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Chapter XLVI: Part 46

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National assembly excluded, 241;
formed, 235;
king sanctions, 278;
Ag. convention, 247;
convention attacked, 387;
fast, 25.

Natolia earthquake, 336.

Naumburg meteoric shower, 121.

Naumkeak settlers, 152.

Nautilus lost, 17.

Nauvoo temple destroyed, 208.

Naval warfare, system, 104.

Navidad, colony lost, 432.

Navigator's islands, 463.

Navy island evacuated, 27.

Neapolitan emigrants, 45.

Negro apprenticeship, 301;
burnt, 41;
insurrection, 21, 330;
colony, 21;
incendiary, 44;
plot, 108;
traffic facilitated, 231.

Negroes captured, 321;
contract to furnish, 356;
pillage Port-au-Prince, 22.

Netherlands joined holy alliance, 243;
national language, 363;
union of, 165, 245.

Neva overflowed, 440.

Nevis, hurricane at, 331.

New Amstel, 364.

New Amsterdam, 338.

Newburgh settled, 373.

Newburyport canal, 150.

New Castle, 364;
Chronicle, 116.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, cholera, 343.

New Connecticut, 324.

New Edinburgh settled, 423.

New England army, 341;
comet, 438;
commerce restrained, 62;
Courant, 323;
duel, 238;
earthquake, 57;
emigrants detained, 133;
era of settlement, 490;
first export, 470;
great storm, 322;
origin of term, 172;
settlers arrived, 264;
trade regulated, 425.

New France, population, 467.

Newfoundland patents, 168;
tempest, 358.

Newgate destroyed, 221;
felons transported, 377;
ventilators, 121.

New Grenada independence, 310.

New Guinea, 459.

New Hampshire adopted constitution, 243;
convention, 22;
first assembly, 105;
first bank, 228;
for independence, 234;
Indians, 315;
provincial convention, 17;
volunteers, 76.

New Haswell explosion, 198.

New Haven centennial, 166;
purchased, 447.

New Hebrides discovered, 176.

New Jersey conveyed, 245;
divided, 256;
ferry boat burnt, 104;
for sale, 153;
one government, 151;
ratified const., 476.

New London burnt, 351.

New Netherland charter, 9, 221;
so called, 396;
subjected, 383.

New Orleans burnt, 112;
crevasse, 189;
opera house, 86;
riot, 331;
proclaimed independence, 325;
thanksgiving, 38.

Newport, Florida, 361;
riot, 423.

News, false restrained, 230.

Newspaper, first in Boston, 133;
first in Brooklyn, 249;
first English, 208;
1st in Hudson, 139;
first in New York, 401;
first steam press, 454;
oldest, 288;
in Philadelphia, 482;
in polar sea, 420;
prohibited, 278;
Roman, 292;
stamps, first, 317.

New style in England, 10, 347;
in France, 394;
in Germany, 480;
in Spain, 387.

New Testament ruinous, 409;
in silk, 480.

New Zealand discovered, 234, 470.

New York adopted const., 57, 293;
assembly votes, 146;
banks resumed, 194;
boundary, 82;
canal law, 152;
charter, 223;
cholera, 425;
code, 147;
colonial legislature, last, 132;
and Connecticut boundary, 191, 446;
constitution revised, 215;
const. adopted, 158;
counties, 419;
custom house closed, 162;
Dutch Ref. church, 188;
earthquake, 40;
election, 171;
exchanged, 286;
first assembly, 402;
first printing, 333;
first theatre, 365;
fort, conflagration, 108;
grant, 100;
harbor discovered, 355;
Hist. society, 467;
incorporated, 49, 230;
independent state, 270;
and Mass. boundary, 197;
new charter, 27;
officers corrupt, 393;
omnibus horses burnt, 206;
printing introduced, 117;
prisoners, 479;
Provincial congress, 201;
public entry, 448;
registry, 469;
rescue of Kaine, 294;
riot, 148, 209, 236;
settled, 226;
state roads, 382;
surrendered, 353;
university, 280.

Niagara bridge, accident, 83;
co. erected, 99;
falls rock fell, 356;
fort built, 293;
suspension bridge, 297;
suspension bridge passed, 103.

Nicaragua manifesto, 215;
president, 418;
route opened, 318.

Nice, council, 226, 239, 274.

Niemen, royal conference on, 248, 249.

Niger discoveries, 357, 455;
expedition, 202.

Nile discovered, 168;
fleet, fate of, 125;
inundation, 450;
sources discovered, 435.

Nismes, massacre at, 307.

Nisqueunia, 352.

Nollet, J. A., 165.

Non-conformists, act against, 417.

Non-importation mob, 79.

Non-intercourse act, 240;
with Great Britain, 313.

Non nobis domini, 424.

Nooaheevah, 441.

Nootka sound discovered, 27.

Notables, assembly of, 41, 80.

Notre dame bells baptized, 436;
bridge fell, 411.

Nottingham riots, 437.

North Briton, 33;
republished, 67;
denounced, 436.

North Carolina const. adopted, 476;
adopted constitution, 442.

North Georgian Gazette, 420.

Northern Indiana steam boat burnt, 282.

Northern passage attempted, 196, 219;
sea discovered, 324.

North Penn. R. R. collision, 282.

North star at Spithead, 379.

North west passage, 178, 402;
attempted by Frobisher, 228;
discovered, 413;
expedition, 126;
territory, code, 69.

Norwalk rail road accident, 182.

Norway and Sweden united, 321, 404.

Norwegian R. R., first, 261.

Norwich Dutch church, 482.

Norwood tunnel, 184.

Nuns absolved, 33.

Nuremburg R. R., 464.

Nova Scotia, first bishop, 316;
patent, 356.

Obesity, 48, 488.

Observer appeared, 89.

Ocean Monarch burnt, 335;
schooner sunk, 84;
steamer burnt, 448.

Oceans, view of, 63.

Odd Fellows, first lodge, 218.

Odessa, vessels ordered out of port, 140.

Œcumenical council, 243, 274, 391.

Ohio admitted, 453;
first tree felled, 248;
freshets, 81;
state house burnt, 49.

Oneidas ceded lands, 372.

Oneida county erected, 104.

Onondaga county erected, 94;
salt springs discovered, 323.

Ontario, water fallen, 225, 330.

Opium surrendered up, 121;
to be delivered up, 108.

Orange men, 370.

Oratorians founder of, 206.

Orders in France united, 250.

Oregon convention, 341.

Oriental MSS. of Halstead, 127.

Orejas possessed by Columbus, 324.

Orlando Innamorato, 76.

Orleans county, N. Y., 433.

Orrery, first in America, 19.

Orthodoxy in England, 172.

Orthography reformed, 392.

Ostend powder explosion, 382.

Oswego released, 362.

Otsego county erected, 70.

Ottoman history, 310.

Ovid's elegies burnt, 214;
printed by Caxton, 159.

Owego burnt, 378.

Ox roasted on ice, 80.

Oxford, commerce prohibited, 28;
great fire at, 165;
theatre, 268.

Pacific, Magalhaens entered, 450;
seen by Balboa, 375;
discovered, 32;
Drake entered, 350.

Palatines arrived, 232;
2d immigration, 231;
3d immigration, 413;
in New York, 226.

Palermo monks, 82;
conspiracy, 412;
earthquake, 330.

Palestine, mission to, 147.

Palimpsest discoveries, 356.

Pallas discovered, 122;
ship lost, 212.

Palma, volcano at, 150, 443.

Palmyra island discovered, 430.

Pampero steamer sailed, 305;
seized, 357.

Panacea of potable gold, 206.

Panama constitution, 239;
legislature met, 279;
rail road, 44;
accident, 182;
affray, 152;
stock, 249.

Pancreatic duct, 333.

Pandects of Tribonian, 472.

Pania destroyed by wind, 232.

Pantheon reopened at Paris, 14.

Papal administration, 305;
government subverted, 50.

Paper manufactory, 180;
money issue, 192;
money first in N. Y., 223.

Parachute, descent in, 348.

Paradise Lost sold, 168, 479.

Paraguay ascended by Water Witch, 49.

Pardo, convention, 25, 26.

Pardon, general of James II, 98;
of king offered to Boston, 230.

Parhelion, 54, 243.

Parian marbles, 361.

Paris, civil war, 244;
congress, 85;
counter revolution, 193;
deaths, 342;
excitement, 229;
gold and silver, 431;
grand fete, 35;
ice broke up, 154;
industrial exhibition, 193;
insurrection, 68;
massacre, 229;
mob at Tuilleries, 213;
municipality guillotined, 297;
police reorganized, 377;
post office, 292;
prisons forced, 346;
prisoners, 176;
review of troops, 147;
revolution, 83;
revolution, 428;
revolution, 427;
riots, 221;
scarcity of provisions, 91;
treaty, 62;
university censures, 150;
workmen disbanded, 244.

Park theatre burnt, 474.

