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GENERAL INDEX.

Abbeys seized, 299.
Abbots of unreason, 9.
Abolition riots in New York, 271.
Aboukir bay, arrival of British, 96.
Abyssinian phenomenon, 438.
Acadie, 24, 356, 422, 428.
Acadians, 334.
Acapulco, earthquake, 461.
Adultery, punishment for, 410.
Acta Eruditorum, 129.
Actress, first, 464.
Addison's library sold, 208.
Advance and Rescue frozen in, 361.
Adriatic launched, 140.
Adventure discovery ship, 276.
Adventurer, 426.
Ærostats, French, 373.
Afghanistan war closed, 384.
Africa, Park's expedition, 458.
African crusade, 429;
farmer, 220.
Agricultural fair at Paris, 225.
Aix la Chapelle relics, 281.
Alabama admitted, 461;
historical society, 268;
tornado, 194.
Alancho, volcano at, 72.
Albany, atmospheric phenomena, 30;
great fire, 325;
canal celebration, 421;
church, corner stone, 216;
city incorporated, 287;
comet, 465;
congress, 232, 239, 260, 271;
convention, 374;
Daily Advertiser, 228;
emigration, 87;
expedition to China, 476;
first daily paper, 376;
first newspaper, 422;
first steamboat, 384;
first theatre, 259;
Hudson at, 370;
Indian alliance, 232;
made capital of N. Y., 98;
recruits sent to, 67;
and Schenectady rail road, 360;
sloop lost, 380;
wintered Braddock's army, 392.
Albay, eruption, 49.
Albion college burnt, 15.
Alcazaba destroyed, 26.
Alchemy prohibited, 25.
Alcuin's Bible, 169.
Ale, remarkable drinker, 454.
Aleppo dest. by earthquake, 319.
Alexandria canal, 148, 360;
hail storm, 222.
Algerine barque, 94;
captives, 86, 254, 273;
cruiser blown up, 215;
pink, 435.
Algiers, dey of, 34;
earthquake, 414;
slavery abolished, 340;
great storm, 414;
reduced, 205.
Alien bill, 15;
and sedition law, 276.
Aliens required to report, 58.
Alleghany county erected, 139.
Allgemeine Zeitung, 354.
Alliance, mutiny on, 125.
Almanacs, stationers co., 51;
Wallachian, 11.
Almoravides dynasty, 251.
Alphonsine tables, 211.
Alps tunneled, 268.
Alton Observer, 427.
Alum mines discovered, 438;
in Ireland, 408.
Amalgamation, 162.
Amazon river explored, 187;
ship lost, 25.
Ambassador, first to U. S., 308;
rencontre, 381.
Ambrosian library, 371.
America, charter of discovery, 228;
early coasted, 267;
first battle ship, 424.
American army destitute, 477, 482;
disbanded, 403;
force of, 225;
Bible society, 196;
circumnavigation, first, 313;
colors, 57;
confederation, 199;
daughters of liberty, 231;
emigration sanctioned, 152;
expedition to Japan, 260;
flag, 233;
forces 1777, 416;
loss by war of revolution, 157;
loyalists benefit, 224;
ministers at Paris, 112;
navy, 470;
philosophical society, 205;
ports blockaded, 126;
prisoners in England, 23;
prisoners starved, 314;
seamen impressed, 479;
vessels confiscated, 479;
shipping embargoed, 176;
territory, patent, 421;
vessels seized at Naples, 13;
vessels excluded, 284;
vessels captured by Algerines, 86;
voyages, octroy, 120;
war, opponent, 258;
Weekly Mercury, 480.
Americans sent home from Spain, 102.
Amsterdam bank, 55;
sluices opened, 248;
theatre burnt, 195.
Ammunition seized at Boston, 108.
Anglo Norman steamer, 471.
Angola slave contract, 356.
Angora goats introduced, 295.
Annie Jane wrecked, 380.
Antarctic continent discovered, 33.
Antelope wrecked, 314.
Antelope wrecked, 432.
Antigua slave insurrection, 111;
hurricane at, 331.
Antioch degraded, 113;
earthquake, 199;
sedition, 85.
Antiquaries, soc. Edinburgh, 476.
Anti-rent outrages, 335.
Antium conference, 248.
Apparel reformed, 182.
Apprentices not to read Bible, 28.
Apollo, Thracian colossus, 489.
Apulia earthquake in, 299.
Arctic expedition, 188.
Arctic expedition, 2d American, 213.
Arctic expedition in search of Dr. Kane, 213.
Argonaut expedition, 284.
Ark, covering removed, 364;
dove sent from, 295;
entered, 412;
grounded, 124;
rested, 135;
window opened, 285.
Arkansas admitted, 234;
river, first steamer, 175.
Arian heresy, 226.
Arica, earthquake at, 392.
Arithmetical prodigy, 91.
Armed neutrality, 67, 474.
Armenian era, 268.
Army pay of, 305.
Arquebusiers, 243.
Arrow found in new forest, 362.
Artist's wages, 107.
Ashmolean museum, 192.
Assassination plot discovered, 67.
Assignats issued, 447;
issued in France, 107.
Assize of Jerusalem, 421.
Asteroid discovered, 138, 389;
39th discovered, 60;
40th discovered, 113.
Astor house riot, 187;
library opened, 22.
Astronomy, history of, 22.
Athenian democracy restored, 316.
Athens census, 45;
revolution, 363;
storm at, 413.
Atlantic gale, 386;
passage, speedy, 321;
sailed, 169;
steamer, first, 202;
steam boat sunk, 329;
steamer, first, 241.
Atmospheric substance fell, 96.
Auburn prison opened, 345.
Augsburg confession, 113, 233;
diet, decree, 440;
rule of faith, 192.
Augusta submerged, 208.
Aurora Borealis, 45, 72, 80, 434, 439, 475;
first in England, 94;
ship rescued, 53.
Australia colonized, 34.
Austria declared against England, 74;
peace with France, 156.
Austrian constitution, 94;
emperor assaulted, 74;
Netherlands ceded, 443;
possessions annexed to France, 380.
Auto-da-fé, last, 429.
Ava king's carriage, 356.
Avenches antiquities, 377.
Bagnes overwhelmed, 235.
Bahama isles discovered, 396.
Balder's Död, 106.
Ball of fire fell, 116.
Ballad singers to be seized, 470.
Balloon ascension, 21, 141, 219, 456.
Balloon accident, 189;
disaster, 36;
first English, 348, 363;
military, 373;
first ascent by Rozier, 400;
journey, 427;
new gas for, 432.
Baltic canal, 191;
fleet fitted out, 134;
rivers blockaded, 249.
Baltimore, congress at, 469;
magazines seized, 165.
Bank failure in London, 235;
first at Albany, 281;
first in America, 19;
first in Conn., 233;
of England, 57;
of England suspension, 86;
of England vend lottery tickets, 151;
of England charter, 294;
of England begun, 304;
of England resumed, 466;
of North America, 206;
paper reduced, 77;
U. S. charter expired, 93;
U. S. discounted, 478.
Banks suspended, 56, 187;
in U. States, 356.
Banking law of New York, 156.
Bans last published in Mass., 161.
Barbadoes conspiracy, 431;
destroyed, 316;
hurricane, 84;
slaves landed, 423.
Barbers not to receive fees, 179.
Barcelona artisans, 128.
Barebones parliament, 260, 469.
Barometer inventor, 400.
Baronets, order instituted, 201.
Barratarian pirates pardoned, 58.
Barrow's straits rediscovered, 305.
Barva island wreck, 380.
Basket maker, feat of, 406.
Bastile, corner stone laid, 160;
destroyed, 276;
sold, 452.
Bassigni church fell, 362.
Batavian assembly installed, 92;
republic, 41, 193, 403.
Bath, Eng., burnt, 250;
military order of, 13;
theatre burned, 199.
Bavaria, king of, 11.
Bayonets first used, 374.
Beaver grounds surrendered, 283.
Beechey frozen in, 332.
Beethoven's statue, 90.
Beggars opera, proceeds, 477.
Begging friars suppressed, 454.
Belgian congress dissolved, 153;
king, 269.
Belgium, independence, 387;
king of, 52, 286.
Bell at Moscow raised, 306.
Bellemont arrived as gov., 130.
Benares, assassination at, 26.
Benedictine monk records, 312.
Bengal revenues, 318;
newspaper, 34.
Beni Umeggah, 381.
Bennington settled, 117.
Bequest, singular, 54, 364.
Bergemoletto overwhelmed, 109.
Bergen, fire at, 34.
Berlin academy of sciences, 11;
conspiracy, 124;
decree, 444;
revolutionary, 433;
tumult, 233.
Bermuda, Indian college, 26.
Bermudas, English wrecked on, 202.
Berytus overthrown, 268.
Bewitching, case of, 133.
Bible of Alcuin, 169, 456;
distributers in prison, 412;
of Faust and Schoeffer, 135;
first whole, 386, 387;
for French clergy, 406;
Genevan, 141;
permitted to be read, 433;
permitted in England, 470;
petition to read, 224;
prohibited, 28, 448;
renounced at Edinburgh, 207;
Scottish decree, 406;
society, origin of, 96;
societies prohibited, 253, 482;
translation permitted, 87;
versions prohibited, 231;
vulgate adopted, 140.
Bibliotheca Hispania, 148.
Billerica, British punishment at, 96.
Bills of credit, 244;
in Maryland, 293.
Biloxi, gale, 368.
Birch creek reservoir dest., 187.
Birmingham riots, 276.
Birth at advanced age, 185.
