1696 The peace of Ryfwick.

1699 The Scots fettled a colony at the ifthmus of Darien, in America, and called it

Caledonia.

1700 Charles XII. of Sweden begins his reign.

King James II. dies at St. Germain's in the 68th year of his age.

1701 Pruffia erected into a kingdom.

Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts eftablished.

1702 King William dies, aged 50, and is fucceeded by Queen Anne, daughter to James II. who, with the emperor and States General, renews the war against France and Spain.

1704 Gibraltar taken from the Spaniards by admiral Rooke.

The battle of Blenheim won by the duke of Marlborough and Allies, against the
French.

The court of Exchequer inftituted in England.

1706 The treaty of Union betwixt England and Scotland, figned July zz.

The battle of Ramilies won by Marlborough and the Allies.

1707 The firft British parliament.

1708 Minorca taken from the Spaniards by general 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 Mufcovy, defeats Charles XII. at Pultowa, who flies to Turkey.

The battle of Malplaquet won by Marlborough and the Allies.

1710 Queen Anne changes the Whig Miniftry for others more favourable to the intereft of her brother, the late Pretender.

The cathedral church of St. Paul, London, rebuilt by Sir Chriftopher Wren, in 37 years, at one million expence, by a duty on coals..

The English South-Sea company began.

1712 Duke of Hamilton and lord Mohun killed in a duel in Hyde-Park.

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 faid crown by this treaty. 1714 Queen Anne dies, at the age of fifty, and is fucceeded by George I. Intereft reduced to five per cent.

1715 Lewis XIV. dies, and is fucceeded by his great-grandfon, Lewis XV.

The rebellion in Scotland begins in September, under the earl of Mar, in favour of the Pretender. The action of Sheriff-muir, and the furrender of Prefton, both in November, when the rebels difperfe.

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

An act paffed for feptennial parliaments.

1719 The Miffiffipi fcheme at its height in France.

Lombe's filk-throwing machine, containing 26,586 wheels, erected at Derby; takes up one-eighth of a mile; one water-wheel moves the reft; and in 24 hours it works 318,504,960 yards of organzine filk thread.

The South Sea fcheme in England begun April 7; was at its height at the end of June; and quite funk about September 29.

1727 King George I. dies, in the 68th year of his age; and is fucceeded by his only fon, George II.

Inoculation first tried on criminals with fuccefs.

Ruffia, formerly a dukedom, is now established as an empire.

1732 Kouli Khan ufurps the Perfian throne, conquers the Mogul empire, and returns with two hundred and thirty one millions fterling.

Several public-fpirited gentlemen begin the fettlement of Georgia, in North

America.

1736 Capt. Porteus, having ordered his foldiers to fire upon the populace, at the execution of a fmuggler, is himfelf hanged by the mob at Edinburgh.

1738 Weftminster

1738 Westminster-Bridge, confifting of fifteen arches, begun; finished in 1750 at the expence of 389,000 1. defrayed by parliament.

1739 Letters of marque iffued out in Britain against Spain, July 21, and war declared, October 23.

1743 The battle of Dettingen won by the English and Allies, in favour of the queen of

Hungary.

1744 War declared against France.

Commodore Anfon returns from his voyage round the world.

1745 The allies lofe the battle of Fontenoy.

The rebellion breaks out in Scotland, and the Pretender's army defeated by the duke of Cumberland, at Culloden, April 16, 1746.

1746 British Linen Company erected.

1748 The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, by which a reftitution of all places, taken during the war, was to be made on all fides.

1749 The intereft of the British funds reduced to three per cent.

British herring fishery incorporated.

1751 Frederic, prince of Wales, father to his prefent majefty, died.

Antiquarian fociety at London incorporated.

1752 The new ftyle introduced into Great Britain, the third of September being counted the fourteenth.

1753 The British Museum erected at Montagu-house.

Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, instituted in London.

4755 Lisbon destroyed by an earthquake.

1756 146 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 fociety established at London.

1757 Damien attempted to affallinate the French king.

1759 General Wolfe is killed in the battle of Quebec, which is gained by the Eng

lish.