Parker's island fortified, 315.

Parkville printing office destroyed, 150.

Parliament armed, 106;
bribes, 225;
committees, 54;
Cromwell's, 341;
dissolved, Cromwell's, 201;
disturbed by a quaker, 489;
first English, 36;
English, 148;
houses destroyed, 403;
long, 422;
members kept out, met at Oxford, 300;
pensioned, 203;
prorogued, 171;
reformed, 489;
refusal to call, 107;
reports prohibited, 85.

Parthenon destroyed, 379.

Pass Christian, gale, 368.

Passover in new temple, 155.

Pasto destroyed, 37.

Patagonia, voyage to, 191.

Patriots of Canada surrendered, 89.

Patroon's charters, 221.

Paul and Virginia, 35.

Paupers educated, 134.

Pavement sank in London, 105.

Paxton boys massacre Indians, 485.

Peace address of Eng. merchants, 122;
announced in England, 170;
congress at Paris, 332;
England and France, 422;
of religion, 302, 375.

Peacemaker exploded, 88.

Peale's museum, 36.

Pedestrian feat, 127, 139, 427.

Peep of day boys, 370.

Pegu annexed, 479.

Pelew island hospitality, 314.

Peloponnesian war, 182.

Pemaquid, 88.

Penguin island sank, 13.

Penn's elm blown down, 92.

Pennsylvania banks vetoed, 110;
canal, 10;
charter, 92, 414;
code by Penn, 180;
3d const., 426;
first assembly, 100;
first council, 98;
hist. society, 51;
hospital, 49;
new charter, 130;
ratified constitution, 469;
resolves, 38;
settlers, 467.

Penny Magazine, 130.

Penny postage in England, 23.

Penobscot bay, 272.

Pentateuch, Tindal's, 281.

Pequot Indians, 174.

Pera suburb burnt, 37.

Pere la Chaise, first burial, 200.

Pernambuco, 95.

Persia steamer launched, 260.

Persian calendar reformed, 103;
empire extinct, 285;
era, 234;
newspaper, first, 124.

Perth assembly aggrieved, 220;
fantastics, 467;
the pretender at, 348.

Peru delivered, 466;
earthquake, 59;
founded, 348.

Peruke makers, 60.

Peruvian bark, 329.

Petersham manifesto, 14.

Peter's pence, 25, 300.

Pestilence, 326;
Eng. and France, 279.

Philadelphia, army passed, 334;
atmospheric phenomena, 30;
bank opened, 236;
chartered, 411;
cholera, 425;
cold, 44;
earthquake, 58;
enlistment arrests, 122;
first bank, 19;
first capital conviction, 38;
first congress, 349;
ice, 80;
mild winter, 34;
mortality in, 11;
prisoners, 479;
riots, 182, 266, 394;
theatre, first, 151;
theatres burnt, 263;
tornado, 149;
Washington entered, 359;
yellow fever at, 310.

Philippics of Cicero, 345.

Phillipines discovered, 101.

Philippine islands, 138.

Piedmont annexed to Sardinia, 463.

Piedmontese laws annulled, 294.

Pike packet sunk, 188.

Pilgrim constitution, 431.

Pilgrims descried Cape Cod, 428.

Pilgrimage, 149.

Pill-taker, extraordinary, 195.

Pitcairn's island, 38, 385.

Pittsburg, cholera, 425;
first stage, 261;
Gazette, 296;
origin of name, 448.

Pittsfield, frost at, 280.

Pisa council, 117.

Placentia conspiracy, 356.

Plague at Constantinople, 489;
at Edinburgh, 35;
at London, 166, 302;
at Shrewsbury, 152;
fast for cessation of, 342.

Planet discovered, 136, 147, 155, 181, 288, 373, 427.

Planets, conjunction, 364;
canon of motion, 192.

Plantagenet, last of, 207, 486.

Plattsburgh, first court, 415.

Play bill, first, 140.

Playing cards, regulation, 396.

Playhouses regulated, 66.

Plot against Charles, 417;
to dismember Union, 97.

Plymouth army, 320;
charter, 431;
colony, 21;
colonists, 72;
colonists, Indian visit to, 104;
colonists landed, 433;
first house, 483;
first marriage, 188;
first sabbath, 496;
Indian submission, 360;
landing, 480;
pilgrims sailed, 344;
settlers, 467, 481;
ship captured, 482;
visited by Massasoit, 113.

Poetic festival, 177.

Point de Chambault, crossing, 183.

Point Petre earthquake, 60.

Poisoning made treason, 70.

Poland blotted out, 437;
partition, 72;
revenue sequestered, 281.

Pole, attempt to reach, 193.

Poles, massacre, 423.

Polish adherents of Demetrius, 207;
constitution annulled, 297;
families transported, 444;
insurrection, 116;
king died, 48;
partition ratified, 367;
revolt, 454;
revolution, 328;
throne vacant, 278;
traitors executed, 251.

Poll tax in England, 64.

Polyglot, 113, 427.

Pompeii buried, 419.

Pompey's theatre burnt, 159.

Poonah earthquake, 235.

Poor relief by parliament, 458.

Poor Robin discontinued, 41.

Popayan destroyed, 37.

Pope allowed to exercise pontificate, 40;
burnt in effigy at Paris, 179;
divided the world between the Spanish and Portuguese, 177;
withdrew from Rome, 81.

Pope's authority abol. in England, 114;
jurisdiction disputed, 250;
sovereignty annulled, 195.

Porcelain introd. Dresden, 142.

Porciano lake, 290.

Port Folio, 20.

Pneumatic chemistry, origin, 301.

Port-au-Prince destroyed, 217.

Port Gibson burnt, 215.

Port Jackson settled, 58;
colonized, 34.

Portland riot, 216;
island sunk, 478.

Port Leon destroyed, 361.

Port Mahon disturbance, 84.

Port Royal, earthquake, 222, 298;
hurricane, 339;
land sunk, 153.

Porto Bello discovered, 420;
water spout, 470.

Portsmouth, first bank, 228;
fleet at, 393;
tornado, 384.

Portugal abolished slave trade, 467;
became monarchy, 294;
execution in, 25;
imports grain, 270;
independent kingdom, 456.

Portuguese court emigrated, 453;
royal family, 96;
royal family emigrated to Brazil, 451.

Posen added to Germany, 189.

Post office established, 293.

Postal convention signed, 473.

Potatoe introduced, 21.

Potomac settled, 91.

Potosi mines opened, 160.

Poughkeepsie convention, 236.

Pound notes issued, 93.

Powder, explosion at Salonica, 282;
scarcity of, 319.

Power loom, first in Phila., 147.

Powhatan wrecked, 154.

Praia, earthquake at, 234.

Precocity, 250.

Prelates shut up, 465.

Prepossession, case of, 430.

Presbyterian Chinese church, 426;
church, first, 442;
insurrection, 75.

Press, freedom in Mexico, 315;
liberty restricted, 13;
suppressed in Baden, 280;
suspended, 292;
in Paris suppressed, 117.

Pressing for seamen, 109.

Pretender defeated, 434;
trial scaffolding, 360.

Pretender's rebels, 298;
fleet dispersed, 118.

Priest attacked queen of Spain, 51.

Prima Vista, 246.

Prince regent of Great Britain, 58.

Prince William wrecked, 449.

Princess royal of France, 477.

Princeton college riot, 33;
congress at, 407.

Printed book, first, 320;
first in England, 126.

Printers address queen Caroline, 396;
in London, 189;
responsible, 154.

Printing, anniversary of, 269;
400th anniversary, 247;
in New York, 68;
legalized in New York, 117;
office destroyed, 293;
stopped in Virginia, 78.

Prisoners, American, 23;
turned out, 396.

Prison ship victims inhumed, 209;
relics, 138.

Privileged class abolished, 306.

Profaneness, edict against, 35.

Prometheus steamer, 318.

Protestant alliance, 380;
army, 277;
association meeting, 210;
books, edict against, 123;
league, 480;
petition against popery, 216;
religion re-established, 172;
term abolished, 254.

Protestants, Irish massacred, 409;
league against, 293;
massacred, 285;
massacred at Nismes, 307;
persecuted in France, 291;
so called, 156;
under ban, 285.

Protestantism established, 33;
in Scotland, 300.

Providence bank, 396;
government formed, 265;
Indian deed of, 116;
propose congress, 195;
theatre burnt, 411.

Prussia, first king, 31;
levy upon, 429;
new constitution, 463;
renounced Great Britain, 69.

Prussian assembly prorogued, 429;
king elected emperor of Germany, 122.

Psalter, first printed book, 320.

Puerto Santo bridge fell, 84.

Pulque, consumption of, 80.

Punjaub annexed, 124.

Purbeck, wreck on, 18.

Puritan emigration forbidden, 172;
and Episcopal conference, 26.

Puritans arrived, 264;
era of, 27.

Putnam county erected, 231.

