Some Interesting Dates

Dates are generally dry reading, but there is sometimes a signflcance in the mere giouping of dates ; ana the reader will fine! snch significance in an attentive consideration of the following events, all oceurring, as will be observed, within the limits of a little over a century : Post offices were first established in 1404; printed musical notes were íirst used in 1473 ; watehes were first constructed in 1476; America was discovered in 1492; the íirst printiwg press was set up in Copenhagen in 1490; Copen' ;cus announcod his disco' eryof the true system of the univirae i n 1517 ; Luther was summoned before the diet of Woims in 1521 ; Xavigr, the iirst great missionary of modern Christianity, planted the cross in India in 1020 ; Albert Durer gave the world a prophecy of future wood engraving in 1527; J ergens set the spinning wheel in motion in 1530, the germ of all the busy wheels and looms of ten thousand future factories. Ilenry VIII of England ilnally and forever broke witli the l'ope in L5S2.; Ignatius Loyola founded tlie order of the Jesuits in 1585; Calvin founded the uriversity of Geneva in 1507 ; modern needies first canie into use in 1545 ; the first knives were nsed in England, and the örst whpel carriage in France in 1559; Tor(juato Tasso wrote in l"f0; religious liberty was granted to the Huguenots in Franoe in 1559, and was foilowed by the massacre of St. Uartholomew in 1572 ; Cervantes wrote Don (Juixote in 1570; the first newspaper was published in England in 1588 ; telescopen were invented in 1 590 ; Spencer, Shakespeare, Bacon, Kepler, ïycho. Brahe were contemporaries in 1590 - these are some of the more important headlands of European hlstory within a single