Bishop's Bible, 310;
first, 316;
resumed seats, 442.
Blackfriars bridge, 418;
church fell, 67.
Black hole dungeon, 238;
prince died, 223;
sea, tempest, 434;
sea opened to Americans, 155;
smith killed, 157;
Warrior seized, 88.
Blackwood's Magazine, 132, 462.
Blood, circulation, 221, 406;
hounds, 254.
Blue Ridge, explosion, 20.
Bodleian library, 283, 427.
Bohemian king died, 453.
Boiling to death, 70.
Bombs first used, 115.
Bomb vessels first used, 414.
Bona, explosion at, 45.
Bonaparte dynasty, attempt to subvert, 416
(see Napoleon).
Bonapartes banished, 114.
Bonhill field surveyed, 488.
Bonnet-Carré crevasse, 488.
Book, first English, 368;
first in England, 474;
of Sports burnt, 180.
Books burnt, 237;
denounced by pope, 115;
immoral burnt, 207;
of prophecy destroyed, 98;
to be burnt, 399.
Booksellers, 464;
fined, 184.
Boonsborough begun, 129.
Border feud, last between Eng. and Scot., 177.
Bosia village sunk, 140.
Boston, cholera, 425;
conflagration, 271;
conflagration, 298;
customs protected, 379;
customs enforced, 234;
deaths, 490;
declared war against Dutch, 208;
epidemic, 228;
evacuated, 106;
first church, 338;
first general court, 404;
first minister, 310;
first steamer from England, 217;
first theater, 324;
Gazette, 479;
harbor castle burnt, 112;
houses used for firewood, 471;
invested, 233;
mail, 466;
martial law, 230;
massacre, 94;
negro excitement, 216;
News Letter, 133, 154, 164;
non-importation agreement, 300;
port closed, 126;
port closed, 214;
post to N. Y., 467;
printing office burnt, 365;
public library, 366;
records burnt, 482;
riot, 207, 226, 337;
schooner boarded, 267;
settled, 230;
storm, 394;
temperature, great change, 290;
training day, 352;
tumult, 438.
Bostonians surrendered arms, 168.
Botany bay abandoned, 58;
product, 348;
theatre, 29.
Bottle conjuror, 29;
large glass, 23.
Bounty mutineers, 38, 170, 385, 416.
Bourbon-les-bains, 362.
Bourbons restoration, 147.
Boy bishop, 463.
Braddock's army, remains, 391.
Brandenburg settlements, 43.
Brandon dest. by hurricane, 34.
Brazil, arrival of Portuguese, 96;
discovered, 162, 164;
first rail road, 173;
independence, 397;
revolution, 138;
royal immigration, 453;
separate kingdom, 472.
Bread, fine prohibited, 46;
scarce in Paris, 107.
Breadstuffs, dearth of, 278.
Breast of female on thigh, 220.
Bremen barque Favorite sunk, 170.
Bridge fell at Puerto Santo, 84.
Brissotine party accused, 215.
Bristol dissenters protected, 450;
sassafras at, 142;
riot, 382, 416.
Britannia, quick trip, 321.
British authors petition for copy right, 49;
Bible society, 96;
cut canal in Egypt, 148;
colonies, peace commissioners, 181;
enlistments, 211;
excluded Portugal, 406;
fishing grounds, 263;
fleet reviewed, 163;
in France prisoners, 205;
goods burned, 413;
goods excluded, 166;
goods excluded Russian ports, 130;
intercourse interdicted, 258;
merchandise burnt, 405;
minister debarred, 427;
minister, rupture with, 107;
museum, 14, 21, 23, 135;
national debt, 17;
national gallery, 37;
officers confined, 55;
order to capture vessels, 224;
orders in council, 98, 431;
parliament, first, 50, 409;
passed the Dardanelles, 76;
plot to massacre, 363;
prince regent, 58;
prohibit French trade, 19;
queen visited France, 327;
slaves emancipated, 301;
slave trade, 63;
thanksgiving for peace, 266;
vessels lost, 146.
Broadswords prohibited, 290.
Brooklyn, first white child, 225;
first daily, 91;
street preaching riot, 218.
Broom at mast head, 453.
Broome county erected, 119;
organized, 190.
Broussa, earthquake, 145.
Brown university, 378.
Bruges canal sluices destroyed, 198.
Brunswick Wolfenbuttel plot, 482.
Brussels insurrection, 336;
palace burnt, 40.
Bucharest, earthquake at, 40.
Buffalo canal celebration, 416;
first daily paper, 11;
first newspaper, 385;
first steam boat, 420;
gale, 404;
and Niagara rail road, 338;
riot, 275.
Bull against Luther, 466;
feast at Rome, 346.
Bunker hill monument laid, 237.
Burdett's budget, 138.
Burial in highway, 101;
in the sea, 199.
Burlington, quaker meeting, 251.
Burned, last person in Spain, 426.
Burning mirror, 142;
for murder in Eng., 129;
for poisoning, 316;
spears, 45.
Burr's conspiracy, 42.
Cabal, Charles's, 144.
Cabo de Cruz, 197.
Cade's rebellion, 175.
Cadiz ladies society, 403.
Cæsar's victories, games for, 285.
Caithness, veteran, 49.
Calabria, earthquake, 55.
Calamaran, experiment, 364.
Calamity, day of, 56.
Caledonian canal opened, 417.
Calendar of Hesiod, 34.
Calicut visited by De Gama, 201.
California admitted, 353;
constitution, 343;
gold, first, 465;
lower, expedition, 403.
Callyhougham, 73.
Calpe, rock of, 172.
Caloric ship Ericson, 24.
Calton hill observatory, 287.
Calvin's books burnt, 67.
Calvinists assaulted, 89;
at Prague, 188.
Cambray, league of, 466.
Cameronians hanged, 40.
Canada, commission to conquer, 24;
dark day, 401;
expedition against, 228;
memorial to annex, 395;
Roman bishop sent to, 300;
union, 63
(see New France).
Canadian giant, 88.
Canal boat at New York, 423;
Bridgewater, 112;
celebration, 413;
com. report, 93;
in England, 236;
opened in England, 276;
in France, 268;
opened in Wales, 66.
Canals of New York, 53.
Candia ruins sold, 316.
Canicular cycle, 284.
Cannon, American, 198;
used by Turks, 63.
Canterbury, first archbishop, 206.
Canterno lake disappeared, 290.
Cape Cod descried by Pilgrims, 428;
discovered, 192.
Cape Francois massacre, 241.
Cape Good Hope doubled, 442.
Cape Horn discovered, 46.
Capetans restored, 153.
Capetown, earthquake, 224.
Capital punishment abolished, 306;
restored in France, 209.
Capital at Washington laid, 367.
Captain Right, oath to obey, 46.
Capuchins expelled, 449.
Carbonari revolution, 15.
Carguairazo volcano, 241.
Caribbean islands granted, 215.
Carlton vault discovered, 347.
Caroline, steam boat, 489;
burning of the, 42.
Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, 11.
Carriage, Ava state, 356.
Carterhaugh foot ball, 462.
Carucueria island, 423.
Cassiopeia discovered, 431.
Castleton, Hudson at, 366.
Catacombs at Paris, 139.
Catagogia festival, 36.
Catania, earthquake, 53;
olives destroyed, 335.
Catholic aggregate meeting, 328;
prayers for Geo. III, 478;
procession, 398;
relief bill, 145.
Catholics assault Calvinists, 89.
Cathay, expedition to, 29.
Cattaraugus county erected, 99.
Catskill mountains discovered, 363.
Caxton's first book, 126;
printing office burnt, 58.
Cayahoza released, 362.
Cayroes, estoddfod of bards, 206.
Cayuga bridge finished, 348;
county, 96;
land sold, 85;
and Seneca canal, 436.
Cecilia of Miss Burney, 19.
Cenis crossed, 252.
Censorship, abolition of, 108.
Central American volcanoes, 56, 72;
steamer, 359.
Ceres discovered, 11.
Ceylon insurrection, 324.
Chain bridge, first, 283.
Chalcedon œcumenical council, 391.
Chalchiucuechan, Cortez at, 159.
Chamouni burnt, 285.
Champlain canal, 154, 397, 447.
Chancery court, N. Y., 346.
Chaplain abused, 319.
Chaplains first appointed, 256.
Charged cloud, 316.
Charity schools in England, 117.
Charles Bartlett sunk, 251.
Charles I delivered up by Scots, 45;
equestrian statue, 45.
Charles II, statue, 474.
Charles X, family banished, 114.
Charleston earthquake, 20;
hail storm, 185.
Charlestown convent destroyed, 316;
first church, 338;
first court, 332;
fire at, 169;
powder seized, 345;
rebels expelled, 248;
storm, 354.
Charter oak blown down, 331.
Chartist riot, 423.
Chautauque county erected, 99;
paper, 20.
Chelsea hospital, 11;
hospital founded, 100.
Chelmsford church fell, 30.
Chenango county erected, 104.
Cherokee lands purchased, 103.
Chesapeake differences adjusted, 440;
bank, 11.
Chess player, 342.
Chester, settlers at, 467.
Chesterfield jail burnt, 124.
Chicago nullification, 408;
riot, 160.
Child, first Eng. in America, 326;
with two bodies, 154;
with two heads, 449.
Childermas prayers by little girls, 486.
Chili, civil war, 472.
Chilian ship, first in the U. S., 161.
Chimborazo ascended, 38.
China, earthquakes, 238;
expedition, 476.
Chincha island difficulty, 325.
