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Destruction of the Houses of Parliament by fire, October 16. The Whig Ministry dismissed.-Sir Robert Peel Prime Minister, December 8. 1835 Party struggle in the House of Commons. - Opposition carry Mr. Abercrombie as Speaker and other points.

The Whig Ministry, under Lord Melbourne, restored, April 18. Fieschi's attempt to assassinate the King of the French, July 28. 1836 Russian and Austrian troops occupy Cracow, February 22. A. D. 1836 The Prince Louis Napoleon makes an abortive attempt at Strasburg to create a revolution, October 29. 1837 King WILLIAM IV. dies. -Accession of VICTORIA, June 20. -The Duke of Cumberland becomes by the same event King of Hanover. -- 1838 The steam-ship Great Western crosses the Atlantic, and arrives at New York, Insurrection in Canada.

April 23.

Coronation of Queen Victoria, June 28. 1839 Ministerial crisis-Sir Robert Peel tries to form an Administration; unsuccessful, May 3-10. The Sultan Mahmoud II. dies. -Accession of Abdul Medjid, June 30. Riots in Wales, November. 1840 The Queen married to His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Feb. IO.

Proclamation of British sovereignty over New Zealand, May 21. Treaty for adjusting the disputes between the Sultan and Mehemet Ali, July 15. Prince Louis Napoleon makes a descent on Boulogne, Aug. 6. Bombardment of Beyrout, Sept. 19. -Of Acre, Nov. 3. 1841 Chinese forts of the Bocca Tigris stormed, Jan. 7. Russell cabinet resigned.-Ministry formed by Sir Robert Peel, Aug. 28- Sept. I.

Sir Alex. M'Naghten, the British Envoy, assassinated at Cabul, Dec. 23. 1842 Retreat from Cabul followed by massacre in the Keiber Pass, Jan. 6. Defeat of the Afghans, April 5 and 7, Aug. 30, and Sept. 8. - Shanghai, in China, taken June 19. -Treaty of Peace with China, Aug. 20. 1843 Battle of Meanee in Scinde, Feb. 17.

Disruption of the established Church of Scotland by secession of the Veto or Nonintrusion Party, May 18. 1844 Trial of O'Connell and his colleagues begun January 15. Liberated, by reversal in the House of Lords, Sept. 6. Battle of Isly, in Algeria, Aug. 14. 1845 Annexation of Texas, March 1.

Convention, Britain and France, for suppression of the Slave Trade, May 29. 1846 The Sikhs defeated at Aliwal and Sobraon, Jan. 28. and Feb. 10. - -- The third reading of the bill repealing the Corn Laws carried in the Commons by a majority of ninety-eight, May 16.

Sir Robert Peel resigns.-Lord John Russell forms an Administration, June 27-July 4.

Annexation of Cracow, Nov. 6. 1847 Prussian Constitution declared, Jan. 23.

Formation of the United Presbyterian Church in Scotland, May 13. Potato disease. - Famine in Ireland. -Commercial crisis. A. D. 1848 Announcement by the French Government of intention to stop the Reform - Banquets, Feb. 9.

Proclamations against the Banquet, Feb. 21. Barricades raised 22 and 23. Conflict in the streets; success of the Revolutionists; flight of the King; establishment of a Provisional Government, 24; proclamation of a Republic, 25.

Riots in Glasgow, March 6 and 7.

Insurrection in Vienna, March 13.

Insurrection at Berlin, March 18.

Insurrection at Milan, March 18.

King of Bavaria abdicates, March 20.

Holstein declares independence, March 24.

The Vor Parliament at Frankfurt, March 30.

A great Chartist procession in London; and, on the suspicion that a revolutionary movement intended, precautions taken which defeated it without bloodshed, April 10. Sicily declares independence, May 13.

Emperor of Austria flees from Vienna, May 17.

Bombardment of Prague, June 18.

Battle of Paris, June 23-26.

A body of insurgents, under Smith O'Brien, suppressed by the police, July 29. Siege of Vienna, Oct. 28-31.

Flight of the Pope, Nov. 24.

Abdication of the Emperor of Austria, Dec. 5.

Louis Napoleon installed President of French Republic, Dec. 20. 1849 Battles of Chilliangwallah and Goojerat, and surrender of the Sikhs, Jan. 13, -- Feb. 21, March 1.

