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Sweden under Christina and Charles X. Denmark and Norway under Frederick III. Portugal under Alfonso VI. Poland under John II. and Michael I. Holland under De Witt. Ireland and Scotland under Cromwell. Admiral Blake. Milton. Hampden. Lord Fairfax. Earl of Essex. Prynne. Lilburne. Pascal. Puffendorff. Freinshemius. Harrington. Golius. Digby. Nicolas Mercator. Hottinger. Somner. Bochart. Albano. Biddle. Wendelein. CLXVII. CHARLES II. 1660-1685. Plague of London. Fire of London. Oates's Meal-tub and Rye house Plots. Dissenters' Acts. Abdication of Christina. The Quietists. Eruption of Ætna. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Theory of Gravitation. Cape Coast Castle, Hudson's Bay, and The Bahamas, colonized by the English. Flamstead House built. Habeas Corpus Act passed. Royal Society. Tea first brought into England. Penny Post. Figure of Britannia. Franking of Letters. Insurance Offices. Popes: Clement IX., Clement X., and Innocent XI. France under Louis XIV. Russia under Feodor III. Sweden under Charles XI. Denmark and Norway under Christiern V. Portugal under Pedro 11. Spain under Charles II. Germany under Leopold I. Poland under Sobieski. Persia under Suliman. Delhi under Aurangzeb. British India under Charles II. China under Kang-hi. Hungary under Tekeli. Scotland under Charles II. Monk. Clarendon. Rochester. Temple. Buckingham. Colbert. Shaftesbury. Barrow. Malebranche. Madame de Sévigné. Cowley. Butler. Otway. Waller. Denham. Corneille. Racine. Molière. Cotton. The Cuyps. Claude de Lorraine. Teniers. Potter, Snyders. Berghem. Murillo. Salvator Rosa. Wouvermans. Douw. Rembrandt. The Ruysdaels. The Boths. Le Brun. Judge Hale. James Bernouilli. Lucretia Cornaro. Bunyan. Penn. Delafosse. Sydenham. Isaac Walton. Thomas Thynne. Robert Barclay. Seth Ward. John Pearson. Jeremy Taylor. Wilkins. Sanderson. Brian Walton. Lightfoot. Cardinal Bona. Turenne. Condé. De Ruyter. Spinosa. Lord Herbert. Marvell. Rochefoucault. Willis. Malpighi. James Gregory. Dugdale. Bartholine. Browne. Anthony à Wood. Blood. Busby. Greatracks.

CLXVIII. JAMES II. 1685-1688. Monmouth's Rebellion. Trial of the
Seven Bishops. Landing of the Prince of Orange. Turkey under Sulei-
man III. Venice under Justiniani. Scotland under James VII. Ken.
Tillotson. Baxter. Boyle. Bossuet. Bourdaloue. Vauban. Morhof.
Petty. D'Herbelot. Sancroft. Judge Jeffreys. Fléchier. Lafontaine.

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PERIOD XIII. 1688 TO 1760-72 YEARS.

FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE FALL OF THE JACOBITE PARTY. CLXIX. WILLIAM III. AND MARY II. 1688-1702. Death of Queen Mary. Effect of the Bishops' Trials. Presbytery established in Scotland. Battle of the Boyne. The last Vehmic Court. Abingdon Hospital Founded. Bank of England established. Coffee first imported. Land Tax instituted. Bayonets invented. Morden College founded. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded. Seventeenth Century of the Church. Turkey under Ahmed II., &c. Popes: Alexander VIII., Innocent XII., Clement XI. Russia under Peter the Great, &c. Sweden under Charles XII. Denmark and Norway under Frederick IV. Spain under Philip V. Persia under Hosein Mirza. Poland under Augustus I. Scotland under William and Mary. Ireland under William III. Prussia raised to a Kingdom. Holland under William III. British India under William III. Newton. Locke. Dryden. Purcell. Bishops: Burnet, Wilson, and Stilling fleet. Earl of Shaftesbury. Evelyn. Boileau. Fénélon. Bayle. Kettlewell. Robert Nelson. Galland. Cellarius. Régnard. St. Evre.

