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Caractacus, 112

Carausius, 112

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Cards, Playing, Invention of, 143
Carlyle, Thomas, 160

Caroline, Queen, Trial of, 66

Carr, Robert, Duke of Somerset, 120
Carrots cultivated in England, 144
Cassivelaunus, or Caswallon, 112
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount,

129

Catholic Emancipation Bill, the, 66,
87

Cato Street Conspiracy, the, 66
Cawnpore, Massacre at, 69, 110
Caxton, William, 117, 143
Ceawlin, 7

Ceorls (yeomen), 75
Ceylon, Colony of, 96

Chagos Archipelago, the, 98
Chalgrove Field, Battle of, 48

Channel Islands, the, 95

Charing Cross, Monument at, 21
CHARLES I., 45

CHARLES II., 50

Charters, Confirmation of the, 22, 79
Chartists, the, 67

Charts, Sea, first brought into England,
144

Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of, 127

Chatterton, Thomas, 157

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 153

Chelsea Hospital built, 146

Cherries cultivated in England, 144
Chesterfield, Lord, 158

Chevy Chase, Battle of, 25

Chilianwallah, Battle of, 69, 110
Chimneys first used, 143

Chinese War, First, 68

Second and Third, 69

Christianity, Conversion of Anglo-
Saxons to, 7

Chronometers, Harrison's, Invention
of, 146

Cintra, Convention of, 64

Circuits, Establishment of, 18, 78

of the Judges, 88

Circumnavigation of the Globe by Sir
F. Drake, 145

Ciudad-Rodrigo, Capture of, 65
Civitates Latio jure donatæ, 74

Stipendiariæ, 74

Clarence, Duke of, Death of the, 32

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Gambia, Colony of, 97

Gardiner, Stephen (Bishop), 119
Garter, Order of the, instituted, 24
Gas first used for lighting, 147
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 159
Gaunt, John of, 116
Gaveston, Piers, 115

Gay, John, 156

GEORGE I., 59

GEORGE II., 60

GEORGE III., 61

GEORGE IV., 66
Ghent, Treaty of, 65, 93
Gibbon, Edward, 158
Gibraltar, Colony of, 95
- Siege of, 62

Ginkel, Godart van, 124

Gladstone, William Ewart, 131

Glass, Manufacture of, established, 144
- Plate, first manufactured, 145
Glencoe, Massacre of, 54
Glendower, Owen, 116

Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 117
Gloucester, Statute of, 21

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- Remonstrance, the, 47, 83

Grapes first cultivated in England, 144
Gray, Thomas, 156

'Great Eastern,' the, 147

Greece, Independence of, 66
Greenwich Hospital, 146
Grenada, Colony of, 100
Grey, Lady Jane, 39, 119
Grote, George, 160
Guineas first struck, 145
Guinegate, Battle of, 37
Gunpowder, Invention of, 24, 143
- Plot, the, 45

Guns, Air, invented, 146

Guy's Hospital founded, 148

Gwalior, Storming of (1778), 108

-War in (1843), 110

- Taking of, 110

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