Part 105

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =United States= | =Spain and Portugal=| =Great Britain= | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ | |1849. Zachary Taylor,| |1849. Mooltan in | | |President. Railroad | |India taken. | | |from Boston to New | | | | |York. | | | | | | | | | =1850=|1850. Attempted inva-| |1850. The war in | | |sion of Cuba by fili-| |Lahore ended. The | | |busters. Death of | |Punjab annexed to the| | |President Taylor; | |British Crown. | | |Millard Fillmore, | | | | |President. Texas | |1850-1853. Kafir War | | |boundary settled. | |in South Africa. | | |Fugitive Slave Law | | | | |passed. | | | | | | | | | |1851. Erie railway |1851. Death of Dodoy,|1851. Continuance of | | |opened. Charleston |“Prince of Peace.” |the Kafir war. | | |Convention. Kossuth | |Kossuth visits En- | | |arrives in New York. | |gland. | | | | | | | |1853. Franklin | |1853. Queen Victoria | | |Pierce, President. | |visits Ireland. Kafir| | |Gadsden Purchase. | |war ended. | | | | | | | |1854. Treaty with |1854. Military insur-|1854-1856. CRIMEAN | | |Japan. Kansas- |rection under |WAR. Treaty of | | |Nebraska Bill passed.|O’Donnell. |alliance with France.| | |Ostend Manifesto | | | | |issued. | | | | | | | | | |1855. Panama Railroad| |1855. British fleet | | |completed. Troubles | |bombards and partial-| | |in Kansas. | |ly destroys Canton, | | | | |China. | | | | | | | | | |_ROBERT BROWNING_ | | | | |(1812-1889). | | | | | | | |1857. Dred Scott de- | |1857-1858. SEPOY | | |cision. James | |MUTINY. Sepoys vs. | | |Buchanan, President. | |English. | | |Great financial | | | | |panic. | |1858. Completion of | | | | |the Atlantic tele- | | |1859. John Brown |1859. War with |graph cable. | | |captures Harpers |Morocco. | | | |Ferry. | | | | | | | | | |1860. South Carolina |1860. Defeat of the |1860. Rebellion in | | |passes ordinance of |Moors. |India subdued. Neu- | | |secession. | |trality proclaimed | | | | |during the American | | | | |Civil War. | | | | | | | |1861-1865. AMERICAN |1861. Annexation of |_TENNYSON_ (1809- | | |CIVIL WAR. Federal |Santo Domingo. Inter-|1892). | | |Government of United |vention in Mexico. | | | |States vs. Southern | |_DARWIN_ 1809-1882. | | |Confederacy. ABRAHAM | | | | |LINCOLN, President. | | | | | | | | | |1863. =Battle of | | | | |Gettysburg.= |1864. Rupture with | | | | |Peru. | | | | | | | | |1865. Assassination |1865. Dispute with |1865. Fenian out- | | |of President Lincoln;|Chile. |breaks in Ireland. | | |Andrew Johnson, | |British and French | | |President. | |governments rescind | | | | |their recognition of | | |1866. Civil Rights |1866. Military insur-|the Confederate | | |Bill passed. Atlantic|rection headed by |States of America. | | |telegraph completed. |General Prim. | | | | | | | | |1867. General |1867. Death of | | | |amnesty proclamation.|Marshal O’Donnell. | | | |Purchase of Alaska. | | | | | | | | | |1868. Burlingame |1868. Queen deposed. |1868. GLADSTONE, | | |treaty with China. | |Premier | | | | | | | |1869. U. S. GRANT, | | | | |President. Union |1870. Isabella II. |1870. Irish Land Act | | |Pacific railway |abdicates; Amadeus, |passed. | | |opened for traffic. |King. | | | | | |_HERBERT SPENCER_ | | | |1871. Sagasta, Prime |(1820-1903). | | | |Minister. | | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=A. D.=| =France= | =Italy and Church= | =Holland, Belgium, | | | | | Switzerland, | | | | | Scandinavia= | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ | |1848-1852. =Second | | | | |Republic.= |1849. Catania, | | | | |Syracuse, and Palermo| | | =1850=|1850. Jerome |taken by assault. |1850. Denmark: Bloody| | |Bonaparte, Field- |MAZZINI’S proclama- |battle of Idstedt, | | |Marshal. |tion of provisional |between the Danes and| | | |government. VICTOR |Schleswig- | | | |EMANUEL, King. Rome |Holsteiners. | | | |surrenders to the | | | | |French; Garibaldi | | | | |leaves city. Bourbon | | | | |rule begins. | | | | | | | | |1852-1870. =Second |1852. CAVOUR becomes | | | |Empire.= |Prime Minister in |1853. Denmark: | | | |Piedmont. |Parliament prorogued | | |1852. NAPOLEON III. | |and a “fundamental” | | |declared Emperor. | |law issued. | | | | | | | | | |1853. Belgium: Mar- | | |1854. War declared | |riage of the Duke of | | |against Russia. |1855. Important con- |Brabant, heir- | | | |cordant between Italy|apparent of the | | |1856. Peace with |and Austria. |throne, and the Arch-| | |Russia. | |duchess Maria. | | | | | | | | | |Holland: The first | | | | |chamber adopts the | | | | |much-disputed law on | | | | |religious liberty. | | | | | | | |1859. THE WAR OF | |1859. Sweden: Oscar | | |ITALIAN LIBERATION. | |I., died July 8; suc-| | |Sardinia-Piedmont and| |ceeded by his son | | |France vs. Austria. | |Charles XV. | | | | | | | |1860. Commercial |1860. GARIBALDI lands| | | |treaty with England. |in Sicily, and as- | | | | |sumes dictatorship. | | | | | | | | | |1861. Victor Emanuel | | | | |II., King of | | | | |Sardinia, first King | | | | |of Italy. | | | | | | | | |1862. Great distress |1862. Garibaldi es- | | | |caused by American |tablishes a provisio-| | | |Civil War. |nal government. | | | | | | | | |1863. The French | |1863. Denmark: | | |occupy Mexico. | |Christian IX. suc- | | | | |ceeds Frederick VII. | | | | | | | |1864. Maximilian ac- |1864. Florence made |1864. Peace between | | |cepts Mexican crown. |capital of Italy. |Denmark and the | | | | |allies, to whom | | | | |Schleswig-Holstein | | | | |and Lauenburg are | | | | |surrendered. | | | | | | | | |1865. Ionian Isles |1865. Leopold II. | | | |made over to Greece. |succeeds his father, | | | | |Leopold I. in | | | |1866. Austrian War. |Belgium. | | | |Venetia proclaimed a | | | | |part of Italy. | | | | | | | | |1867. Great exposi- |1867. Garibaldi and | | | |tion in Paris. |the Papal States. | | | | | | | | |_PASTEUR_ 1822-1895. |1869. Vatican Council| | | | |opened at Rome. | | | | | | | | |1870. =Third |1870. Rome is annexed| | | |Republic.= |to Italy and declared| | | | |the capital. | | | |1870-1871. FRANCO- | | | | |PRUSSIAN WAR. France | | | | |vs. Prussia supported| | | | |by all German States | | | | |including South. | | | | |=Battle of Sedan.= | |_HENRIK IBSEN_ 1828- | | |Surrender of Metz. | |1908. | | | | | | | |1871. Capitulation of| | | | |Paris. Peace rati- | | | | |fied. | | | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+