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Dean Sherlock. Hobbes. Menage. Papin. Jurieu. De la Bruyère. Tournefort. Ricaut. Hooke. De L'Hôpital. Holt. Atkyns. Keill. Simon. Vaillant. Farquhar. CLXX. ANNE. 1702-1714. Union of Scotland. Great Storm. Trial of Sacheverell. Queen Anne's Bounty. Severe Winter of 1709. Sardinia added to Savoy. Insurrection of Ragotski. Man with the Iron Mask. Treaty of Utrecht. Pragmatic Sanction. Herculaneum discovered. Gibraltar made an English Colony. Title of Czar abolished. St. Paul's Cathedral completed. South Sea Company. Interest on Money. Camellia Japonica plant. Crossing the Line. England under the Stuarts. Turkey under Ahmed III. Portugal under John V. Germany under Joseph I. Poland under Stanislaus Leczinski. Prussia under Frederick William I. Holland under Heinsius. Delhi under Bahader Shah. Sikhs under Govind Singh. Scotland under Anne. France under Louis XIV. concluded. Prince Eugene. Duke of Marlborough. Leibnitz. Pope. Rowe. Congreve. John Philips. Gay. Prior. Parnell. Ambrose Philips. Swift. Collier. South. Ray. Norris. Addison. Steele. Hughes. Defoe. Wren. Thomas Pitt. Shovell. Corelli. Belsunce. The Daciers. Bishop Bull. Mazeppa. Joshua Barnes. Anthony Collins. Cotes. Dodwell. Flamstead. Gravina. Garth. Huet. Bishop Hickes. John Hickes. Hudson. Pitcairne. Roëmer. Ruysch. Stahl. Spanheim. Toland. Wollaston. Gronovius. Cassini. Rapin. Betterton. Leclerc. Prideaux. Jeffery. Father Quesnel. CLXXI. GEORGE I. 1714-1727. Old Pretender's Invasion. South Sea Bubble. Rise of Hutchinsonianism. Morea taken by the Turks. Execution of Alexis of Russia. Distress of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Bands first worn. Septennial Parliaments. Silk-machines. Smallpox Inoculation. Porter (beer) invented. Pewter. Whitehall Preacherships. Stereotype Printing invented. Popes: Innocent XIII. and Benedict XIII. Russia under Catherine I. Sweden under Ulrica Eleonora. Germany under Charles VI. Poland under Augustus I. restored. Persia under Mahmud the Afghan. Sardinia-Savoy a kingdom. Venice under John Cornaro. Ireland under George I. Scotland under George I. Alberoni. Lord Somers. Harley. Earl of Oxford. St. John. Lord Bolingbroke. Bishop Atterbury. Bishop Berkeley. Bishop Hoadly. Bentley. Samuel Clarke. Whiston. Saunderson. Middleton. Prince. Doddridge. Halley. Sloane. Kneller. Vanburgh. Guy. Radcliffe. Mead. Boerhaave. Lesage. Geminiani. Massillon. Vertot. Jean Baptiste Rousseau. Joe Miller. Bishop Clayton. Baron Goertz. David Constant. Dr. Arbuthnot. Chubb. Dr. Freind. Giannone Geoffroi. Hearne. Leclerc. Montesquieu. Montfauçon. Reaumur. Watteau. Woodward. Cantemir. Jonathan Wild. 409 CLXXII. GEORGE II. 1727-1760. Charitable Corporations Fraud. Porteous Riot. Escape of Prince Charles Edward. Execution of Eugene Aram. Eddystone Lighthouse completed. Law's Projects. Revolt of Corsica. Earthquake at Lima. Prince of Orange restored to the Stadtholderate. Tuscany ceded to Germany. Extraordinary Human Longevity. Earthquake at Lisbon. Black Hole Imprisonment. Seven Years' War. Escape of Delatude. Chief Battles. Tobago, the Canadas, and Dominica made English Colonies. Foundling Hospital founded. Vauxhall Gardens opened. Mayor of Garrett. Rise of the Swedenborgians. Deputation of North American Chiefs. Mr. Ridout's Captivity among the Shawanese Indians. Stage-coaches. Westminster Bridge. The Pyrometer. Society of Antiquaries. Electricity and Lightning proved identical. Religious Uniformity enforced in the Channel Islands. Their History. The New Style. British Museum. Asylum for Female Orphans. Magdalen Charity. Melton-Mowbray Hunt established. Cock-lane Ghost. Battle of Dettingen. Earthquake Shock in London. Sierra Leone an English Colony. Rise of the Wahhabees. State of English Police. Turkey under Mahmud I., and Osman II. Popes: Clement XII., Benedict XIV., and Cle

