Part 106

South America, attempt to revolutionize, 50; possessed, 324; independence, 382; republics acknowledged, 11; revolutions, 24.

South Carolina adopted constitution, 203; charter, 231; college riot, 79; congress, 23; settled, 204.

Southern literary messenger, 33.

South Hadley canal, 483.

South Hampton frigate lost, 451.

South sea bubble, 380.

Sovereign coin issued, 263.

Spafields poor meeting, 458.

Spain, civil war ended, 362; disturbances, 305; letters of marque against, 24; partition, 396; resigned to Charles, 359; restricts the press, 13; revolutions, 391.

Spanish constitution, new, 218; fleet foundered, 414; military insurrection, 252; monarchy, design against, 185; prize ship, 200; queen absconded, 340; records first written, 159; royal family prisoners, 176; settlements, expedition against, 339; ships burnt, 72.

Speaker of commons, 90; congress, contest, 51.

Specie overturned, 69; payments suspended, 356.

Spectator began, 89.

Speedwell privateer, 44.

Spinning machine riot, 393, 456.

Spires, decree protested, 156; diet of, 247.

Spitalfields' soup house, 22.

Spirituous liquors taxed, 76, 87.

Spitzbergen, discovery of, 174, 363; Dutch sailors at, 26.

St. Alban's weathercock, 406.

St. Andrews, charter, 86.

St. Anthony's falls, 87.

St. Augustine founded, 31.

St. Bartholomew burnt, 91.

St. Bartholomews, massacre, 16, 334.

St. Bartholomew island abolished slavery, 394; purchased, 204, 314.

St. Bernard crossed, 192.

St. Christophers, hurricane, 254; purchased, 204, 314.

St. Croix negro revolt, 263.

St. Cruz purchased, 314.

St. David's college founded, 76.

St. Dennis tombs destroyed, 314.

St. Domingo ceded, 397; commission, 332; deputies, 52; founded, 306; insurrection, 357; massacre, 333, 454; revolution, 418.

St. George volcano, 175.

St. Giles plague, 166.

St. Helena discovered, 200.

St. Jago de Cuba, earthquake, 303.

St. Johns burnt, 231; first steam boat, 252.

St. James steamer exploded, 263.

St. Kitts, hurricane, 331.

St. Lawrence county erected, 92; fishing in, 133; gulf named, 142; rail road, 283.

St. Leon church overwhelmed, 165.

St. Louis burnt, 196; castle burnt, 40; riots, 310; tornado, 323.

St. Martin purchased, 204.

St. Marys settled, 120; ship canal, 201.

St. Michaels destroyed, 316; earthquake, 272; volcano, 234.

St. Nicholas destroyed, 290; spire fell, 64.

St. Pauls burnt, 217; dedicated, 383; laid, 242; spire burnt, 233.

St. Peters built, 78; dedicated, 486.

St. Petersburg, cholera, 342; founded, 207; inundated 440; and Moscow rail road, 345; palace burnt, 488; storm, 353.

St. Pierre emancipation, 203.

St. Stephen's chapel, 107.

St. Thomas, hurricane, 331.

Stadtholder arrived, 455.

Stadtholdership abolished, 41, 70; protest, 209.

Stafford house address, 450.

Staffordshire ship sunk, 489.

Stage, women upon, 13; plays licensed, 186, 432; suppressed, 470.

Stake, number perished at, 429.

Stamp act, 419.

Stamp act passed, 113; repealed, 108; riot, 337.

Stamped paper in America, 486.

Standing army grievance, 59, 372.

Star spangled banner, 24.

State affairs, clergy, 468.

Staten island colonized, 16, 61; purchased, 314; sold, 319.

State prisoners in France liberated, 117.

States general assembled, 180.

Stationarii at London, 464.

Stationers company chartered, 180.

Statistics, so called, 406.

Statue of George III, 269.

Steam battery, 159; boat at Austin, 108; burnt, 54; explosion, 141; first, 384; first on lakes, 420; Fitch's, 219; wrecked, 86; engines, experiments, 325; power press, 454; ship in England, 279; first across Atlantic, 202.

Steeples opposed, 126.

Sterling money, 484.

Steuben county erected, 108.

Stockport strike, 311.

