Establishment of the Swiss Republics Robert Bruce defeats the English at the battle of Ban- nockburn.... .1296. . 1307. .1314. The famous league of Smalcald which was the formal banding together of nine sovereign princes of Ger- The Reformation in England .1534. The Interim granted by Charles V. to the Protestants.1548. anism... 1552. The massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 24...A. D. 1572. 1579. The world circumnavigated by Sir Francis Drake.....1580. .1584. Virginia discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh .1584. Mary Queen of Scots beheaded at Fotheringay. ...1587. ..1588. .1589. Henry IV. [the Great] made king of France... League of the Protestant Princes against the Emperor The peace of Westphalia which terminated the thirty .1648. Montreal and Canada taken by the British......A. D. 1760. Poland dismembered by Russia, Prussia and Austria..1772. Battle of Bunker Hill. June 17 ..... ...1775. The Americans declare their independence. July 4 ..1776. The surrender of Burgoyne. October 17.. 1777. League between France and America. October 30 ..1778. Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. October 18 ..1781. Independence of United States declared. January 20..1783. George Washington becomes first President of the Dec. 2.....1804. Bonaparte crowned Emperor of France. trade. June 10.... ...1806. Battle of Jena and total defeat of the Prussians. October 14 .... .1806. Abolition of the slave trade in the United States. .1808. Bonaparte divorces Josephine. January 16.... 1810. Population of the United States, 7,239,903. .1810. War declared by the United States against Great Britain. June 18 ..1812. The burning of Moscow. September 14..... 1812. The Spanish Inquisition abolished by the Cortes .....1813. Commodore Perry captures the British Squadron on 1814. Napoleon sails for the Island of Elba. April 28......1814. Inquisition restored in Spain. July 18..... British squadron on Lake Champlain captured by Com modore McDonough. September 11 A. D. 1814. The British defeated at New Orleans. January 8....1815. Bonaparte sailed from Elba, February 26,-lands in France, March 1,-enters Paris March 26........1815. Battle of Waterloo. June 17 and 18 Bonaparte landed at St. Helena. October 13........1815. The American Colonization Society organized Jan. 1..1817. Commercial treaties between the United States and Great Britain and Sweden.... 1815. .1818. Dom Pedro, son of the King of Portugal declared Em .1649. Beginning of the commonwealth of England.. Beginning of the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell....1654. Beginning of the Protectorate of Richard Cromwell..1658. Surrender of Fort Sumter, in the afternoon of April 14, 1861. Battle of Gettysburg, commenced in the morning of July 1, ended in the afternoon of July 3...A. D. 1863. Surrender of Vicksburg, 9 A. M. July 4 .. ..1863 Fort Sumter repossessed by the Union, February 18..1865 Surrender of Gen. Lee and the close of the rebellion, April 9..... ..1865. . Death of President Lincoln at 7 22 A. M. April 14 1865. Emancipation Proclamation, January 1 ..1863. Wicliffe, the first translator of the Bible into English, and hence one of the chief promoters of religious liberty, died A. D. 1387. The King James' translation of the Bible was published A. D. 1611. Language cannot express of what inestimable value this has been to the world."-From Chronological Tables of Tytler's History (mostly). |