"The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That for a phantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds." HAMLET, Act iv., Scene 3. MAY 23d.-Captain Ross sailed in the steamer Victory, to continue his search after the North-West Passage. 1829. "The stirring passage of the day." MAY 24th.-Victoria was born. 1819. "She had all the royal makings of a queen!" HENRY VIII., Act iv., Scene 1. MAY 25th.-King John surrendered his crown to the Pope's Legate. 1213. "Thus have I yielded up into your hand KING JOHN, Act v., Scene 1. MAY 26th.-Prince Louis Napoleon. Bonaparte escaped from the fortress of Ham 1846. "Therefore, to horse; And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, MACBETH, Act ii., Scene 3. MAY 27th.-Napoleon defeated before Acre. 1799. "Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair; Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us." 3 HENRY VI., Act ii., Scene 3. MAY 28th.-Noah Webster died. 1843. "You have an exchequer of words, and I think no other treasure, to give your followers, for it appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words." TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, Act ii., Scene 4. MAY 29th.-Virginia Resolutions against taxation. 1765. "Why tribute? Why should we pay tribute? If Cæsar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute for light. Else, sir, no more tribute pray you now." CYMBELINE, A et iii., Scene 1. MAY 30th. The Empress Josephine died at Paris. 1814. "Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain.” ROMEO AND JULIET, Act iv., Scene 5. MAY 31st.-Haydn died. 1815. "His tongue is now a stringless instrument." RICHARD II., Act ii., Scene 1. nia. June. JUNE 1st.-Gold discovered in Califor 1848. “A pickaxe and a spade, a spade, For-and a shrouding sheet." HAMLET, Act v., Scene 1. JUNE 2d. Grand Cairo nearly destroyed by an earthquake. 1574. "Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving, Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down Steeples, and moss-grown towers." 1 HENRY IV., Act iii., Scene 1. JUNE 3d.-Rape of the Sabine women. B. C. 750. |