Part 105

New Hampshire adopted constitution, 243; convention, 22; first assembly, 105; first bank, 228; for independence, 234; Indians, 315; provincial convention, 17; volunteers, 76.

New Haswell explosion, 198.

New Haven centennial, 166; purchased, 447.

New Hebrides discovered, 176.

New Jersey conveyed, 245; divided, 256; ferry boat burnt, 104; for sale, 153; one government, 151; ratified const., 476.

New London burnt, 351.

New Netherland charter, 9, 221; so called, 396; subjected, 383.

New Orleans burnt, 112; crevasse, 189; opera house, 86; riot, 331; proclaimed independence, 325; thanksgiving, 38.

Newport, Florida, 361; riot, 423.

News, false restrained, 230.

Newspaper, first in Boston, 133; first in Brooklyn, 249; first English, 208; 1st in Hudson, 139; first in New York, 401; first steam press, 454; oldest, 288; in Philadelphia, 482; in polar sea, 420; prohibited, 278; Roman, 292; stamps, first, 317.

New style in England, 10, 347; in France, 394; in Germany, 480; in Spain, 387.

New Testament ruinous, 409; in silk, 480.

New Zealand discovered, 234, 470.

New York adopted const., 57, 293; assembly votes, 146; banks resumed, 194; boundary, 82; canal law, 152; charter, 223; cholera, 425; code, 147; colonial legislature, last, 132; and Connecticut boundary, 191, 446; constitution revised, 215; const. adopted, 158; counties, 419; custom house closed, 162; Dutch Ref. church, 188; earthquake, 40; election, 171; exchanged, 286; first assembly, 402; first printing, 333; first theatre, 365; fort, conflagration, 108; grant, 100; harbor discovered, 355; Hist. society, 467; incorporated, 49, 230; independent state, 270; and Mass. boundary, 197; new charter, 27; officers corrupt, 393; omnibus horses burnt, 206; printing introduced, 117; prisoners, 479; Provincial congress, 201; public entry, 448; registry, 469; rescue of Kaine, 294; riot, 148, 209, 236; settled, 226; state roads, 382; surrendered, 353; university, 280.

Niagara bridge, accident, 83; co. erected, 99; falls rock fell, 356; fort built, 293; suspension bridge, 297; suspension bridge passed, 103.

Nicaragua manifesto, 215; president, 418; route opened, 318.

Nice, council, 226, 239, 274.

Niemen, royal conference on, 248, 249.

Niger discoveries, 357, 455; expedition, 202.

Nile discovered, 168; fleet, fate of, 125; inundation, 450; sources discovered, 435.

Nismes, massacre at, 307.

Nisqueunia, 352.

Nollet, J. A., 165.

Non-conformists, act against, 417.

Non-importation mob, 79.

Non-intercourse act, 240; with Great Britain, 313.

Non nobis domini, 424.

Nooaheevah, 441.

Nootka sound discovered, 27.

Notables, assembly of, 41, 80.

Notre dame bells baptized, 436; bridge fell, 411.

Nottingham riots, 437.

North Briton, 33; republished, 67; denounced, 436.

North Carolina const. adopted, 476; adopted constitution, 442.

North Georgian Gazette, 420.

Northern Indiana steam boat burnt, 282.

Northern passage attempted, 196, 219; sea discovered, 324.

North Penn. R. R. collision, 282.

North star at Spithead, 379.

North west passage, 178, 402; attempted by Frobisher, 228; discovered, 413; expedition, 126; territory, code, 69.

Norwalk rail road accident, 182.

Norway and Sweden united, 321, 404.

Norwegian R. R., first, 261.

Norwich Dutch church, 482.

Norwood tunnel, 184.

Nuns absolved, 33.

Nuremburg R. R., 464.

Nova Scotia, first bishop, 316; patent, 356.

Obesity, 48, 488.

Observer appeared, 89.

Ocean Monarch burnt, 335; schooner sunk, 84; steamer burnt, 448.

Oceans, view of, 63.

Odd Fellows, first lodge, 218.

Odessa, vessels ordered out of port, 140.

Œcumenical council, 243, 274, 391.

Ohio admitted, 453; first tree felled, 248; freshets, 81; state house burnt, 49.

Oneidas ceded lands, 372.