Stoke, meteor at, 423.

Stonehenge fell, 14.

Stone, medicine for, 106.

Storm in England, 73; Gibraltar, 73.

Storm of cape Francis, 84; in New England, 82.

Stratford jubilee, 351.

Street preaching riot, 209, 275.

Strike at Stockport, 311.

Stripes in British port, 57.

Stuart, first of house, 156.

Studein, meteoric fall, 350.

Student, the, issued, 46.

Students expelled for methodism, 100.

Submarine cable, 340.

Subsidies of Charles II, 60.

Sub treasury created, 255.

Sudberry jury, 392.

Suffrage universal in France, 458.

Sugar from beets, inventor, 158.

Sugar house prisoners, 479.

Sullivan county erected, 120.

Sunday bill riot, 257; recreations, 199.

Sunderland iron bridge, 374.

Sun dial, first in Rome, 59; eclipsed, 161; in England, 171; spot, 106, 173.

Sungband Cowmuddy, 34.

Supercalia, feast of, 68.

Supreme being enacted at Paris, 183.

Susquehanna rail road collision, 261.

Suttee abolished, 257, 461.

Suspension in San Francisco, 80.

Swabia, king of, 11.

Swan of Holland, 390.

Sweating sickness, 416.

Swedish revolution, 301; crown prince killed, 209; nobility massacred, 427; revolution, 327.

Swiss cantons armed, 25; patriots met, 437; protestant massacre, 285; troops recalled, 335; villages buried, 346.

Sword voted to McDonough, 66.

Sybilline prophecy, 450.

Sydenham crystal palace, 227.

Sydney cove, 58.

Symmes theory, 143.

Syracuse explosion, 329; first paper, 131; founder of, 307.

Syrian earthquake, 194.

Table rock fell, 353, 356.

Taiefa conflagration, 284.

Tampico deaths, 378.

Tar and feathers introduced, 96.

Tatler appeared, 146, 162; last number, 25.

Taunton girls, 98.

Tax gatherers slain, 432.

Tayleur wrecked, 36.

Tea art, 186.

Tea at Boston destroyed, 437; destroyer, 92.

Teignmouth phenomenon, 315.

Telegraph across channel, 215; in New York, 356; submarine, laid, 274.

Telemaque of Fenelon, 19.

Temanfaya volcano, 344.

Temple of Hercules, 46; at Jerusalem burnt, 269; purified, 448.

Tendall's testament sold, 190.

Teneriffe volcano, 16, 49, 180, 225, 482, 490.

Tennessee admitted, 215.

Terceira, earthquake, 234.

Terra Firma, landing at, 300.

Test act, 123.

Texas admitted, 90, 488; annexed, 261; first legislature, 77; proclamation, 283; republic protested, 127.

Thames bridge burnt, 144; extraordinary tide, 364; flood in, 404; frozen, 44, 54; thawed out, 54; river low, 95, 349, 362; and Severn canal, 441; tunnel opened, 118.

Thanksgiving, British, 25, 31; first in Mass., 79; in India, 280; for Russian victories, 12; New Netherlands, 351; New Orleans, 38.

Theatre closed by sheriff, 324; first in Albany, 259; first in New York, 108, 365; licensed, 186; legalized in Massachusetts, 53.

Theatrical encouragement of troops, 477; first American, 349.

Theban ram, 180.

Theft, trial for, 30.

Theodosius's statue, 85.

Thermometer, 13, 290.

Thia island arose, 266.

Thirty years' war ended, 410.

Thorn, protestants, 426; James, 155.

Thoth, 315.

Thousand years' jubilee, 309.

Thule, southern discovered, 46.

Thunder, subterranean, 40; stone fell, 426; theatrical, 18.

Thuringia meteor, 424.

Tide high at London, 70; in New England, 82.

Tiers etat, 236.

Timbuctoo, expedition to, 202.

Tioga county erected, 70.

Titles abolished, 241; in France, 34; at Lucca, 28.

Toast, indiscreet, 39.

Tobacco introduced, 294; regulations, 383.

Tokay wine estate, 449.

Toleration act, 156, 204; edict of, 148; in Scotland, 320.

Toledo, lake at, rose, 205.

Toll gate riot at Bristol, 382.

