Part 102

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =United States= | =Great Britain= | =Spain and Portugal=| +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ | | |1787. Warren Hastings|1788. Charles IV., | | |1789. GEORGE |impeached. |King. | | |WASHINGTON, Presi- | | | | |dent. | | | | | | | | | |1793. Washington re- |1793. FIRST COALITION AGAINST FRANCE: | | |elected. Neutrality |DIRECTED BY ENGLAND, _which forms alliances| | |in regard to France. |with Russia, Sardinia, Spain, Naples, Prus-| | | |sia, Austria, Portugal and Tuscany; all | | |_HAMILTON_ 1757- |Europe except Sweden, Denmark and Turkey._ | | |1804. | | | | | | |1796. Alliance with | | |1797. John Adams, |1797. NELSON destroys|France; war against | | |second president. |French fleet near |England. | | | |Alexandria. | | | | | | | | | |1798. SECOND COALITION AGAINST FRANCE: | | | |_Alliances of England with Russia, Naples, | | | |Sicily, Turkey and Austria--Prussia, Hol- | | | |land and Belgium, neutral._ | | | | | | | =1800=| |1800. Union of En- | | | |1801. THOMAS |gland. | | | |JEFFERSON, third | | | | |president. |_SIR WALTER SCOTT_ | | | | |(1771-1832). | | | | | | | | |1803. Purchase of |1803. Successful war |1803. Purchases neu- | | |Louisiana. |in India. |trality with the | | | | |French by a subsidia-| | |_JOHN MARSHALL_ 1755-| |ry treaty; declares | | |1835. | |war against England, | | | | |1804. | | | | | | | | |1805. THIRD COALITION AGAINST FRANCE: | | | |_formed by England; alliances with Sweden, | | | |Russia and Austria--Prussia unfortunately | | | |neutral._ | | | | | | | | |1805. Napoleon de- |1805. =Battle of | | | |feated at Trafalgar. |Trafalgar.= | | | | | | | | |_WORDSWORTH_ (1770- | | | | |1850). | | | | | | | | |1806. British Orders |1806. FOURTH COALITION AGAINST FRANCE: | | |in Council and Napo- |_England, Russia, Prussia, Saxony and | | |leon’s decrees seri- |Sweden._ | | |ously impair American| | | | |commerce. |1807. Bill for the |1807. Invasion of | | | |abolition of the |Portugal. | | | |slave trade, passed. | | | | | |1808. Madrid taken by| | | | |the French. Joseph | | | | |Bonaparte, King. | | | | | | | |1809. James Madison, |1809. FIFTH COALITION AGAINST FRANCE: _En- | | |fourth president. |gland, Austria, Spain and Portugal._ | | | | | | | |1812-1814. WAR OF 1812, between United |1812. Battle of | | |States and Great Britain. |Salamanca. | | | | | | | |1813. Perry’s victory|1813. SIXTH GREAT COALITION AGAINST FRANCE | | |on Lake Erie. |AND GENERAL INSURRECTION OF THE NATIONS OF | | | |EUROPE AGAINST FRENCH DOMINION: _England, | | | |Russia, Prussia, Sweden and Austria after | | | |the Congress of Prague, with 800,000 men; | | | |against France, Italy, the Confederation of| | | |the Rhine and Denmark, with about 400,000 | | | |men._ | | | | | | | |1814. City of | |1814. Ferdinand VII.,| | |Washington burned by | |restored. | | |the British. | | | | | | | | | |1815. British de- |1815. WELLINGTON vic-|1815. Union of Portu-| | |feated at New |torious at Waterloo. |gal and Brazil under | | |Orleans. |The Allies enter |John VI. | | | |Paris, and Napoleon | | | | |is banished to St. | | | | |Helena. | | | | | | | | |1816. U. S. Bank in- |1816. Bombardment of | | | |corporated. |Algiers. The Bey com-| | | | |pelled to abolish | | | |1817. JAMES MONROE, |slavery. |1817. Slave trade | | |President. | |abolished. | | | | | | | |First passage of the Atlantic by steam ef- | | | |fected by the Savannah, of New York, to | | | |Liverpool. | | | | | | | | |1819. Florida | |1819. Ferdinand of | | |purchase. |1820-1830. GEORGE IV.|Spain sells Florida | | | | |to the United States.| | | | | | | |1821. Monroe re- |1821-1829. WAR OF GRECIAN INDEPENDENCE. | | |elected. Missouri |GREEKS, AIDED BY ENGLAND, RUSSIA, AND | | |Compromise bill |FRANCE VS. TURKS. 1821-1829. | | |passed. | | | | | |1823. The CANNING | | | |1824. Visit of |ministry. | | | |Lafayette. | | | | | |_GEORGE STEPHENSON_ | | | =1825=|1825. Erie Canal |(1781-1848). | | | |opened. Protective | | | | |tariff enacted. J. Q.|1828. Wellington | | | |Adams, President. |ministry. Irish | | | | |disturbances. | | | |_DANIEL WEBSTER_ | | | | |1782-1852. | | | | | | | | | |1829. ANDREW JACKSON,| | | | |President. |1830. William IV., |1830. Salic law | | | |King. Difficulties |abolished. | | | |with China. | | | |1831. Northeastern | | | | |boundary between the |1832. =Reform Bill= | | | |United States and |passed. | | | |British provinces | | | | |established. | | | | | | | | | |1833. President | |1833. Isabella II., | | |Jackson re-elected. | |Queen of Spain. | | |Bank deposits removed| |Portugal a constitu- | | |from the U. S. Bank. | |tional monarchy. | | | | | | | | | |1836. Spain: The | | | | |queen regent adopts | | | | |the constitution of | | | | |1812. | | | | | | | |1837. Independence of|1837. VICTORIA, |1837. The monasteries| | |Texas acknowledged. |Queen. |in Spain dissolved. | | |Martin Van Buren, | | | | |President. |1840. War with China | | | | |over the opium trade.| | | |_EMERSON_ 1803-1882. |War in Syria; Great | | | | |Britain an ally of | | | | |Austria and Turkey. | | | | | | | | |1841. W. H. Harrison,|1841. Chinese war | | | |President. Death of |ended. |1842. Insurrection in| | |Harrison and succes- | |Barcelona. | | |sion of John Tyler. |_THOMAS CARLYLE_ | | | | |1795-1884. | | | |_MORSE_ 1791-1872. | | | | | |1844. Daniel | | | |1845. Texas annexed |O’Connell’s trial. | | | |to the U. S. Treaty |Sentence reversed by | | | |with China. James K. |the House of Lords. | | | |Polk, President. | | | | | | | | | |1846-1848. WAR WITH |1846. Repeal of the |1846. Civil war in | | |MEXICO. The Oregon |English corn-laws. |Portugal. | | |treaty with Great | | | | |Britain settling the |1847. Severe famine | | | |northwestern boundary|in Ireland. | | | |of the United States.| | | | | | | | | |1848. Treaty of |1848. Civil war in | | | |Guadalupe Hidalgo, |Ireland. Habeas | | | |ends Mexican War. |Corpus Act suspended.| | | |Gold discovered in | | | | |California. | | | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+