Chinese feast, 67;
interdict, 465;
museum burnt, 263;
presbyterian church, 426.
Chlorine invented, 13.
Cholera, Asiatic, 480;
first in America, 224;
in England, 413;
at London, 65;
in New York, 251;
at Paris, 119;
at Rome, 336;
at St. Petersburg, 249;
at Tampico, 378.
Cholula, Cortez at, 398.
Christian empire overthrown, 137;
era, 483;
era restored in France, 11;
persecution, cause, 237, 246;
slavery abolished, 340.
Christiana, slave riot, 358.
Christians privileged in Turkey, 236;
massacred at Bona, 203.
Christmas congregations dispersed, 483;
first festival, 483.
Chronometer, 126.
Chronometers deranged at sea, 183.
Chrononhotonthologos, 386.
Church, penalty for non attendance, 28;
plate coined, 92.
Churches to be closed, 457;
for fire wood, 471.
Claude Chappe telegraph, 273.
Clay, medal presented, 63.
Clergymen prosecuted, 61.
Cleopatra's coffin, 180.
Clergy debarred state affairs, 431;
permitted to marry, 75;
renounced privileges, 199.
Clermont steam boat, 384.
Clinton county erected, 95.
Closter Seven convention, 353.
Clubs suppressed in France, 333.
Cincinnati, first owner, 39;
society established, 190.
Circumnavigation, first Am., 313.
Cisalpine republic, 218, 254.
City buried by lava, 475.
City of Glasgow steamer, 90.
City of Philadelphia steamer, 366.
Coaches in London, 380.
Coachman, lecturer, 88.
Coal mine explosion, 193.
Cobbler whipped, 304.
Cockfighting prohibited, 126.
Cocklane ghost, 95.
Cod, cape, discovered, 306.
Coffee field sunk, 153.
Coffins stolen, 376.
Coinage permitted by abbots, 437.
Coins improved, 484.
Cold, 15, 24, 25, 26, 44, 52, 54, 69, 96, 194, 290, 470, 474, 475, 480, 490.
Coliseum, bull feast, 346.
Collection taken up for prisoners, 23.
Collins line, first steamer, 169, 215;
steam boat burnt, 393.
Collision at sea, 251.
Colman's point, named, 350.
Cologne, bishop excommunicated, 152;
cathedral commenced, 320.
Colonies, union of, 212.
Colonization society, 487.
Colors, inability to distinguish, 295.
Columbia college, 144, 333;
county erected, 134;
river discovered, 318.
Columbian Centinel, 15;
press, 338.
Column inaugurated at Paris, 336.
Comedians, first in America, 349.
Comedies, Scotch regulations, 95.
Comet, 285;
of 1764, 17;
seen at Albany, 465;
in Britain, 469;
in China, 337;
near to earth, 422;
in England, 303, 482, 445;
large, 62;
in N. England, 52, 324, 438;
telescopic, 93, 384;
in U. S., 88;
of 292 years, 310.
Commerce of colonies restrained, 101.
Common school law, 144.
Commons first represented, 33;
early sessions, 121;
resolution against James, 475.
Compasses deranged at sea, 183.
Complutensian polyglot, 113, 427.
Communist counter revolution, 193.
Comus, notes for, 407.
Conception destroyed, 77.
Concert, greatest known, 206.
Concord sloop of war lost, 385.
Concordat signed, 367.
Confederation of U. States, 199.
Confessio Amantis, 345.
Confession of faith, 31.
Confirmation, age changed, 156.
Congress adj. to Baltimore, 469;
do. Lancaster, 367;
broken up by mutineers, 407;
election of delegates forbidden, 14;
first, adjourned, 412;
first, 349;
first of colonies, 390;
first provincial, 23;
U. S. first, 93;
library burnt, 473, 483;
met under constitution, 129;
proposed in R. I., 195;
surrounded, 243;
Washington's last meeting, 464.
Conjunction moon & pleiades, 452.
Connecticut births, 308;
charter granted, 162;
patent, 109;
river flood, 175;
river lands demanded, 368.
Connestogo, council at, 266.
Connoisseur, the, 46.
Conscription, 2d, 391.
Consecrating water, 30.
Conspiracy at Jamaica, 49.
Constantinople burnt, 36;
fire at, 11;
fire at, 158, 243;
founded, 376.
Constitution, federal, 171;
ratified by congress, 276;
sailed, 293;
U. S. adopted, 366.
Continental forces, 416;
money called in, 108.
Conventicle act passed, 194.
Conventicles prohibited, 22.
Convention, southern, 37.
Convents suppressed in Sardinia, 202;
suppressed in Spain, 306.
Convicts, colony of, 24;
sent to Australia, 34.
Copenhagen, cholera, 342;
library burnt, 377.
Copper mines of Anglesey, 90.
Coppermine river reached, 365.
Copy right, petition for, 49.
Cordeliers executed, 117.
Cordyale printed by Caxton, 121.
Corinth liberated, 316.
Corn bill riot, 95;
exchange originator, 234;
lawful tender, 403;
law rhymer, 457.
Cornelia boarded at Havana, 375.
Corning burnt, 197.
Cornwall granaries plundered, 401.
Corsica united to England, 224.
Coromandel vessels lost, 146.
Corsican constitution, 239;
parliament, 61.
Cortez constitution, 110;
members arrested, 305.
Cortland county erected, 140.
Cotton planters' convention, 261.
Cotton planters' meeting, 415.
Cottonian library burnt, 411.
Council of thirty, 160.
Counsel, first benefit of, 160.
Courland requisition, 376.
Court heads shaved, 184;
of minstrels, 323.
Covenanters executed, 463.
Covent Garden theatre burnt, 94.
Coventry act, 479.
Coverdale's Bible, 386, 387.
Cowper's poems, 478.
Cracow Bible, 294.
Creation of the world, 344.
Crescent frigate sent to Algiers, 34.
Crevasse near New Orleans, 488.
Cricklewood, ice at, 326.
Crimean war terminated, 169;
conference, 155.
Crockards forbidden, 484.
Croton bridge, 253;
celebration, 399.
Crown point fort erected, 344.
Crusade, march of, 321;
third, 246.
Crusades, 221;
against Tunis, 256;
at Vezelai, 256;
ended, 416;
left France, 76.
Crystal palace at New York opened, 277;
at Sydenham, 227.
Cuba coasted by Columbus, 197;
discovered, 413;
expedition denounced, 316;
hurricane, 415;
insurrection, 290;
invaders captured, 324;
revolution attempted, 198.
Cuban obsequies, 356.
Culloden, ship lost, 38.
Cumana destroyed, 407;
earthquake, 279;
earthquake, 472;
falling stars, 432.
Curlew steamer lost, 108.
Cuttie stool thrown, 288.
Cybele, shrine of, 145.
Cypress, code for, 421.
Cythian Goths, 312.
Danbury, cold day, 25.
Danes massacred in England, 433.
Danish bible, 267;
revolution, 29.
Danegelt imposed, 131.
Dantzic magazine explosion, 463.
Danube swollen, 91.
Dardanelles passed, 384.
Dark day at Detroit, 405;
in New England, 198.
Darkness in Canada, 401;
England, 24.
Dartmoor prisoners, 138.
Daughters of Liberty, 231.
Davenport hurricane, 283.
Dead sea first explored, 163.
Dean's half pence, 370.
Dease & Simpson's expedition, 365.
Death an eternal sleep, 401;
penalty in Tuscany, 430.
Debtors discharged, 41.
Decameron, great prize for, 237.
Declaration of independence, 260;
committee, 228;
read, 267.
Declaration of rights, Dutch, 46.
Deerfield purchased, 82.
Defender of faith, 390, 394.
De Jure Regni apud Scotus condemned, 222.
Delaware adopted constitution, 459;
adopted U. S. constitution, 463;
charter, 414;
conveyed to Penn, 334;
granted, 253;
bay discovered, 339;
and Chesapeake canal, 403;
county erected, 98;
river colony, 459.
Delphi, sacrifice at, 129.
Deluge began, 420, 428;
ceased, 468;
began to subside, 227;
subsided, 429.
Denmark, absolute, 284;
acknowledged U. S. independence, 84.
Dephlogisticated air discovered, 301.
Deseret constitution, 138.
Deserters in France pardoned, 117.
Des Jardins canal accident, 100.
Detroit burnt, 215;
first steam boat, 333;
great fire at, 187.
Devil to be released, 391.
Devils dispossessed, 231.
Dew, strange in Ireland, 130.
Dey Algiers assassinated, 468.
Diamond rock, wreck on, 25.
Diana steam boat, 273.
Dickinson college, 30.
Dictionary, French, 366.
Diet of Augsburg, 113.
Digests begun, 472.
Diocletian era, 340.
Diplomatist, female, 202.
Discovery ship returned, 387.
Dispute, catholic and protestant, 310.
Dissenters, bill lost, 301;
protected, 450;
received damages, 168.
District of Columbia, first corner stone, 151.
Doddington ship lost, 281.
Dog fast, 471.
Dominica discovered, 421.
Doncaster church burnt, 88.
Donna Maria frigate explosion, 416.
Dorchester, England, burnt, 310.
Doris frigate lost, 25.
Dort inundation, 154;
synod dissolved, 174.
Douglas castle burnt, 468.
Dover castle well, 376;
quakers, 250.
Drake and Hawkins sailed, 339.
Drana overwhelmed, 235.
Dresden insurrection, 178.
Druidic saturnalia, 9.
Drummond, Edward, 40.
Drury lane theatre, 140;
theatre burnt, 83;
theatre riot, 94, 484.