Tomboro eruption, 132, 136, 147.

Tompkins county erected, 139.

Tonal, red snow, 152.

Torch dance at Berlin, 459.

Tornado in Burmah, 163; in Ohio, 315.

Torpedo experiment, 290.

Tortugas discovered, 186.

Tragedies, Scotch regulations, 95.

Tragedy, first English, 31.

Trajan's floating palace, 277.

Transit of Mars, 132.

Transportation for forgery, 127; for theft, 419.

Treason to surrender, 50.

Treasurer, first U. S., 77.

Treaty, Albany, 202, 253; Algiers, 254; and Sardinia, 132; Amiens, 120; Austria and Piedmont, 309; and Prussia, 159; Barbary, 414; Breda, 253, 286; Bretigni, 184; Britain and Denmark, 27; and Spain, 26; Buffalo creek, 254; Campio Formio, 402; Canandaigua, 431; Carlowitz, 40; Cherokees, 103; Denmark and Sweden, 120; Dutch and Indians, 341; England and France, 451; France and Scotland, 267; France, Spain and America, 347; France and Turkey against Russia, 102; and Germany, 63; and Holland, 60; and Russia, 174; and Scotland, 124, 287; and Spain, 90; and Sourajah Dowlah, 64; and Turkey, 17; Fontainbleau, 412, 422; Fort Herkimer, 252; Fort Stanwix, 408; French and Chouans, 158; France and Egypt, 38; and England, 106; and Russia, 136; Spain and England, 62; and Texas, 376; and Tripoli, 383; and Tuscany, 61, 66; Ghent, 311, 447, 483; Germany and France, 54; Great Britain and Algiers, 340; and China, 341; and France, 46; not ratified, 313; and Russia, 144, 146; and Spain, 231; and U. S., 389; and Japan, 394; Holland, 403; Hubertsburg, 68; Indians, 458; Jay's, 441; Jewish, 56; Kerbechi, 355; Lannoy, 103; Longueville, 61; Madrid, 26; Navajo Indians, 200; New England and Narragansetts, 341; Nuremberg, 288; Paris, 1783, 52, 117, 185, 212, 376, 454; Passau, 302; Russia and China, 355; and Turkey, 21, 126, 130, 169, 268; Ryswick, 467; Sac Indians, 190; St. Germain, 106; St. Ildefonso, 383; St. Petersburg, 474, 476; Sweden and Tripoli, 383; Tehuantepec, 56; Tilsit, 273; Tolentino, 77; Tripoli, 313; Troyes, 200; U. S. and Algiers, 484; and Creeks, 454; and France, 57; and Great Britain, 15, 26, 74, 259, 313, 441, 454; and Indians, 218; and Japan, 115; and Mexico, 136, 212; and Morocco, 280; and Prussia, 357, 476; and Sweden, 132; and Tripoli, 217; and Turkey, 183; and Venezuela, 34; Utrecht, 126, 144; Uxbridge, 82; Vienna, 117, 266; and Rome, 430; Westphalia, 410.

Trees removed and rooted, 281.

Tremont temple burnt, 128.

Trent, council of, 31, 40, 169, 201, 470.

Trent and Mersey canal, 276.

Tribunes chosen, 466.

Tri-color, 293.

Tri-colored flag at Vienna, 143.

Trinidad discovered, 299.

Tripoli earthquake, 194; liberated Americans, 218; made restitution, 313; plague, 342.

Triumph of the cross, festival, 279.

Troy, fall of, 202; land slide, 71.

Trumento mount formed, 120.

Tryon county court, 353.

Touching for king's evil, 196, 264.

Toulon, Bonaparte sailed from, 202.

Toulon, decree to level houses, 482.

Tournament at Eglintoun, 340.

Tours, ancient circus, 343.

Townsend ship burnt, 193.

Tuilleries attacked, 314.

Tuilleries beset by mob, 213; entered by mob, 243; walls laid, 272; palace begun, 16.

Turin annexed to Sardinia, 463.

Turkey declared war with Russia, 384; object of war with, 145; refuses proposals of Russia, 247.

Turkish ambassador, 478; ships, first at London, 136; sultan banqueted Napoleon, 185; war declared, 122.

Turks learned war, 13; reinforced British, 117.

