"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" KING LEAR, Act iii., Scene 2. OCTOBER 11th.-St. Salvador discover ed by Columbus. 1492. "What is this world! what news are these!" 2 HENRY VI., Act iii., Scene 2. OCTOBER 12th. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 1685. "Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms." 3 HENRY VI., Act v., Scene 4. OCTOBER 13th.-Seamen's Widows' So1732. ciety founded. "Our hint of woe Is common: every day some sailor's wife ... Has just our theme of woe!" TEMPEST, Act ii., Scene 1. OCTOBER 14th.-Tombs of the Kings of France destroyed. 1793. 'Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bunghole?" HAMLET, Act v., Scene 1. OCTOBER 15th.-Mrs. McLean, the poetess, known as L. E. L., died. 1838. "And when you would say something that is sad, Speak how I fell." HENRY VIII., Act ii., Scene 1. OCTOBER 16th.-Bonaparte arrives at St. Helena. 1815. 'They have tied me to the stake. I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course." MACBETH, Act v., Scene 7. OCTOBER 17th.-Wolsey deprived of the Great Seal. 1529. "Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal, who com mands you To render up the great seal presently Into our hands." HENRY VIII., Act iii, Scene 2. OCTOBER 18th. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, died. 1744. "Art thou not second woman in the realm ? Hast thou not worldly pleasure at commandAbove the reach or compass of thy thought?" 2 HENRY VI., Acti., Scene 2. OCTOBER 19th. - The corner-stone of Washington's Monument laid. 1847. "Whose remembrance yet Lives in men's eyes, and will, to ears and tongues, Be theme and hearing ever." CYMBELINE, Act iii., Scene 1. OCTOBER 20th.-Ship-money first levied. 1634. "These exactions Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are Most pestilent to the hearing, and to bear them The back is sacrifice to the load." HENRY VIII., Act i., Scene 2. OCTOBER 21st. George Combe, the phrenologist, born. 1788. "It's monstrous labor, when I wash my brain, And it grows fouler." [Fowler !] ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA, Act ii., Scene 7. OCTOBER 22d.-Civil war between Pompey and Cæsar began at Rome. 50 B. C. "Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy." JULIUS CESAR, Act iii., Scene 1. OCTOBER 23d.-The world was created, according to Usher, 4004 B. C. "The poor world is almost six thousand years old." AS YOU LIKE IT, Act iv., Scene 1. OCTOBER 24th.-Style of " King of Great Britain" assumed by the English kings. 1604. "This title honors me and mine." 3 HENRY VI., Act iv., Scene 1. OCTOBER 25th.-Mary, Queen of Scots, condemned. 1589. "I am about to weep, but thinking that We are a queen, (or long have dreamed so,) certain The daughter of a king, my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.” HENRY VIII., Act ii., Scene 4. OCTOBER 26th.-Dr. Doddridge died. 1751. "All his mind is bent on holiness." 2 HENRY VI., Act i., Scene 3. OCTOBER 27th. Gold discovered in Malacca. 1731. "Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on." KING JOHN, Act iii., Scene 1. OCTOBER 28th.-Mormons driven from Missouri. 1838. "Call it a travel thou takest for pleasure! 'My heart will sigh when I miscall it so, Which finds it an enforced pilgrimage.'' RICHARD II., Act i., Scene 3. OCTOBER 29th.-Sir Walter Raleigh be headed. 1618. "Yet heaven bear witness, And if I have a conscience let it sink me, HENRY VIII., Act ii., Scene 1. |