Dry dock at Brooklyn, 21.
Dublin castle burnt, 139;
under coercion act, 286;
powder explosion, 30.
Duckworth, admiral, 57.
Dudley observatory, 340.
Duel, first in New England, 238;
Hyde Park, 436;
at Paris, 45;
remarkable, 65;
Wellington and Winchelsea, 113.
Dueling discouraged, 97;
proclaimed against, 319.
Dunkirk bought by French, 453;
sold to English, 402.
Dundalk charter, 92.
Dunse convocation, 236.
Dutch admirals killed, 291;
colonies, 416;
declaration of rights, 46;
emigrants to America, 226;
imposter, 82;
language reinstated, 413;
requisition upon, 42;
sailors at Spitzbergen, 26;
sailors winter in Greenland, 152.
Dwarf in England, 478;
remarkable, 350.
Eagle, large, 355.
Ear, experiment on, 12.
Earl of Abergavenny wrecked, 55;
first English, 398.
Earthquakes,
Acapulco, 461;
Algiers, 414;
Antioch, 199;
Apulia, 299;
Arica, 392;
Aveline, 453;
Balbec, 448;
Berytus, 268;
Broussa, 88, 145;
Cairo, 215;
Calabria, 55, 122;
Callao, 414;
Cape Town, 224;
Caraccas, 119;
Catania, 53;
Central America, 56;
Central America, 153;
Charleston, 20, 474;
Chili, 77;
Circleville, 474;
Conception, 77;
Constantinople, 412;
Cumana, 279;
Cumana, 407;
Cumana, 472;
Damascus, 417;
Eastern Europe, 40;
England, 137;
England, 434;
Exeter, N. H., 445;
Finana, 26;
Gibel, 194;
Great Sanger, 91;
Guatemala, 168;
Guatemala, 297;
Gulf stream, 25;
Hayti, 183;
Herefordshire, 71;
Jaffa, 45;
Jeddo, 432;
Kingston, 86;
Laodicea, 194;
Lataka, 194;
Lexington, 88;
Lisbon, 419;
London, 59;
London, 96;
Lima, 225;
Lima, 406;
Lima, 414;
Macon, 111;
Manchester, Ky., 86;
Manilla, 365;
Martinique, 24;
Massachusetts, 100;
Munster, 464;
Murcia, 113;
Natolia, 259;
New England, 57;
N. England, 214;
New England, 415;
New England, 439;
New York, 40;
New Zealand, 39;
Nova Castella, 382;
Ohio, 474;
Oriano, 453;
Oriheula, 113;
Pasto, 37;
Pekin, 228;
Pennsylvania, 474;
Peru, 59;
Peru, 450;
Philadelphia, 58;
Phrygia, 40;
Pittsburg, 474;
Point Peter, 60;
Poonah, 235;
Popayan, 37;
Port au Prince, 217;
Port royal, 298;
Praia, 234;
Quito, 53;
Quito, 423;
Reggie, 80;
Roman world, 285;
St. Jago de Cuba, 303;
St. Jago de Cuba, 450;
St. Martin, 439;
St. Michaels, 272;
St. Michaels, 316;
St. Nicholas, 290;
St. Philip, 119;
San Salvador, 153;
Saphet, 11;
Savannah, 474;
Scylla, 55;
Shiraz, 186;
Sienna, 189;
Simoda, 482;
Smyrna, 270;
South America, 392;
South of Europe, 108;
Souffriere, 173;
Spain, 113;
Syria, 194;
Syria, 319;
Syria, 417;
Teheran, 272;
Teneriffe, 490;
Terceira, 234;
Tripoli, 194;
Tripoli, 448;
Turkey, 259;
Venezuela, 119;
Vesuvius, 231;
Viege, 290;
Yong-ning-tchin, 238;
Zante 417.
East cape discovered, 322.
East Haddam, marriages 11.
East India company chartered, 490;
company revenues, 317;
stock, 376.
East port conflagration, 265.
Easter controversy, 397;
festival regulated, 274.
Ebeling's library, 186.
Eclipse, annular, 366;
effect upon animals, 268;
in England, 111;
in France, 252;
great solar, 65;
of Herodotus, 156;
of moon, 108, 311;
of moon at Babylon, 279;
in Palestine, 447;
of sun, 129, 235, 243, 268, 276, 303, 320, 441, 447;
foretold by Thales, 381;
in United States, 367.
Ecliptic, obliquity, 367.
Ecclesiastics incapacitated, 29.
Eddy stone lighthouse, 393;
fell, 449.
Edessa founded, 406.
Edgar ship blown up, 393, 400.
Edict of Nantes, 148.
Edinburgh balloon ascent, 349;
convention, 441;
covenant against Satan, 458;
foray, 447;
plague at, 35;
presbyterians, 75;
Review, 41;
synod, 156;
tolbooth burnt, 352;
tumults, 479.
Editors condemned to galleys, 235.
Edward I, coffin opened, 12.
Effigies burnt in London, 438.
Eglintoun tournament, 340.
Egypt, British withdrew, 373;
canal cut by British, 148;
pacha deposed, 225.
Egyptian canals cleaned, 179;
curiosities in Eng., 180;
drowned, 187.
Elbe blockaded, 194.
Elephant enraged, 220.
Eleusinian mysteries, 321.
Elizabeth, attempt to assassinate, 90;
island, 207;
abandoned, 237.
Elizabeth's (queen) prayers, 222.
Eliza schooner cast away, 23.
Emancipation in West India islands, 301.
Embargo, British, 26;
on British commerce, 481;
by congress, 119;
in England, 53;
expired, 258;
law to enforce, 21;
ninety days, 134;
repealed, 150.
Emigration to America, 78.
Emperor of France, attempt to assassinate, 266.
Emperors' conference on Niemen, 248, 249.
Empire State boiler exploded, 294.
Ems blockaded, 249.
Encyclopedie contributors, 27.
England, great storm, 412, 443, 449;
king assumed France, 78;
marque and reprisal against, 114;
monarchy restored, 174;
and Scotland united, 28, 174, 287;
revolution in, 66;
surrendered to pope, 192.
English authority abolished, 180;
barons checked, 208;
bishops abolished, 393;
book, first, 368;
churches interdicted, 114;
circumnavigation, 286;
coast storm 461;
colony, first charter, 228;
commonwealth, 200;
council of state, 419;
crown lost, 414;
exchequer shut up, 460;
guard, 260;
liberties, charter, 63;
meals enjoined, 118;
merchants peace address, 122;
Mercurie, 288;
newspaper, first weekly, 332;
nobles murdered, 174;
parliament, Sunday session, 311;
revolution, 459;
robbers, &c., 405;
trade encouraged, 421;
waste lands, 298;
weavers' riot, 203;
emigration checked, 78;
exportations, 454;
gazette, first, 426;
in Paris, 175;
parliament, first regular, 435.
Englishmen, paper, 389.
Ensisheim meteor, 426.
Enterprise steam boat, 289.
Ephesus council, 243.
Episcopal articles signed, 36;
church, first in France, 163;
liturgy, 27;
and Puritan conference, 26.
Epitaph on an actor, 107.
Equestrian feat, 178.
Era, Cæsar's, 9;
Christian, 483;
Dionysius, 248;
Spanish, 9.
Ericson, experiment, 24.
Erie canal bill passed, 149;
canal commenced, 261;
endowed, 154;
first boats, 392;
first law, 140;
first toll, 257;
opened, 166, 410;
catholic church fell, 184;
county erected, 131;
lake, first vessel on, 310;
rising in, 205;
rail road riot, 31, 47;
steam boat burnt, 313;
first, 209;
Pa., rail road mob, 466.
Essex county erected, 89.
Esquimaux discovered, 313.
Estates general of France, 388.
Esthonians hung, 135.
Election for electors, 427.
Etna, eruption, 120, 194, 204, 235, 335, 484.
Etruria annexed to France, 467.
Ettrick foot ball match, 462.
Euphrosyne asteroid discovered, 341.
Europa transport lost, 213.
European and North American rail road, 363;
town, first in America, 464.
Evangelical term adopted, 254.
Evening prayer in English, 152.
Excise, London, 144.
Excommunication threatened, 20;
English barons, 473.
Experiment, sloop, 476.
Exploring expedition surprised, 295.
Explosion of fireworks, 25;
at Leyden, 25;
O. & Pa. R. R. engine, 362;
powder magazine, 45;
powder, 30;
Ravenswood, 44;
Steam, N. Y., 54.
Fair on river Thames, 54.
Falkland islands colonized, 37.
Fall from church spire, 453.
Famine in Paris, 91;
stopt hostilities, 279.
Faneuil hall, troops in, 383.
Farmer's Museum, 20.
Farthing tokens issued, 198.
Fast for book Jeremiah, 425;
day repudiated, 405;
of the Jews, 65;
national, 25;
for Scotland, 342.
Fathers, last of the, 328.
Fatimites in Africa, 298.
Fearn church fell, 394.
Feast of fools, 99.
Federal st. theatre, 53;
burnt, 50.
Felons sent to America, 377;
sent to Virginia, 417.
Female dancers introduced, 193;
member Hist. Soc., 51;
Quixotte, 15.
Fernandino, now Largo, 402.
Festival of fools, 9.
Feudal right abolished, 241.
Field of cloth of gold, 221;
of Mars amphitheatre, 276.
Fifth monarchy men, 22.
Finana, earthquake at, 26.
Fire ball fell, 261.
