Part 103

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.

* * * * * *

Transcriber's note:

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

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

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

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

The following corrections have been made to the text:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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