Pythian games, 284.

Quakers, act against, 399;
affirmation, 35;
affirmations altered, 470;
first yearly meeting, 251;
founder of, 25;
non-resistant, 250.

Quarter denied French, 52;
refused to British troops, 206.

Quebec, cholera at, 224;
cliff fell, 196;
darkness at, 364;
founded, 259;
immigrants, 266;
parliament house burnt, 49;
riots, 221;
theatre burnt, 233.

Queen Anne's wars, 129.

Queen Charlotte ship exploded, 107.

Queen of Spain attacked, 51.

Queen's garden islands discovered, 192.

Quiberon bay wreck, 25.

Quicksilver congelation, 471.

Quinnipiack, 125, 447.

Quirinus, temple to, 59.

Quito, earthquake, 53.

Quo warranto issued, 426.

Rail road accident, 100;
blocked with snow, 47;
collision, 261;
first American, 318;
mob, 466;
Eng. opened, 293;
speed, 332.

Rainbow, lunar, 357.

Rain storm in London, 97.

Rambler appeared, 110;
contributor to, 21.

Rapid, ships lost, 20.

Ratcliffe library founded, 190.

Ratisbone diet, 295.

Reading, abbots' coiners, 437;
receipt to sacrist, 122.

Rebellion, cause of, 42.

Red Sea forded by French, 480.

Reformation anniversary, 263;
began, 417.

Regent, British, appointed, 55.

Regents in Europe, 29;
university established, 148.

Regicides, 340;
arrested, 153;
pardon offered, 221.

Regrading, conviction for, 261.

Reindeer steam boat, 103, 349.

Reindeer struck, 289.

Religious equality, 154;
Herald, 365;
liberty, 354;
orders absolved, 452;
orders abolished, 32.

Rensselaer county erected, 58.

Rensselaerwyck confirmed, 374;
outrages, 335.

Reporters excluded, 28.

Reprieve, 12.

Resolution returned, 387.

Resurrection of the Saviour, 135.

Revolt, Pennsylvania line, 10.

Revolution, American, ceased, 53;
in England, 459;
in France, 388.

Revolutionary army, force of, 311;
manifesto, 264;
soldiers furloughed, 216;
tribunal, 230.

Rhine confederation, 269;
inundation, 42, 368.

Rhode Island adopted constitution, 210.

Rhone inundation, 368.

Richard Crook-back, 244.

Richmond, annular eclipse, 366;
theatre burnt, 485;
theatre funeral, 487.

Rio de la Plata independent, 269.

Rio de Janeiro riot, 418.

Rio Janeiro river, 9;
de Solis, 9.

Riot at Dublin, 89;
London, 138;
against physicians, 148;
about food, 148.

River broke forth, 329.

Roanoke colony planted, 335;
first child born, 326.

Roanoke colony, 324, 338.

Robbers hung at Paris, 409.

Robinson Crusoe, 164.

Rochester cathedral burnt, 216.

Rochester, first daily paper, 411.

Rock Island bridge, 145.

Rockland county erected, 81.

Romans before Jerusalem, 209.

Roman capitol burnt, 476;
capitol dedicated, 359;
catholic ecclesiastics restrained, 234;
catholics, massacre, 221;
chambers dissolved, 488;
church in Scotland, 300;
circus at Tours, 343;
civil wars, 407;
consuls, 9;
feast, 450;
jubilee, 129;
pavement in London, 322;
republic established, 232;
republic proclaimed, 61;
senate, early sessions, 121;
temple discovered, 94;
thanksgiving to Cicero, 458.

Romance of England, 171.

Rome annexed to France, 72;
burnt, 237, 263, 283;
confederacy with Jews, 470;
conspiracy, 323;
foundation, 159;
anniversary do, 159;
France at war with, 486;
incorporated with France, 195;
insurrection, 175;
last triumph, 442;
made a republic, 69.

Rosenberg summit fell, 346.

Roses, union of, 31.

Royal academy formed, 467;
Anne galley, 429;
exchange, 221;
stone laid, 409;
opened, 415;
George sunk, 328, 341;
institution formed, 99;
marriage act, 77;
oak, 400;
parliament met, 79;
society of literature, 76;
Sovereign burnt, 42.

Royalty abolished in France, 370.

Rump parliament, 57, 184.

Russia declared for Austria, 172;
first book printed, 17, 62;
reprisal against, 476;
revolution, 463.

Russian commerce opened, 187;
emperor in Austria, 185;
emperor libeled, 212;
levy of men, 186, 471;
militia, 45;
manifesto, 249;
new year, 10;
object of war, 145;
peasant rights, 487;
serfs enrolled, 207;
rail road, 147, 345;
revolution, 269.

Rutland square masquerade, 89.

Rutli, Swiss meeting, 437.

Rye house plot discovered, 230, 232.

Ryswick, peace of, 368.

Sabbath bill stolen, 294;
lawful sports, 403.

Sacramento inundated, 477;
prisoner hung, 331.

Sacheverell's sermons burnt, 120.

Sacred play, 259;
year of Jews, 111.

Sacrifices, Roman, 9.

Safety bank system, 132.

Sagadohock river, 315.

Saginaw riot, 155.

Sailors, epidemic among, 228.

Salary of pastor, 338.

Salem immigrants, 152;
witchcraft, 327, 371.

Salonica burnt, 141, 282.

Salt water freshened, 174.

Saltzburg protestants, 43.

Samson, English, 197.

San Cruz purchased, 204.

Sanctobertis eve, 467.

Sandwich islands difficulty, 466;
discovered, 27;
protest, 367;
small pox, 343.

Sandwich land discovered, 46.

Sandy Hook, Hudson at, 350;
lighthouse, 238.

San Francisco execution, 335;
insurrection, 220;
steamer foundered, 18.

San Juan de Ulloa, Cortez at, 160.

San Salvador destroyed, 153.

Sanscrit, first learner, 19.

Sans cullotes, 368;
at Paris, 241.

Saphet, earthquake at, 11.

Saracen hostages massacred, 323.

Saragossa theatre burnt, 475.

Saratoga county erected, 58.

Sarawak, English rajah, 374.

Sardinia, convents suppressed, 202.

Sardinian rail road, 202.

Sassafras, expedition for, 142.

Satan denounced at Edinburgh, 458.

Saturn, 7th satellite, 458.

Santa Fe revolution, 330.

Savannah assaulted, 393;
balloon, 373;
colony begun, 64;
river freshet, 208;
first steam boat, 289;
steam ship, 202;
storm, 354.

Savoy conference, 117;
protestants, 463;
united to France, 451.

Saxe Coburg confiscated, 42.

Saxon heptarchy, 52.

Saxons converted by comet, 303.

Saxony dismembered, 185;
kingdom, 468.

Scanderbeg revolted, 451.

Scaptar Jokul, (see Skaptar Jokul.)

Scarborough cliff sunk, 476;
land sunk, 486.

Schenectady county erected, 96;
deed of, 219;
massacre, 193;
purchased, 294.

Schism in Romish church, 117.

Schoharie county erected, 136.

Schuylkill bridge, 76;
bridge fell, 29.

Scotland adjudged to Baliol, 437;
sovereignty disputed, 250.

Scots prisoners made slaves, 359.

Scottish assembly dispersed, 291;
church assembly, 443;
clergy, 40;
covenanters, 479;
general assembly, 478;
government, 236;
parliament, 10;
parliament, last, 398;
regalia, 118;
regalia opened, 50.

Scriptures, edict against, 123.

Scylla, earthquake, 55.

Sealing wax, ancient, 303.

Seamen impressed, 244.

Sea, rose and fell, 315;
serpent at Plymouth, 241.

Seasons, Spanish notion of, 323.

Sebastopol, explosion, 437;
harbor closed, 373.

Secretary steam boat exploded, 152.

Secret societies, 376;
prohibited, 311.

Seigniories, French, 158.

Semper eadem, 470.

Seneca county erected, 116.

Senecas sold lands, 254.

Septuagint, 420.

Seraglio, release from, 348.

Sestos, siege of, 108.

Seven islands, shipwreck, 17.

Seven years war concluded, 68.

Shaker elect lady, 352.

Shawmut settled, 230.

Ship disease, 228;
money levy, 312.

Shiraz, earthquake, 186.

Shooting stars, 434.

Shower red dust, 193;
of minerals, 46.

Shrewsbury pestilence, 152.

Sicilian vespers, 124, 451.

Sicily, acquisition, 490;
king abdicated, 29.

Sierra Leone company, 29;
settled, 230.

Sierra Madre republic, 342.

Silver buckles, donation, 443.

Simeto overflowed, 154.

Sin, Israelites at, 150.

Sing Sing prison begun, 192.

Sion, king of, 246.

Sirius steamer arrived, 163.

Six Nations, treaty with, 232.

Skaptar Jokul, 228, 238, 304.

Skeleton, ancient, 347.

