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CHRONOLOG ICAL TABLE 67 the Transvaal to the British Empire, April 12. Russia de- ember 6 (born, 1806). Attempted assassination of King Humbert, clares war against Turkey, April 24. British reply to Prince November 17. Halifax award paid by America, November 21. Gortchakoff’s circular, May 1. Defeat of Mr Gladstone’s War with Afghanistan announced; capture of Ali Mesjid by the motion censuring the Eastern policy of the Government, May 14. British, November 22. Rumania occupies the Dobrudja, November Resignation of the French Ministry as the result of a reproof 26. Peiwar Pass crossed by General Roberts, December 1. Flight by Marshal MacMahon, May 16. Rumania proclaimed inde- of the Ameer Shere Ali, December 13. Death of Princess Alice, pendent, May 21. Death of Marshal Cabrera, May 24 (born, Grand Duchess of Hesse, December 14 (born, 1843). British 1810). Death of Mr J. L. Motley, May 29 (born, 1814). Bom- occupation of Jalalabad, December 20. Bulgarian Assembly of bardment of Kars by the Russians, June 1. Death of Lord Notables elected, December 31. Invention of the microphone and Justice Mellish, June 15 (born, 1814). Russians cross the Danube, phonograph. June 24. Dissolution of the French Chamber of Deputies by 1879. Resumption of specie payments in America, January 2. Marshal MacMahon, June 25. Russian loan of 200,000,000 roubles, Marriage of King William III. of Holland to Princess Emma of June 26. British fleet returns to Besika Bay, July 5. Death of Waldeck, January 7. General Roberts enters Kandahar, January Yakub Beg of Kashgar, July 11. Turkish massacre at Yeni Saghra, 8. Death of Marshal Espartero, January 8 (born, 1791). British July 15. Russian assault on Plevna repulsed, July 30. Rumanian advance into Zululand, January 19. Battle of Isandlwhana ; army crosses the Danube, August 9. Insurrection in Crete, August 17. defence of Rorke’s Drift, January 22. Resignation of Marshal Russian defeat at Kizil Tepe by Mukhtar Pasha, August 25. Death MacMahon, January 30. Russo-Turkish treaty of peace signed, of Brigham Young, August 29 (born, 1800). Death of Thiers, February 8. Death of General Peel, February 13 (born, 1799). September 3 (born, 1797). Prosecution of Gambetta, September Numerous assassinations ordered by the King of Burma, February 11. Death of Admiral Canaris, September 14 (born, 1787). Turkish 16. Death of Field-Marshal Count von Roon, February 23 (born, defeat in the Shipka Pass by General Gourko, September 17. 1803). Rejection of the “Muzzling Bill” by the German-ReichRout of the Turkish army under Mukhtar Pasha at Aladja Dagh stag, March 7. Marriage of the Duke of Connaught, March 13. by the Russians, October 15. Resignation of the Due Decazes, Russian evacuation of Adrianople, March 20. Zulu defeat at October 30. Death of Field-Marshal von Wrangel, November 1 Ginghilova, April 2. Chile declares war against Peru, April 5. (born, 1784). Kars stormed by the Russians, November 18. Dismissal of European advisers by the Khedive, April 7. Attempted Marshal MacMahon’s “Cabinet of Business,” November 23. assassination of the Tsar, April 14. Prince Alexander of Battenberg Canadian fisheries award, November 24. Bill abolishing capital elected Prince of Bulgaria, April 29. Anglo-German treaty for punishment passed by the Italian Chamber of Deputies, November suppression of the African slave trade, April 30. Russian ukase 28. Fall of Plevna, December 10. Turkish appeal to the Powers against Nihilism, May 8. Naval engagement between Chilians to mediate, December 12. Servian declaration of independence and Peruvians off Iquique, May 21. American Silver Bill passed, and war against Turkey, December 13. State visit of Queen May 24. Anglo-Afghan treaty of Gandamak, May 26. Sir G. Victoria to Lord Beaconsfield at Hughenden, December 15. Pass- Wolseley appointed High Commissioner for Natal and the Transage of the Balkans by General Gourko, December 29. . vaal, May 26. Prince Louis Napoleon killed by Zulus, June 1 1878. Native rising in the Transvaal, January 1. Death of (born, 1856). Death of the Prince of Orange, June 11 (born, 1840). General la Marmora, January 5 (born, 1804). Death of King Deposition of Ismail Pasha ; Tewfik appointed Khedive, June 26. Victor Emmanuel, January 9 (born, 1820). Surrender of Vesoul Death of Lord Lawrence, June 27 (born, 1811). Battle of Ulundi, Pasha’s army to the Russians in the Shipka Pass, January 9. July 4. Protective Tariff Bill passed by the German Reichstag, Russian occupation of Adrianople, January 20. Arrival of Cleo- July 13. Bombardment of Iquique by the Chilians, July 16. patra’s Needle in the Thames, January 21. Marriage of King Death of Mr Fechter, actor, August 5 (born, 1823). Resignation Alfonso XII., January 23. British fleet at the Dardanelles ; resig- of Count Andrassy, August 14. European controllers appointed nation of Lord Carnarvon, January 25. Great famine in China for Egypt, August 25. Death of General Lazareff, commanding reported, January 26. Commission of inquiry into Egyptian the Russian expedition in Central Asia, August 25. Capture of finances ordered, January 29. Armistice between Russia and Cetywayo, August 28. Massacre of Sir L. Cavagnari, suite, and Turkey, January 31. Greek troops ordered to occupy