Oneida county erected, 104.

Onondaga county erected, 94; salt springs discovered, 323.

Ontario, water fallen, 225, 330.

Opium surrendered up, 121; to be delivered up, 108.

Orange men, 370.

Oratorians founder of, 206.

Orders in France united, 250.

Oregon convention, 341.

Oriental MSS. of Halstead, 127.

Orejas possessed by Columbus, 324.

Orlando Innamorato, 76.

Orleans county, N. Y., 433.

Orrery, first in America, 19.

Orthodoxy in England, 172.

Orthography reformed, 392.

Ostend powder explosion, 382.

Oswego released, 362.

Otsego county erected, 70.

Ottoman history, 310.

Ovid's elegies burnt, 214; printed by Caxton, 159.

Owego burnt, 378.

Ox roasted on ice, 80.

Oxford, commerce prohibited, 28; great fire at, 165; theatre, 268.

Pacific, Magalhaens entered, 450; seen by Balboa, 375; discovered, 32; Drake entered, 350.

Palatines arrived, 232; 2d immigration, 231; 3d immigration, 413; in New York, 226.

Palermo monks, 82; conspiracy, 412; earthquake, 330.

Palestine, mission to, 147.

Palimpsest discoveries, 356.

Pallas discovered, 122; ship lost, 212.

Palma, volcano at, 150, 443.

Palmyra island discovered, 430.

Pampero steamer sailed, 305; seized, 357.

Panacea of potable gold, 206.

Panama constitution, 239; legislature met, 279; rail road, 44; accident, 182; affray, 152; stock, 249.

Pancreatic duct, 333.

Pandects of Tribonian, 472.

Pania destroyed by wind, 232.

Pantheon reopened at Paris, 14.

Papal administration, 305; government subverted, 50.

Paper manufactory, 180; money issue, 192; money first in N. Y., 223.

Parachute, descent in, 348.

Paradise Lost sold, 168, 479.

Paraguay ascended by Water Witch, 49.

Pardo, convention, 25, 26.

Pardon, general of James II, 98; of king offered to Boston, 230.

Parhelion, 54, 243.

Parian marbles, 361.

Paris, civil war, 244; congress, 85; counter revolution, 193; deaths, 342; excitement, 229; gold and silver, 431; grand fete, 35; ice broke up, 154; industrial exhibition, 193; insurrection, 68; massacre, 229; mob at Tuilleries, 213; municipality guillotined, 297; police reorganized, 377; post office, 292; prisons forced, 346; prisoners, 176; review of troops, 147; revolution, 83; revolution, 428; revolution, 427; riots, 221; scarcity of provisions, 91; treaty, 62; university censures, 150; workmen disbanded, 244.

Park theatre burnt, 474.

Parker's island fortified, 315.

Parkville printing office destroyed, 150.

Parliament armed, 106; bribes, 225; committees, 54; Cromwell's, 341; dissolved, Cromwell's, 201; disturbed by a quaker, 489; first English, 36; English, 148; houses destroyed, 403; long, 422; members kept out, met at Oxford, 300; pensioned, 203; prorogued, 171; reformed, 489; refusal to call, 107; reports prohibited, 85.

Parthenon destroyed, 379.

Pass Christian, gale, 368.

Passover in new temple, 155.

Pasto destroyed, 37.

Patagonia, voyage to, 191.

Patriots of Canada surrendered, 89.

Patroon's charters, 221.

Paul and Virginia, 35.

Paupers educated, 134.

Pavement sank in London, 105.

Paxton boys massacre Indians, 485.

Peace address of Eng. merchants, 122; announced in England, 170; congress at Paris, 332; England and France, 422; of religion, 302, 375.

Peacemaker exploded, 88.

Peale's museum, 36.

Pedestrian feat, 127, 139, 427.

Peep of day boys, 370.

Pegu annexed, 479.

Pelew island hospitality, 314.

Peloponnesian war, 182.

Pemaquid, 88.

Penguin island sank, 13.

Penn's elm blown down, 92.

Pennsylvania banks vetoed, 110; canal, 10; charter, 92, 414; code by Penn, 180; 3d const., 426; first assembly, 100; first council, 98; hist. society, 51; hospital, 49; new charter, 130; ratified constitution, 469; resolves, 38; settlers, 467.