ment XIII. France under Louis XV. Russia under Peter II., Anne, Iwan V., and Elizabeth. Sweden under Adolphus Frederick. Denmark and Norway under Christiern VI., and Frederick V. Spain under Ferdinand VI. Portugal under Joseph 1. Two Sicilies under Carlos I. Germany under Charles VII., Maria Theresa, and Francis of Lorraine. Poland under Augustus II. Prussia under Frederick the Great. Persia under Nadir Shah, &c. Foundation of Kaubul. Holland under William IV. Delhi under Mohammed Shah, &c. British India under George II. Sardinia under Charles Emanuel III. Ireland under George II. Scotland under George II. Japan under Tsinajosiko. Walachia independent. Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales. Earl of Chatham. Sir Robert Walpole. Anson. Hawke. Wolfe. The Byngs-Execution of the Admiral. Lord Chancellor Talbot. Maréchal Saxe. Boscawen. Byron. Bishop Sherlock. Bishop Butler. Bishop Tanner. Archbishop Secker. Hervey. Watts. Whitefield. Lardner, Seed. Waterland. Tindal. Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick. Lord George Sackville. John Brown. Armstrong. Jortin. Askew. Young. Thomson. Gray. Ramsay. Collins. Shenstone. Mallet. Churchill. Dyer. Somervile. Akenside. Savage. Cibber. Metastasio. Duck. De Crebillon. Lord Chesterfield. Richardson. Smollett. Fielding. Cheyne. Stukeley. Hogarth. Thornhill. Lady Montague. William Hay. Rollin. Linnæus. Flora Macdonald. Cipriani. Holberg. Destouches. Jussieu. Voltaire. Ninon de l'Enclos. Fontenelle. Algarotti. Handel. Zinzendorf. Maupertuis. Roubilliac. Rysbraeck. Hume. William Hunter. Bach. Burman. Benson. Bouguer. Ephraim Chambers. Clairault. Cheselden. Dodsley. Doddridge. Demoivre. Dalin. Fabricius. Folkes. James Foster. James Gibbs. The Gellerts. James Grainger. Granger. Herring. Hutcheson. Hoffman. Heineccius. Hartley. Stephen Hales. The Helvetii. John Hill. Hewson. La Caille. The Lords Lyttelton. De Marivaux. Maittaire. Muratori. Muschenbroeck. Colin Maclaurin. Lord Dreghorn. Mayer. Alexander Monro. Philip Miller. St. Non. Lord Chancellor Macclesfield. Archbishop Potter. Pepusch. Prevót-d'Exiles. Psalmanazar. Bishop Pearce. William Pulteney, Earl of Bath. Quesnay. Quin. Robins. Simpson. Simson. Waterland. Whytt. Gilbert West. Woolston. Winckelmann. Christian Wolff. Peter the Wild Boy. Jedidiah Buxton. (Colburn. Bidder.) Death. Marshal Keith. Peter, 1st Lord King. Squire. Languet. Ali Bey. Boulter. Theodore, King of Corsica. Bishop Gibson. Thomas Baker. Orator Henley. Baratier. Samuel Madden. D'Aguesseau. Van Huysum. Mengs. George Graham. Dean Tucker. Tartini. Ged. Browne. Willis. John Dalton. James Miller. Duval. Fountaine. John Harrison. Dillenius. Marshal d'Estrées. Jonas Hanway. Stephen Hales. Decline and Fall of the Jacobite Cause. 437 CLXXIII-PART I. GEORGE III. 1760-1789. St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Falkland Isles, made British Colonies. Death of Calas. The English acknowledged Sovereign in Hindustan. Isle of Man annexed to the British Crown. Wilkes's Riots. Eruption of Vesuvius. Sand-floods of Arabia. Irruption of Solway Moss. Society of Jesuits suppressed. The American Revolution. Hurricane in the West Indies. Execution of Doctor Dodd. Assassination of Miss Ray. Lord George Gordon's Riot. Rodney's Victory. Loss of the Royal George. Siege of Gibraltar. nang made an English Colony. Trial of Mr. Hastings. Mutiny of the Bounty. New South Wales colonized by the English. Umbrellas. The First Canal. Wedgwood-ware. The Longitude corrected. The Steam Engine. Blackfriars Bridge. Automaton Chess-player. Humane Society. Pianoforte invented. Diving bell. Sunday-schools. Balloons invented. London Streets. Animal Magnetism. Bampton Lectures. Fuchsia and Calceolaria plants introduced. Turkey under Mustafa III. and Ahmed IV. The Popedoin under Clement XIV., Ganganelli. Russia under Peter 111.

