August 21st. Franklin, seventy-four gun ship, launched at the Navy Yard.

1816, August roth. Richard Smyth hung for the murder of Capt. John Carson.

1819, March 9th. Masonic Hall, Chestnut street, burned.

April 19th. Work commenced on Fairmount Water Works, by Ariel Cooley, the contractor. They were completed in 1822.

Sept 8th. Vauxhall Garden, N. E. corner of Broad and Walnut streets, destroyed by a mob. 1820. March 6th. District of Kensington incorporated.

April 2d. Chestnut Street Theatre burned. September 7th. Frigate North Carolina launched at the Navy Yard.

Yellow Fever in August and September. Deaths, 67.

1821. May 9th. South Street Theatre burned. March 15th. Butchers' Procession.

1822, January 24th. Orphans' Asylum, corner Eighteenth and Cherry streets, burned. Twentythree children perished in the flames.

December 2d. Chestnut Street Theatre, being rebuilt, was opened.

1823, February 7th. William Gross hung for the murder of Keziah Stow,

May 22d. Corner stone laid of the Eastern Penitentiary, Coates street.

1827. Monument erected upon the spot where Wm. Penn held his treaty with the Indians, by the Penn Society.

1828, October 1st. Arch Street Theatre opened. 1829, July 4th. Corner stone laid of United States Mint, S. W. cor. of Chestnut and Juniper sts. 1830, July 1st. James Porter was hanged, at Bush Hill, for mail robbery.

Oct. 4th. Celebration in honor of the Revolution in France.

1831, Dec. 26th. Stephen Girard died.

1832, February 22d. Celebration of the centennial anniversary of Washington's birthday. February 22d. Corner-stone of the Merchants' Exchange laid.

April 2d. Corner stone of the Moyamensing Prison laid.

June 6th. The Philadelphia and Norristown Railroad was opened to Germantown. July 5th. Cholera commenced. ber 4th. Deaths, 935.

Ended Octo

September 13th. West Chester Railroad opened to the intersection of Columbia Railroad. October. Riot at Carel's Hotel, Chestnut street above Sixth; transparency destroyed.

1833, February 22d. Corner stone of Washington Monument laid, in Washington Square. June 8th. President Andrew Jackson visited Philadelphia.

June 9th. Black Hawk and other Indian chiefs visited Philadelphia.

1834, March 4th. Wm. Penn steamboat burned below the Navy Yard.

April 22d. Powelton Jubilee.

October 14th. Political Riot in Moyamensing. Robb's Row, Christian street above Ninth, burned.

1835, July 12th. Riots. Houses inhabited by negroes, in the neighborhood of Shippen and Eighth streets, were attacked and sacked: “Red

Row" was burned.

1836, February 8th. Philadelphia Gas Works went into operation, February 22d.

An ox roasted on the ice of the Delaware river, near Smith's Island.

1837, May 10th. The banks suspended specie payments. The city of Philadelphia issued "shinplasters."

May 19th. William Moran hung, on Bush Hill, for piracy.

July 18th. Ship of the line Pennsylvania, of 3306 tons, launched at the Navy Yard.

August. Great panic in Philadelphia in consequence of the rumor that Cope's packet ship Susquehanna had been captured by a long, low, black schooner."

1838, April 1st. Upper Ferry Bridge burned. May 14th. Pennsylvania Hall, corner Sixth and Haines streets, attacked by a mob.

May 17th. Pennsylvania Hall, corner of Sixth and Haines streets, burned.

May 18th. Shelter for colored Orphans, Thirteenth street, above Callowhill, burned by a mob. December 8th. Troops marched from Philadelphia for Harrisburg to take part in the "Buckshot" war.

1839, January 27th. Great freshet in the Schuyl kill. Gray's Ferry Railroad Bridge carried away. Sept. 3d. James Wood killed his daughter at his house in Chestnut street, below Sixth. Oct. 4th. Delaware. October 8th. October 9th.

ments.

