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The great Exposition opened in Paris, May 1.

Awful floods in the Connemaugh Valley and destruction of Johnstown, May 31. Dedication of the Pilgrim Fathers' Monument, August 1. Exposition Committee for 1892, Hugh J. Grant, Chairman, Aug, 5. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, deposed, Nov. 9.

The Congress of the Three Americas, held at Washington, October 2. International Congress of Americanists, met in Berlin, October 2. 1890 Ignaz Döllinger, German theologian and historian, died in Munich, January 10. A D. 1890 The United States Congress passed an act for a World's Exposition in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, April 25. - -- -- -- -- -- Oklahoma organized into a territory of the United States, by act of Congress, May 2.

The island of Heligoland ceded by the British government to Germany, August 10.

John Boyle O'Reilly, poet and journalist, died at Hull, Mass., August 10. John Henry Cardinal Newman died, Birmingham, England, August 11. Augusta, Dowager German Empress, died at Berlin, September 30. First of the United States commercial reciprocity treaties entered into with the United States of Brazil, October 1.

David C. Hennessy, chief of police of New Orleans, slain by an Italian assassination society, called the Maffia, October 15. Fair.

The Samoan treaty with Germany and England was ratified by the United States senate, February 4.

Chicago chosen by the House of Representatives for the World's Columbian Prince Bismarck resigned the German Chancellorship, March 17. Over a hundred persons were drowned by a tornado on Lake Pepin, Minn., July 13.

An insurrection against the government broke out in Buenos Ayres, July 26. The U. S. cruiser Baltimore sailed for Sweden with the body of Captain Ericsson, August 25.

The British torpedo cruiser Sergeant was wrecked on the Spanish coast with the loss of 173 lives, November 10.

The king of the Netherlands died, November 23.

In a fight with the Sioux Indians, in South Dakota, Captain Wallace and several soldiers were killed, December 28. 1891 Kalakaua, David I., King of Hawaii, died at San Francisco, January 30. M. Meissonier, French artist, died in Paris, January 31. William Tecumseh Sherman, American soldier, died in New York city, Feb- -- ruary 14.

Ludwig Winthorst, German statesman, died March 14.

Eleven Italians lynched by the citizens of New Orleans for the murder of chief of police Hennessy, March 14.

Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish statesman, died at Brighton, England, October 6. Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, died in Paris, France, December 5.