Turners plundered provisions, 401.

Tuscany duke restored, 295; protestant deputation, 412.

Tweed chain bridge, 283.

Twin sisters, 412.

Tyre, era of, 404.

Uncle Tom's Cabin prohibited, 187.

Unicorn steamer at Boston, 217.

Uniformity act, 334.

Union college, first com., 178.

United Irishmen disarmed, 125; founder, 397.

United States bank, 11, 206; incorporated, 143; suspended, 356; suspended, 56.

United States commissioners, 376; constitution, 21; exploring expedition, 115, 327, 328; independence, 15; acknowledged, 34; by Denmark, 84; by Spain, 116; president, first, 48; ship, first of the line, 185; so called, 355.

Usury punished, 63; restrained, 389.

Utah territory, 353.

Utica lunatic asylum, 29; state, 382.

Utrecht, quarrel of ministers, 294; union, 245.

Vaccination first applied, 191; introduced, 41; in Persia, 218; rewarded, 216.

Valley Forge, army at, 477.

Valois, house extinct, 287.

Vandalie Bible, 208, 334.

Van Dieman's land discovered, 434.

Vatican built, 338.

Vaudois tolerated, 217.

Veal, Mrs., apparition, 353.

Vendean war closed, 123.

Vendeans shot, 74.

Venetian crusade sailed, 391.

Venezuela, independence, 220, 262; slaves freed, 166.

Venice acknowledged French republic, 41; revolution, 195.

Ventilators invented, 121.

Venus Adonis entered, 155.

Venus's revolution observed, 185; satellite discovered, 339; transit, 13, 217, 380.

Vera Cruz fish destroyed, 384; powder explosion, 217.

Vermont admitted, 74, 93; adopted constitution, 57; declared independent, 27, 484; joined the confederacy, 22.

Versailles rail road accident, 185.

Vesta observed, 179; discovered, 124; steamer sunk, 378.

Vesuvius, Delius perished in, 188; eruption, 32, 102, 175, 231, 234, 314, 327, 334, 405, 411, 447; overflowed, 78.

Vessels to be searched, 142.

Veto of Miss Dix's bill, 159.

Vice, edict against, 35.

Viceroys in Europe, 29.

Victoria bridge destroyed, 18.

Victories of the French, 52.

Viege, earthquake at, 290.

Vienna abolished slavery, 59; emperor left, 402; emperors at war with, 402; insurrection, 390; order restored, 392.

Virginia adopted constitution, 248; colony, 294; cut off, 148; massacred, 120; colonists returned, 237; company, new charter, 202; convention, 400; convicts to, 417; divided, 142; first assembly, 239; insurrection, 330; lottery for, 253; militia rebel, 424; negroes taken, 321; on non-importation, 197; north, 317; occupied, 148; rebellion, 426; reduced, 190; settlement aided, 22; so entitled, 226; third charter, 99.

Vixen brig lost, 451.

Volcanic island disappeared, 483; steam cloud, 402.

Volcanoes in Central America, 56.

Votes of assembly first published, 146.

Voyage round the world, first, 350; unique, 430.

Vulcano, eruption of, 54.

Waal crossed on ice, 23.

Wages of mechanics, 333.

Wahabbites, 233.

Wahhabis, last emir, 441.

Waistcoat, large, 456.

Wales, prince attacked, 43.

Walk in the Water steamer, 209.

Walker's expedition, 403.

Wall of entrenchment, Cæsar's, 148.

Wallabout cemetery, 138.

Wallachian almanacs, 11; revolution, 252.

Wandering Jew, 10.

War with America discouraged, 92; declared against England and Holland, 48; of the elephant, 108; of 1812, loss, 20.

Warren county erected, 100.

Warsaw, revolution at, 95; university abolished, 444.

Wurtemberg, elector of, 11.

Washington aqueduct, 429; city burnt, 335; county erected, 130; gun ship, 185; letter to refused, 276; monument, 95, 261; in New York, 405; servant, Gilbert, 76; steamer sailed, 215.

Water spout, 394, 470.

Water Witch ascended Paraguay, 49.

Waterford under coercion act, 286.

Wayne county erected, 145; first paper, 450.

Weather, peculiar, 30.

