Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent.-Admiral Dun

can defeats the Dutch fleet.

1798. A threatened invasion of England by the French: flotilla at Boulogne.-Irish Rebellion.-Battle of the

Nile: lord Nelson.

1799. Another fruitless expedition to Holland.-Acre; Sir Sidney Smith.

1800. A legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland. 1801. Nelson at Copenhagen.-Abercombie defeats the French in Egypt.-Pitt resigned; but resumed his place in 1804.

1802. Peace of Amiens.

1803. Hostilities renewed.

1804. Napoleon emperor: he continues preparations to invade

England.

1805. Battle off Cape Trafalgar, near Cadiz: Nelson fell in it. 1806. Death of Mr. Pitt: Mr. Fox succeeds him. Abolition

of the Slave Trade.

1807. Another expedition to Copenhagen: possession taken of the Danish fleet.

1808. Sir Arthur Wellesley arrives at Corrunna: battle of Vimeira.-Convention of Cintra. 8 and 9, Sir John Moore in Spain.

1809. Sir Arthur Wellesley commands the army in the Peninsular: battle of Talavera. Unsucccessful expe

dition to Walcheren.-The National Jubilee.

1810. Wellington was obliged to remain on the defensive.Death of the princess Amelia

1811. The prince of Wales Regent.—Riots of the Luddites.— Various conflicts in the Peninsula.

1812. Mr. Perceval shot by Bellingham.-Popish claims advocated in parliament.-War with America.-Napo

leon's Russian expedition. In the peninsula, the

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capture of Ciudad Rodrigo; of Badajos; battle of
Salamanca; the British enter Madrid.

1813. Battle of Vittoria :-a splendid victory.-Seige and
capture of St. Sebastian.-The ship called the Shan-
non takes the Chesapeak.

1814. Peace between Great Britain and Denmark.-Battle of
Toulouse.-Abdication of Napoleon.-Visit of the

allied Sovereigns to England.—The English take
Washington. -Disastrous expedition to New Orleans.
-Peace with America.

1815. Waterloo.-Bishopric of Calcutta founded.

1816. Stagnation of trade.—Seditious assemblies.- Discovery
of the safety-lamp: Sir Humphrey Davy.—Attack
and surrender of Algiers: lord Exmouth.

1817. Various seditious meetings.-Death of the princess
Charlotte.

1818. Grant of one million for the erection of churches.-
Mr. Brougham proposes to enquire into the educa-.
tion of the poor.-Death of queen Charlotte.

1819. The meeting at Manchester dispersed by the yeomanry
cavalry. Colombia; Bolivar.-The consolidated re-
publics of Buenos Ayres and Chili.

33. George IV. 2820-1830.

In 1795 he married his cousin, the princess Caroline of
Brunswick: at the death of his father he was fifty-eight years
old.

1820. Death of the duke of Kent.-Death of George III.,
aged eighty-two.--The Cato-street conspiracy: This-
tlewood, &c.

1821. The trial of queen Caroline.-The coronation.—The
king visits Ireland.

1822. Lord John Russel's scheme of parliamentary reform.-

1823. Free trade.-Catholic claims; discussed in the House. Virtual recognition of South American Independence. 1824. "The Catholic Association" formed in Ireland.—Various projects and speculations: about 276 companies set on foot.-Burmese war:-peace concluded, &c., with the court of Ava in 1826.

1825. Disappointed speculations-bankruptcies-general dis

tress.

1826. General depression; money scarce, credit low, trade almost stagnant.,

1827. Opening of the suspension bridge over the Menai Strait: Mr. Telford projected it.-Battle of Navarino; the

Turks were completely defeated.

1828. Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts.

1829. Emancipation, as it is called, of the Roman Catholics. 4830. Debates in the House of Commons on the national distress.-Death of the king.

34. William IV. 1830-1837.

1830. The king proclaimed, &c.,-Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, September 15th.-Death of Mr. Huskisson.-Lord Grey premier.

1831. The Reform Bill the great subject in the nation: disgraceful scenes in Bristol, &c.-The Asiatic cholera in England in 31 and 32.

1832. The Reform Bill passed.

1833. Discussions about Ireland-Coercion Bill-O'ConnelIrish Church.-West Indian slavery: abolished— the planters indemnified.—The number of Irish bishops reduced from twenty-two to ten.

1834. Irish Tithe Bill.—Dissenters' Marriage Bill, &c.-Lord Melbourne first minister.

1835. Commissioners appointed to consider the state of the

Established Church, &c.-The temporalities of the
Irish Church are proposed for consideration by lord
John Russel.

1836. A new Marriage Act; more correct registration of births, &c.

1837. Death of the king.

35. Victoria. 1837.

Daughter of Edward duke of Kent, and Mary Louisa Victoria, daughter of the duke of Saxe Coburg. She married, 1840, her first cousin, prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, nephew of the duchess of Kent.

1840. War with China. A new field opened to us in that ancient empire.

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