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.