1760 King George II. dies, October 25, in the 77th year of his age, and is succeeded by his prefent majefty, who, on the 22d of September, 1761, married the princefs Charlotte of Mecklenburgh Strelitz.

Black-Friars bridge, confifting of nine arches, begun; finished 1770, at the expence of 52,8401, to be discharged by a toll. Toll taken off 1785.

1762 War declared against Spain.

Peter III. emperor of Ruffia, is depofed, imprifoned, and murdered
American Philofophical Society established in Philadelphia.

George Auguftus Frederic, prince of Wales, born August 12.

1763 The definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal, concluded at Paris, February 10, which confirms to Great Britain the extenfive provinces of Canada, Eaft and Weft Florida, and part of Louisiana, in North America; alfo the islands of Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago, in the West Indies.

1764 The parliament granted 10,000l. to Mr. Harrifon, for his difcovery of the longitude by his time-piece.

1765 His majesty's royal charter paffed for incorporating the Society of Artists.

An act paffed annexing the fovereignty of the illand of Man to the crown of
Great Britain.

1766 April 21, a spot or macula of the fun, more than thrice the bigness of our earth, paffed the fun's centre.

1768 Academy painting established in London.

The Turks imprison the Ruffian ambassador, and declare war against that empire.

1771 Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks, in his majefty's fhip the Endeavour, lieut. Cook, return from a voyage round the world, having made feveral important difcoveries in the South Seas.

1772 The king of Sweden changes the conftitution of that kingdom.

The Pretender marries a princefs of Germany, grand-daughter of Thomas, late

earl of Aylesbury.

1772 The emperor of Germany, emprefs of Ruffia, and the king of Pruffia, ftrip the king of Poland of great part of his dominions, which they divide among themselves, in violation of the most folemn treaties.

1773 Captain Phipps is fent to explore the North Pole, but having made eighty-one degrees, is in danger of being locked up by the ice, and his attempt to dif cover a paffage in that quarter proves fruitless.

The Jefuits expelled from the Pope's dominions.

The English Eaft India Company having, by conqueft or treaty, acquired the extenfive provinces of Bengal, Orixa, and Bahar, containing fifteen millions of inhabitants, great irregularities are committed by their fervants abroad; upon which government interferes, and fends out judges, &c. for the better adminiftration of juftice.

The war between the Ruffians and Turks proves difgraceful to the latter, who lofe the islands in the Archipelago, and by fea are every where unfuccefsful. 1774 Peace is proclaimed between the Ruffians and Turks.

The British parliament having paffed an act, laying a duty of three-pence per
pound upon all teas imported into America, the Colonifts, confidering this as
a grievance, deny the right of the British parliament to tax them.

Deputies from the feveral American colonies meet at Philadelphia, as the first
General Congrefs, Sept. 5.

First petition of Congress to the King, November.

1775 April 19, The first action happened in America between the king's troops and the provincials at Lexington.

May 20, Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the American
provinces.

June 17, A bloody action at Bunker's Hill, between the royal troops and the
Americans.

1776 March 17, The town of Bofton evacuated by the king's troops.

An unfuccessful attempt, in July, made by commodore Sir Peter Parker, and lieutenant-general Clinton, upon Charles Town, in South Carolina.

The Congrefs declare the American colonies free and independent ftates, July 4 The Americans are driven from Long Island, New York, in Auguft, with great lofs, and great numbers of them taken prifoners; and the city of New York is afterwards taken poffeffion of by the king's troops.

December 25, General Washington takes 900 of the Heffians prifoners at Tren

ton.

Torture abolished in Poland.

1777 General Howe takes poffeffion of Philadelphia.

Lieutenant general Burgoyne is obliged to furrender his army at Saratoga, in Canada, by convention, to the American army under the command of the generals Gates and Arnold, October 17.

1778 A treaty of alliance concluded at Paris between the French king and the thirteen united American colonies, in which their independence is acknowledged by the court of France, February 6.

The remains of the earl of Chatham interred at the public expence in Westminfter Abbey, June 9, in confequence of a vote of parliament.