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and Catherine I. Sweden under Gustavus III. Denmark and Norway
under Christiern VII. (Struensee. Brandt.) Spain under Charles III.
Poland under Stanislaus II., Poniatowski. Germany under Joseph II.
Delhi under Shah Alem. British India under George III. China under
Kien Lung. Ireland under George III. Foundation of the American
United States. France under Louis XVI. to the outbreak of the Revolu-
tion. Portugal under Maria Isabel I. Lord Clive. Lord North. Earl
of Mansfield. Washington. Prince Potemkin. The Princess Daschkaw.
Lord Kames. Judge Blackstone. Euler. Horace Walpole. Samuel
Johnson. Boswell. William Stevens. Thomas Reid. Mrs. Montague.
Paul Jones. Captain Cook. La Perouse. Bruce. Franklin. Diderot.
Dr. Heberden. Dr. Fothergill. Dr. Cullen. John Hunter. Dr. Buchan.
Sir William Browne. Sir John Pringle. Baron Haller. Zimmermann.
Kant Sir Richard Arkwright. Boulton. Bishop Warburton. Bishop
Pearce. Bishop Douglas. Bishop Percy. Bishop Lowth. Bishop Horne.
Bishop Newton. Bishop Watson. Bishop Hurd. Bishop Porteus. Dr.
Burn. Dr. Kennicott. John Newton. Dr. Dodd. Schwartz. Priestley.
Dr. Blair. Logan. Hume. Gibbon. Adam Smith. Sterne. Paley. Howard.
Robertson. Cowper. Burns. The Wartons. Sir William Jones.
Glover. Goldsmith. Chatterton. Beattie. Darwin. Blacklock. Buffon.
Rousseau. D'Alembert. Marmontel. Lavater. Schiller. John Wesley.
Huntingdon. Elwes. Reynolds. Gainsborough. Barry. Gilpin. Bacon.
Wilson. Chambers. Garrick. Foote. Shuter. Arne. Jomelli. Fari-
nelli. Jackson. Kent. Philip Astley. André. Lord Kenyon. Admiral
Keppel. Necker. Paoli. Mirabeau. Herschell. Galvani. Lavoisier.
Porpora. Bishop Horsley. Lord Thurlow. John Wilkes. Warren
Hastings. Duke of Bridgewater. Mungo Park. Count Lally Tollendal.
Mason. Gessner. Turgot. Baron Trenck. Haydn. Mozart. Thomas
Day. The Last of the Stuarts. Marquis de Pombal. Pennant. The
Melmoths. James Harris. Chapone. Carter. Catherine Talbot. The
Bowdlers. Vaucanson. Antoine Thomas. Berry. Lessing. Hawkes-
worth. Ferguson. Mendelsohn. De Mably. Millot. Bernouilli.
D'Anville. Nicolai. Boscovich. Soame Jenyns. Thomas Sheridan.
Stuart. Solander. Rome de Lisle. Goldoni. Smeaton. Waldo.
Markland. Brown. Madame de Pompadour. Philidor. Baron Born,