Skeletons in ash tree, 297.

Slave decision, 244;
ship, first, 403.

Slave trade abolished, 127, 226;
by pope, 459;
proscribed, 175.

Slavery abolished in France, 124;
by Kosciusko, 131;
in Mexico, 363;
in New York, 123;
in Poland, 249;
at Vienna, 59;
convention, 274;
trade by treaty, 90.

Slaves free in England, 264;
price of, 423.

Sleep, death an eternal, 401.

Sloane's library, 135.

Small pox, first appearance, 107;
in New England, 291.

Smyrna, earthquake, 270;
excitement about Koszta, 243;
plague at, 227.

Snow, brick red, 152;
in Holland, 154;
in New England, 79;
red, in Tuscany, 103;
at Rome, 98, 117.

Snow storm, 78;
New England, 487.

Society of Jesus, 32.

Solar eclipse, 330;
in England, 352.

Soldier, female, pension, 247.

Soldiers, great mortality, 228;
wages in 1347, 305.

Solemn league and covenant, 93.

Solomon's temple, 376.

Solstice of Meton, 250.

Solway moss, 43.

Somers brig lost, 465;
mutiny, 34, 125.

Somers's expedition, 290.

Son of liberty, 120.

Sonora burnt, 237.

Souffriere eruption, 173.

Soup house, first, 22.

Sound dues, protest, 233;
terminated, 148.

South America, attempt to revolutionize, 50;
possessed, 324;
independence, 382;
republics acknowledged, 11;
revolutions, 24.

South Carolina adopted constitution, 203;
charter, 231;
college riot, 79;
congress, 23;
settled, 204.

Southern literary messenger, 33.

South Hadley canal, 483.

South Hampton frigate lost, 451.

South sea bubble, 380.

Sovereign coin issued, 263.

Spafields poor meeting, 458.

Spain, civil war ended, 362;
disturbances, 305;
letters of marque against, 24;
partition, 396;
resigned to Charles, 359;
restricts the press, 13;
revolutions, 391.

Spanish constitution, new, 218;
fleet foundered, 414;
military insurrection, 252;
monarchy, design against, 185;
prize ship, 200;
queen absconded, 340;
records first written, 159;
royal family prisoners, 176;
settlements, expedition against, 339;
ships burnt, 72.

Speaker of commons, 90;
congress, contest, 51.

Specie overturned, 69;
payments suspended, 356.

Spectator began, 89.

Speedwell privateer, 44.

Spinning machine riot, 393, 456.

Spires, decree protested, 156;
diet of, 247.

Spitalfields' soup house, 22.

Spirituous liquors taxed, 76, 87.

Spitzbergen, discovery of, 174, 363;
Dutch sailors at, 26.

St. Alban's weathercock, 406.

St. Andrews, charter, 86.

St. Anthony's falls, 87.

St. Augustine founded, 31.

St. Bartholomew burnt, 91.

St. Bartholomews, massacre, 16, 334.

St. Bartholomew island abolished slavery, 394;
purchased, 204, 314.

St. Bernard crossed, 192.

St. Christophers, hurricane, 254;
purchased, 204, 314.

St. Croix negro revolt, 263.

St. Cruz purchased, 314.

St. David's college founded, 76.

St. Dennis tombs destroyed, 314.

St. Domingo ceded, 397;
commission, 332;
deputies, 52;
founded, 306;
insurrection, 357;
massacre, 333, 454;
revolution, 418.

St. George volcano, 175.

St. Giles plague, 166.

St. Helena discovered, 200.

St. Jago de Cuba, earthquake, 303.

St. Johns burnt, 231;
first steam boat, 252.

St. James steamer exploded, 263.

St. Kitts, hurricane, 331.

St. Lawrence county erected, 92;
fishing in, 133;
gulf named, 142;
rail road, 283.

St. Leon church overwhelmed, 165.

St. Louis burnt, 196;
castle burnt, 40;
riots, 310;
tornado, 323.

St. Martin purchased, 204.

St. Marys settled, 120;
ship canal, 201.

St. Michaels destroyed, 316;
earthquake, 272;
volcano, 234.

St. Nicholas destroyed, 290;
spire fell, 64.

St. Pauls burnt, 217;
dedicated, 383;
laid, 242;
spire burnt, 233.

St. Peters built, 78;
dedicated, 486.

St. Petersburg, cholera, 342;
founded, 207;
inundated 440;
and Moscow rail road, 345;
palace burnt, 488;
storm, 353.

St. Pierre emancipation, 203.

St. Stephen's chapel, 107.

St. Thomas, hurricane, 331.

Stadtholder arrived, 455.

Stadtholdership abolished, 41, 70;
protest, 209.

Stafford house address, 450.

Staffordshire ship sunk, 489.

Stage, women upon, 13;
plays licensed, 186, 432;
suppressed, 470.

Stake, number perished at, 429.

Stamp act, 419.

Stamp act passed, 113;
repealed, 108;
riot, 337.

Stamped paper in America, 486.

Standing army grievance, 59, 372.

Star spangled banner, 24.

State affairs, clergy, 468.

Staten island colonized, 16, 61;
purchased, 314;
sold, 319.

State prisoners in France liberated, 117.

States general assembled, 180.

Stationarii at London, 464.

Stationers company chartered, 180.

Statistics, so called, 406.

Statue of George III, 269.

Steam battery, 159;
boat at Austin, 108;
burnt, 54;
explosion, 141;
first, 384;
first on lakes, 420;
Fitch's, 219;
wrecked, 86;
engines, experiments, 325;
power press, 454;
ship in England, 279;
first across Atlantic, 202.

Steeples opposed, 126.

Sterling money, 484.

Steuben county erected, 108.

Stockport strike, 311.

Stoke, meteor at, 423.

Stonehenge fell, 14.

Stone, medicine for, 106.

Storm in England, 73;
Gibraltar, 73.

Storm of cape Francis, 84;
in New England, 82.

Stratford jubilee, 351.

Street preaching riot, 209, 275.

Strike at Stockport, 311.

Stripes in British port, 57.

Stuart, first of house, 156.

Studein, meteoric fall, 350.

Student, the, issued, 46.

Students expelled for methodism, 100.

Submarine cable, 340.

Subsidies of Charles II, 60.

Sub treasury created, 255.

Sudberry jury, 392.

Suffrage universal in France, 458.

Sugar from beets, inventor, 158.

Sugar house prisoners, 479.

Sullivan county erected, 120.

Sunday bill riot, 257;
recreations, 199.

Sunderland iron bridge, 374.

Sun dial, first in Rome, 59;
eclipsed, 161;
in England, 171;
spot, 106, 173.

Sungband Cowmuddy, 34.

Supercalia, feast of, 68.

Supreme being enacted at Paris, 183.

Susquehanna rail road collision, 261.

Suttee abolished, 257, 461.

Suspension in San Francisco, 80.

Swabia, king of, 11.

Swan of Holland, 390.

Sweating sickness, 416.

Swedish revolution, 301;
crown prince killed, 209;
nobility massacred, 427;
revolution, 327.

Swiss cantons armed, 25;
patriots met, 437;
protestant massacre, 285;
troops recalled, 335;
villages buried, 346.

Sword voted to McDonough, 66.

Sybilline prophecy, 450.

Sydenham crystal palace, 227.

Sydney cove, 58.

Symmes theory, 143.

Syracuse explosion, 329;
first paper, 131;
founder of, 307.

Syrian earthquake, 194.

Table rock fell, 353, 356.

Taiefa conflagration, 284.

Tampico deaths, 378.

Tar and feathers introduced, 96.

Tatler appeared, 146, 162;
last number, 25.

Taunton girls, 98.

Tax gatherers slain, 432.

Tayleur wrecked, 36.

Tea art, 186.

Tea at Boston destroyed, 437;
destroyer, 92.

Teignmouth phenomenon, 315.

Telegraph across channel, 215;
in New York, 356;
submarine, laid, 274.

Telemaque of Fenelon, 19.

Temanfaya volcano, 344.

Temple of Hercules, 46;
at Jerusalem burnt, 269;
purified, 448.

Tendall's testament sold, 190.

Teneriffe volcano, 16, 49, 180, 225, 482, 490.

Tennessee admitted, 215.

Terceira, earthquake, 234.

Terra Firma, landing at, 300.

Test act, 123.

Texas admitted, 90, 488;
annexed, 261;
first legislature, 77;
proclamation, 283;
republic protested, 127.

Thames bridge burnt, 144;
extraordinary tide, 364;
flood in, 404;
frozen, 44, 54;
thawed out, 54;
river low, 95, 349, 362;
and Severn canal, 441;
tunnel opened, 118.

Thanksgiving, British, 25, 31;
first in Mass., 79;
in India, 280;
for Russian victories, 12;
New Netherlands, 351;
New Orleans, 38.

Theatre closed by sheriff, 324;
first in Albany, 259;
first in New York, 108, 365;
licensed, 186;
legalized in Massachusetts, 53.

