SLAVERY; CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR; RECON STRUCTION ; WAR WITH SPAIN, ETC.; TREATIES OF THE UNITED STATES WITH FOREIGN NATIONS ; THE EASTERN QUESTION; THE OREGON QUES TION; EMANCIPATION IN LATIN-AMERICA; PE KIN, SIEGE OF; BOERS; SOUTH AFRICAN WAR; RIEL'S REBELLION; WAR, EUROPEAN, ETC.
D. C.
1277. Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt. 1111. Mariner's compass (q.v.) discovered.
753. Rome (q.v.) founded.
603. Geometry and maps first used. 551-479. Confucius (q.v.) flourished.
538. Pall of Babylon (q.v.).
490. Battle of Marathon.
336. Accession of Alexander (q.v.); Grecian Empire.
63-44. Casarian era; Britain invaded; Gaul conquered.
A. D.
33. The crucifixion of Christ (q.v.).
451. Battle of Chalons.
570-632. Mohammed (q.v.) flourished.
SOO. Charlemagne (q.v.), emperor of the West. 967. Egypt conquered by the Turks.
1066. Battle of Hastings in England.
1093. Crusades (q.v.) in Holy Land 1734. Gunpowder (q.v.) first used by Genghis Khan. 1453. End of the Roman Empire is the East.
I 455-85. War of the Roses in England.
1492. Columbus discovered America.
16th Cent. Period of Reformation (q.v.) in Europe. 1588. Destruction of the Spanish Armada.
1618-48. Thirty Years' War (q.v.).
1619. Beginning of slavery (q.v.) in America.
1642. Beginning of the Civil 'War in England.
1627. Barometer and thermometer (qq.v.) devised. 1648-52. Civil war of the Fronde in France.
1642-1724. Newton (q.v.) discovered gravitation.
1713. Peace of Utrecht Ending War of Spanish Succession (q.v.).
741-48. War of the Austrian succession.
756-63. The Seven Years' War (q.v.).
776. Declaration of Independence (q.v.).
789-1802. French Revolution.
804-15. Napoleon (q.v.), emperor of France.
812-14. War of 1812 (q.v.).
815. Battle of Waterloo (9.v.).
819. Electromagnetism discovered.
821-29. Greek war of independence.
831-39. Belgian war of independence.
845-48. Mexican War (q.v.) with the United States. 853-55. Crimean War.
857-59. Indian mutiny and war.
861-65. Civil War (q.v.) in United States.
863. Battle of Gettysburg (q.v.).
866. Laying of first Atlantic cable.
868-99. Cuban war of independence.
870-71. Franco-Prussian War (q.v.).
877-78. Russo-Turkish War.
883-84. War in the Sudan.
894. War between Japan and China.
895. Roentgen discovery of X-rays (q.v.).
897. War between Turkey and Greece.
898. Spanish-American War began.
898. Hawaii (q.v.) annexed to the United States.
899. Peace conference at The Hague (q.v.).
899-1900. War between England and Boers.
902. First Anglo-Japanese alliance. See ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATIES.
903. Panama Canal Treaty signed. See PANAMA CANAL. 903. Pacific cable completed. Invention of human flight. 904-05. War between Japan and Russia, terminated 5 Sept.
1905 by Treaty of Portsmouth (q.v.). See MAN