Fires:
Abo, 353;
Aikin, S. C., 389;
Albany, 325;
Albion col., 15;
Amsterdam, 195;
Ashmole's library, 40;
Ashtabula, 325;
Bath, Eng., 250;
Bath theatre, 199;
Bergen, 34;
Boston, 298;
Boston, 271;
Boston, 384;
Boston castle, 112;
Brooklyn, 356;
Broussa, 145;
Brussels, 40;
Canton, 410;
Caxton printing office, 58;
Chamouni, 285;
Charlestown, 169;
Chesterfield jail, 124;
Cleveland, 415;
Concord, N. H., 335;
Constantinople, 101;
Constantinople, 11, 36, 37, 158, 323;
Constantinople, 243, 315;
Constantinople, 324, 341;
Constantinople, 377;
Copenhagen, 406, 412;
Corning, 197;
Detroit, 187;
Dorchester, 310;
Eastport, 265;
Federal street theatre, 50;
Georgia steamer, 44;
Hamburg, 179;
Hong Kong, 485;
Indiana college, 145;
Lafarge hotel, 21;
Lexington asylum, 71;
Lexington steam boat, 26;
Lincoln, 197;
Liverpool, 373;
Liverpool, 58;
London, 25;
London bridge, 144;
London, 346;
Mayaguez, 45;
Memel, 387;
Metropolitan hotel, 21;
Mobile, 2d fire, 356;
Montreal, 166;
Montreal, 268;
Naples palace, 59;
New London, 351;
New Orleans, 54;
New Orleans, 112;
New York, 163;
New York 1835, 474;
New York, 370;
New York chapel, 108;
New York horses, 209;
Ohio state house, 49;
Owego, 378;
Oxford, 165;
Pera, 313;
Philadelphia, 263;
Philadelphia, 388;
Port au Prince, 22;
Quebec, 40;
Quebec parliament house, 49;
Rome, 263;
Royal Sovereign, 42;
St. Bartholomew, 91;
San Francisco, 482;
St. Johns, 231;
St. Louis, 196;
St. Paul's, London, 217;
Salonica, 141;
Salonica, 282;
Sonora, 237;
Taiefa, 284;
Troy, 336;
Varna, 315;
Washington, 473;
Worcester, 231;
York, Eng., 217.
Fire damp explosion, 13;
king, 34.
Firemen killed, 163.
Fireworks, explosion, 25.
Fish affected by heat, 274;
huge, 296.
Fisheries disturbed, 290;
forbidden, 237.
Five mile act, 417.
Flag, continental, 459;
of truce violated, 46;
of U. S., design, 233.
Flags denationalized, 98.
Flanders immersed, 378.
Fleet, first American, 459.
Flemish-Dutch restored, 363.
Fletcher, Gov., superseded, 130.
Flogging abolished, 10.
Flood began, 428;
in North of England, 89.
Florence, insurrection, 61.
Florida abandoned, 335;
admitted, 92;
arrival at, 260;
ceded to U. S., 76;
conquest undertaken, 188;
de Soto landed, 211;
discovered, 111, 130;
expedition, 356;
invaded, 196;
settlements destroyed, 177;
townships, 444.
Flushing, first newspaper, 110.
Fog in London, 10, 460.
Fontaine Moliere erected, 28.
Foreigners enlisted in England, 481.
Forgery, hanging for, 218.
Formosa inundated, 202.
Fort Bizoton blown up, 251.
Fort Dauphin massacre, 266.
Fort George erected, 242.
Fort Mandan, Clark at, 443.
Forth and Clyde canal, 296.
Fortune amassed by agriculture, 54.
France bankrupt, 336;
conquest of, 49;
an empire, 180;
and England declare war, 197;
hostilities ceased, 134;
invaded by allies, 11, 197;
national mourning, 35;
new constitution, 424;
re-established religion, 69;
trade restricted, 19, 100, 431;
war against by Turkey, 358.
Franciscans, founder of, 386.
Frankfort insurrection, 365.
Franklin county erected, 99;
steamer lost, 282.
Freedom and equality, 52.
Freeholder of Addison, 481.
Freemasons, edict against, 26, 30;
prohibited, 311, 376.
Free trade and sailor's rights, 258.
Freiburg insurrection, 162.
French abolished in Netherlands, 272;
ambassadors assassinated, 170;
and American flags, 322;
armament for Egypt, 198;
army destitute, 194;
assembly dissolved, 380, 412, 458;
cabinet resigned, 418;
calendar, 368, 449;
coin in Dorchester, 298;
conquests validated by the pope, 291;
constitution, 138;
constitution, 332;
constitution, new, 347;
crown renounced, 184;
declaration, rights of man, 246;
Dictionary, 366;
directory, division in, 348, 413;
empire, restoration, 406;
emperor visited English queen, 167;
festival to God, 224;
flag presented to congress, 15;
fleet dispersed, 318;
fleet sailed for Turkish waters, 111;
imperial guard, 488;
king, insult to, 280;
king led in triumph, 368;
massacred by negroes, 266;
massacred in Sicily, 124;
ministers tried, 479;
ministers returned, 279;
national assembly opened, 181;
national confederation, 276;
ordered from Hayti, 236;
peace rejected, 465;
provinces in America, 390;
refugees in England, 364;
republic acknowledged, 41;
republic acknowledged, 206;
republic declared, 370;
republican era, 372;
republican era abolished, 11;
returned from Palestine, 164;
revolution began, 180;
revolution, second, 295;
royal family saved, 389;
servants dismissed, 256;
states general met, 175;
throne vacant, 310;
treaty annulled, 266;
troops at Boston, 223;
victories, 52;
vote empire, 445.
Freshet in Hudson, 19;
at Vienna, 91.
Friend's Review, 277.
Frobisher's strait, 315.
Frost in England, 465, 480;
after great heat, 280;
at Paris, 96.
Fugitive claimed by British, 294;
slave bill, 359.
Fulton steam frigate, 218, 416.
Funchal deluged, 393;
swept away, 410.
Funeral, large, 33.
Gabelle tax abolished, 187.
Gale, 41;
at Albany, 108.
Gallinas, slave factory, 196.
Galongoon eruption, 392.
Galvanism, 55.
Gaming, English ladies fined, 99.
Ganges canal, 141;
first steam boat, 273;
storm, 396.
Garachico destroyed, 180.
Garter, order instituted, 162.
Gas light in Philadelphia, 449.
Gasper burnt, 226.
Gaza, Bonaparte at, 88.
Gazelle, explosion of, 141.
Gebel al Tarik, 287.
Gelalean era, 103.
General Pike, steamer, 155.
Genesee country immigrants, 88;
route, 218.
Geneva stage, 382;
revolt, 284;
conspiracy at, 12;
revolutionary tribunal, 285.
Genoa united to France, 218.
Gentleman's Magazine, 10, 22.
Gentle shepherd of Ramsay, 19.
Georgia adopted new government, 55;
charter surrendered, 241;
ratified constitution, 12;
volcano, 405.
George III, statue in New York, 330.
Georgium sidus, 336.
German bond of union, 375;
jubilee, 309;
provinces republicanized, 385.
Germanic union, 289.
Germany, first rail road, 464.
Gerard, E. M., 155.
Ghent, meeting at, 311.
Giant, 456, 366, 398, 429;
skeleton, 125, 264.
Giantess of Kentucky, 299.
Gibbets cut down, 132.
Gibraltar ceded to England, 90;
derivation, 172;
relieved, 35.
Gibel destroyed, 194.
Gin, selling without license, 99.
Girard college opened, 11.
Girondists sentenced, 417;
executed, 418.
Gladiators sent to mines, 383.
Glasgow malt tumult, 247.
Glass engraving, 197;
painting on, 9.
Glencoe massacre, 46.
Glutton buried in highway, 101.
Gluttony, case of, 105.
God abolished in France, 183;
decree against, 127.
God save the king, 265.
Godstow nunnery prohibited, 486.
Gold, potable, 206.
Golden numbers, 189.
Good Hope surrendered, 22.
Gorboduc, tragedy of, 31.
Goshen, first newspaper, 321.
Gottingen, university opened, 368.
Government loan, 242.
Governor, absents himself, 399.
Grain exported, 270;
export prohibited, 232.
Grande armée column, 336.
Grants in New York vacated, 249.
Grave digger at Paris, 139;
stone, ancient, 137.
Great Britain, invasion threatened, 57;
and Ireland united, 11, 258;
steamer lost, 408;
union against, 235;
union opposed, 479;
war with Russia, 412.
Great Malvern volcano, 399.
Great Republic burnt, 486.
Great Republic clipper, 387.
Great Tom bell, 459.
Great Western steamer, 163, 213.
Greece, first king, 46;
government changed, 469;
king, 440;
national assembly, 477;
throne declined, 201.
Grecian mysteries, 321.
Greek brotherhood, 374;
church protectorate demanded, 181;
and Latin churches unite, 220;
states recognized, 286;
church ceremony, 30;
& Latin churches united, 26.
Gregano, land slide, 80.
Gregorian calendar adopted in England, 117;
style at Paris, 473;
in Spain, 387.
Greene county erected, 117.
Greene's army destitute, 471.
Greenland adventures, 205;
Dutch sailors perish, 152.
Grenadiers introduced, 253.
Greenwich observatory, 314.
Greytown elects governor, 352.
Griffin, keel laid, 40.
Griffith steamer, 237.
Grignoncourt hail storm, 251.
Grimshaw burnt, 433.
Grinnell's ships left New York, 203.
Grosvenor square house, 226.
Guadaloupe, 423.
Guam, tornado, 373.
Guanahani discovered, 397.
