Governor Montgomery dies. July 1, 1731 for New Jersey, begins the publication of Executive of New Jersey separated from an almanac which continues twenty years New York, and Lewis Morris appointed 1771 governor ...1738 Stephen Crane, John de Hart, James Weekly mail from Philadelphia to New Kinsey, William Livingston, and Richard York, carried by post-boys through New Smith chosen delegates to the Congress Jersey, established .. ...1739 at Philadelphia by a convention at New ..... Rev. George Whitefield visits Elizabeth Brunswick........................July 21, 1774 town ...1740 Assembly of New Jersey unanimously First iron run at furnace in Oxford, approves the proceedings of Congress as Warren county...........March 9, 1743 reported by the delegates........Jan. 11, 1775 Governor Morris dies at Kingsbury, near Provincial Congress of New Jersey, at Trenton...... ..May 21, 1746 Trenton, elects Hendrick Fisher president, College of New Jersey, at Elizabeth- and assumes authority..............May 23, 1775 town, incorporated..... .....1746 Provincial legislature, convened by GovCollege of New Jersey removed to ernor Franklin, Nov. 16, is prorogued Newark Trenton public library founded....1750 First printing-press in the province established at Woodbridge by James Parker 1751 College of New Jersey finally located at Princeton, and Nassau Hall erected .... ...1748 1756 Stage line established from New York to Philadelphia by way of Perth Amboy and Trenton.... Dec. 6, 1775 Governor Franklin, sympathizing with the action of the British government, is arrested and sent to East Windsor, Conn., where (until exchanged in 1778) he is held as a prisoner... ....1776 Provincial Congress convenes at Bur lington, June 10, 1776, appoints a com mittee to prepare a constitution, June 24, who report, June 26, a constitution, ..November, 1756 which is confirmed... .....July 2, 1776 Governor Jonathan Belcher dies, aged Ordinance passed denouncing the penal seventy-six... .............Aug. 31, 1757 ty of treason upon all who should levy New American Magazine, published at war against and within the State, or be Woodbridge by James Parker, and edited adherent to the King of Great Britain by Samuel Nevil...........January, 1758 Special conference with Indians at Easton; the governor, Francis Bernard, obtains from the chief of the united na tions of the Minisinks, Wapings, and other tribes, for $1,000, a release of the Indian title to every portion of New Jersey Oct. 18, 1758 William Franklin, natural son of Benjamin Franklin, appointed governor (the last royal governor of New Jersey)..1763 William Coxe, appointed stamp distributer in New Jersey, voluntarily resigns his office...... ..September, 1765 Joseph Borden, Hendrick Fisher, and Robert Ogden, delegates to a convention of nine colonies at New York, Oct. 7, 1765; it publishes a declaration of rights, and adjourns..... ....Oct. 24, 1765 First medical society in the colonies or ganized in New Jersey......July 23, 1766 Rutgers College, at New Brunswick, chartered under the name of Queen's College by George III..... July 18, 1776 Abraham Clark, John Hart, Francis Hopkins, Richard Stockton, and John Witherspoon, delegates from New Jersey, sign the Declaration of Independence Aug. 2, 1776 Legislature chooses William Livingston governor of the State......Aug. 31, 1776 Washington retreats through New Jer sey.... ...November, 1776 Fort Washington being captured by the British, General Greene abandons Fort Lee, Bergen county........Nov. 19, 1776 Washington crosses the Delaware into Pennsylvania..... .................Dec. 8, 1776 Battle of Trenton.. ..Dec. 26, 1776 Battle of Princeton....... .Jan. 3, 1777 Army under Washington winters at Morristown .. ...1777 General Maxwell captures Elizabeth. town together with 100 British troops Jan. 23, 1777 Five vessels, part of a fleet bringing ...1770 supplies for the British at New Bruns Isaac Collins, appointed public printer wick, are sunk near Amboy..Feb. 26, 1777 General Howe evacuates New Jersey for the purpose of approaching Philadelphia by water, crossing to Staten Island June 30, 1777 By act of Assembly the word "State" is substituted for "colony" in the constitution adopted in 1776 Governor Livingston dies at Elizabeth. town..... ...July 25, 1790 Trenton made the capital of the State Nov. 25, 1790 Trenton incorporated....Nov. 13, 1792 First factory at Paterson built, and calico goods printed, the first in New Jersey Sept. 20, 1777 1794 Battle at Fort Mercer. Colonel Greene Inter-State traffic in slaves forbidden by repulses a force of Hessians under Count the legislature.... .March 14, 1798 Donop...... ...Oct. 22, 1777 Women vote at the Elizabethtown