CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
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Some events in History of United Some events in English and States. General History.
1759. Capture of Quebec. 1759. Capture of Quebec.
1757-60. Ministry of Chatham (William Pitt).
1760. Contrat Social published.
1764-76. Great inventions in spinning industries.
1765. Stamp Act passed. 1765. Watt's steam engine.
1776. Declaration of 1776. Publication of "Wealth of Independence Nations."
1778. Death of Chatham.
1782. Rodney's victory.
1783. American Independence recognised.
1787. Constitution framed. North West Territory ceded by States to Congress and slavery excluded from it.
1789. Constitution comes into 1789. Meeting of States General. force.
1793. Eli Whitney invents cotton 1793. England at war with French gin. Republic.
1794. Slave Trade abolished by French Convention.
1799. Death of Washington.
1802. Peace of Amiens.
1803. Louisiana purchase. 1803. England at war with Napoleon.
1804. Death of Hamilton.
1805. Trafalgar.
1806. The American Fulton's steam-boat on Seine.
1807. Fulton's steam-boat on 1807. Slave Trade abolished by Hudson. Great Britain.
1808. Slave Trade abolished by 1808. Battle of Vimiera. U. S. A. Convention of Cintra.
Wordsworth's literary activity about at its culmination.
1809. Abraham Lincoln born. 1809. Darwin, Tennyson, and Gladstone born.
1812-1814. War with Great Britain.
1815. Waterloo.
1820. Missouri Compromise.
1823. Monroe doctrine declared.
1825. First railway opened in England.
1826. Death of Jefferson. 1826. Independence of Mexico and Spanish Colonies in South America recognised by Canning.
1827. Navarino.
1828. Commencement of "nullification" movement. Election of Jackson.
1829. Catholic emancipation.
1830. Hayne-Webster debate.
1831. Garrison publishes first 1831. Mazzini founds Young number of Liberator. Italy. Lincoln starts life in New Salem. First railway opened in America.
1832. First Reform Bill.
1833. Slavery abolished in British Colonies.
1834. Lincoln elected to Illinois legislature
1836-40. Great Boer Trek.
1837. End of Jackson's second 1837. Queen Victoria's accession. presidency. First steam-boat from England to America.
1838. First telegraph line in England.
1839. Lord Durham's report on Canada.
1841. First telegraph in America.
1842. Lincoln leaves Illinois legislature, and (Nov.) is married.
1844. "Martin Chuzzlewit" published.
1845. Annexation of Texas.
1846. Boundary of Oregon and 1846. Boundary of Oregon and British Columbia settled British Columbia settled with Great Britain. with U. S. A.
1846-7. Mexican War. 1846-7. Irish famine.
1847-8. Lincoln in Congress.
1848. Gold discovery in 1848. Revolution in France and California. in many parts of Europe.
1850. Clay's compromise adopted. 1850. Constitution Act for Death of Calham. Australian colonies.
1852. Deaths of Clay and Webster. 1852. Constitution Act for New Zealand.
1854. Missouri Compromise 1854-5. Gold rush to Australia. repealed. Republican Party formed. Crimean War.
1854-6. Abolition of slavery in various Portuguese Dominions.
1856. Defeat of Fremont by Buchanan.
1857. Dred Scott case. 1857-8. Indian Mutiny.
1858. Kansas. Lincoln-Douglas debate.
1859. John Brown's raid. 1859. Publication of "Origin of Species."
1859-60. Kingdom of Italy formed.
1860. Nov. Lincoln elected 1860. Slavery abolished in Dutch President. East Indies.
Dec. Secession carried in South Carolina.
1861. Feb. 4. Southern 1861. Emancipation of Russian Confederacy formed. serfs.
Mar. 4. Lincoln inaugurated.
Ap. 12-14. Bombardment of Fort Sumter.
Ap. War begins. Further secessions.
July. First Battle of Bull Run.
Dec. Claim of Great Britain as to Trent accepted.
1862. Ap.-Aug. McClellan in 1862. Alabama escapes from the Peninsula. Mersey (July).
Ap. Shiloh.
May. Jackson in Shenandoah Valley.
Aug.-Oct. Confederates in Kentucky.
Aug. Second Battle of Bull Run.
Sept. Antietam. Proclamation of emancipation.
Nov. McClellan removed.
Dec. Fredericksburg. Murfreesborough.
1863. Mar. 1. Conscription Act. 1863. Revolution in Poland. Maximilian proclaimed Emperor of Mexico.
May. Chancellorsville. Jackson killed.
July. Gettysburg, Vicksburg. New York riots.
Sept. Chickamauga.
Nov. Gettysburg speech. Chattanooga.
1864. May. Beginning of Grant's 1864. Prussia and Austria invade and Sherman's great Denmark. campaigns.
1864. June. Cold Harbour. Baltimore Convention.
July. Early's raid reaches Washington.
Aug. Mobile. Chicago Convention.
Sept. Sherman at Atlanta. Sheridan in Shenandoah Valley.
Nov. Lincoln re-elected President.
Dec. Nashville. Sherman at Savannah.
1865. Jan. Congress passes 13th Amendment.
Feb. Further progress of Sherman and Sheridan.
Mar. 4. Second inauguration of Lincoln.
Ap. 2-9. Richmond falls, and Lee surrenders.
Ap. 14-15. Lincoln assassinated and dies.
Dec. 13. Amendment ratified.
1866. Atlantic cable 1866. Atlantic cable successfully successfully laid. laid.
War between Austria and Prussia.
1867. British North America Act. Slave children emancipated in Brazil. Fall and execution of Maximilian in Mexico.
1868. Rise of acute disorder in 1868. Mikado resumes "reconstructed" South. government in Japan.
1870. Amendment securing negro 1870. Papal infallibility. suffrage. Franco-German War.
1872. Alabama arbitration with 1872. Alabama arbitration with Great Britain. U. S. A. Responsible Government in Cape Colony.
1876. Admitted failure of Reconstruction. Election of Hayes.
1877. Federal troops withdrawn from South.
1878. Slavery abolished in Cuba (last of Spanish Colonies).