Thessaly, escort at Kabul, September 3. New insurrection in Cuba, SeptemEpirus, and Macedonia, February 1. Death of George Cruik- ber 14. International Exhibition opened at Sydney, N.S.W., shank, February 1 (born, 1791). Vote of £6,000,000 by the House September 17. British rupture with Burma, October 7. General of Commons to strengthen the army and navy, February 7. Death Roberts enters Kabul, October 12. Abdication of Yakub Khan, of Pope Pius IX., February 7 (born, 1792). Occupation of Erzerum Ameer of Afghanistan, October 21. First Legislative Assembly of by the Russians, February 13. Passage of the Dardanelles by Bulgaria opened, October 30. Chilian victory at Pisagua, NovemBritish fleet, February 13. Mr Bland’s Silver Bill passed by the ber 2. Administrative reforms in Asiatic Turkey ordered by the U.S. Senate, February 16. Election of Pope Leo XIII., February Sultan, November 20. Death of Mr J. T. Delane, editor of The 20. Peace between Turkey and Servia, March 2. Treaty of San Times, November 22 (born, 1817). Capture of Moirosi’s Mountain, Stefano, March 3. Bill for the abolition of capital punishment Zululand, by the British, November 24. Mr Gladstone’s Middefeated in the House of Commons, March 13. Indian Vernacular lothian campaign: Edinburgh Music Hall speech, November 25. Press Act passed, March 14. Loss of the Eurydice, March 24. Marriage of King Alfonso XII., November 29. Attempt on the Death of Sir Gilbert Scott, March 27 (born, 1814). Resignation life of the Tsar near Moscow, December 2. Attempted assassination of Lord Derby, March 28. Circular to the Powers by Lord of Lord Lytton, December 12. Rout of the Afghans by General Salisbury regarding the treaty of San Stefano ; British reserves Roberts, December 23. The Tay Bridge disaster, December 28. called out, April 1. Murder of Lord Leitrim, April 2. Indian Direct telegraphic communication opened between Great Britain troops ordered to Malta, April 17. Opening of the Paris Exhibi- and South Africa, December 29. Attempt to shoot the King and tion, May 1. Attempted assassination of the German Emperor by Queen of Spain, December 30. 1880. Death of the Due de Gramont, January 14 (born, 1819). Hodel, May 11. Death of Earl Russell, May 28 (born, 1792). Foundering of the German ironclad Grosser Kurfurst, May 31. British defeat of Mohmunds near Dakka, January 15. Spanish Bill abolishing slavery in Cuba passed, January 16. Death of M. Attempt on the life of the German Emperor by Dr Nobiling, June 2. Anglo-Turkish Convention signed ; Cyprus to be occupied by Jules Favre, January 20 (born, 1809). Parliament opened by the Great Britain, June 4. Death of King George of Hanover, June the Queen, February 5. Attempt to blow up the Tsar at the 12 (born, 1819). Opening of the Berlin Congress, June 13. Death Winter Palace, February 17. Supreme Executive Commission of of Charles Mathews, actor, June 24 (born, 1803). Death of Queen protection appointed in Russia, February 24. Irish Distress Relief Mercedes of Spain, June 26 (born, 1860). Fete de la Republique Bill passed, March 1. Attempt to assassinate Count Loris Melikoff, in France, June 30. Berlin Treaty signed, July 13. Cyprus dictator of Russia, March 3. Capture of Mollendo by the Chilians,. annexed to the British Empire, July 14. Return of Lord Beacons- March 12. Grand Shereef of Mecca assassinated, March 14. Disfield from the Berlin Congress—“ peace with honour,” July 16. solution of Parliament, March 24. M. Tricoupis Prime Minister Russian mission at Kabul, July 22. Austrian occupation of of Greece, March 27. French anti-Jesuit decree, March 29. New Bosnia and Herzegovina, August. Nihilist trials at Odessa, German Army Bill passed, April 9. Death of Lord Hampton,, August 5. Orange riots at Ottawa, August 12. Death of Queen April 9 (born, 1799). Death of Dr Kenealy, April 16 (born Christina of Spain, August 21 (born, 1806). Earthquakes in about 1818). Albanian proclamation of independence, April 19. Holland, Belgium, and Germany, August 27. Reforms promised Afghan defeat at Ahmedkhel, April 19. Great fire at Hull, by the Khedive of Egypt, August 30. Princess Alice disaster, Ottawa, April 21. Resignation of Lord Beaconsfield, April 21. defeat about 700 lives lost, September 3. Abercarne colliery explosion, Mr Gladstone appointed Prime Minister, April 23. Afghan r September 11. Cleopatra’s Needle erected on the Thames Em- at Charasiab, April 25. Expulsion of foreign Jew s from St bankment, September 12. British mission to Afghanistan stopped Petersburg, April 30. French amnesty decree, May 10. Mr on the frontier, September 22. City of Glasgow Bank failure, Goschen’s special mission to Constantinople, May 28. Death of October 1. Death of Lord Chelmsford, October 5 (born, 1794). the Empress Maria of Russia, June 3 (born, 1824). Death of Sir Marquis of Lome appointed Governor-General of Canada, October Stephen Cave, June 7 (born, 1820). Conference in Berlin as to the 14. German Anti-Socialist Bill passed, October 19. Attempt on Greek and Montenegrin frontiers, June 16. Tichborne claimant’s the life of King Alfonso XII., October 25. British ultimatum to appeal dismissed, June 25. Capture of the Kelly gang of bushAfghanistan, November 1. Death of Samuel Phelps, actor, Nov- rangers in Victoria, June 28. Diplomatic rupture between Belgium