Turkey, 1827. Catholic Emancipation Bill, 1829. Police force remodelled,

1829

First Reform Bill, 1832. Slavery abolished, 1833. New Poor Law, 1834. Quadruple Alliance, 1834

Canadian Rebellion, 1837. Chartist Movement, 1838. First Chinese War, 1840. Treaty of Constantinople, 1840 Afghan War, 1841-2.

with Scinde, 1843.
Sikh War, 1845-6.
Laws repealed,

War

First

Corn 1846.

Sugar Duties repealed, 1846. Navigation Laws repealed, 1849. Second Sikh War, 1848-9. Burmese War, 1851-3. Crimean War, 1854-6. Treaty of Paris, 1856. Second Chinese War. 1856-8. Treaty of Tientsin, 1858. Indian Mutiny, 1856-8. Volunteer movement, 1859. Third Chinese War, 1859-60. Convention of Pekin, 1860. Revised Education Code, 1861. Cotton Famine, 1861-5. Fenian Brotherhood, 1863. Jamaica Mutiny, 1865. Second Reform Bill, 1867. Abyssinian War, 1868. Disestablishment of the Irish Church, 1869. Supplemental Treaties, 1870. Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870. Elementary Education Act, 1870. Treaty of Washington, 1871.

Daniel O'Connell. Admiral Codrington

Lord George Bentinck. Sir Robert Peel. General Sir C.J. Napier. Lord Raglan. Sir H. Havelock. Lord Dundonald. Lord Aberdeen. Admiral Sir C. J. Napier. Sir Cornewall Lewis. Lord Clyde. Richard Cobden. Lord Palmerston. Lord Brougham. Lord Derby.

Lord Claren

don. Lord Russell. B. Disraeli. W.E. Gladstone. Lord Napier of Magdala. Sir John Lawrence. John Bright. Robert Lowe. Earl Granville. G. J. Goschen.

Aix Roads, Engagement in, 64

'Alabama' claims, 71

Albert, Prince, Death of, 70

Albert Hall, Royal, 148

Albert Memorial, 148

Albuera, Battle of, 65

Alexandria, Battle of, 64
ALFRED THE GREAT, 7

Algiers, Bombardment of, 66
Alighur, Taking of, 109
Alison, Sir Archibald, 160
Aliwal, Battle of, 68, 110
Allahabad, Mutiny at, 110
Alma, Battle of, 69
Alnwick, Battle of, 18

American Colonies settled, 103
Independence, War of, 61

1

Amiens, Treaty of, 64, 93

Ancient Britons, the, 1

Angles, the, 4

Anglo-Saxons converted, 7

Government of Britain under, 74

ANNE, 56

Anselm, Primate, 113

Anson, Admiral Lord, 126

AUT

Anticosti, Island of, 99
Antigua, Colony of, 100
Antoninus, Wall of, 3

Apples cultivated in England, 144
Apricots cultivated in England, 144
Arcot, Capture of, 61, 107

-

- Retaking of, 108

Argaum, Battle of, 109

Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Earl of,

123

Arikera, Battle of, 108

Armada, Destruction of the, 41

Armour Plating employed for Ships
and Forts, 148

Arms and Artillery, Improvements in,
148

Army, Standing, established, 145

Arnee, Battle of, 108

Arthur, King, 113

Prince, Murder of, 19, 114

Artillery and Arms, Improvements in,

Banqueting House at Whitehall, the,
146

Barbadoes, Colony of, 100
Barebones Parliament, the, 49
Barnet, Battle of, 31

Barometers, Invention of, 146

Barossa, Battle of, 65

Basque Roads, Engagement in, 64
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 126
BATTLEFIELDS, ENGLISH, LIST OF, 132
Baxter, Richard, 155
Bayonets, Invention of, 146
Beattie, William, 157
Beaumont, Francis, 154

Becket, Thomas à, 17, 114

Bedford, John, Duke of, 117
Benares, Mutiny at, 110
Benbow, Admiral, 124
Benevolences, 32, 35, 80
Bengal, Famine in, 108
Bentham, Jeremy, 158
Bentinck, Lord George, 130

- Lord William, 129
Bentley, Richard, 156
Berkeley, Bishop, 156
Bermudas, Colony of the, 100
Beyrout, Bombardment of, 68
Bhurtpore, Taking of, 109

- Fortress of, reduced, 109
Bill of Rights, 54, 85

Bills, Parliamentary, 88

BIOGRAPHY, ENGLISH HISTORICAL,
112

Birmingham, Rise and Growth of, 145
Blackfriars Bridge, Old, 148; New, 148
Blackheath, Battle of, 36

Black Hole of Calcutta, the, 61, 107

BRO

Black Prince, Edward the, 24, 116
Blackstone, Sir William, 158

Blake, Admiral, 122
Blankets, Weaving of, 142
Blenheim, Battle of, 56
Blondel, the Minstrel, 114

Blood, Circulation of the, discovered,
145

Blore Heath, Battle of, 30
Boadicea, 112

Bolingbroke, Henry (Henry IV.),

116

- Henry St. John, Viscount, 125
Bomb-shells, Invention of, 144
Bonner, Edmund (Bishop), 119
Book-keeping, first work on, 144
Book-post established, 147
Boroughbridge, Battle of, 23
Boswell, James, 158

Bosworth Field, Battle of, 32
Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, 52
Bothwell, James, Earl of, 119
Boulogne Flotilla, the, 64
Boyne, Battle of the, 54
Bradshaw, John, 122
Brandywine, Battle of, 62
Breakspear, Nicholas, 114
Breda, Treaty of, 51, 90
Bretigny, Treaty of, 24, 89
Bretwalda, 7

Brewster, Sir David, 160

Bridge, the First Stone, erection of,