Theatrical encouragement of troops, 477;
first American, 349.

Theban ram, 180.

Theft, trial for, 30.

Theodosius's statue, 85.

Thermometer, 13, 290.

Thia island arose, 266.

Thirty years' war ended, 410.

Thorn, protestants, 426;
James, 155.

Thoth, 315.

Thousand years' jubilee, 309.

Thule, southern discovered, 46.

Thunder, subterranean, 40;
stone fell, 426;
theatrical, 18.

Thuringia meteor, 424.

Tide high at London, 70;
in New England, 82.

Tiers etat, 236.

Timbuctoo, expedition to, 202.

Tioga county erected, 70.

Titles abolished, 241;
in France, 34;
at Lucca, 28.

Toast, indiscreet, 39.

Tobacco introduced, 294;
regulations, 383.

Tokay wine estate, 449.

Toleration act, 156, 204;
edict of, 148;
in Scotland, 320.

Toledo, lake at, rose, 205.

Toll gate riot at Bristol, 382.

Tomboro eruption, 132, 136, 147.

Tompkins county erected, 139.

Tonal, red snow, 152.

Torch dance at Berlin, 459.

Tornado in Burmah, 163;
in Ohio, 315.

Torpedo experiment, 290.

Tortugas discovered, 186.

Tragedies, Scotch regulations, 95.

Tragedy, first English, 31.

Trajan's floating palace, 277.

Transit of Mars, 132.

Transportation for forgery, 127;
for theft, 419.

Treason to surrender, 50.

Treasurer, first U. S., 77.

Treaty,
Albany, 202, 253;
Algiers, 254;
and Sardinia, 132;
Amiens, 120;
Austria and Piedmont, 309;
and Prussia, 159;
Barbary, 414;
Breda, 253, 286;
Bretigni, 184;
Britain and Denmark, 27;
and Spain, 26;
Buffalo creek, 254;
Campio Formio, 402;
Canandaigua, 431;
Carlowitz, 40;
Cherokees, 103;
Denmark and Sweden, 120;
Dutch and Indians, 341;
England and France, 451;
France and Scotland, 267;
France, Spain and America, 347;
France and Turkey against Russia, 102;
and Germany, 63;
and Holland, 60;
and Russia, 174;
and Scotland, 124, 287;
and Spain, 90;
and Sourajah Dowlah, 64;
and Turkey, 17;
Fontainbleau, 412, 422;
Fort Herkimer, 252;
Fort Stanwix, 408;
French and Chouans, 158;
France and Egypt, 38;
and England, 106;
and Russia, 136;
Spain and England, 62;
and Texas, 376;
and Tripoli, 383;
and Tuscany, 61, 66;
Ghent, 311, 447, 483;
Germany and France, 54;
Great Britain and Algiers, 340;
and China, 341;
and France, 46;
not ratified, 313;
and Russia, 144, 146;
and Spain, 231;
and U. S., 389;
and Japan, 394;
Holland, 403;
Hubertsburg, 68;
Indians, 458;
Jay's, 441;
Jewish, 56;
Kerbechi, 355;
Lannoy, 103;
Longueville, 61;
Madrid, 26;
Navajo Indians, 200;
New England and Narragansetts, 341;
Nuremberg, 288;
Paris, 1783, 52, 117, 185, 212, 376, 454;
Passau, 302;
Russia and China, 355;
and Turkey, 21, 126, 130, 169, 268;
Ryswick, 467;
Sac Indians, 190;
St. Germain, 106;
St. Ildefonso, 383;
St. Petersburg, 474, 476;
Sweden and Tripoli, 383;
Tehuantepec, 56;
Tilsit, 273;
Tolentino, 77;
Tripoli, 313;
Troyes, 200;
U. S. and Algiers, 484;
and Creeks, 454;
and France, 57;
and Great Britain, 15, 26, 74, 259, 313, 441, 454;
and Indians, 218;
and Japan, 115;
and Mexico, 136, 212;
and Morocco, 280;
and Prussia, 357, 476;
and Sweden, 132;
and Tripoli, 217;
and Turkey, 183;
and Venezuela, 34;
Utrecht, 126, 144;
Uxbridge, 82;
Vienna, 117, 266;
and Rome, 430;
Westphalia, 410.

Trees removed and rooted, 281.

Tremont temple burnt, 128.

Trent, council of, 31, 40, 169, 201, 470.

Trent and Mersey canal, 276.

Tribunes chosen, 466.

Tri-color, 293.

Tri-colored flag at Vienna, 143.

Trinidad discovered, 299.

Tripoli earthquake, 194;
liberated Americans, 218;
made restitution, 313;
plague, 342.

Triumph of the cross, festival, 279.

Troy, fall of, 202;
land slide, 71.

Trumento mount formed, 120.

Tryon county court, 353.

Touching for king's evil, 196, 264.

Toulon, Bonaparte sailed from, 202.

Toulon, decree to level houses, 482.

Tournament at Eglintoun, 340.

Tours, ancient circus, 343.

Townsend ship burnt, 193.

Tuilleries attacked, 314.

Tuilleries beset by mob, 213;
entered by mob, 243;
walls laid, 272;
palace begun, 16.

Turin annexed to Sardinia, 463.

Turkey declared war with Russia, 384;
object of war with, 145;
refuses proposals of Russia, 247.

Turkish ambassador, 478;
ships, first at London, 136;
sultan banqueted Napoleon, 185;
war declared, 122.

Turks learned war, 13;
reinforced British, 117.

Turners plundered provisions, 401.

Tuscany duke restored, 295;
protestant deputation, 412.

Tweed chain bridge, 283.

Twin sisters, 412.

Tyre, era of, 404.

Uncle Tom's Cabin prohibited, 187.

Unicorn steamer at Boston, 217.

Uniformity act, 334.

Union college, first com., 178.

United Irishmen disarmed, 125;
founder, 397.

United States bank, 11, 206;
incorporated, 143;
suspended, 356;
suspended, 56.

United States commissioners, 376;
constitution, 21;
exploring expedition, 115, 327, 328;
independence, 15;
acknowledged, 34;
by Denmark, 84;
by Spain, 116;
president, first, 48;
ship, first of the line, 185;
so called, 355.

Usury punished, 63;
restrained, 389.

Utah territory, 353.

Utica lunatic asylum, 29;
state, 382.

Utrecht, quarrel of ministers, 294;
union, 245.

Vaccination first applied, 191;
introduced, 41;
in Persia, 218;
rewarded, 216.

Valley Forge, army at, 477.

Valois, house extinct, 287.

Vandalie Bible, 208, 334.

Van Dieman's land discovered, 434.

Vatican built, 338.

Vaudois tolerated, 217.

Veal, Mrs., apparition, 353.

Vendean war closed, 123.

Vendeans shot, 74.

Venetian crusade sailed, 391.

Venezuela, independence, 220, 262;
slaves freed, 166.

Venice acknowledged French republic, 41;
revolution, 195.

Ventilators invented, 121.

Venus Adonis entered, 155.

Venus's revolution observed, 185;
satellite discovered, 339;
transit, 13, 217, 380.

Vera Cruz fish destroyed, 384;
powder explosion, 217.

Vermont admitted, 74, 93;
adopted constitution, 57;
declared independent, 27, 484;
joined the confederacy, 22.

Versailles rail road accident, 185.

Vesta observed, 179;
discovered, 124;
steamer sunk, 378.

Vesuvius, Delius perished in, 188;
eruption, 32, 102, 175, 231, 234, 314, 327, 334, 405, 411, 447;
overflowed, 78.

Vessels to be searched, 142.

Veto of Miss Dix's bill, 159.

Vice, edict against, 35.

Viceroys in Europe, 29.

Victoria bridge destroyed, 18.

Victories of the French, 52.

Viege, earthquake at, 290.

Vienna abolished slavery, 59;
emperor left, 402;
emperors at war with, 402;
insurrection, 390;
order restored, 392.

Virginia adopted constitution, 248;
colony, 294;
cut off, 148;
massacred, 120;
colonists returned, 237;
company, new charter, 202;
convention, 400;
convicts to, 417;
divided, 142;
first assembly, 239;
insurrection, 330;
lottery for, 253;
militia rebel, 424;
negroes taken, 321;
on non-importation, 197;
north, 317;
occupied, 148;
rebellion, 426;
reduced, 190;
settlement aided, 22;
so entitled, 226;
third charter, 99.

Vixen brig lost, 451.

Volcanic island disappeared, 483;
steam cloud, 402.

Volcanoes in Central America, 56.

Votes of assembly first published, 146.

Voyage round the world, first, 350;
unique, 430.

Vulcano, eruption of, 54.

Waal crossed on ice, 23.

Wages of mechanics, 333.

Wahabbites, 233.

Wahhabis, last emir, 441.

Waistcoat, large, 456.

Wales, prince attacked, 43.