Great fire on Chestnut strect wharf,

Sloop of War Dale launched.
Banks suspended specie pay-

October 14th. Reception of Martin Van Buren, President of the United States.

December 17th. Schuylkill Bank failed. 1840, July 27th. Riots in Kensington. The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad torn up on Front street, and Emery's tavern burned. The house belonged to John Naglee, President of the Company.

1841, January 15th. Banks resumed specie payments.

January 15th. James Morris hung for murder. February 4th. Bank of the United States failed, and other banks suspended specie payments. April 20th. Funeral ceremonies in memory of President Harrison.

May 5th. Steam frigate Mississippi launched. 1842, January 10th. Celebration of the opening of the Reading and Pottsville Railroad.

August 1st. Abolition Riots. African Presbyterian Church, St. Mary street, and Smith's Hall, Lombard street, burned.

August 26th. Reading Railroad Bridge, and the old bridge at the Falls of Schuylkill, destroyed by fire.

1843, January 11th. Weavers' riots in Kensington.

June 9th. Reception of John Tyler, President of the United States.

June 13th. Frigate Raritan launched.

1844, May 6th. Riots in Kensington. Shiffler and others killed.

May 7th. Riots renewed in Kensington. Rhinedollar and others killed.

May 8th. Riots continued. St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church burned in the afternoon,

with the Female Seminary adjoining. St. Augustine's Church burned in the evening.

July 7th. (Sunday.) Riots in Southwark; Church of St. Philip de Neri attacked. Fight at night between the military and the rioters; several persons killed.

October 23d. The Millerites of the city repaired to a field near Darby, where, in their ascension robes, they waited for the end of the world.

1845, June 11th. Fire at the Academy of Fine Arts, which destroyed many paintings and sta

tues.

June 26th. Funeral ceremonies in memory of Andrew Jackson.

1846, August 22d. Sloop of war Germantown launched.

September 17th. Odd-Fellows' Hall, Sixth and Haines sts., dedicated.

1847, April 15th. Two elephants were drowned in the river Delaware in attempting to swim from Greenwich Point to Gloucester Point, New Jersey.

April 19th. Illumination in honor of victories in Mexico.

April 23d. Charles Mosler hung for the murder of his wife.

June 23d. Reception of James K. Polk, President of the United States.

1848, February 24th. Reception of Henry Clay.

March 7th. Funeral ceremonies in memory o John Quincy Adams.

October 20th. Charles Langfelt hung for the murder of Mrs. Rademacher.

Reception of the Pennsylvania Volunteers on their return from Mexico.

November 12th. The wall of the basin of the Spring Garden Water-Works gave way, and the whole contents were emptied.

1849, May 30th. Cholera commenced. September 8th. Deaths 1012.

Ended

October. Riot at Sixth and St. Mary streets; "California House" destroyed.

1850, April 6th. Steamer frigate Susquehanna launched.

July 9th. Great fire, which commenced on Vine street wharf, and destroyed three hundred and sixty-seven houses.

July 30th. Funeral ceremonies in memory of President Zachary Taylor.

September 3d. Total darkness throughout the city in consequence of a freshet which prevented the Gas-Works from supplying public and private lights.

Dec. 30th. Fire at the Ledger Building, corner of Third and Chestnuts streets.

1851, January 11. Celebration of the arrival of the City of Glasgow, (British steamer from Liverpool), at the Museum.

March 18th. Assembly Building, corner of Tenth and Chestnut, burned.

May 12th. Reception of President Millard Fill

more.

September 30th. The remains of Stephen Girard were removed to Girard College by the Free Masons.

November 12th. Fire at Bruner's cotton factory, corner of Nixon and Hamilton streets. Three persons killed, and several severely injured.

December 24th. Public reception of Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot.

December 26th. Hart's building and the Shak

speare building at Sixth and Chestnut streets, were burned.

December 30th. Barnum's Museum, corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets, burned.

1852, May 22d. The Diligent Engine (Pat. Lyon, maker), played one hundred and eightynine feet perpendicular at Jayne's building, Chestnut street, below Third.