Penny Magazine, 130.

Penny postage in England, 23.

Penobscot bay, 272.

Pentateuch, Tindal's, 281.

Pequot Indians, 174.

Pera suburb burnt, 37.

Pere la Chaise, first burial, 200.

Pernambuco, 95.

Persia steamer launched, 260.

Persian calendar reformed, 103; empire extinct, 285; era, 234; newspaper, first, 124.

Perth assembly aggrieved, 220; fantastics, 467; the pretender at, 348.

Peru delivered, 466; earthquake, 59; founded, 348.

Peruke makers, 60.

Peruvian bark, 329.

Petersham manifesto, 14.

Peter's pence, 25, 300.

Pestilence, 326; Eng. and France, 279.

Philadelphia, army passed, 334; atmospheric phenomena, 30; bank opened, 236; chartered, 411; cholera, 425; cold, 44; earthquake, 58; enlistment arrests, 122; first bank, 19; first capital conviction, 38; first congress, 349; ice, 80; mild winter, 34; mortality in, 11; prisoners, 479; riots, 182, 266, 394; theatre, first, 151; theatres burnt, 263; tornado, 149; Washington entered, 359; yellow fever at, 310.

Philippics of Cicero, 345.

Phillipines discovered, 101.

Philippine islands, 138.

Piedmont annexed to Sardinia, 463.

Piedmontese laws annulled, 294.

Pike packet sunk, 188.

Pilgrim constitution, 431.

Pilgrims descried Cape Cod, 428.

Pilgrimage, 149.

Pill-taker, extraordinary, 195.

Pitcairn's island, 38, 385.

Pittsburg, cholera, 425; first stage, 261; Gazette, 296; origin of name, 448.

Pittsfield, frost at, 280.

Pisa council, 117.

Placentia conspiracy, 356.

Plague at Constantinople, 489; at Edinburgh, 35; at London, 166, 302; at Shrewsbury, 152; fast for cessation of, 342.

Planet discovered, 136, 147, 155, 181, 288, 373, 427.

Planets, conjunction, 364; canon of motion, 192.

Plantagenet, last of, 207, 486.

Plattsburgh, first court, 415.

Play bill, first, 140.

Playing cards, regulation, 396.

Playhouses regulated, 66.

Plot against Charles, 417; to dismember Union, 97.

Plymouth army, 320; charter, 431; colony, 21; colonists, 72; colonists, Indian visit to, 104; colonists landed, 433; first house, 483; first marriage, 188; first sabbath, 496; Indian submission, 360; landing, 480; pilgrims sailed, 344; settlers, 467, 481; ship captured, 482; visited by Massasoit, 113.

Poetic festival, 177.

Point de Chambault, crossing, 183.

Point Petre earthquake, 60.

Poisoning made treason, 70.

Poland blotted out, 437; partition, 72; revenue sequestered, 281.

Pole, attempt to reach, 193.

Poles, massacre, 423.

Polish adherents of Demetrius, 207; constitution annulled, 297; families transported, 444; insurrection, 116; king died, 48; partition ratified, 367; revolt, 454; revolution, 328; throne vacant, 278; traitors executed, 251.

Poll tax in England, 64.

Polyglot, 113, 427.

Pompeii buried, 419.

Pompey's theatre burnt, 159.

Poonah earthquake, 235.

Poor relief by parliament, 458.

Poor Robin discontinued, 41.

Popayan destroyed, 37.

Pope allowed to exercise pontificate, 40; burnt in effigy at Paris, 179; divided the world between the Spanish and Portuguese, 177; withdrew from Rome, 81.

Pope's authority abol. in England, 114; jurisdiction disputed, 250; sovereignty annulled, 195.

Porcelain introd. Dresden, 142.

Porciano lake, 290.

Port Folio, 20.

Pneumatic chemistry, origin, 301.

Port-au-Prince destroyed, 217.

Port Gibson burnt, 215.

Port Jackson settled, 58; colonized, 34.

Portland riot, 216; island sunk, 478.

Port Leon destroyed, 361.

Port Mahon disturbance, 84.

Port Royal, earthquake, 222, 298; hurricane, 339; land sunk, 153.

Porto Bello discovered, 420; water spout, 470.

Portsmouth, first bank, 228; fleet at, 393; tornado, 384.

