1626 The Barometer invented by Toricelli. 1630 Peruvian bark first brought to France. 1632 The battle of Lutzen, in which Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and head of the Protestants in Germany, is killed.

1633 Covent Garden begun by the Earl of Bedford. 1635 Province of Maryland planted by Lord Baltimore. Regular posts established from London to Scotland, Ireland, &c.

1642 Civil war begins in England.

1650 Heriot's hospital, at Edinburgh, finished. 1651 The first newspaper in Scotland.

1652 The first coffee-house in London.

1655 The English, under Admiral Penn, take Jamaica from the Spaniards.

1659 Transfusion of the blood first suggested at Oxford.

1662 The Royal Society established in London by Charles II. Pendulum clocks invented by John Promentel, a Dutchman. engines invented.

1663 Carolina planted.

1665 The plague rages in London.

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1666 The great fire of London began Sept. 2d, and continued three days, in which were destroyed 13,000 houses and 400, streets. Tea first used in England. Academy of Sciences established in France.

1667 The peace of Breda, which confirms to the English the New Netherlands, now known

by the names of Pensylvania, New York, and New Jersey.

1670 The English Hudson's Bay Company incorporated.

1671 Academy of architecture established in France. 1672 Lewis XIV. over-runs a great part of Hol

land, when the Dutch open their sluices, being determined to drown ther country, and retire to their settlements in the East Indies. African company established.

1673 St. Helena taken by the English. 1675 Coffee-houses shut up by proclamation, as encouragers of sedition.

1676 Repeating clocks and watches invented by Barlow.

1679 Darkness at London, that one could not read at noon-day, January 12th.

1680 A great comet appeared, and continued visible, from Nov. 3d, to March 9th. William Penn, a Quaker, receives a charter for planting Pensylvania.

1682 College of physicians, at Edinburgh, incorporated. Belfast bridge built.

1683 India-stock sold from 360 to 500 per cent. 1685 The edict of Nantz infamously revoked by Lewis XIV. and the Protestants cruelly persecuted.

1689 Viscount Dundee stands out for James in Scotland, but is killed after gaining the battle of Killy crankie, upon which the Highlanders disperse. The fand-tax passed in England. The toleration act passed in ditto. Several bishops are deprived for not taking the oath to King William.

1690 The battle of the Boyne, gained by William, against James, in Ireland.

1691 The war in Ireland finished, by the surrender of Limerick to William.

1692 The English and Dutch fleets, commanded by Admiral Russel, defeat the French fleet off La Hogue.

1693 Bayonets at the end of loaded muskets first

used by the French. Bank of England established by King William. The first public lottery was drawn this year. Stamp duties instituted in England.

1695 Bank of Scotland established.

1697 Malt-tax established.

1699 The Scots settled a colony at the isthmus of Darien, in America, and called it Cale

donia.

1701 Prussia erected into a Kingdom, Cottonian library settled for public benefit. Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign. parts established.

1706 The treaty of Union betwixt England and Scotland, signed July 22d. The battle of Ramillies won by Marlborough and the allies.

1707 The first British parliament.

1708 Minorca taken from the Spaniards by Gene ral Stanhope. The battle of Oudenarde won by Marlborough and the allies. Sardinia erected into a Kingdom, and given to the Duke of Savoy.

1709 Peter the Great, Czar of Muscovy, defeats Charles XII. at Pultowa, who flies to Turkey. The battle of Malplaquet won by Marlborough and the allies.

1710 The cathedral church of St. Paul, London, rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren, in 37 years, at one million expence, by a duty on coals. The English South-Sea company began.

1713 The peace of Utrecht, whereby Newfoundland, Nova-Scotia, New-Britain, and Hudson's Bay, in North America, were yielded to Great Britain; Gibraltar and

Minorca, in Europe, were also confirmed to the said crown by this treaty.

1716 The Pretender married to the Princess Sobieski, grand-daughter of John Sobieski, late King of Poland.

1717 Guineas reduced to 21 shillings.

1719 The Missisippi scheme at its height in France. Lombe's silk-throwing machine, containing 26,586 wheels, erected at Derby ; takes up one eighth of a mile; one waterwheel moves the rest; and in 24 hours it works 318,504,960 yards of orgazine silk thread.

1727 Inoculation first tried on criminals with suc cess. Russia, formerly a dukedom, is now established as an Empire.

1731 The first person executed in Britain for forgery.

1732 Kouli Khan usurps the Persian throne, conquers the Mogul Empire, and returns with 231 millions sterling. Several public-spirited gentlemen begin the settlement of Georgia in North America. Broad pieces called in and coined into Guineas.

1743 The battle of Dettingen won by the English and allies, in favour of the Queen of Hun

gary.

1744 Commodore Anson returns from his voyage round the world.

1746 British Linen Company erected. Electric shock discovered. Lima and Callao swallowed up by an earthquake.

1741 The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, by which a restitution of all places taken during the war, was to be made on all sides, Halifax in Nova Scotia, built.

1749 The interest of the. British funds reduced to three per cent. British herring fishery

incorporated.

1751 Antiquarian society, at London, incorporated.

1752 The New Style introduced into Great Britain; the third of September being counted the

fourteenth.

1753 The British museum erected at Montague house. Society of Arts, Manufactures,

and Commerce, instituted in London.

1755, Lisbon destroyed by an earthquake. 1756 One hundred and forty-six Englishmen are confined in the black hole at Calcutta, in the East Indies, by order of the Nabob, and 123 found dead next morning. Marine society, established at London.

1757 Identity of electric fire and lightning discovered by Dr. Franklin, who thereupon in-vented a method of securing buildings from thunder-storms.

1759 General Wolfe is killed in the battle of Qnebec, which is gained by the English. 1760 Black-Friars bridge, consisting of nine arches, begun; finished 1770, at the expence of £152,840, to be discharged by a toll.

1762 Peter III. Emperor of Russia, is deposed, imprisoned, and murdered. American philosophical society established in Philadelphia.

1763. The definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal, concluded at Paris, February 10th, which confirmed to Great Britain the extensive provinces of Canada, East and West Florida, and part of Lousiana, in North

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