mu New Jersey Gazette, the first newspaper nicipal election...... .....1800 in the State, is published at Burlington [The constitution of 1776 permitted by Isaac Collins................. .....Dec. 3, 1777 women to vote.] Battle of Monmouth Court-house Morris turnpike, from Elizabethtown to June 28, 1778 the Delaware River, chartered Isaac Collins prints 5,000 copies of a family Bible at Trenton... ....1778 Assembly ratifies the Articles of Confederation.... ......Nov. 19, 1778 John Witherspoon and Nathaniel Scudder, the delegates from New Jersey, sign the Articles of Confederation Nov. 26, 1778 Sept. 17, 1787 Constitution of the United States adopt ed unanimously without amendments by the Assembly of New Jersey March 1, 1801 Act for the gradual abolition of slavery, making free all persons born in the State after July 4, 1804, passed.. Feb. 15, 1804 Newark bank and insurance company chartered ...1804 Act confining suffrage to white male citizens... ..Nov. 16, 1807 Princeton Theological Seminary estab lished by the Presbyterian Church..1812 Act passed creating a fund for free schools..... .... Feb. 12, 1817 Jersey City incorporated..Jan. 28, 1820 Samuel L. Southard, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy......Sept. 16, 1823 Morris Canal, from Newark to Phillipsburg, on the Delaware, commenced.. 1825 Camden and Amboy Railroad incorporated..... .......Feb. 4, 1830 Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, purchases an estate of 1,400 acres at Bor. dentown, immediately after the downfall of his brother at Waterloo, where he resides until.... ...1832 Legislature appropriates $2,000 to extinguish all Indian titles to land in the State ..... 1832 Boundary between New Jersey and New York settled by a board of joint commissioners is confirmed by legislatures of both States in February, and by act of Congress...... ......June 28, 1834 Mahlon Dickerson appointed Secretary of the Navy under President Jackson June 30, 1834 St. Mary's Hall, college for the superior instruction of women, chartered and opened at Burlington..... ....1837 Dec. 18, 1787 General Washington is received by a committee of Congress at Elizabethtown, April 23, and escorted to New York, where he is inaugurated President of the United John Stevens, engineer and inventor, pe States..... .....April 30, 1789 titions Congress for protection to invent ors, which results in the patent laws of In response to a proclamation by GovApril 10, 1790. He builds a steamboat ernor Olden, April 17, four regiments of propelled by twin screws that navigates New Jersey volunteers, under General Runthe Hudson River in 1804. Establishes yon, are despatched to Annapolis a steam ferry from Hoboken to New York City, Oct. 11, 1811, and at the age of seventy-eight builds an experimental locomotive, which carries passengers at 12 miles an hour on his experimental track at Hoboken, in 1826. He dies at Hoboken March 6, 1838 At the State election for members of the House of Representatives, the returns are contested, the Democratic candidates claiming a majority of about 100 votes in a poll of 57,000. The Whig candidates receive certificates of election under the "Broad" seal of the State. . Oct. 9, 10, 1838 A speaker of the House was elected (Robert M. T. Hunter) by compromise, but the five Democratic contestants are seated on the report of a committee declaring them elected by a vote of 111 to 81.... ...July 16, 1839 Clerk of the House of Representatives, H. A. Garland, of Virginia, refuses to call the names of the Whig delegates from New Jersey, on the ground that the seats were disputed at the opening of Congress (as there were five contested seats, and as the House stood, without New Jersey, 118 Whigs to 119 Democrats, success to either party in this controversy meant a control of the House; hence the controversy)... .Dec. 2, 1839 [This governmental flurry is known as the "Broad Seal War."] New Jersey Historical Society founded at Trenton..... ... Feb. 27, 1840 Constitutional convention assembles at Trenton, May 14, completes its labors, June 29, and the constitution is ratified by the people.. .....Aug. 13, 1844 Town superintendent of schools first authorized.. ..April 7, 1846 State union convention at Trenton resolves in favor of a compromise between the Northern and Southern States May 3, 1861 Rutgers Scientific School at New Brunswick opened...... .. September, 1865 State board of education established 1866 Legislature ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.... Sept. 11, 1866 Home for disabled soldiers established at Mount Pleasant, Newark........1866 Legislature, by resolution, withdraws its ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.... ..April, 1868 George M. Robeson, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy........ June 25, 1869 Camden and Amboy Railroad and Delaware and Raritan Canal surrender their reserved rights, after forty years of monopoly, opening the carrying-trade across the State..... ...1869 Governor of New Jersey accepts the warvessel bequeathed to the State by Edwin A. Stevens, known as the "Stevens Battery," together with $1,000,000 for its com. pletion, which is placed under the superintendence of Gen. George B. McClellan and Gen. John Newton... .1869 66 Legislature refuses to ratify the Fif teenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States... ...Feb. 15, 1870 Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken opened....... ..1871 Free school system inaugurated in New Jersey... .. April, 1871 Legislature passes a general railroad law," providing that "no franchise heretofore granted to construct a railroad, or to build or establish bridges or ferries, or operate any line of travel shall hereafter continue to be or be construed to remain exclusive" ....1873 Compulsory education law passed.. 1874 By act of legislature, March 27, 1874, the Stevens Battery, in construction since 1843, which had cost over $2,500,000, still unfinished, is sold to United States government for $145,000 Dec. 11, 1860 Committee on national affairs in the legislature report joint resolutions endorsing the Crittenden compromise, which were Nov. 2, 1874 adopted...... ...Jan. 25, 1861 People ratify twenty-eight amendments Legislature appropriates $2,000,000, and to the constitution, proposed by the an annual tax of $100,000 for military legislatures of 1847 and 1875 purposes.. . April 30, 1861 Sept. 7, 1875 .... Act passed creating a State board of health... Centennial anniversary of the capture of Princeton celebrated by a mock fight of Newark and Pennsylvania militia Saturday half-holiday established, and .1877 Rutgers Scientific School awarded the funds granted by Congress in aid of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts at session... .Jan. 13-March 20, 1891 Spinners' strike in the Clark thread mills declared off........ April 18, 1891 Smokeless powder used for the first time in this country at Sandy Hook in an 8-inch rifled gun........July 25, 1891 Walt Whitman, poet, born 1819, dies at Camden.... .March 26, 1892 United States practice cruiser Bancroft, the first war-ship built in the State, is launched at the yards of Samuel L. Moore & Sons Co. in Elizabeth April 30, 1892 Jan. 3, 1877 Convention of colored men held at Princeton to consider the condition of their race, politically and socially Aug. 22, 1877 Bureau of labor statistics created by act of legislature..... .1878 Liberal League of New Jersey, the outgrowth of the Citizens' Protective Association of Newark, in State convention at Newark, demand remodelling of the Sunday laws..... .September, 1879 Thomas Alva Edison establishes a City of Paterson celebrates its 100th laboratory at Menlo Park, 1876; exhibits anniversary... .....July 4, 1892 his newly invented system of electric light- Horse-racing during December, January, ing by incandescent carbon vacuum lamps and February forbidden.. 1893 December, 1879 Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen appointed Secretary of State under President Arthur..... .Dec. 12, 1881 Act passed to create a council of State charities and correction, to consist of six persons appointed by the governor Battle monument at Trenton unveiled Oct. 19, 1893 Democrats and Republicans organize separate Senates at Trenton-the governor recognizing the Democrats....Jan. 9, 1894 Republican Senators force their way into the Senate chamber....Jan. 10, 1894 Supreme Court of New Jersey decides that the Republican Senate is lawful March 28, 1883 Law enacted to abolish and prohibit the employment under contract of convicts March 21, 1894 and inmates of prisons, jails, penitentia- Railroad accident near Atlantic City, ries, and all public reformatory institu- forty-seven killed and seventy injured tions of the State... . 