Portugal abolished slave trade, 467; became monarchy, 294; execution in, 25; imports grain, 270; independent kingdom, 456.

Portuguese court emigrated, 453; royal family, 96; royal family emigrated to Brazil, 451.

Posen added to Germany, 189.

Post office established, 293.

Postal convention signed, 473.

Potatoe introduced, 21.

Potomac settled, 91.

Potosi mines opened, 160.

Poughkeepsie convention, 236.

Pound notes issued, 93.

Powder, explosion at Salonica, 282; scarcity of, 319.

Power loom, first in Phila., 147.

Powhatan wrecked, 154.

Praia, earthquake at, 234.

Precocity, 250.

Prelates shut up, 465.

Prepossession, case of, 430.

Presbyterian Chinese church, 426; church, first, 442; insurrection, 75.

Press, freedom in Mexico, 315; liberty restricted, 13; suppressed in Baden, 280; suspended, 292; in Paris suppressed, 117.

Pressing for seamen, 109.

Pretender defeated, 434; trial scaffolding, 360.

Pretender's rebels, 298; fleet dispersed, 118.

Priest attacked queen of Spain, 51.

Prima Vista, 246.

Prince regent of Great Britain, 58.

Prince William wrecked, 449.

Princess royal of France, 477.

Princeton college riot, 33; congress at, 407.

Printed book, first, 320; first in England, 126.

Printers address queen Caroline, 396; in London, 189; responsible, 154.

Printing, anniversary of, 269; 400th anniversary, 247; in New York, 68; legalized in New York, 117; office destroyed, 293; stopped in Virginia, 78.

Prisoners, American, 23; turned out, 396.

Prison ship victims inhumed, 209; relics, 138.

Privileged class abolished, 306.

Profaneness, edict against, 35.

Prometheus steamer, 318.

Protestant alliance, 380; army, 277; association meeting, 210; books, edict against, 123; league, 480; petition against popery, 216; religion re-established, 172; term abolished, 254.

Protestants, Irish massacred, 409; league against, 293; massacred, 285; massacred at Nismes, 307; persecuted in France, 291; so called, 156; under ban, 285.

Protestantism established, 33; in Scotland, 300.

Providence bank, 396; government formed, 265; Indian deed of, 116; propose congress, 195; theatre burnt, 411.

Prussia, first king, 31; levy upon, 429; new constitution, 463; renounced Great Britain, 69.

Prussian assembly prorogued, 429; king elected emperor of Germany, 122.

Psalter, first printed book, 320.

Puerto Santo bridge fell, 84.

Pulque, consumption of, 80.

Punjaub annexed, 124.

Purbeck, wreck on, 18.

Puritan emigration forbidden, 172; and Episcopal conference, 26.

Puritans arrived, 264; era of, 27.

Putnam county erected, 231.

Pythian games, 284.

Quakers, act against, 399; affirmation, 35; affirmations altered, 470; first yearly meeting, 251; founder of, 25; non-resistant, 250.

Quarter denied French, 52; refused to British troops, 206.

Quebec, cholera at, 224; cliff fell, 196; darkness at, 364; founded, 259; immigrants, 266; parliament house burnt, 49; riots, 221; theatre burnt, 233.

Queen Anne's wars, 129.

Queen Charlotte ship exploded, 107.

Queen of Spain attacked, 51.

Queen's garden islands discovered, 192.

Quiberon bay wreck, 25.

Quicksilver congelation, 471.

Quinnipiack, 125, 447.

Quirinus, temple to, 59.

Quito, earthquake, 53.

Quo warranto issued, 426.

Rail road accident, 100; blocked with snow, 47; collision, 261; first American, 318; mob, 466; Eng. opened, 293; speed, 332.

Rainbow, lunar, 357.

Rain storm in London, 97.

Rambler appeared, 110; contributor to, 21.

Rapid, ships lost, 20.

Ratcliffe library founded, 190.

Ratisbone diet, 295.

Reading, abbots' coiners, 437; receipt to sacrist, 122.

Rebellion, cause of, 42.

Red Sea forded by French, 480.

Reformation anniversary, 263; began, 417.

Regent, British, appointed, 55.

Regents in Europe, 29; university established, 148.

Regicides, 340; arrested, 153; pardon offered, 221.