Weathersfield settlers, 400.

Welsh bards, prize, 206; Bible permitted, 119.

Well discovered, 105.

Wetterhorn ascended, 261.

West Florida, occupation, 259.

West India hurricane, 306, 348, 384, 395; slave trade, 175.

Westminster assembly, 256; bridge, 43; convent destroyed, 300; hall founded, 302.

West Point academy, 105.

Whale in the Thames, 118.

Wheat, price rose, 454; in Ireland, 372.

Wheel punishment abolished, 213.

Whig mob, 438.

Whirlwinds, 232.

White child, first in Ct., 270; Fish schooner, 430; sea discovered, 187.

Whitehall palace burnt, 14; and Rutland rail road, 384.

Whitfield methodists, 12.

Whites massacred at cape Francois, 241.

Whitestown, founder, 153; settled, 20, 248.

Wife sold, 145.

Wild man captured, 18.

William and Anne wrecked, 98; and Mary chosen, 64, 66.

Williamsburg, Va., theatre, 349.

Wilmington powder explosion, 213.

Winchester wrecked, 155.

Windsor, settlers, 400.

Wine, export prohibited, 173.

Winfield Scott steamer, 458.

Winter solstice, 488.

Winter quarters, Washington's, 450.

Wisconsin admitted, 488.

Wreck off Portland, 55.

Witch act in England, 380.

Witch hung, 226.

Witchcraft, 407; case of, 161; act repealed, 247; execution, 327, 371.

Witches condemned, 33; trial of, 235.

Wolfe's army, survivor, 19.

Wolves in France, 65.

Woman prohibited the Bible, 28; rights convention, 305; rioters, 31; sold for tobacco, 330; tear up rail road, 466; upon the stage, 13.

Woodland hurricane, 331.

Worcester, fire at, 233; riot, 456.

Worchestz, storm, 273.

World appeared, 14; created, 344.

Worms, diet at, 115, 462.

Wowoken possessed by Raleigh, 148.

Writ, ancient, 431.

Writing, minute, 314.

Yacht race, 340; at Cowes, 332.

Yamasses conspiracy, 151.

Yankee Blade steamer lost, 384.

Yates county erected, 56.

Yazoo, disunion meeting, 391.

Year, beginning of changed, 117.

Yellow fever at New Orleans, 207, 255, 301; at Tampico, 378; first death, 310.

Yeomen of the guard, 416.

Yong-ming-tchin swallowed up, 238.

York, England, burnt, 217; and Lancaster united, 31, 63.

Yucatan independence, 194.

Zenger's Weekly Journal, 388.

Zurich insurrection, 351.

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Transcriber's note:

Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original.

The letters "B. C." appear both spaced and unspaced in the original. They have been standardized to include a space.

Where the abbreviation "St." was missing a period, the period has been added.

The chapter header "JANUARY." has been added by the transcriber.

The following corrections have been made to the text:

Page 12: 17.[period missing in original] PUBLIUS OVIDUS NASO

Page 14: 1689. Col. HENRY SLOUGHTER appointed governor[original has "govenor"]

Page 14: He was an indefatigable[original has "indefatigible"] student

Page 14: conducted by Coleman, Bonnell Thornton[original has "Bonnel, Thornton"], Chesterfield

Page 15: 23 mortars, the fort, ammunition[original has "amunition"] and stores

Page 15: relinquished her right to the sovereignty[original has "sovreignty"] of the revolted colonies

Page 20: and a settlement[original has "ettlement"] commenced by 28 colonists

Page 21: who circumnavigated the globe with Cook,[original has "globe, with Cook"] died in his 70th year

Page 23: artillery and munitions, preparatory[original has "prepartory"] to a general retreat

Page 23: measuring 40 by 42 inches,[comma missing in original] the largest ever made

Page 23: author of a great number of["of" missing in original] theological works

Page 24: At Iraish it was observed at -44½°[negative sign missing in original] of Fahrenheit

Page 24: health becoming impaired,[comma missing in original] by the advice of his physicians

Page 24: survivors of the colony,[comma missing in original] twelve in number, were taken

Page 24: 1795. In consequence of a great thaw,[comma missing in original] the communication

Page 25: female born in the old colony of Massachusetts[original has "Massachusets"]