Walk in the Water steamer, 209.

Walker's expedition, 403.

Wall of entrenchment, Cæsar's, 148.

Wallabout cemetery, 138.

Wallachian almanacs, 11;
revolution, 252.

Wandering Jew, 10.

War with America discouraged, 92;
declared against England and Holland, 48;
of the elephant, 108;
of 1812, loss, 20.

Warren county erected, 100.

Warsaw, revolution at, 95;
university abolished, 444.

Wurtemberg, elector of, 11.

Washington aqueduct, 429;
city burnt, 335;
county erected, 130;
gun ship, 185;
letter to refused, 276;
monument, 95, 261;
in New York, 405;
servant, Gilbert, 76;
steamer sailed, 215.

Water spout, 394, 470.

Water Witch ascended Paraguay, 49.

Waterford under coercion act, 286.

Wayne county erected, 145;
first paper, 450.

Weather, peculiar, 30.

Weathersfield settlers, 400.

Welsh bards, prize, 206;
Bible permitted, 119.

Well discovered, 105.

Wetterhorn ascended, 261.

West Florida, occupation, 259.

West India hurricane, 306, 348, 384, 395;
slave trade, 175.

Westminster assembly, 256;
bridge, 43;
convent destroyed, 300;
hall founded, 302.

West Point academy, 105.

Whale in the Thames, 118.

Wheat, price rose, 454;
in Ireland, 372.

Wheel punishment abolished, 213.

Whig mob, 438.

Whirlwinds, 232.

White child, first in Ct., 270;
Fish schooner, 430;
sea discovered, 187.

Whitehall palace burnt, 14;
and Rutland rail road, 384.

Whitfield methodists, 12.

Whites massacred at cape Francois, 241.

Whitestown, founder, 153;
settled, 20, 248.

Wife sold, 145.

Wild man captured, 18.

William and Anne wrecked, 98;
and Mary chosen, 64, 66.

Williamsburg, Va., theatre, 349.

Wilmington powder explosion, 213.

Winchester wrecked, 155.

Windsor, settlers, 400.

Wine, export prohibited, 173.

Winfield Scott steamer, 458.

Winter solstice, 488.

Winter quarters, Washington's, 450.

Wisconsin admitted, 488.

Wreck off Portland, 55.

Witch act in England, 380.

Witch hung, 226.

Witchcraft, 407;
case of, 161;
act repealed, 247;
execution, 327, 371.

Witches condemned, 33;
trial of, 235.

Wolfe's army, survivor, 19.

Wolves in France, 65.

Woman prohibited the Bible, 28;
rights convention, 305;
rioters, 31;
sold for tobacco, 330;
tear up rail road, 466;
upon the stage, 13.

Woodland hurricane, 331.

Worcester, fire at, 233;
riot, 456.

Worchestz, storm, 273.

World appeared, 14;
created, 344.

Worms, diet at, 115, 462.

Wowoken possessed by Raleigh, 148.

Writ, ancient, 431.

Writing, minute, 314.

Yacht race, 340;
at Cowes, 332.

Yamasses conspiracy, 151.

Yankee Blade steamer lost, 384.

Yates county erected, 56.

Yazoo, disunion meeting, 391.

Year, beginning of changed, 117.

Yellow fever at New Orleans, 207, 255, 301;
at Tampico, 378;
first death, 310.

Yeomen of the guard, 416.

Yong-ming-tchin swallowed up, 238.

York, England, burnt, 217;
and Lancaster united, 31, 63.

Yucatan independence, 194.

Zenger's Weekly Journal, 388.

Zurich insurrection, 351.

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Transcriber's note:

Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original.

The letters "B. C." appear both spaced and unspaced in the original. They have been standardized to include a space.

Where the abbreviation "St." was missing a period, the period has been added.

The chapter header "JANUARY." has been added by the transcriber.

The following corrections have been made to the text:

Page 12: 17.[period missing in original] PUBLIUS OVIDUS NASO

Page 14: 1689. Col. HENRY SLOUGHTER appointed
governor[original has "govenor"]

Page 14: He was an indefatigable[original has "indefatigible"]
student

Page 14: conducted by Coleman, Bonnell Thornton[original has
"Bonnel, Thornton"], Chesterfield

Page 15: 23 mortars, the fort, ammunition[original has
"amunition"] and stores

Page 15: relinquished her right to the sovereignty[original
has "sovreignty"] of the revolted colonies

Page 20: and a settlement[original has "ettlement"] commenced
by 28 colonists

Page 21: who circumnavigated the globe with Cook,[original has
"globe, with Cook"] died in his 70th year

Page 23: artillery and munitions, preparatory[original has
"prepartory"] to a general retreat

Page 23: measuring 40 by 42 inches,[comma missing in original]
the largest ever made

Page 23: author of a great number of["of" missing in original]
theological works

Page 24: At Iraish it was observed at -44½°[negative sign
missing in original] of Fahrenheit

Page 24: health becoming impaired,[comma missing in original]
by the advice of his physicians

Page 24: survivors of the colony,[comma missing in original]
twelve in number, were taken

Page 24: 1795. In consequence of a great thaw,[comma missing
in original] the communication

Page 25: female born in the old colony of
Massachusetts[original has "Massachusets"]

Page 26: More than[original has "that"] 100 Swedish and Danish

Page 30: defeated near Guadalaxara by the Spaniards under
Calleja[original has "Caleja"]

Page 33: 1764. MR. WILKES was expelled from["from" missing in
original] the British house of commons

Page 36: 1552. The duke of SOMERSET beheaded on pretence
of[original has "ot"] inciting others

Page 36: Yet much of it is to be[original has "the"]
attributed

Page 38: put a[original has "puta"] stop to their depredations

Page 39: He was appointed adjutant and inspector[original has
"inspecter"]-general

Page 40: 1845. ABIGAIL[original has "Albigail"] LEONARD died
at Raynham, Mass.

Page 42: 40,000 pairs of stocking breeches[original has
"braeches"]

Page 46: conducted by Coleman, Bonnell Thornton[original has
"Bonnell, Thornton"], Chesterfield

Page 47: came to this country while a boy,[comma missing in
original] was a soldier under Wolfe

Page 49: widow of Percy Bysshe[original has "Byssche"] Shelley

Page 54: new committees, viz.[period missing in original], one
on religion

Page 55: 1805. The East Indiaman, earl of
Abergavenny,[original has "Avergavenny"] wrecked

Page 56: 1813. The Spanish cortes[original has "cortez"]
abolished the inquisition.

Page 57: 1696. A plot to assassinate[original has
"assasinate"] WILLIAM III

Page 59: 1637. FERDINAND[original has "Ferdinard"] II of
Germany

Page 59: fighting, occupied[original has "occuppied"] the same
position

Page 60: 1555. JOHN HOOPER[original has "Hoopfr"] bishop of
Gloucester

Page 61: a worthy of the revolution[original has
"relvolution"], died, aged nearly 98

Page 63: 1771. JEAN DE BEAURAIN[original has "Beuarain"] died

Page 64: one of the signers of the declaration of
independence[original has "indedence"]

Page 64: 1814. Battle of Montmirail[original has "Montmirial"]
between the French

Page 64: friend of Don Miguel, of infamous memory.[original
has comma]

Page 64: died at North Woodbury, Pa., aged 110½[original
has "110 1-2"] years

Page 65: The governor[original has "govenor"] returned the
summons unopened.

Page 66: French frigate Psyche,[comma missing in original] 36
guns, and the prize ship

Page 68: arrived at St. Paul[original has "Pauls"], Minnesota

Page 68: 1632. DUDLEY CARLETON, an[original has "on"] English
statesman

Page 69: died at Edinburgh[original has "Edingburgh"], aged
55. She drew the attention of the town for a number of
seasons, particularly[original has "particulary"] when she
played Juliet

Page 69: 1810[original has "1710"]. Birthday of LOUIS XV, of
France

Page 69: 1815. British sloop of war Barbados, captured the
United States letter of marque brigantine Vidette, 3 guns, 30
men.["captured the United States letter of marque brigantine
Vidette, 3 guns, 30 men." moved from top of page 70 to here]

Page 69: 1817. Cold day throughout the United States[original
has "tates"];

Page 70: in which the former were victorious in both
instances.[period missing in original]

Page 71: 1852. Homeopathic[original has "Homoepathic"] college
at Cleveland, Ohio

Page 71: 1853. WILLIAM GIBBS MCNEIL[ORIGINAL HAS MC NEIL] died

Page 72: the Spanish chief Francisco Espoz[original has
"Espon"] y Mina

Page 73: 1519. CORTEZ[original has "Cortes"] sailed from cape
St. Antonio

Page 73: he gave such an account[original has "acccount"] of
it in England

Page 75: He was early engaged in political[original has
"polical"] life

Page 77: 1802. JOHN[original has "Joan"] MOORE, a
distinguished Scottish physician and popular author, died. He
wrote on the society and manners of different countries in
Europe, which his acute[original has "accute"] discernment

Page 77: Gen. Henderson was elected the first
governor[original has "govenor"].