July 2d. Reception of the remains of Henry Clay. July 12th. Reception of President Pierce. August 6th. Mathias Skupinski hung for the murder of Lehman, the peddler boy.

December 3d. Blaise Skupinski hung. 1853, June 10th. Arthur Spring hung for the murder of Hannah Shaw and Ellen Lynch.

1854, February 2d. Consolidation Act passed. March 1st. Steamship City of Glasgow left Liverpool for Philadelphia, and is supposed to have foundered on the voyage.

March 11th. Consolidation celebration by a ball and banquet.

March 12th. Illumination in honor of Consolidation.

July 5th. Chinese Museum at Ninth and Sansom streets, and National Theatre Chestnut street, below Ninth, burned.

September 11th. City Museum Theatre opened. 1856, October 12th. The Ship Cathedral drawing twenty-five feet four inches of water, being unable to get into New York, and cross the bar, came to Philadelphia up the Delaware without difficulty.

Banks suspended.

1857, March 12. Dr. Kane's funeral. Very imposing ceremonies. September 21st. 1858, January 20th. for the first time in 6th Street Railway. engines.

City Passenger Cars run, Philadelphia, over 5th and Introduction of steam fire

Sept. 1st. Atlantic telegraph celebration. 1859, January 4th. Fire, factory, Lawrence above Brown. Loss, $35,000. Steam fire-engines in efficient operation.

January 4th. Reception of Senator Stephen A. Douglas in Independence Hall.

January 14th. Steamship Virginia arrives with remains of Philadelphia volunteer nurses, who died of yellow fever at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va.

18th. Funeral services at St. Stephen's Church. February 13th, Sunday. Preaching at Walnut Street Theatre by Rev. A. A. Willits, first of a series of discourses. February 22d.

National Sunday-School Convention at Jayne's Hall; continued three days. March 3d. Great fire, 2d below Dock. Seventeen families burned out. March 14th. operation. March 24th. Chestnut and Walnut Street Railway, act of legislature approved by councils and bill signed by mayor. Company agree to pay $100,000 towards bridge over Schuylkill.

Girard College Railroad goes into

March 27th. Holy Trinity Church, 19th and Walnut, opened.

April 17th. John Capie shot at fire, 12th and Shippen; dies on 20th. Robert Thompson, arrested on charge of shooting Capie, escapes from Pennsylvania Hospital, but surrenders on November 18th.

April 19th. Market, opened.

New Western Market, 16th and

April 27th. Complimentary dinner to Henry C. Carey at La Pierre House.

May 30th. Sunday cars run on Green and Coates Street Railway. June 23d. Arch Street Railway to Fairmount commences operations. July 17th (Sunday). Green and Coates Street cars stopped by order of mayor.

July 21st-23d. Sunday Car Case argument on habeas corpus before Justice Thompson of Supreme Court: driver of car held for breach of the peace. July 23d. Indignation meeting in Independence Square on Sunday cars.

August 5th. Grand trial of steam fire-engines at Fairmount on occasion of visit of City Councils of Cincinnati.

August 20th. Great fire, Sloat's Planing Mill and Sewing Machine Factory, 18th ward. Loss very heavy.

August 28th. Magnificent aurora, the most splendid display seen for thirty years. September 3d. Another magnificent aurora. September 8th. Great fire, Good Intent Mills, 24th ward. September 21st. Great freshet in Schuylkill. September 24th. Sunday Car Case argued in Quarter Sessions before Judge Ludlow.

September 27th. Agricultural Fair at Powelton. October 1st. Fire, Hughes's Hay Press, Jefferson Av. and Marriott street. No water to be had. October 8th. Sunday Car Case. Driver discharged.

U.S. Steamer Pawnee launched at Navy-Yard. October 18th. Green and Coates Railway stockholders resolve not to run cars on Sunday.

October 24th. Chestnut and Walnut Street Cars commence running to 22d street.

November 9th. Schiller Centenary Celebration. Grand torchlight procession and illumination. November 21st. Market sheds in Market street between Front and 8th, demolition commenced.