Page 26: More than[original has "that"] 100 Swedish and Danish

Page 30: defeated near Guadalaxara by the Spaniards under Calleja[original has "Caleja"]

Page 33: 1764. MR. WILKES was expelled from["from" missing in original] the British house of commons

Page 36: 1552. The duke of SOMERSET beheaded on pretence of[original has "ot"] inciting others

Page 36: Yet much of it is to be[original has "the"] attributed

Page 38: put a[original has "puta"] stop to their depredations

Page 39: He was appointed adjutant and inspector[original has "inspecter"]-general

Page 40: 1845. ABIGAIL[original has "Albigail"] LEONARD died at Raynham, Mass.

Page 42: 40,000 pairs of stocking breeches[original has "braeches"]

Page 46: conducted by Coleman, Bonnell Thornton[original has "Bonnell, Thornton"], Chesterfield

Page 47: came to this country while a boy,[comma missing in original] was a soldier under Wolfe

Page 49: widow of Percy Bysshe[original has "Byssche"] Shelley

Page 54: new committees, viz.[period missing in original], one on religion

Page 55: 1805. The East Indiaman, earl of Abergavenny,[original has "Avergavenny"] wrecked

Page 56: 1813. The Spanish cortes[original has "cortez"] abolished the inquisition.

Page 57: 1696. A plot to assassinate[original has "assasinate"] WILLIAM III

Page 59: 1637. FERDINAND[original has "Ferdinard"] II of Germany

Page 59: fighting, occupied[original has "occuppied"] the same position

Page 60: 1555. JOHN HOOPER[original has "Hoopfr"] bishop of Gloucester

Page 61: a worthy of the revolution[original has "relvolution"], died, aged nearly 98

Page 63: 1771. JEAN DE BEAURAIN[original has "Beuarain"] died

Page 64: one of the signers of the declaration of independence[original has "indedence"]

Page 64: 1814. Battle of Montmirail[original has "Montmirial"] between the French

Page 64: friend of Don Miguel, of infamous memory.[original has comma]

Page 64: died at North Woodbury, Pa., aged 110½[original has "110 1-2"] years

Page 65: The governor[original has "govenor"] returned the summons unopened.

Page 66: French frigate Psyche,[comma missing in original] 36 guns, and the prize ship

Page 68: arrived at St. Paul[original has "Pauls"], Minnesota

Page 68: 1632. DUDLEY CARLETON, an[original has "on"] English statesman

Page 69: died at Edinburgh[original has "Edingburgh"], aged 55. She drew the attention of the town for a number of seasons, particularly[original has "particulary"] when she played Juliet

Page 69: 1810[original has "1710"]. Birthday of LOUIS XV, of France

Page 69: 1815. British sloop of war Barbados, captured the United States letter of marque brigantine Vidette, 3 guns, 30 men.["captured the United States letter of marque brigantine Vidette, 3 guns, 30 men." moved from top of page 70 to here]

Page 69: 1817. Cold day throughout the United States[original has "tates"];

Page 70: in which the former were victorious in both instances.[period missing in original]

Page 71: 1852. Homeopathic[original has "Homoepathic"] college at Cleveland, Ohio

Page 71: 1853. WILLIAM GIBBS MCNEIL[ORIGINAL HAS MC NEIL] died

Page 72: the Spanish chief Francisco Espoz[original has "Espon"] y Mina

Page 73: 1519. CORTEZ[original has "Cortes"] sailed from cape St. Antonio

Page 73: he gave such an account[original has "acccount"] of it in England

Page 75: He was early engaged in political[original has "polical"] life

Page 77: 1802. JOHN[original has "Joan"] MOORE, a distinguished Scottish physician and popular author, died. He wrote on the society and manners of different countries in Europe, which his acute[original has "accute"] discernment

Page 77: Gen. Henderson was elected the first governor[original has "govenor"].

Page 78: 1854. The most violent snow storm that had occurred[original has "occcured"] since 1831

Page 79: was in a measure indemnified[original has "idemnified"] by the articles

Page 81: 1851. JOANNA BAILLIE[original has "Baille"], the Scottish poetress

Page 82: 4 large quarto vols. of "Notes and various readings of Shakspeare."[quotation mark missing in original]