1884 Gen. George B. McClellan, born 1826, dies at Orange.. .Oct. 29, 1885 State board of agriculture established 1887 Act of legislature passed making Labor Day, the first Monday in September, a legal holiday, and giving women the right to vote at school-district meetings 1887 Local option and high license law, passed in 1888, is repealed, and a high license law enacted.. .1889 Horatio Allen, the first locomotive engineer in the United States, dies at Montrose, aged eighty-eight......Jan. 1, 1890 Governor's salary raised to $10,000 a year by law... .Jan. 15, 1890 Australian ballot law adopted at session ending.... ....May 23, 1890 Strike of over 3,000 employés in the Clark thread mills at Newark and Kearney begins..... .Dec. 10, 1890 July 31, 1896 G. M. Robeson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, dies at Trenton.....Sept. 27, 1897 Vice-President Hobart dies at Paterson, Nov. 21, 1899 Andrew Carnegie gives $50,000 to East Orange for a public library, William M. Johnson $40,000 to Hackensack, Charles Danforth $20,000 to Paterson, Dr. William Sticker $100,000 to Orange.....1900 North German Lloyd's piers in Hoboken burned (several hundred lives lost and property valued at $10,000,000 destroyed) June 30, 1900 NEW MEXICO New Mexico, a territory of the United States, lying between lat. 31° 20′ and 37° N., and long. 103° 2′ and 109° 2′ W. It is bounded on the north by Colorado, east by Texas, south by Texas and Mexico, and west by Arizona. Area, 122,580 square miles. Population, 1890, 153,593; 1900, 195,310. Capital, Santa Fé. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, with 400 Spaniards and 800 Indians, makes an expedition from Mexico to the Pueblo Indian villages near Santa Fé, which he conquers, and explores the surrounding region.... ..July, 1540 Augustin Rodriguez, a Franciscan friar of San Bartolomé, Mexico, with two associates and an escort of twelve soldiers, ascends the Rio Grande, and 8 miles from the site of Albuquerque the party separate, the soldiers returning to Mexico, the three friars remaining......August, 1581 Don Antonio Espejo, with a relief party, ascends the Rio Grande, and, finding the missionaries located among the Pueblo Indians in 1581 had been killed, he returns to San Bartolomé by way of the Pecos River.... .1582-83 Don Juan de Oñate, a wealthy citizen of Zacatecas, under authority from Don Luis de Valasco, viceroy of New Spain, settles with a colony of 130 families, ten friars, and a number of soldiers in the valley of the Chama River, just above its junction with the Rio Grande.. ..1598 Santa Fé founded under the title La Ciudad Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco.... .1605 Religious persecution of the Indians by the Spanish, who whip, imprison, and hang forty natives who would not renounce their old faith, results in an unsuccessful revolt of Indians..... ...1640 rior of the Franciscan monastery at San Yldefonso ...1675 Pueblo Indians under Popé reduced to abject slavery by the Spanish, rise in rebellion. Their plan of a general massacre on Aug. 10, 1680, being discovered, they begin two days earlier a massacre of the Spanish, who are obliged to flee the country, the Pueblos taking possession of Santa Fé.. ..Aug. 21, 1680 New Mexico reconquered by the Spanish under Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan.1692 Severe famine arising in the Spanish settlements, the Indians of fourteen pueblos enter upon a desolating but unsuccessful war for the expulsion of the Spanish.... ..1696 Albuquerque founded during the administration of Duke of Albuquerque..1701-10 Lieutenant-Colonel Carrisco discovers the Santa Rita mines near Silver City...1800 Baptiste Lalande, a Frenchman from Kaskaskia, reaches Santa Fé with a stock of merchandise, which he disposes of at a very large profit..... ..1804 James Pursley, a Kentuckian, leaves St. Louis in 1802, and after three years' wandering reaches Santa Fé........1805 Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike, of the United States army, builds a fort on the Rio del Norte on Spanish soil, supposing it to be the Red River and American possessions, during the month of Feb. 1807. With his party he is taken to Santa Fé by a Spanish escort, where they arrive March 3. From there he is sent to Chihuahua under escort, arriving April 2, and has an audience with the commanding general Don Nemecio Salcedo. After some detention he is sent forward, reaching San Antonio, Tex., June 7, and Natchitoches..... July 1, 1807 Captains Glenn, Becknell, and Stephen Cooper visit Santa Fé with small parties and a limited quantity of goods for trade 1821-22 Native Indian tribes unite in a project to make a simultaneous attack on the Spanish settlements, but the plan is discovered and broken up by Governor Con- First public school law in New Mexico; cha, who arrests and imprisons the lead- action of the provincial deputation: "Re ers, hanging nine, and selling the others solved, that the said ayuntamientos be into slavery... ...1650 officially notified to complete the forma Four Indians hanged and forty-three tion of primary public schools as soon as whipped and enslaved on conviction by a possible according to the circumstances Spanish tribunal of bewitching the supe- of each community "....... April 27, 1822 |