The earl of Carlile, William Eden, Efq; and George Johnstone, Efq; arrive at Philadelphia the beginning of June, as commiflioners for reftoring peace between Great Britain and America.

Philadelphia evacuated by the king's troops, June 18.

The Congrefs refufe to treat with the British commiffioners, unless the independence of the American colonies were firit acknowledged, or the king's fleets and armies withdrawn from America.

An engagement fought off Breft between the English fleet under the command of admiral Keppel, and the French fleet under the command of the count d'Orvilliers, July 27.

Dominica taken by the French, Sept. 7.

Pondicherry furrenders to the arms of Great Britain, Oct. 17.

St. Lucia taken from the French, Dec. 23.

1779 St.

1779 St. Vincent's taken by the French.

Grenada taken by the French, July 3.

1780 Torture in courts of juftice abolished in France.

The Inquifition abolished in the duke of Modena's dominions.

Admiral Rodney takes twenty-two fail of Spanish fhips, Jan. 8.

The fame admiral alfo engages a Spanish fleet under the command of Don Juan
de Langara, near Cape St. Vincent, and takes five fhips of the line, one more
being driven on thore, and another blown up, Jan. 16.

Three actions between admiral Rodney, and the count de Guichen, in the Weft
Indies, in the months of April and May; but none of them decifive.
Charles Town, South Carolina, furrenders to Sir Henry Clinton, May 4.

Penfacola, and the whole province of Weft Florida, furrender to the arms of the
king of Spain, May 9.

The Proteftant Affociation, to the number of 50,000 go up to the house of Com-
mons, with their petition for the repeal of an act pailed in favour of the Papias,
June 2.

That event followed by the moft daring riots, in the city of London, and in
Southwark, for feveral fucceffive days, in which fome Popish chapels are de-
troyed, together with the prifons of Newgate, the King's Bench, the Fleet,
feveral private houfes, &c. Thefe alarming riots are at length fuppreffed by
the interpofition of the military, and many of the rioters tried and executed
for felony.
Five English Eaft Indiamen, and fifty English merchant fhips bound for the Weft
Indies, taken by the combined fleets of France and Spain, Aug. 8.

Earl Cornwallis obtains a fignal victory over general Gates, near Camden, in
South Carolina, in which above 1000 American prisoners are taken, Aug. 16.
Mr. Laurens, late prefident of the Congrefs, taken in an American packet, near
Newfoundland, Sept. 3.

General Arnold deferts the fervice of the Congrefs, escapes to New York, and is
made a brigadier-general in the royal fervice, Sept. 24.

Major André, adjutant-general to the British army, hanged as a spy at Tappan, in the province of New York, O&. 2.

Mr. Laurens is committed prifoner to the Tower, on a charge of high treafon,

October

4.

Dreadful hurricanes in the West Indies, by which great devaftation is made in
Jamaica, Barbadoes, St. Lucia, Dominica, and other Islands, Oct. 3. and 10.
A declaration of hoftilities published against Holland, Dec. 20.

1781 The Dutch island of St. Euitatia taken by admiral Rodney and general Vaughan, Feb. 3. Retaken by the French, Nov. 27.

Earl Cornwallis obtains a victory, but with confideroble lofs, over the Americans under general Green, at Guildford, in North Carolina, March 15.

The ifland of Tobago taken by the French. June 2.

A bloody engagement fought between an English fquadron under the command of admiral Parker, and a Dutch squadron under the command of admiral Zoutman, off the Dogger-bank, Aug. 5.

Earl Cornwallis, with a confiderable British army, furrendered prifoners of war to
the American and French troops, under the command of general Washington
and count Rochambeau, at York-town, in Virginia, Oct. 19.

1782 Trincomale, on the island of Ceylon, taken by admiral Hughes, Jan. 11.
Minorca furrendered to the arms of the king of Spain, Feb. 5.
The island of St. Chriftopher taken by the French, Feb. 12.

The island of Nevis, in the West Indies, taken by the French, Feb. 14.
Montferrat taken by the French, Feb. 22.