Page 78: 1854. The most violent snow storm that had
occurred[original has "occcured"] since 1831

Page 79: was in a measure indemnified[original has
"idemnified"] by the articles

Page 81: 1851. JOANNA BAILLIE[original has "Baille"], the
Scottish poetress

Page 82: 4 large quarto vols. of "Notes and various readings
of Shakspeare."[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 87: 1648. CHRISTIAN IV[original has "Christiern IV"] of
Denmark, died.

Page 90: mine in the isle of Anglesey was discovered.[period
missing in original]

Page 90: His publications, theological[original has
"theologial"], medical and political, gained great
approbation.

Page 91: for the salaries of its officers from July to Dec.
1792,[original has period] $2,694·88

Page 91: 1799. Corfu, one of the Ionian islands,[comma missing
in original] taken

Page 91: endeavors to improve every branch of[original has
"af"] agriculture

Page 92: He enjoyed, at the time of his death,[comma missing
in original] the vigorous use of his intellect.

Page 93: "_Allons chercher l'ennemi; si je recule, tuez moi;
si j'avance, suivez moi; si je meurs, vengez moi_."[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 93: earl of Bellamont, governor[original has "govenor"]
of the province of New York

Page 94: member of congress, and governor[original has
"govenor"] of Pennsylvania

Page 94: English, Spanish and Portuguese[original has
"Portugese"] allied army

Page 96: 1775. An inhabitant of the town of Billerica[original
has "Billercia"], Mass.

Page 96: 1828. RICHARD STOCKTON[original has "Stocton"], a son
of the signer

Page 97: 1649. The duke of Hamilton, earl of Holland,[comma
missing in original] and Lord Capel

Page 97: 1819. REGNAULT DE ST. JEAN D'ANGELY[original has
"d'angely"]

Page 98: 1789. The city of London brilliantly[original has
"brillantly"] illuminated

Page 99: 1856. President RIVAS, of Nicaragua[original has
"Nicarauga"], declared war

Page 99: used the Italian language in philosophical
subjects.[original has comma]

Page 100: Marshal Beresford, took possession[original has
"possesion"] of Bordeaux

Page 103: 44 B. C. CAIUS JULIUS CÆSAR, the Roman general,
assassinated[original has "assissinated"] in the senate

Page 104: distinguished preacher and theological[original has
"theologial"] writer of Toulouse.

Page 104: and deprived of his functions of government[original
has "goverment"]

Page 104: 1839. Battle of Tuspan; the Mexican[original has
"Mexiican"] government troops

Page 104: He translated Froissart's _Chronicle_ into
English.[period missing in original]

Page 107: wages for artists be from 5d.[period missing in
original] per day

Page 108: He distinguished himself in the Afghanistan[original
has "Affghanistan"] war

Page 113: 1621. The colonists at Plymouth received a visit
from Massasoit[original has "Masassoit"]

Page 121: he was licensed to preach in["in" missing in
original] 1791 by the presbytery

Page 121: MARCH 28[original has "29"].

Page 122: 1791[original has "7191"]. HONORE GABRIEL RIQUETTI

Page 122: His mathematical[original has "mathemathical"]
essays at an early age

Page 122: MARCH 29[original has "28"].

Page 124: could shield him from the malice[original has
"malace"] of his enemies

Page 125: 1781. Mutiny disclosed on board U. S. frigate
Alliance[original has "Aliance"]

Page 125: but the division under Scherer having been[original
has "being"] beaten again

Page 125: 1810. LUIGI LANZI, a modern Italian
archæologist[original has "archeologist"]

Page 126: in London, that efficient[original has "effcient"]
measures had been pursued

Page 132: 1813. Action near Urbanna, on the
Chesapeake[original has "Chespeake"]

Page 133: He embraced the doctrines of Arminius[original has
"Arminus"] in relation to predestination

Page 133: 1706. JOHN BAYLES, an English buttonmaker[original
has "butttonmaker"], died

Page 141: appointed lord high chancellor[original has
"chancelor"] of England and baron of Verulam

Page 141: other countries, led to his recall[original has
"recal"] by the king

Page 143: 1756. JOSEPH VAISSETTE, a French
ecclesiastic[original has "eccleciastic"], died.

Page 143: 1856. The Americans under Lieut.[period missing in
original] Green attacked 200 Costa Ricans

Page 144: 1555. THOS. WYATT beheaded; acquitting[original has
"acquiting"] with his last breath

Page 144: the reformation of the calendar[original has
"calander"], and the adoption

Page 146: 1709. First number of the _Tatler_[original has
"Tattler"] appeared.

Page 153: the ridge of the house was discernible.[period
missing in original]

Page 155: 1676. Sudbury, Mass.,[comma missing in original]
attacked

Page 156: He fell a sacrifice[original has "sacrafice"] to the
fury

Page 158: 1839. AARON OGDEN,[original has a period] an
American statesman

Page 160: He was one of the first and brightest[original has
"brighest"] ornaments

Page 160: and the Texans[original has "Texians"], 783, under
Gen. Houston

Page 161: division of the Austrian army two days in
succession[original has "succesion"]

Page 165: and began[original has "begun"] a paraphrase and
commentary

Page 166: In his reign a great plague occurred[original has
"occured"].

Page 166: constituted her the fittest[original has "fitest"]
sovereign of the two

Page 167: trial of MEUNIER for an attempt to
assassinate[original has "assinate"] the king

Page 167: could give a succinct[original has "succint"]
account of that sanguinary action

Page 168: Bostonians delivered up a large quantity[original
has "quanity"] of guns

Page 168: in one of these paroxysms[original has "paroxyms"]
Charles shot himself

Page 168: 1830. City of Guatemala[original has "Guatamala"]
nearly destroyed by an earthquake.

Page 169: beginning a military enterprise[original has
"entreprise"] against Nicaragua

Page 169: at the confluence of the Alleghany[original has
"Allegany"] and Monongahela

Page 172: 1519. A skirmish at Edinburgh[original has
"Edinburg"]

Page 175: the laws of nature, died at Göttingen[original has a
macron over the "o"]

Page 175: Hundreds[original has "Hundred"] of persons were
driven from their dwellings

Page 177: 1840. THOMAS MANNING, an[original has "a"] eminent
English linguist

Page 179: avowed Judaism, and was excommunicated[original has
"excomunicated"] from the church of Mary le Bone.[period
missing in original]

Page 181: He commenced in 1795 that unparalleled[original has
extraneous quotation mark] career

Page 181: 1631. ROBERT BRUCE COTTON, an eminent[original has
"eminant"] English antiquary, died.

Page 184: principally known by his _Description[original has
"Descripton"] of the great World_

Page 185: 1768. BONNELL[original has "Bonnel"] THORNTON died

Page 189: having ascended from Dublin in a balloon[original
has "baloon"]

Page 197: published 1617. (See Dec. 1.[period missing in
original])

Page 198: French under the duke d'Enghien[original has
"d'Enghein"] gained a signal victory

Page 200: 1789. JOHN HAWKINS, an English writer,[original has
period] died

Page 202: wickedly and cowardly assaulted[original has
"assaultted"] Charles Summer

Page 204: originally a cobbler[original has "cobler"], became
a mountebank

Page 205: and a church and 22 houses[original has "hosses"] at
Bristol

Page 205: He is celebrated as the editor of
Shakspeare[original has "Shakpeare"]

Page 205: 1843. One hundredth[original has "hundreth"]
anniversary of the Am. Philosophical Society

Page 209: 1854. A riot occurred[original has "occured"] at the
park in New York

Page 210: 1593. JOHN PENRY, an English controversial[original
has "controvercial"] writer

Page 212: He distinguished himself as a soldier, statesman and
scholar.[original has comma]

Page 213: a distinguished[original has "dintinguished"] French
officer, and defender

Page 214: taking the Indians by surprise,
exterminated[original has "extirminated"] their villages

Page 216: by Rutger Jacobsen,[original has "Rutger, Jacobsen"]
one of the magistrates

Page 219: announced: "[quotation mark missing in original]_The
Chronicles of England, &c._

Page 220: on the sixth day of _Lous_ (_Hecatombæon_[original
has "Hecatombœon"])

Page 220: engaged in a conspiracy to assassinate[original has
"assasinate"] Lorenzo de Medici

Page 220: 1597. WILLIAM HUNIS, one of["of" missing in
original] the contributors to the metrical theology

Page 221: 1693. Dr. PITCAIRN[original has "Pitcarine"],
published at Leyden his dissertation

Page 221: 1629. Charters granted[original has "graned"] to
patroons

Page 222: burn 3 British ships in the new mole,
Gibraltar[original has "Gibralter"] bay