Regrading, conviction for, 261.

Reindeer steam boat, 103, 349.

Reindeer struck, 289.

Religious equality, 154; Herald, 365; liberty, 354; orders absolved, 452; orders abolished, 32.

Rensselaer county erected, 58.

Rensselaerwyck confirmed, 374; outrages, 335.

Reporters excluded, 28.

Reprieve, 12.

Resolution returned, 387.

Resurrection of the Saviour, 135.

Revolt, Pennsylvania line, 10.

Revolution, American, ceased, 53; in England, 459; in France, 388.

Revolutionary army, force of, 311; manifesto, 264; soldiers furloughed, 216; tribunal, 230.

Rhine confederation, 269; inundation, 42, 368.

Rhode Island adopted constitution, 210.

Rhone inundation, 368.

Richard Crook-back, 244.

Richmond, annular eclipse, 366; theatre burnt, 485; theatre funeral, 487.

Rio de la Plata independent, 269.

Rio de Janeiro riot, 418.

Rio Janeiro river, 9; de Solis, 9.

Riot at Dublin, 89; London, 138; against physicians, 148; about food, 148.

River broke forth, 329.

Roanoke colony planted, 335; first child born, 326.

Roanoke colony, 324, 338.

Robbers hung at Paris, 409.

Robinson Crusoe, 164.

Rochester cathedral burnt, 216.

Rochester, first daily paper, 411.

Rock Island bridge, 145.

Rockland county erected, 81.

Romans before Jerusalem, 209.

Roman capitol burnt, 476; capitol dedicated, 359; catholic ecclesiastics restrained, 234; catholics, massacre, 221; chambers dissolved, 488; church in Scotland, 300; circus at Tours, 343; civil wars, 407; consuls, 9; feast, 450; jubilee, 129; pavement in London, 322; republic established, 232; republic proclaimed, 61; senate, early sessions, 121; temple discovered, 94; thanksgiving to Cicero, 458.

Romance of England, 171.

Rome annexed to France, 72; burnt, 237, 263, 283; confederacy with Jews, 470; conspiracy, 323; foundation, 159; anniversary do, 159; France at war with, 486; incorporated with France, 195; insurrection, 175; last triumph, 442; made a republic, 69.

Rosenberg summit fell, 346.

Roses, union of, 31.

Royal academy formed, 467; Anne galley, 429; exchange, 221; stone laid, 409; opened, 415; George sunk, 328, 341; institution formed, 99; marriage act, 77; oak, 400; parliament met, 79; society of literature, 76; Sovereign burnt, 42.

Royalty abolished in France, 370.

Rump parliament, 57, 184.

Russia declared for Austria, 172; first book printed, 17, 62; reprisal against, 476; revolution, 463.

Russian commerce opened, 187; emperor in Austria, 185; emperor libeled, 212; levy of men, 186, 471; militia, 45; manifesto, 249; new year, 10; object of war, 145; peasant rights, 487; serfs enrolled, 207; rail road, 147, 345; revolution, 269.

Rutland square masquerade, 89.

Rutli, Swiss meeting, 437.

Rye house plot discovered, 230, 232.

Ryswick, peace of, 368.

Sabbath bill stolen, 294; lawful sports, 403.

Sacramento inundated, 477; prisoner hung, 331.

Sacheverell's sermons burnt, 120.

Sacred play, 259; year of Jews, 111.

Sacrifices, Roman, 9.

Safety bank system, 132.

Sagadohock river, 315.

Saginaw riot, 155.

Sailors, epidemic among, 228.

Salary of pastor, 338.

Salem immigrants, 152; witchcraft, 327, 371.

Salonica burnt, 141, 282.

Salt water freshened, 174.

Saltzburg protestants, 43.

Samson, English, 197.

San Cruz purchased, 204.

Sanctobertis eve, 467.

Sandwich islands difficulty, 466; discovered, 27; protest, 367; small pox, 343.

Sandwich land discovered, 46.

Sandy Hook, Hudson at, 350; lighthouse, 238.

San Francisco execution, 335; insurrection, 220; steamer foundered, 18.

San Juan de Ulloa, Cortez at, 160.

San Salvador destroyed, 153.

Sanscrit, first learner, 19.

Sans cullotes, 368; at Paris, 241.