Guano difficulty, 404.
Guardian appeared, 90.
Guatemala earthquake, 168, 297.
Gulf coast, gale, 368.
Gulf island arose, 330.
Guiana settled, 201.
Guienne incorporated, 404.
Guildhall, king's statue, 182.
Guillotine adopted, 111;
erected, 281;
used at Paris, 160;
71 persons executed, 269.
Guisnes, royal interview, 217;
tournament at, 228.
Gun, great, 318.
Guntoor, mission at, 399.
Gunpowder first used, 121;
plot, 45, 46, 424.
Guttenberg statue inaugurated, 321.
Guy park council, 205.
Gypsies expelled England, 461.
Haarlem, anniversary, 269.
Habeas corpus act, 207;
suspended, 21, 55, 105.
Hadley falls dam, 440.
Hague, civic festival, 92.
Hague street explosion, 54.
Hail Columbia, author, 28.
Hail storm in France, 251, 275.
Hair powder tax, 180.
Hair, long, discountenanced, 186.
Halifax anniversary, 234;
colonists, 234.
Half Moon lost, 176;
at Chesapeake bay, 326;
at Dartmouth, 426.
Half pence sent to Ireland, 343.
Halsewell wrecked, 18.
Halve Maan, yacht, 141;
returned, 278;
wrecked, 94.
Hamburg annexed to France, 11;
fire at, 179;
submerged, 208.
Hamilton county erected, 147.
Hampton conference, 26.
Hangman, hereditary, 241.
Hannah, brig, discharged, 388.
Hannibal, slave ship, 423.
Hanover, constitution annulled, 200;
electorate, 353.
Hanseatic conscription, 378.
Hanslope church fell, 247.
Hapsburg, house of, 337.
Harantoreen lake sunk, 117.
Harbor creek mob, 466.
Harlem rail road, 413.
Hartford armed against Indians, 174;
bank, 233;
convention, 473;
Dutch claims on, 368;
settlers, 400;
Times, 213.
Harvard college founded, 353;
first commencement, 393;
bequest, 249.
Hazel trees imbedded, 77.
Havana flood, 243;
hurricane, 388, 396, 415;
insurrection, 111;
cholera, 86.
Hayti became an empire, 335;
civil war, 413;
declared its independence, 11;
discovered, 461;
divided, 28;
earthquake, 183;
insurgents, 113;
monarchy established, 122;
nobility created, 136;
revolt, 233.
Heart disinterred, 41.
Heat, extraordinary, 316.
Hearne's journal, 334.
Hearth stone tax, 89.
Hebrew, first teacher at Harvard, 165;
temple, 353.
Hebrews disfranchised, 313, 373.
Hecla eruption, 152.
Hegira, 371;
era of, 279.
Heiress stealing, 465.
Hellespont crossed, 262.
Hellfire clubs, 169.
Hellgate, explosion at, 119.
Heiress seized, 434.
Henry Clay steam boat burnt, 297.
Henry VIII, head shaved, 184.
Herculaneum buried, 419.
Heresies of Luther censured, 150.
Heresy, burning for, 169;
execution for, 210.
Heretics burnt at Paris, 187.
Herkimer county erected, 70.
Hermit of New Jersey, 33;
of Niagara, 227.
Hernhutters, founder of, 185.
Herschel discovered, 101.
Hesiod's calendar, 54, 56.
Hessian soldiers paid for, 444.
Hetairea defeated, 240;
extirpated, 374.
Hertfordshire earthquake, 71.
Hibernia launched, 438.
Highlanders at Johnstown, 33.
High water, 41.
Hindoo widow married, 427.
Hindostan conquered by Tartars, 159;
East Indiaman lost, 23.
Hispaniola discovered, 461.
History of Scotland condemned, 222.
Hoboken duel, 271.
Hobson's choice, 10.
Holidays, insurrection, 141.
Holland abolished French, 11;
ack. independence U. S., 157;
annexed, 269;
assembly met, 41;
incorporated with France, 271;
religious liberty law, 354;
submerged, 248;
trade restricted, 431;
and Zealand united, 165.
Holy alliance, Netherlands, 243.
Holy cross college burnt, 277.
Holy league, 228.
Homoepathic college mobbed, 71.
Honey dew, 269.
Hong Kong ceded to British, 341.
Horned woman, 139.
Horseracing, act against, 171.
Horticulture, new system, 57.
Hospital of congress, 294.
Hostilities ceased at New Orleans, 102;
ceased U. S. and G. Britain, 53, 157.
Howard college burnt, 398.
Houghton pictures sold, 379.
Huddersfield, Roman remains, 94.
Hudson, first newspaper in, 139.
Hudson river discovered, 117;
grant of, 100;
rail road, 384, 393, 491.
Hudson's crew rescued, 344.
Huguenots renegade, 474.
Humboldt steamer lost, 462.
Humiliation for war, 167.
Hungarian diet dissolved, 386;
refugees, 364.
Hungary dec. independence, 457.
Huns entered Gaul, 489.
Hurricane East Indies, 10;
in England, 82, 440;
at Liverpool, 19;
at Norfolk, 97;
in Ohio, 34.
Hydrogen gas for balloons, 432.
Icarians, founder, 429.
Ice broke up at Paris, 154;
in Long Island sound, 81;
singular discovery of, 325.
Ice islands, 480.
Iceland hurricane, 484.
Icelandic library burnt, 377.
Idler appeared, 135.
Illinois admitted, 459;
tornado, 194.
Images pulled down, 193.
Immaculate conception dogma, 465.
Immigration, great, 261, 266.
Impressment, American orders, 488;
of seamen, 244.
Imprisonment for debt, 96, 167, 313, 384, 445.
Income tax, 460.
Indemnity act, 340.
Independence declared, 258;
U. S. acknowledged, 34;
steamer wrecked, 71.
Indian beaver grounds, 283;
chiefs before the queen, 156;
chiefs in London, 156;
chief, wealthy, 320;
college at Bermuda, 26;
country released, 362;
expedition, 266;
hostilities ceased, 467;
league at Albany, 383;
massacre, 151;
massacre Pavonia, 83;
pipes, 306;
sachems submitted, 360;
services engaged, 205;
war of extermination, 283.
Indians surprised, 76;
taken into service, 268.
Indiana admitted, 468;
first election, 308;
university burnt, 145.
Indifferents, order of, 209.
Indulgence act, 104.
Indulgences, 18.
Industrial Luminary, 150.
Infant schools prohibited, 315.
Infidel world divided, 177.
Infernal machine, 395.
Inland navigation, 150.
Inoculation experiment, 107;
opposed, 151;
prohibited, 311.
Inquisition abolished, 52, 279, 461;
founder, 37;
reestablished, 286;
of Spain, 426.
Insurrection at Milan, 58.
Intelligence, speedy transmission, 235.
Interludes by parish clerks, 282.
Interment, singular, 54.
Internal improvements, N. Y., 152, 154.
Inventors convention, 331.
Inverary, flood at, 352.
Ionian isles submitted to Great Britain, 459;
republic, 112.
Ipecacuanha, 10.
Ireland, invasion frustrated, 476;
outbreak, 297;
prices of provisions, 372;
settlement of, 317.
Iris, 15, 30.
Irish agitation checked, 399;
commission to convent, 106;
disturbances, 466;
friars suppressed, 454;
giant, 190, 214;
homage to John, 220;
levelers suppressed, 168;
papist, no quarters for, 410;
pestilence, 186;
rebellion began, 75, 125, 203, 372, 409;
woolens exported, 27.
Iron bridge, Sunderland, 374;
crown, order of, 218;
mask, 441.
Iroquois armed with guns, 104;
allies, 374.
Irrawaddy tornado, 163.
Isabella founded, 464;
island discovered, 404.
Island emerged from sea, 219.
Isle of France, position, 157;
of Man Gazette, 108;
of Sable colonized, 24.
Israelites in wilderness, 150.
Issondein deputation, 443.
Italian merchants in France, 174;
refugees relieved, 342.
Italy popular movements, 437;
war renewed, 486.
Jackson, attempts to assassinate, 45.
Jackson's sword, 86;
victory, 38.
Jacobin hall closed, 430;
power crushed, 187;
society attacked, 428.
Jacob's twelve sons, 164.
Jaffa, earthquake, 45.
Jail liberties in New York, 125.
Jamaica abol. slavery, 467;
conspiracy, 49;
discovered, 175;
earthquake, 222;
hurricane, 384, 406, 408;
slave import, 448;
negro insurrection, 205, 393, 487, 498.
James's fever powders, 114.
Jamestown colony reinforced, 186, 203;
Va., settled, 190.
Janizaries abolished, 234.
Jansenists, founder, 184.
Japan, Am. expedition at, 268;
expedition at Loo Choo, 260;
Americans landed at, 277.
Java tempest, 316.
Jefferson county erected, 122.
Jeremiah, book of, 425.
Jersey immigrants, 323;
proprietors surrendered, 151.
Jerusalem destroyed, 352;
embankments buried, 209;
English cathedral, 44;
fast for, 224;
massacre at, 152;
rebuilt, 205;
resurrection church, 360;
riots, 275;
siege by Caxton, 442;
taken, 353;
walls dedicated, 309;
spoils removed, 252.
Jesuit's bark introduced, 329;
confirmed, 377;
confiscated, 306;
expelled, 459;
expelled Russia, 117;
expelled from Spain, 126;
extinguished, 286;
insurrection, 162;
plan of, 32;
reinstated, 12.
Jesuit Relacions, 60;
society founded, 488.
