Caractacus, 112 Carausius, 112 CLA Cards, Playing, Invention of, 143 Caroline, Queen, Trial of, 66 Carr, Robert, Duke of Somerset, 120 129 Catholic Emancipation Bill, the, 66, Cato Street Conspiracy, the, 66 Ceorls (yeomen), 75 Chagos Archipelago, the, 98 Channel Islands, the, 95 Charing Cross, Monument at, 21 CHARLES II., 50 Charters, Confirmation of the, 22, 79 Charts, Sea, first brought into England, Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of, 127 Chatterton, Thomas, 157 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 153 Chelsea Hospital built, 146 Cherries cultivated in England, 144 Chevy Chase, Battle of, 25 Chilianwallah, Battle of, 69, 110 Chinese War, First, 68 Second and Third, 69 Christianity, Conversion of Anglo- Chronometers, Harrison's, Invention Cintra, Convention of, 64 Circuits, Establishment of, 18, 78 of the Judges, 88 Circumnavigation of the Globe by Sir Ciudad-Rodrigo, Capture of, 65 Stipendiariæ, 74 Clarence, Duke of, Death of the, 32 Gambia, Colony of, 97 Gardiner, Stephen (Bishop), 119 Gay, John, 156 GEORGE I., 59 GEORGE II., 60 GEORGE III., 61 GEORGE IV., 66 Ginkel, Godart van, 124 Gladstone, William Ewart, 131 Glass, Manufacture of, established, 144 Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 117 - - Remonstrance, the, 47, 83 Grapes first cultivated in England, 144 'Great Eastern,' the, 147 Greece, Independence of, 66 Guns, Air, invented, 146 Guy's Hospital founded, 148 Gwalior, Storming of (1778), 108 -War in (1843), 110 - Taking of, 110 |