Page 223: the British the quarries of[original has "in of"]
the Redan

Page 227: with all the ex-citizens[original has "excitizens"]
of Florence

Page 232: consuls elected, according to the Capitoline
marbles.[period missing in original]

Page 237: that relates to the separation from
Massachusetts[original has "Massachussetts"]

Page 238: in consequence of discontents arising[original has
"arrising"] among those

Page 238: his learning as a theological writer and
controversialist[original has "controversalist"]

Page 239: 1835. WILLIAM COBBETT[original has "Cobbet"], an
English poetical and miscellaneous writer

Page 241: historian of New Hampshire,[original has period]
died, aged 58

Page 242: presented to the Boston athenæum[original has
"atheneum"] by the citizens

Page 244: 1770. PHILIP CARTERET WEBB died;[semicolon missing
in original] a distinguished

Page 244: British loss 1200 killed,[comma missing in original]
wounded or drowned

Page 245: were defeated, with the loss[original has "lose"] of
80

Page 251: 1829. Erzeroum[original has "Erzroum"], in Turkey

Page 254: 1666. ALEXANDER DE BROME, an[original has "on"]
English poet, died

Page 257: 1850. SERGEANT[original has "Sergeat"] S. PRENTISS,
a distinguished American lawyer

Page 262: astonishment at London by his performances[original
has "preformances"] on the organ

Page 263: capitol fired during the night by an
incendiary[original has "incendary"] and consumed

Page 262: the Americans occupied their works.[period missing
in original]

Page 263: 1811. The seven provinces of Venezuela made
declaration of independence[original has "indedendence"].

Page 266: 1816. RICHARD BRINSLEY[original has "Brindsley"]
SHERIDAN, an English dramatist

Page 271: oldest member of the society of the
Cincinnati[original has "Cincinnatti"]

Page 273: Isaac Hull, left Annapolis[original has "Anapolis"]
in Chesapeake bay

Page 279: consummation of the schism[original has "scism"]
between the two churches

Page 279: 1439. Commencement of a direful pestilence and
famine, which scourged[original has "scourced"] England

Page 280: 1856.[period missing in original] A formidable
insurrection

Page 281: 1656[original has "1556"]. Battle of Valenciennes

Page 281: 1812. United States frigate[original has "frgiate"]
_Constitution_ fell

Page 281: pilgrims entered the city to see them.[period
missing in original]

Page 282: defeated the French near Tirlemont[original has
"Tirelemont"]

Page 283: 1610. The foundation of the famed and valuable
Bodleian[original has "Bodlein"] library

Page 283: Mexican agitator, PAREDES, defeated by
Bustamente[original has "Bustamante"]

Page 287: earl of Northumberland's son, Henry Hotspur[original
has "Holspur"], slain

Page 287: He succeeded in driving the English from
his[original has "has"] kingdom

Page 287: in presence of an immense crowd[original has
"crowed"] of spectators

Page 287: _The Bishop's Bible_, made in the reign[original has
"thereign"] of Elizabeth

Page 288: [original has extraneous dash]and it was owing to
the night and Clausel's skill

Page 288: 1836. ARMAND CARREL, a French republican,[original
has period] killed in a duel

Page 288: under a son of the ex-king[original has "exking"] of
Cabul

Page 292: 1852. WILLIAM SCROOP, an[original has "at"] eminent
English naturalist

Page 293: 1766. WALLIS, the navigator,[comma missing in
original] sailed on his great voyage.

Page 296: all of whom possessed colossal[original has
"collosal"] fortunes of their own

Page 297: (_Penny Cyclopedia_[original has "Cycolpedia"] says
August 16th)

Page 299: favorite at the court of Henry[original has "Heny"]
IV.

Page 300: See Oct. 4[original has "5"], 1434.

Page 301: 1854. KENNETH MURCHISON[original has "Muschison"]
formerly governor of Penang and Singapore

Page 303: began the _Annals of Philosophy_[original has
"Philosopy"], in London

Page 305: _The[original has "the"] Wandering Jew_, are known
in all Europe and America

Page 310: the _Penny Cyclopedia_[original has "Clyclopedia"]
on the science of astronomy

Page 311: works on archæology[original has "archæolology"],
antiquities and philology

Page 314: 1675. PETER BALES,[original has two commas] an early
and eminent English writing master

Page 314: 1749. THOMAS TOPHAM, an Englishman[original has
"Englisman"] of remarkable strength

Page 314: palace was carried by storm, the apartments[original
has "appartments"], the passages

Page 314: guards, who heroically defended the king, were
inhumanly[original has "inhumanily"] butchered

Page 315: loss of 5,000 killed, 3,000 prisoners[original has
"prisioners"], 2 cannon

Page 315: 1851.[period missing in original] M. DAGUERRE, the
inventor of the daguerreotype

Page 315: the latter lost 21 ships, captured and sunk.[period
missing in original]

Page 317: in office under several successive[original has
"succesive"] sovereigns

Page 317: in Rhode Island, whither[original has "whether"] he
had been driven

Page 320: besides immense quantities[original has "quanities"]
of valuable real estate

Page 320: delivered 28 hostages at the foot of
Snowdon[original has "Snowden"]

Page 321: Joubert was mortally[original has "wasmortall y"]
wounded.

Page 322: He published _Stirpes Novæ_[original has "Novœ"]

Page 323: Hessian generals, Baum and Breyman[original has
"Breymen"]

Page 324: AUGUST[original has extraneous period] 17.

Page 332: from which office he was removed to make room for
Wolsey[original has "Woolsey"]

Page 337: on the Lycus, between the Macedonians[original has
"Macedodians"] under Alexander

Page 337: 1813. THEODORE KORNER, a German poet, killed in
battle[original has "battlle"].

Page 340: Hungarian ecclesiastic, ennobled for his
literacy[original has "literary"]

Page 342: a brother, who should propagate[original has
"propogate"] opinions in opposition

Page 343: 1772.[period missing in original] WILLIAM BORLASE,
an English writer on natural history

Page 349: present from eleven colonies. (Sept. 4[original has
extraneous comma]?)

Page 352: 1772. An unprecedented[original has "unprecedent"]
rain and consequent flood happened

Page 352: 1811. PETER SIMON[original has "Simom"] PALLAS

Page 357: 1827. UGO FOSCOLO, a distinguished[original has
"distingushed"] Italian writer

Page 359: 1849. MARIANO PAREDES, ex-president[original has
"expresident"] of Mexico, died

Page 359: in treasure, was totally[original has "totaly"] lost
in a gale

Page 361: 407. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM[original reads "Crysostom"],
one of the most illustrious fathers

Page 367: 880. ABBATEGNIA decided the obliquity[original has
"oblignity"] of the ecliptic

Page 371: loss of the[original has "the the"] Greeks was
inconsiderable

Page 371: 19 B. C.[period missing in original] PUBLIUS MARO
VIRGILIUS

Page 373: who arrayed himself[original has "himfelf"] against
the Aristotelian philosophy

Page 376: 1799. Zurich, in Switzerland,[comma missing in
original] taken by the French

Page 378: the strongest in Europe, taken by the
Austrians[original has "Austrains"]

Page 379: A _rout_[original has "gout"] preserved Europe.

Page 379: _New Englander_, died in New Haven, Ct.,[period
missing in original] aged 48

Page 380: ship Annie Jane, from Liverpool, was driven on the
Barra[original has "Barva"] island

Page 383: criminals hitherto employed by a barbarous[original
has "barbarious"] custom

Page 384: 1842. The war in Afghanistan[original has
"Affghanistan"] closed by the capture of Ghuznee

Page 384: 322 B. C. ARISTOTLE[original has "Aristoteles"], the
celebrated Greek philosopher, died

Page 385: 1793. The last two male[original has "males"]
natives of Pitcairn's island

Page 387: He was a weak[original has "w ak"] prince

Page 391: defeated by the Jews at the pass of
Bethhoron[original has "Bethhoran"]

Page 393: from Sault[original has "Saut"] St. Marie to
Cleveland

Page 397: He was historiographer to the[original has "tot he"]
king

Page 399: taken by admiral Hawke off the[original has "the
the"] isle of Aix

Page 400: children, with their horses, cattle and swine,[comma
missing in original] commenced a journey

Page 405: emigrant legion under Rohan were[original has
"wore"] cut to pieces

Page 407: wars of the Romans began in which Cæsar[original has
"Cesar"] and Pompey

Page 412: having finished their deliberations[original has
"delibrations"], adjourned

Page 414: 1687. JAMES ATKINS, a learned Scottish bishop,
died.[original has period]

Page 416: when was instituted the _Yeomen[original has
"Yoemen"] of the Guard_

Page 418: captured the hereditary prince of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz[original has "Mecklenbenburg-Strelitz"]

Page 419: Kings, Orange, Queens, Suffolk[original has
"Suffold"], Richmond, Ulster, and Westchester, N. Y.

Page 421: fell back to his original[original has "orginal"]
level in consequence

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