Jesus college, founder, 383.
Jesus's bell broken up, 293.
Jewish ambassadors, 56;
capitation tax, 203;
sanhedrim, 212.
Jews, amelioration of, 147;
banished England, 419;
banished Spain, 90;
civil disabilities, 136;
disability bill, 194;
exiled from England, 343;
league with Rome, 470;
massacred, 152;
privileged, 43;
to wear badges, 389;
of York massacred, 104.
John Rutledge sunk, 76.
Johnstown, council at, 97.
John Jay steam boat burnt, 295.
Jokmali eruption, 451.
Jonesville mob, 274.
Jorullo, volcano, 380.
Journal des Savans, 211.
Juan Fernandez, 48.
Julian the apostate burnt, 442.
Junction canal, 441.
Juno discovered, 342, 345.
Jupiter, 4th satellite discovered, 25;
statue in temple, 472;
temple overthrown, 413.
Jury broke out, 392.
Justinian's institutes, 443.
Kansas, cold, 52;
emigrants, 282;
free state legislature, 261;
legislature, 93;
organized, 259;
removal of Reeder, 299;
sheriff shot, 165.
Kate Kearney explosion, 71.
Katlagia phenomenon, 402.
Kedging, 273.
Kelwinning steeple fell, 303.
Kennet and Avon canal, 266.
Kentucky admitted, 215;
emigrants, 192;
first legislature, 218;
giant, 255;
giantess, 299;
independent state, 463.
Kerry insurrection, 46.
King abolished in England, 57;
of England attacked, 48;
profusion, 87;
John's castle, 42;
Philip's war, 246.
King's bench prison plot, 233;
book creed, 172;
evil, 16;
touching for, 264;
guard the militia, 59;
person clause, 116;
statue in Guild hall, 182.
Kingston, Jamaica, earthquake, 298.
Kingston, N. Y., founded, 212.
Kirk of Scotland assembly, 218.
Kirkaldy, accident at, 19.
Kirkcudbright charter, 412.
Knights of Malta, 9.
Knights of St. John, 92.
Knights templars, 447;
suppressed, 113;
arrested, 397.
Know nothing convention, 220.
Know somethings, 232.
Koh-i-noor diamond, 299.
Koszta affair, 341.
Kyanized wood, inventor, 20.
Labrador gale, 257.
Lacteals discovered, 288.
Ladies fined for gaming, 99.
Ladrones discovered, 34, 94.
Lady of Loretto, 62.
Lætitia asteroid, 113.
Lafarge hotel burnt, 21.
Lake Borgne, gale, 368.
Lake Champlain seigniories, 158;
steam boat, 252.
Lake Erie tempest, 432.
Lakes, first steam boat, 420.
Lake George embarkation, 262.
Lake sunk, 117.
Lampreys, surfeit, 456.
Lancaster jail broken, 485.
Land slide, 273.
Langue d'Oc poets, 177.
Lapeer county tornado, 193.
Large family premium, 24.
Largo, island, 402.
Last island destroyed, 315.
Lataka destroyed, 194.
Latins expelled from Constantinople, 291.
Lauwertz lake filled, 346.
Lead pipe dug up in London, 188.
League and covenant burned, 201.
Leeds bridge school, 260.
Leek for queen Mary, 89.
Legacies to religious purposes, 410.
Leghorn insurrection, 350;
merchants invited, 226.
Leonard, Abigail, 40.
Levant patent surrendered, 219.
Levee disrupted, 277.
Levée en masse, 322.
Leverian museum sold, 283.
Lewis county erected, 120.
Lewis's river discovered, 318.
Lewistown, demand upon, 105.
Lexington, cholera at, 215;
lunatic asylum, 71;
steam boat burnt, 26.
Leyden, explosion, 25.
Libel on England, 207;
execution for, 180;
punished, 232.
Liberia colonized, 20;
first election, 389;
Herald, 71.
Liberty of conscience recognized, 414;
tree consecrated, 320.
Library bequeathed, 55;
burnt, 40;
finest private, 430;
public in N. York, 161;
N. Y. state, 160.
License of plays, 432.
Lidden skeletons, 297.
Lievely, arctic discoveries at, 361.
Lightning conductor, first, 440.
Lima destroyed, 406;
earthquake, 225;
founded, 31.
Lincoln burnt, 197;
church bell, 459;
parliament, 444.
Linlithgow charter, 409.
Lion, old, died, 429.
Lisbon auto-da-fé, 369;
plot against British, 363.
Litchfield anniversary, 320.
Lit de justice, last, 308.
Lithy, ball of fire fell, 116.
Little Falls excavation, 284.
Liturgy, conference on, 117;
of England church, 27.
Liverpool Athenæum, 10;
fete to American envoy, 15;
Times, 208.
Living skeleton, 365.
Livingston county erected, 81.
Loa, eruption at Mt., 73.
Loan and premium, 242.
Loans to foreigners forbidden, 116.
Lobos island difficulty, 404, 436.
London, apprentices riot, 174;
and Birmingham railway, 365;
bread riot, 416;
bridge burnt, 144, 269;
bridge carried away, 65;
conflict on, 416;
bridge finished, 299;
coffee houses reopened, 447;
cold at, 490;
conduit ran wine, 210;
Courier fined, 212;
criminal rescue, 327;
daily mail, 247;
in darkness, 22;
deaths, 345;
earthquake, 59;
fire, 346;
fog, 11, 452;
foreigners in, 476;
Gazette, 52;
illuminated, 98, 147, 154;
insurrection, 141;
interdicted, 473;
mayor of, 12;
mortality, 469;
plague, 214, 368;
plague bill, 298;
plot to blow up prison, 233;
portcullis destroyed, 60;
post office, 23;
powder explosion, 14;
printers, 396;
prisons burnt, 222;
protestant meeting, 210;
riots, 70, 179, 210, 216, 221, 222;
roads protected, 405;
royal exchange, 379;
scourge, 326;
stationers, charter, 180;
Sunday riot, 257;
Times by steam, 454;
tower burnt, 406;
zoological society, 121.
Longevity,
African farmer, 220;
Anthony, 34;
Bacchus, 167;
Barney, 29;
Beauguard, 234;
Binkley, 88;
Birdseye, 43;
Blowers, 411;
Bluydenburge, 45;
Bogard, 233;
Bowels, 322;
Bowles, 424;
Braithwaite, 480;
Brown, 366;
Burgeois, 69;
Butler, 33;
Byles, 46;
Carn, 43;
Carvallo, 47;
Cary, 216;
Cervetto, 26;
Clum, 38;
Cobb, 465;
Cole, 263;
Cowley, 60;
Crauford, 161;
Crawford, 77;
Cuffee, 13;
Damme, 76;
Dawson, 452;
Dean, 429;
Democritus, 312;
De Solis, 62;
Dinah, 163;
Dodd, 280;
Drakenberg, 247;
Drinker, Ed., 438;
Ellis, 216;
Ferguson, 309;
Fletcher, 51;
Forthon, 62;
Gaunnor, 364;
Gilbert, 76;
Gough, 405;
Grindell, 244;
Hatchcock, 149;
Henry, African, 410;
Hippocrates, 312;
Holyoke, 127;
Howard, 420;
Hunt, 100;
James, 277;
Jamison, 38;
Jenkins, 15;
John, 141;
Johnson, 100;
Laughlin, 292;
Leonard, 40;
Lescure, 92;
Letts, 387;
Lusk, 224;
McDonald, 329, 348;
McDonald, 39;
McGwinn, 49;
Martin, 68;
Michofsky, 152;
Moor, 325;
Moore, 49;
Moore, 152;
Mossequin, 131;
Mourtrie, 11;
Murphy, 193;
Murray, 273;
Negro woman, 283;
Parr, Robert, 370;
Parr, Thomas, 424;
Pearce, 86;
Petrarch, 16;
Pompey, 296;
Raduly, 31;
Ramsay, 204;
Reilay, John, 155;
Robin, 321;
Rouen, 335;
Rush, C., 176;
Ryalls, 359;
Sheppard, 14;
Sinnet, 19;
Spencer, 398;
Sprouse, Mary, 183;
Stone, 408;
Surrington, 393;
Sutherland, 143;
Taveira, 43;
Thomas, 144;
Thompson, 288;
Thrower, 124;
Torrey, 29;
Valnier, 136;
Wallace, 37;
Wingate, 20;
Winslow, 329;
Whitcomb, 127;
Wright, 29.
Long Island, grant of, 100;
sound frozen, 52.
Longitude, chronometer to discover, 126;
expedition, 243;
mode of ascertaining, 116.
Long parliament, 78;
closed, 142;
dissolved, 105.
Longueville treaty, 61.
Lookout mountain, volcano, 405.
Lopez expeditionists returned, 102.
Lords, house of, 468.
Lords of misrule, 9.
Lorrain duchy, 82.
Lotea inundated, 173.
Lottery for college, 408, 415;
first English, 23;
English, closed, 181;
first by congress, 439;
last in London, 404;
schooner, 98;
for Sloane's library, 135;
tickets eagerness for, 151.
Lovers killed by lightning, 299.
Louis Napoleon visited Victoria, 167.
Louisiana became a state, 140;
constitution revised, 263;
protest renounced, 63;
steam boat burnt, 436.
Louisville excitement, 172;
riot, 309;
tornado, 339.
Lounger appeared, 392.
Lucy Walker steam boilers burst, 409.
Luddites hanged, 154.
Luther's books prohibited, 281.
Lutheran missionary, first, 399;
Palatines, 232;
system rejected, 140.