The houfe of com rons addrefs the king against any farther profecution of offen-
five war on the continent of North America, Mar. 4; and refolve, That that
houte would confider all thofe as enemies to his majefty, and this country,
who fhould advite. or by any means attempt, the farther profecution of offen-
five war on the continent of North America, for the purpose of reducing the
revolted colonies to obedience by force.

1782 Admiral

1782 Admiral Rodney obtains a fignal victory over the French fleet under the command of count de Graffe, near Dominica, in the West Indies, April 12. Admiral Hughes, with eleven fhips, beat off, near the island of Ceylon, the French admiral Suffrein, with twelve fhips of the line, after a fevere engagement, in which both fleets loft a great number of men, April 13.

The refolution of the house of commons relating to John Wilkes, Efq. and the
Middlefex election, pafied Feb. 17, 1769, refcinded May 3.

The bill to repeal the declaratory act of George I. relative to the legislation of
Ireland, received the royal affent, June 20.

The French took and destroyed the forts and fettlements in Hudson's Bay,
Aug. 24.

The Spaniards defeated in their grand attack on Gibraltar, Sept. 13.

Treaty concluded betwixt the republic of Holland and the United States of America, Oct. 8.

Provifional articles of peace figned at Paris between the British and the American commiffioners, by which the Thirteen United American colonies are acknowledged by his Britannick majefty to be free, fovereign, and independent flates, Nov. 30.

1783 Preliminary articles of peace between his Britannick majesty and the kings of France and Spain, figned at Verfailles, Jan. 20.

The order of St. Patrick inftituted, Feb. 5.

Three earthquakes in Calabria Ulterior and Sicilly, deftroying a great number of towns and inhabitants, Feb. 5th, 7th, and 28th.

Armistice betwixt Great Britain and Holland. Feb. 10.

Ratification of the definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States of America, Sept. 3.

1784 The city of London wait on the king, with an address of thanks for difmiffling the coalition ministry, Jan. 16.

The great feal folen from the lord chancellor's houfe in Great Ormond-street,
March 24.

The ratification of the peace with America arrived, April 7.

The definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain and Holland, May 24.

The memory of Handel commemorated by a grand jubilee at Weltmintter-abbey,
May 26. Continued annually for decayed musicians, &c.

Proclamation for a public thanksgiving, July 2.

Mr. Lunardi afcended in a balloon from the Artillery-ground, Moorfields, the first attempt of the kind in England, Sept. 15.

1785 Dr. Seabury, an American miffionary, was confecrated bishop of Connecticut by five nonjuring Scotch prelates, Nov.

1786 The king of Sweden prohibited the ufe of torture in his dominions.

Cardinal Turlone, high inquifitor at Rome, was publicly dragged out of his carriage by an incenfed multitude, for his cruelty, and hung on a gibbet 50 feet high. Sept. 26. Commercial treaty figned between England and France.

Nov. 21. .471,000 3 per cent. ftock transferred to the landgrave of Heffe, for Heffian foldiers loll in the American war, at £. 30 a man.

Dec. 4. Mr. Adams, the American ambaffador, prefented to the archbishop of Canterbury Dr. White, of Pennfylvania, and Dr. Provost, of New York, to be confecrated bishops for the United States. They were confecrated Feb. 4. 1787. 1787 March. (France) The Affembly of Notables first convened under the miniftry of Monf. de Calonne.

May 21. Mr. Burke, at the bar of the houfe of lords, in the name of all the commons of Great Britain, impeached Warren Haftings, late governor-general of Bengal, of high crimes and mifdemeanors.

Aug. 11. The king by letters patent, erected the province of Nova Scotia into a bishop's fee, and appointed Dr. Charles Inglis to be the bishop.

1788 Auguft. (France) Monf. Neckar replaced at the head of the finances. November: The Notables called together a fecond time.

In the early part of October, the first fymptoms appeared of a fevere diforder which afflicted our gracious Sovereign. On the 6th of November they were vely alaraing, and on the 13th a form of prayer for his recovery was ordered by the privy council!

1789 Feb.