Saphet, earthquake at, 11.

Saracen hostages massacred, 323.

Saragossa theatre burnt, 475.

Saratoga county erected, 58.

Sarawak, English rajah, 374.

Sardinia, convents suppressed, 202.

Sardinian rail road, 202.

Sassafras, expedition for, 142.

Satan denounced at Edinburgh, 458.

Saturn, 7th satellite, 458.

Santa Fe revolution, 330.

Savannah assaulted, 393; balloon, 373; colony begun, 64; river freshet, 208; first steam boat, 289; steam ship, 202; storm, 354.

Savoy conference, 117; protestants, 463; united to France, 451.

Saxe Coburg confiscated, 42.

Saxon heptarchy, 52.

Saxons converted by comet, 303.

Saxony dismembered, 185; kingdom, 468.

Scanderbeg revolted, 451.

Scaptar Jokul, (see Skaptar Jokul.)

Scarborough cliff sunk, 476; land sunk, 486.

Schenectady county erected, 96; deed of, 219; massacre, 193; purchased, 294.

Schism in Romish church, 117.

Schoharie county erected, 136.

Schuylkill bridge, 76; bridge fell, 29.

Scotland adjudged to Baliol, 437; sovereignty disputed, 250.

Scots prisoners made slaves, 359.

Scottish assembly dispersed, 291; church assembly, 443; clergy, 40; covenanters, 479; general assembly, 478; government, 236; parliament, 10; parliament, last, 398; regalia, 118; regalia opened, 50.

Scriptures, edict against, 123.

Scylla, earthquake, 55.

Sealing wax, ancient, 303.

Seamen impressed, 244.

Sea, rose and fell, 315; serpent at Plymouth, 241.

Seasons, Spanish notion of, 323.

Sebastopol, explosion, 437; harbor closed, 373.

Secretary steam boat exploded, 152.

Secret societies, 376; prohibited, 311.

Seigniories, French, 158.

Semper eadem, 470.

Seneca county erected, 116.

Senecas sold lands, 254.

Septuagint, 420.

Seraglio, release from, 348.

Sestos, siege of, 108.

Seven islands, shipwreck, 17.

Seven years war concluded, 68.

Shaker elect lady, 352.

Shawmut settled, 230.

Ship disease, 228; money levy, 312.

Shiraz, earthquake, 186.

Shooting stars, 434.

Shower red dust, 193; of minerals, 46.

Shrewsbury pestilence, 152.

Sicilian vespers, 124, 451.

Sicily, acquisition, 490; king abdicated, 29.

Sierra Leone company, 29; settled, 230.

Sierra Madre republic, 342.

Silver buckles, donation, 443.

Simeto overflowed, 154.

Sin, Israelites at, 150.

Sing Sing prison begun, 192.

Sion, king of, 246.

Sirius steamer arrived, 163.

Six Nations, treaty with, 232.

Skaptar Jokul, 228, 238, 304.

Skeleton, ancient, 347.

Skeletons in ash tree, 297.

Slave decision, 244; ship, first, 403.

Slave trade abolished, 127, 226; by pope, 459; proscribed, 175.

Slavery abolished in France, 124; by Kosciusko, 131; in Mexico, 363; in New York, 123; in Poland, 249; at Vienna, 59; convention, 274; trade by treaty, 90.

Slaves free in England, 264; price of, 423.

Sleep, death an eternal, 401.

Sloane's library, 135.

Small pox, first appearance, 107; in New England, 291.

Smyrna, earthquake, 270; excitement about Koszta, 243; plague at, 227.

Snow, brick red, 152; in Holland, 154; in New England, 79; red, in Tuscany, 103; at Rome, 98, 117.

Snow storm, 78; New England, 487.

Society of Jesus, 32.

Solar eclipse, 330; in England, 352.

Soldier, female, pension, 247.

Soldiers, great mortality, 228; wages in 1347, 305.

Solemn league and covenant, 93.

Solomon's temple, 376.

Solstice of Meton, 250.

Solway moss, 43.

Somers brig lost, 465; mutiny, 34, 125.

Somers's expedition, 290.

Son of liberty, 120.

Sonora burnt, 237.

Souffriere eruption, 173.

Soup house, first, 22.

Sound dues, protest, 233; terminated, 148.