John Reinhold Forster. George Forster. Bürger. D'Yriarte. Kippis.
Macpherson. Madan. Duc de Nivernois. Mallet du Pan Rittenhouse.
Montucla. Raynal. De Guignes. Geddes, Eichhorn. Piccini. Glück.
George Steevens. Adanson. Block, Dolomieu. Borda. Sir William
Hamilton. Single speech Hamilton. Philip Francis. Sir Philip Francis.
Casti. Chiari. Hedwig. Fordyce. Sir George Staunton. Tweddell,
Gilbert Wakefield. Bichat. Brunck. Jacob Bryant. Thomas Banks.
Adelung. Anstey. Dalzell. Dutens. Baron Grimm. Cabanis, Herder.
Laclos. Ponce Lebrun. Montalembert. Mechain. Pfeffel. Tronchin.
Cobentzel. Hon. Mr. Cavendish. The Dalrymples. Downman. The
Chevalier D'Eon. De Lolme. Heyne. Jerningham. Lindsey. Mas-
kelyne. Mylne. Montgolfier. Müller. Anna Seward. Cesarotti.
Chaudet. Dupuis. Delille. Eberhard. John Fabricius. Ferriar. Gries-
bach. Gretry. Iffland. Malone. Bruguières. Pallas. Senebier.
Vincent. Ferguson. Buller. The Gows. Spence. Sumarokov. Duke
of Roxburgh. Maximilian, Duke of Brunswick. Mrs. Piozzi. Dr.
Percival. Dr. Sibthorp. Fell. Batteux. Battie. Skelton. Cleland.
Whitehead. Bertholon. Boydell. Ducarel. The Abbé L'Epée. Allen
Lord Bathurst. Batoni. Count de Vergennes. William Whitehead.
Entick. Catherine Macaulay. Mary Robinson. Louis de Jaucourt.
De Saussure. Joseph Richardson. Linguet.
Julius Bate. Pownall.

Stoffet. Mauduit. Mechain. Ralph Griffiths. Benjamin Stillingfleet.

Sedaine. William Boyce. Whalley, pignan. Du Belloi. The Beccarias.

Bicernstahl. Marquis de Pom-
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melle. Percival Pott. Gregory Sharpe. Poissonier. Baskerville. HighBerthier. Lauder. Bowle. Bowyer. Badcock. Professor White. Canton. Benedict Arnold. Benezet. Sir John Barnard. The Leakes. Ashton. Benwell. Berquin. The Bertins. Count de Benyowsky, Henry Baker. Samuel Arnold. Holmes. Baynes. L'Averdy. The Counts Bernstorff. Baron Dimsdale. Samuel Bishop. The Bissets. Newcombe. Townley. Townsend. Bishop Cleaver. Lord Melville. Sir John Dinely.-Eighteenth Century of the Church ;-Wesleyans, Hutchinsonians, Whitefieldites, Union of low churchmen and dissenters, Apathy of high-church party, Conversion of Hindus, German Neologists, Prussian Evangelical church, French atheists.

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