December 3d. Remains of "Old John Brown" (hung Dec. 28, at Shepherdstown, Va., for attack on Harper's Ferry Arsenal) pass through city. Excitement.

December 15th. Anti-Slavery Fair, at suit of owner, ejected from Assembly Buildings by sheriff. George W. Curtis lectures on slavery question at National Hall. Great excitement. Riot apprehended. Large police force on duty.

December 28th. Washington Street Wharf fixed upon as the Delaware terminus of Pennsylvania Railroad.

December 29th. Services of Philadelphia firemen tendered by Mayor Henry to Mayor Tiemann, of New York, to extinguish a conflagation in the latter city.

1860, January 5th. Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann falls dead at 13th and Vine streets.

January 9th. Obsequies of Bishop Neumann at St. John's Cathedral, 13th above Chestnut streets. Body in full robes exposed in coffin, and carried to St. Peter's Church, 5th and Girard Avenue. January 11th. Steamship Vigo arrives; sails

January 14th. Grand obsequies of Rev. Dr. Ryder at St. Joseph's Church.

Dinner to Hon. Baillie Peyton at Academy of Music and formation of Constitutional Union party. January 17th. Fire, fancy store, T. H. Peters & Co., 716 Chestnut street. Loss, $60,000.

ington Riehl of murder in second degree, as an ac

cessory.

February 1oth. Tremendous wind-storm. Retort-House at Point Breeze Gas-Works blown down; two men killed.

Jury in case of Robert Thompson, charged with murder of John Capie, returned a verdict of mur. der in first degree, after having been out a week. February 11th. Destructive fire at Shackamaxon Street Wharf.

February 13th, Continental Hotel open for visitors, and open for guests on 16th.

March 17th. Great Ratification meeting of the People's Party at Concert Hall.

March 27th-29th. Great excitement in consequence of proceedings in United States District Court, Judge Cadwalader, following on the arrest, at Harrisburg, of Moses Horner, a fugitive slave. Riot, and attempted rescue at 5th and Chestnut sts. Horner sent South at 8 A.M., on March 29th; a habeas corpus, returnable at 10 A.M., having been issued by Judge Allison of Common Pleas.

April 7th. Mrs. Edward Shippen Burd dies, leaving a very large estate, chiefly for charitable purposes. April roth. Funeral.

April 15th. Fire on Delaware Avenue below Arch.

April 25th. Public Buildings Commission holds its first meeting under act of legislature.

April 26th. Grand Lincoln, Hamlin, and Curtin ratification meeting at Independence Square.

April 28th. Military parade at Roxborough; monument to soldiers killed during the Revolution dedicated.

May 7th. Fire, Tattersall's Stables, Filbert below 13th street; set on fire by boys playing with fire-works. 28 horses burned.

May 24th. Fire, Richmond and Schuylkill River Railway Depot, Girard Avenue and 25th street. May 24th. Corner-stone of Episcopal Hospital, Lehigh Avenue and Front street, laid.

June 9th-16th. Visit of the Japanese Embassadors. Grand escort, civil and military, from Baltimore Railroad Depot to Continental Hotel.

June 23d. Fire, Holy Trinity (Catholic) Church, 6th and Spruce streets.

June 29th. Break in Basin Spring Garden WaterWorks.

June 30th. Great Douglas Ratification meeting in Independence Square.

Penrose Ferry Bridge opened for travel. July 2d. Breckinridge Ratification meeting in Independence Square.

July 6th. Public Buildings Commissioners decide on Penn Square as the site of the court-houses. July 13th. Fire, Kimball & Gorton's Car Factory, in 15th ward.

July 20th. Grand meteoric display seen all over United States and Europe.

July 22d. Fire, Yard, Gilmore & Co.'s store, 40 and 42 N. 3d street. Loss, $50,000.

July 26th. Tremendous tornado at Camden, N.J. Potts' & Klett's Vitriol Factory blown down; three men killed.

