umbrella.

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