CHART XL

1885

GROVER CLEVELAND, President. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-Pres't. 85. Gen. U. S. Grant d^d, July 23. 85. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan died, Oct. 29. 85. Public Debt, $1,863,964,873.14.

85. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock died, Feb. 12. 85. Vice-President Hendricks died, Nov. 23.

85.  Government Expenditures, $260,226,985.

86.  Haymarket riot, Chicago.

86. Gen. John A. Logan died, Dec. 26. 88. General Sheridan died, August 5.

88. William I., Germany, died March 9. Frederick III. of Germany died June 15. William II., Emperor.

1889

BENJAMIN HARRISON, President. Levi P. Morton, Vice-President. 89. Washington admitted. 89. Montana admitted. 89. Public Debt, $1,619,052,922.23.

89.  Government Expenditures, $229,288,978.

90.  Wyoming admitted.

90. Idaho admitted.

90.  Population of United States, 62,622,250. Pan-American Congress.

Behring Sea arbitration.

91.  General Sherman died, February 14.

1893

GROVER CLEVELAND, President. Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice-President. 93. Wilson tariff measure. 93. Commercial and monetary panic. 98. Public Debt, $1,545,985,686.13.

93. Government Expenditures, $383,447,954.

93.  World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago.

94.  Railroad riots at Chicago. 96. Venezuelan imbroglio.

94. President Carnot of France assassinated.

1897

WILLIAM McKINLEY, President.

Garrett A. Hobart, Vice-President.

97. Government Expenditures, $365,774,159.

97.  Public Debt, $1,817,672,665.90.

98.  Hawaii annexed.

98. Battleship Maine destroyed at Havana, February 15. War with Spain declared, April 25. Naval Victory, Manila Bay, May 1. Battle of Guasimas, June 24. Battle of San Juan and El Caney, July 1.

98. Naval Victory at Santiago, July 3.

Surrender of Spanish Army, Santiago.

Manila surrendered.

Peace Protocol signed, August 12.

Treaty of Peace signed at Paris, Dec. 10.

Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam ceded to the U. S.

Filipino revolt. 1900. Galveston destroyed by hurricane.

Population of U. S., 76,303,387.

97. War between Turkey 1 / and Greece. Famine in India.

King Humbert of Italy | assassinated July 29, 1900. 1900. Boxer rising in China.

Partition of Samoa.

Boer War.

1901

WILLIAM McKINLEY, President.

Theodore Roosevelt,Vice-President. Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. President McKinley shot by Leon F. Czol-goscz at Buffalo, Sept.6, and died Sept. 14. 01. Public Debt, $2,143,326,933.89.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Pres't. Civil Government in the Philippines inaugurated July 4.

03.  Department of Commerce and Labor estab-

lished. • 04. Panama Canal treaty.

04.  Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis.

Queen Victoria died

January 22, 1901. Edward VIL, King. 01-2. Boer War continued. 08. Republic of Panama established. 04. Russo-Japanese War.

1905

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Pres't. Chas. Warren Fairbanks, V.-Pres't. 05. Public Debt, $2,274,615,063.84. 05. Government Expenditures, $567,411,611.

05.  Lewis and Clarke Exposition, Portland.

06.  San Francisco destroyed by earthquake and

fire. 06. Cuban revolt and intervention by U. S.

07. Oklahoma admitted. 07. Jamestown Exposition.

07.  Financial panic.

08.  American battleship fleet makes voyage

around the world. 08. Grover Cleveland died.

05. Russo - Japanese War ends.

05.  Union of Sweden and

Norway dissolved. Prince Charles of Denmark becomes King of Norway as HaakonVII.

06.  First Russian Douma. 06. Frederick VII. King of

Denmark.

08. Bulgarian independence declared.

08- Messina and Reggio destroyed by earthquake; 76,483 lives lost.

1909

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, Pres't. James S. Sherman, Vice-President. 09. Public Debt, $2,639,546,241.04.

Government Expenditures, $779,117,186. 1 09. North Pole reached by Robert E. Peary.

09. Turkish Revolution. Abdul Hamed II. deposed.

09.  Leopold, King of Bel-

gium, died.

10.  Disastrous flood in Paris.