The

July 28th. Fugitive slave excitement. wrong man arrested at 5th and Chestnut streets. August 2d. Supreme Court affirms constitutionality of Public Buildings Commission.

August 9th. Fine display of meteors. August 17th. Washington Blues celebrated their forty-third anniversary.

August 23d. Heavy storm and serious damage

August 25th. People's Wigwam, a large edifice for political meetings in Sixth below Parrish, dedicated.

September 6th. Plan for public buildings adopted.

September 10th. David M. Lyle elected Chief of the Fire Department.

September 20th. Contract for public buildings awarded to John McArthur, jr.

September 21st. Robert Crawford murdered in 19th Ward. Thomas J. Armstrong arrested.

Curious circumstantial evidence.

September 25th. Fair of Philadelphia Agricultural Society at Powelton, 24th Ward. September 29th. John B. Trevor falls dead in Philadelphia Library. October 3d. Mill, Manayunk.

Boiler, Explosion at Preston's

October 9th-11th. Visit of Prince of Wales. October 19th. Fire, Franklin Building Sixth below Arch.

October 23d. Barbecue of People's party at Girard Park in honor of political victories. November 2d. Grand torchlight procession of People's party.

November 3d. Heavy storm and freshet. November 12th. Sensation from threats of secession at the South. Great depression of stocks.

November 19th. People's Wigwam sold at auction and taken down.

November 22d. Philadelphia banks suspend specie payments at 1 P.M.

November 23d. Destructive fire, Willow and

12th.

December 1st. Great depression of trade in consequence of secession movements in the south. Cotton and woollen manufacturers agree to run short time.

December 13th. Great Union meeting in Independence Square. George William Curtis prevented from lecturing on the " Policy of Honesty," at Concert Hall.

1881.

January 3d. Meeting of citizens at the Board of Trade rooms, to take action concerning the peril of the Union.

January 4th. National Fast Day. Churches open and general suspension of business.

February 10th. Ship John Trucks cut through by ice and sunk at Arch street wharf, Delaware. February 21st. Grand reception of Abraham Lincoln, President elect.

February 22d. Mr. Lincoln makes an address at Independence Hall, and hoists the United States flag upon the State-House steeple. The ceremony takes place at daybreak in the presence of a large crowd. Mr. Lincoln proceeds to Harrisburg, but at night returns to the city and proceeds to Washington over the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad instead of over Northern Central Road, as laid down in the programme. A plot to assassinate Mr. Lincoln, in Baltimore, it was alleged, had been concocted.

April 2d. "The Pennsylvanian" newspaper discontinued. April 12th. Great excitement in consequence of news that the rebels had opened fire on Fort Sumter on April 11th.

April 13th. News of reduction of Fort Sumter received and excitement continues.

April 15th (Monday). Excitement more intense. Great crowds assemble in front of the office of the "Palmetto Flag" an advertising journal, intended for circulation in the south. The building situated in Chestnut street below Fourth only saved from destruction by exertions of Mayor Henry, who displayed the national flag. Crowds also assemble at the office of the "Southern Monitor," and compel the exhibition of the national flag. The mob also traversed the streets, visiting the residences of persons supposed to sympathise with the southern secession movement, and compel the display of the flag.

April 16th. War excitement continues. Great activity in enrolling volunteers under President's call for 75,000 men. Riotous crowds in the streets. Mayor Henry issues a Proclamation denouncing treason and declaring that the peace of the city shall be preserved.

April 17th. Excitement still intense. Merchants assemble at Board of Trade rooms and pledge themselves to support the National Government.

April 18th. Arrival of Sixth Massachusetts, and march of regiment from Walnut street wharf to Girard House, Ninth and Chestnut, amid the most enthusiastic demonstrations.

April 19th. Gen. Wm. F. Small's Washington Brigade unarmed and ununiformed and the Sixth Massachusetts proceed, in cars, to Baltimore where they are attacked by the mob, Communication with Baltimore cut off. Railroad tracks torn

April 19th. Arrival of the Eighth Massachusetts and enthusiastic reception. City Councils pass resolutions denouncing treason and rebellion, appropriating money to support the families of volunteers, arm a Home Guard, and provide for the general defence.