Russia aids Austria against Hungary.-Georgey surrenders. Capitulation of Comorn, Aug. 13, Sept. 27. 1850 Promulgation of a Constitution in Prussia, Feb. 6. -- Return of Pius IX. to Rome, April 12.

Battle of Isted gained by the Danes against Schleswig-Holstein, July 25. 1851 Conclusion of the Danish and Schleswig-Holstein war, Jan. 11. -- Exhibition of the industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace, London, opened May I.

Piratical attack on Cuba, Aug. 12.

Coup d'état by Louis Napoleon as President of the French Republic, December 1-3. His perpetual Presidency carried, in an appeal to universal suffrage, by a majority vote of more that 10 to 1, December 31. 1852 Formal restoration of despotic principles in Austria, January 1. Resignation of the Russell ministry-Formation of a cabinet under Lord Derby, February 21-24. 1 A. D. 1852 Capture of Rangoon, April 14.

Vote for Louis Napoleon as Emperor by a greater majority than that for his perpetual Presidency, December 1.

The Derby ministry defeated. A coalition ministry of the Whig party and the followers of Sir Robert Peel formed under Lord Aberdeen, December 17-28. 1853 Civil war in China. --- Claim by Russia on the government of Turkey.

Russian Ultimatum rejected at Constantinople, January 16. Russian troops cross the Pruth, July 2.

Battle of Oltenitza, November 4.

Massacre of Sinope, November 30. 1854 British and French fleets enter the Black Sea, January 3. British fleet left Spithead for the Baltic, March 11. -- - -- - Alliance between Britain, France and Turkey signed at Constantinople, March 12.

War declared by Britain and France against Russia, March 28. Bombardment of Odessa, April 22.

Siege of Silistria raised, June 15.

Insurrection at Madrid, July 17.

Capture of Bomarsund, August 16.

Landing of British and French allied army in the Crimea, September 14. Battle of Alma, September 20.

Battle of Balaclava, October 25.

Battle of Inkerman, November 5. 1855 Battle of Eupatoria, February 17. -- Death of the Emperor Nicholas of Russia, March 2.

Fall of Sebastopol, November 28. 1856 Treaty of Paris, March 30. 1857 Indian Mutiny begins, May 10.

Delhi taken, September 20. 1858 Lucknow taken by the English, March 19. 1859 War between France, Austria and Sardinia, April 29. -- Thanksgiving in England for the pacification of India, May 1. Victory of Solferino, May 24.

Battle of Magenta, June 4. 1860 Pekin stormed by the English and French armies, October 13. 1861 Victor Emmanuel proclaimed King of Italy, February 14. Fort Sumter attacked, April 12.

Death of Prince Albert, December 14. 1862 Battle of the ironclads Merrimac and Monitor, March 8. Lee's invasion of Maryland, September 5.

A. D. 1862 King Otho expelled from Greece, October 24. 1863 President Lincoln issues a proclamation declaring the slaves free, January 1. - Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3.

Capture of Vicksburg, July 3.

Death of Frederic VII. of Denmark, November 15. 1864 Treaty of Vienna signed, October 30. 1865 Fall of Richmond, March 29.

Peace signed, April 9.

Assassination of Lincoln, April 14.

Surrender of the Confederate armies, April 18. 1867 Execution of the Emperor Maximilian, June 19. 1869 Ecumenical Council at Rome, December 8. 1870 The Emperor Napoleon declares war against Prussia, July 19. Surrender of Sedan, September 2.

Paris invested, September 19.

Surrender of Metz, October 29. 1871 Bill for the disestablishment of the Irish Church comes into operation, January I. King William proclaimed Emperor of Germany, January 18. Surrender of Paris, January 29.

Commune declared, March 21.

Fall of the Commune, May 28. 1873 Death of the ex-Emperor Napoleon, January 9. 1875 Alphonso XII. proclaimed King of Spain, December 30. 1876 Suicide of the Sultan Abdul Aziz, June 4. 1877 General Diaz President of Mexico, May 4.

Death of M. Thiers, September 4. 1878 Death of Victor Emmanuel, January 9.

Death of Pope Pius IX., February 7.

Coronation of Pope Leo XIII., March 3.

Treaty of Berlin signed, July 13. 1879 Zulu War declared, January II. - Death of the Prince Imperial, June 1.