Luxor obelisk at Paris, 411.
Lunar cycle of Meton, 189;
rainbow, 30;
volcanoes, 157.
Lyford, giant, 98.
Lyons decree, 459;
mine explosion, 13;
riots, 444.
Lysippus's Hercules, 145.
Machinery, labor-saving, destroyed, 154.
Mackenzie river traced, 324.
Macon earthquake, 111;
planters' meeting, 415.
Mad parliament, 227.
Madagascar discovered, 313.
Madeira deluge, 393;
discovered, 257;
great storm, 410.
Madison county, erected, 113;
island, 441.
Madras hurricane, 384.
Madrid insurrection, 176, 183, 280, 282, 284;
new palace, 418.
Magellan straits, 82.
Magna charta signed, 252.
Magnetic clock discovered, 17.
Mahmudie canal, 360.
Mail Boston to N. Y., 467;
daily in London, 247;
searched at Havana, 373;
speedy transmission, 466.
Maine became a state, 104;
boundary settled, 313;
settlements encouraged, 88;
tornado, 328.
Majorca insurrection, 109.
Malayan dictionary, 389.
Malta conspiracy, 221, 249;
granted to knights, 92;
regenerated, 240.
Mamelukes crushed, 148.
Mammoth skeleton found, 175.
Manchester Gazette, 315;
riot, 393.
Manhattan first emigrants, 226.
Man, isle of, 385.
Manifesto against U. S., 21.
Manoa del Dorado, 113.
Manors created, 155.
Manteno hurricane, 246.
Mantua, fete of Virgil, 400;
wedding accident at, 217.
Man of war, largest, 438.
Marietta settled, 139.
Marines established, 383.
Maritime conscription, 378.
Marriage, accident at, 160;
act of England, 367;
law decision, 226.
Marriages, auspicious day, 54;
at East Haddam, 11;
by justices, 334.
Marseilles canal, 268;
in a state of siege, 41.
Martinique, earthquake at, 24;
insurrection, 203;
volcano, 309;
expedition against, 228.
Martyr, female, first in Eng., 169.
Maryland adop. constitution, 170;
charter, 251;
constitution, 321;
controversy, 365;
grant, 231;
patent, 241;
ratified constitution, 89;
removed free blacks, 69;
repudiated repudiation, 11;
sanctioned congress, 293.
Marysville explosion, 320.
Masonic hall, Philadelphia, 377.
Mass, debate on, 447.
Massacre U. S. prisoners, 38.
Massachusetts adopted constitution, 55, 57;
assembly prorogued, 278;
bay expedition, 366;
charter forfeited, 238;
congress, 48;
convention, 372;
court met, 392;
delegates, 222;
first birth, 25;
general court, 404;
minute men, 407;
new charter, 191;
patent, 92;
patent demanded, 133;
revolution, 156;
sold, 109.
Masquerade, first Scotch, 27.
Masquerades prohibited, 28, 30;
regulated, 18.
Matins of Moscow, 207.
Matrimonial celebration, 400.
Mattawacks, grant of, 100.
Matthew's Bible, 433.
Maunday first distributed, 124.
Mauvoisin lake irrupted, 235.
Mayaguez burnt, 45.
Maypole charter, 447.
Mayflower sailed, 344, 350.
Maying, Henry VIII and queen, 174.
Meal tub plot discovered, 409.
Mechanique celeste, 105.
Meeting house fell, 210.
Melville island, 305.
Men, birth of, 34.
Menai bridge, 45.
Merchant Royal wrecked, 372.
Meredith, accident at, 102.
Merino sheep introduced, 295.
Merrimac river canal, 150.
Mesilla valley, 138.
Message, speedy transmission, 466.
Metamoras hurricane, 348.
Meteor at Amherst, 319;
at Canterbury, 476;
at Connecticut, 472;
in England, 109;
in Italy, 112;
at Leipsic, 201;
at Lillebone, 482;
struck ship, 423;
at Stoke, 423;
in Thuringia, 424;
fell in Verde, 459.
Meteoric phenomena, 434;
shower, 46, 159, 193, 350;
in Cumana, 432;
in Ireland, 130, 436;
at Naumburg, 121;
at Rockhausen, 262;
stones, 45, 418, 450, 455.
Methodism, expulsion for, 100.
Methodists proscribed, 150;
support established church, 342.
Metropolitan hall burnt, 21.
Meux vats burst, 363.
Mexican boundary, 395;
congress dissolved, 417;
era, 85;
massacre, 189;
mint, coinage of, 490;
presidents, 58;
revolt, 242;
revolution, 17, 390, 461;
wheels sent to Spain, 279.
Mexico, cholera, 358;
expedition against, 342;
independence, 434;
ships launched, 169;
voted Santa Anna, 460.
Michigan admitted, 241.
Midlothian coal pits, 110.
Milan decree, 475.
Military titles discarded, 151.
Militia bill refused by Charles I, 87;
organization, 97.
Millerites, founder, 478.
Milwaukee mob, 310.
Minims, founder of, 130.
Minorca ceded to England, 90.
Mint of United States, 90.
Minute men, Massachusetts, 407;
raised, 293.
Mirage, 293.
Mirror, Edinburgh, 19.
Mississippi admitted, 467;
bubble burst, 250;
city, gale, 368;
crevasse, 249;
explored, 236;
scheme, 203;
traced, 87.
Missouri admitted, 315;
head waters, 318;
R. R. accident, 420;
tornado, 194.
Mist's Journal indicted, 239.
Mob of women, 31.
Mobile district erected, 212.
Mohammedan era began, 279.
Mohawk and Hudson rail road, 318.
Mohawks in London, 157;
sold lands, 123.
Mohegan chief, 477.
Molasses seized at Boston, 267.
Molodechno bulletin, 459.
Molucca, voyage to, 350.
Monasteries fell in England, 189;
Spanish, abolished, 410;
suppressed, 29.
Monastic establishments abolished, 66.
Money lenders seized, 174.
Monitorial system of instruction, 42.
Monks absolved, 33.
Monolithic column, 273.
Monroe county erected, 81.
Monster barn, 154.
Montague ship, meteor, 423.
Montevideo, revolution, 449.
Montgolfier, balloon, 444.
Montgomery county erected, 100.
Montpelier, booth fell, 299.
Montreal conflagration, 268;
parliament houses burnt, 160;
rebellion, 423;
riot, 225, 323.
Moon of Intelligence, 34.
Moore's Almanac, 41.
Moralities sanctioned, 460.
Morning Post, 49.
Morocco, letter to emperor, 457.
Mormon temple burnt, 406.
Morristown, American army at, 18.
Mortality in London, 368.
Mosaic pavement at Avenches, 377.
Moscow abandoned, 404;
church erected, 18;
cold day, 24;
founded, 172;
people returned to, 408;
printing at, 89;
riot, 231.
Moselle steam boat explosion, 166.
Moses fountains visited, 480.
Monument to French soldiers, 458.
Mosquito territory annexed, 63.
Moultan destroyed, 332.
Mt. Auburn dedicated, 374.
Mt. Cenis scaled, 200.
Mt. Etna convulsed, 245;
eruption, 99, 165, 187;
volcano, 440.
Mt. St. Bernard passed, 200.
Mt. Voisin meteor, 450.
Mountain party, fall of, 389;
removed, 122.
Mummy at Auvergne, 53.
Munchausen's travels, 10.
Murderer hung by mob, 274.
Musical festival to Handel, 206;
small coal man, 361.
Mutiny at Birmingham, 97;
in parliamentary army, 125;
U. S. ships, 51, 125;
Washington's troops, 205.
Mysteries permitted, 460.
Nantes, edict of, 172;
revoked, 408.
Nantucket neutral, 332.
Naples massacre, 196;
palace burnt, 59;
under Bonaparte, 125.
Narbonassar, era of, 85.
Narragansetts, 42.
Narragansett flood, 322.
Natchez disunion meeting, 391;
tornado, 183.
National assembly excluded, 241;
formed, 235;
king sanctions, 278;
Ag. convention, 247;
convention attacked, 387;
fast, 25.
Natolia earthquake, 336.
Naumburg meteoric shower, 121.
Naumkeak settlers, 152.
Nautilus lost, 17.
Nauvoo temple destroyed, 208.
Naval warfare, system, 104.
Navidad, colony lost, 432.
Navigator's islands, 463.
Navy island evacuated, 27.
Neapolitan emigrants, 45.
Negro apprenticeship, 301;
burnt, 41;
insurrection, 21, 330;
colony, 21;
incendiary, 44;
plot, 108;
traffic facilitated, 231.
Negroes captured, 321;
contract to furnish, 356;
pillage Port-au-Prince, 22.
Netherlands joined holy alliance, 243;
national language, 363;
union of, 165, 245.
Neva overflowed, 440.
Nevis, hurricane at, 331.
New Amstel, 364.
New Amsterdam, 338.
Newburgh settled, 373.
Newburyport canal, 150.
New Castle, 364;
Chronicle, 116.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, cholera, 343.
New Connecticut, 324.
New Edinburgh settled, 423.
New England army, 341;
comet, 438;
commerce restrained, 62;
Courant, 323;
duel, 238;
earthquake, 57;
emigrants detained, 133;
era of settlement, 490;
first export, 470;
great storm, 322;
origin of term, 172;
settlers arrived, 264;
trade regulated, 425.
New France, population, 467.
Newfoundland patents, 168;
tempest, 358.
Newgate destroyed, 221;
felons transported, 377;
ventilators, 121.
New Grenada independence, 310.
New Guinea, 459.
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.
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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