April 20th. Seventh N. Y. Regiment arrives and received enthusiastically..

April 21st. (Sunday) Active preparations for filling out troops carried on. Military companies drill in public squares. Fire-arms conveyed to head-quarters of the different regiinents. A State military clothing manufactory opened at Girard House. Ladies assist the regular employees in making up clothing.

April 23d. Whale caught in the Delaware opposite the city.

May 8th. First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers march South. A large crowd accompanies

them to Baltimore Railmad depot. Two Ohio regiments arrive and encamp at Suffolk Park.

May 11th. Public reception in Independence Hall of Colonel Robert Anderson, late în command of Fort Sumter.

May 14th. Lyle's Morehead's and Lewis's regiments march to railroad depot, accompanied by a large crowd of citizens.

May 20th. Prize-ship General Parkhill, of Charleston, arrives, and is subsequently confiscated by decree of the U. S. District Court.

May 24th-25th. Scott Legion and Ballier's Regiment encamp at Suffolk Park.

May 25th. Remains of Colonel Elmer E. Ells. worth, killed at Alexandria, escorted through the city on the way to New York.

June 2d. Major General Robert Patterson, commanding Pennsylvania troops, leaves for Chambersburg.

June 11th. Public reception at Independence Hall of Lieutenant A. J. Slemmer, late commander of Fort Pickens during the siege by the rebels. June 14th. Obsequies of Lieutenant Edwin Greble. The body lies in state at Independence Hall.

June 27th. Prize ship Amelia brought into

port.

June 29th. Remains of Commander Ward, killed on the Potomac, escorted through the city. July 2d. Special election for Congress. Col. Charles J. Biddle returned.

July 4th. Grand parade of Home-Guards and Gray Reserves.

July 25th. Grand reception of General George B. McClellan on his way to Washington.

July. Throughout this month the regiments of three months men on returning from the seat of war are received with enthusiastic parades.

August 2d. The prisoners of war captured on the privateer Jeff. Davis, and on the rebel prize Enchantress, sent to Moyamensing prison as pirates.

The prize-master, Waller W. Smith was subse-! quently tried as a pirate and convicted, a result which caused a threatened retaliation on the part of the rebel government.

August 3d. Parade drill and review of National Guards on Chestnut street, opposite the Custom House.

August 7th. The prisoners of war, twenty-six in number, captured on rebel privateer Pétrei, arrive and are confined in Moyamensing prison on the charge of piracy. August 19th. Pierce Butler arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette, New York harbor. August 22d. Circulation of New York "Daily News" stopped. The U.S. Marshal Mward seizes the bundles as they arrive on the train. "The Christian Observer" newspaper office seized by U.S. Marshal and closed.

August 31. Remains of General Nathaniel B. Lyon, killed at the battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo, escorted through the city with solemn cere

monies.

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January 2d. Rev. Wm. Bacon Stevens crimecrated assistant bishop of the slicese ima sylvania, at St. Andrew's Church January 6th Lewis's drug store and Mann's blank-book store Lis $7000. January 16th-21st. Strike of women at the Navy-Yard.

January 19th Count de Paris visits the city. January 2 Junction Kilway speed by the first freight train patting over in

February th Thayers rebel prisomen captured on Pennel and Enchantress transmed from Moyamensing prison t. Fort Lewire as prisoners of war.

February 19th Workshops at Frankford arsenal destroyed by fire.

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February zad Grand military pande viewed by Governor Curtis, ipflanze, may and city councils, in front of the Academy of Music. Lamination and civic dinner at Chees

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February 27th Newspapers Behidden by G vernment to publish important military mo ments

March th Rebel bomb-shell explodes at Cam den Vig w na March 19th. Navy Yard

Shop-of-wär Juniata launched at

March 26th. Remains of Colonel Sicum, Major Ballou, and Captain Towers, kied at Kali