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The Great Events by Famous Historians [Volumes 1-14]
- Автор: Gutenberg
- Год: 1905
- Язык: английский
- Жанр: История
Электронная книга - «The Great Events by Famous Historians [Volumes 1-14]». Краткое содержание книги:
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbarossa to Dante)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Days (1910-1914)
On September 13, 1815, Doctor Jenner lost his wife. He retired to Berkeley, and thereafter lived in retirement. He died January 26, 1823, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and was buried on February 3d in the chancel of the parish church of Berkeley.
FOOTNOTES:
[47] Two years later Perceval was premier (1809-1812) and he was assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons, May 11, 1812.—Ed.
CHRONOLOGY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY
EMBRACING THE PERIOD COVERED IN THIS VOLUME
a.d. 1775-1799
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
Events treated at length are here indicated in large type; the numerals following give volume and page.
Separate chronologies of the various nations, and of the careers of famous persons, will be found in the Index Volume, with volume and page references showing where the several events are fully treated.
A.D.
1775. Burke speaks for conciliation with America; Lord Effingham resigns his military command rather than fight against the colonists of America.
Beginning of the American Revolution: "Battle of Lexington." See xiv, 1.
Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point surprised by Ethan Allen.
"Battle of Bunker Hill." See xiv, 19.
Washington appointed Commander-in-Chief by the Continental Congress.
Montgomery slain in an attack on Quebec. See "Canada Remains Loyal to England," xiv, 30.
All intercourse between the American colonists and Denmark interdicted by its King, Christian VII.
1776. General Howe evacuates Boston, March 17th. British repulse at Charleston by Colonel Moultrie.
Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress, July 4th. See "Signing of American Declaration of Independence," xiv, 39.
Battle of Long Island; defeat of the Americans. New York occupied by the British. Howe defeats the Americans at White Plains. Fort Washington taken by the British November 16th. Washington successfully surprises the Hessians at Trenton, December 26th.
Riots in England to destroy machinery.
Publication in England of the first volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1777. Washington defeats Cornwallis at Princeton, January 3d. The British burn Danbury. Ticonderoga captured by Burgoyne. Battles of Brandywine and Germantown; defeat of the Americans. Lafayette and Steuben arrive in America.
"Defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga." See xiv, 51.
Division of the Crim Tartars into two distinct parties, the Russian and Turkish.
Execution in England of Dr. Dodd for forgery.
Austria annexes Bukowina.
1778. France recognizes the independence of the United States and forms an alliance with them. Evacuation of Philadelphia by the British. A French fleet and army arrive in America to aid the United States. Savannah captured by the British. Massacre of Wyoming. Congress refuses to treat with the British commissioners.
Beginning of the War of the Bavarian Succession.
Cook discovers the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands.
France declares war against England.
1779. Battle of Brier Creek; defeat of the Americans. Stony Point stormed by the Americans under Wayne.
Paul Jones gains a naval victory off the English coast; see "First Victory of the American Navy," xiv, 68.
Repulse by the British of the Americans and French at Savannah.
Spain declares war against England; Gibraltar invested by the French and Spanish fleets.
1780. Siege and capture of Charleston by the British. First Battle of Camden; defeat of the Americans. Treachery of Arnold, who agrees to deliver West Point to the British. Execution of Major André. Victory of the Americans at King's Mountain.
Gordon "No Popery" riots in England.
England declares war against Holland for allowing Paul Jones to take his prizes into her harbors.
Revolt of Tupac Amaru in Peru.
"Joseph II Attempts Reforms in Hungary." See xiv, 85.
1781. Battles of the Cowpens and Guilford Court House; defeat of the British. British victory at Hobkirk's Hill. Eutaw Springs the scene of a drawn battle. Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown. See "Siege And Surrender of Yorktown," xiv, 97.
Arnold burns New London and captures Fort Griswold.
Completion of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation by the States of the Union.
Continuation of the siege of Gibraltar by the French and Spanish.
Institution of the first Sunday-school at Gloucester, England, by Robert Raikes.
1782. Evacuation by the British of Savannah and Charleston.
A preliminary treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain signed by John Adams, Franklin, Jay, and Laurens. See "Close of the American Revolution," xiv, 137.
Great naval victory of the British admiral, Rodney, over the French, in the West Indies.
Tippoo Sahib, in Mysore, succeeds his father, Hyder Ali.
Grattan secures the independence of the Irish Parliament.
"British Defence of Gibraltar." See xiv, 116.
1783. Peace of Paris between the United States and Great Britain.
New York evacuated by the British.
Peace of Versailles between Britain, France, and Spain.
Catharine II seizes the Crimea for Russia.
Many colonists of America settle in Canada on conclusion of the war. See "Settlement of American Loyalists in Canada," xiv, 156.
Perfidious massacre of Tartars by Potemkin, Russian general and first favorite of Catharine II.
A patent granted to Henry Johnson and John Walter of the Times for stereotype or logographic printing.
"First Balloon Ascension." See xiv, 163.
1784. Treaty of peace between England and Holland.
Founding of the first daily newspaper in America, at Philadelphia.
The scandal of the Diamond Necklace in France.
In Ireland the Peep-o'-Day Boys make their appearance.
Iceland for nearly twelve months desolated by an irruption of Hecla.
1785. Negotiations between the United States and Spain for free navigation of the Mississippi.
John Adams, first minister of the United States to England, received by the King.
Establishment of the Philippine Company in Spain.
John Howard, English philanthropist, sets out on his travels to visit the plague hospitals.
La Pérouse, French Admiral, proceeds to explore the Northern Pacific.
1786. A negro colony sent from London to found the settlement of Sierra Leone.
Outbreak of Shay's revolt in Massachusetts.
Impeachment of Warren Hastings, England, for peculation in India.
Galvani makes electrical discoveries.
1787. "Framing of the Constitution of the United States." See xiv, 173.
Civil liberty taught in France by Lafayette and his companions in America, leads to the French Revolution.
Shay's rebellion repressed. Congress undertakes the government of the Northwest Territory.
Wedgwood manufactures his imitations of Etruscan ware.
Swedenborg's New Jerusalem Church founded.
1788. Revolution in the Austrian Netherlands provinces.
Ratification in eleven of the states of the Constitution of the United States. Founding of Cincinnati. The members of the Society of Friends in Philadelphia emancipate their slaves.
Mental derangement of George III of England. A penal settlement formed by the English in Australia.
Louis XVI of France appoints Necker chief minister. New Assembly of Notables; the Third Estate admitted, numbering one-half.
War against Russia declared by Sweden.
1789. Washington elected President of the United States. The first Congress under the Constitution supersedes the Continental Congress. Inauguration of Washington at New York, April 30. See "Inauguration of Washington: His Farewell Address," xiv, 197.