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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE Anglo-French Note the authority of the Khedive, and the Vatican, June 28. French annexation of Tahiti, June 29. January 8. Death ofsupporting John Linnell, artist, January 20 (born, Death of Mr Tom Taylor, July 12 (born, 1817)._ Abdurrahman 1792). Resignation ofMr M. Gambetta’s Ministry, January 26. proclaimed Ameer of Afghanistan, July 22. British disaster at Arabi Pasha appointed Egyptian Minister of War, February 2. Maiwand, July 27. French General Councils election ; 240 Re- Nihilist trials in St Petersburg, February 28. Prince of Wales publican gains, August 1. Sir Bartle Frere recalled from the proposes to found a Royal College of Music, February 28. Attempt Cape, August 1. General Roberts’s march from Kabul to Kandahar, to shoot the Queen by R. Maclean at Windsor, March 2. Servia August 9 Death of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, August 14 (born a kingdom, March 6. Death of Longfellow, March 24 1788). Cologne Cathedral completed, August 14. Defeat ot proclaimed 1807). Retirement of Prince*Gortchakoff from the Russian Ayub Khan by General Roberts, September 1. Rising in Basuto- (born, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, April 9. Death of Dante Gabriel land, September 13. Death of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, September 17 Rossetti, April 9 (born, 1828). Death of Darwin, April 19 (born, (born 1796). Naval demonstration of the Powers at Dulcigno, 1809). Marriage the Duke of Albany to Princess Helen of September 17. Landslip at Naini Tal, September 18. Land Waldeck-Pyrmont,ofApril 27. Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson, League persecution of Captain Boycott, September 22. Murder of April 27 (born, 1803). Earl Spencer appointed Lord-Lieutenant Lord Mountmorres, September 25. Melbourne Exhibition opened, of Ireland, April 28. Murder Lord Frederick Cavendish, October 1. Death of Jacques Offenbach, October 4 (born, 1819). Secretary for Ireland, and Mr T. of A. Burke, Under-Secretary, in Death of Baron Ricasoli, October 23 (born, 1809). Rev. Pelham Phoenix Park, Dublin, May 6. Death of General Kaufmann, conDale imprisoned under the Public Worship Act, October 30. queror of Turkestan, May 12 (born, 1818). New Eddystone LightGeneral Garfield elected President of the United States, November house opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, May Anglo-French 2. Kurd invasion of Persia, November 3. Arrest of Mr Parnell ultimatum to Egypt; removal of Arabi Pasha 18. and resignation of for conspiracy, November 3. Great earthquake at Agram, Croatia, the Ministry demanded, May 25. Reappointment of Arabi Pasha November 9. Trial of Nihilists in St Petersburg, November 10. as Egyptian Minister of War, May 28. Death ot Garibaldi, 2 Death of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, November 20 (born, 1802). (born, 1807). Riot at Alexandria, many Europeans killed,June June Death of Field-Marshal Sir C. Yorke, November 20 (born, 1790). 11. Death of General Skobeletf, July 7 (born, 1843). BombardSurrender of Dulcigno to Montenegro by Turkey, November 26. ment of the Alexandria forts by the British fleet, July 11 ; marines Penygraig colliery explosion, December 10. The Transvaal pro- landed, July 17. Irish Prevention of Crimes Bill passed, July 11. claimed a republic by Mr Kruger and others, December 16. Boer British vote of credit for an expedition to restore order in Egypt, attack on British troops at Bronker’s Spruit, December 20. Death July 27. The French Chamber decline to furnish funds for the of George Eliot, December 22 (born, 1820). Greek refusal of of the Suez Canal, July 29. Death of Professor Jevons, arbitration on the "frontier question, December 26. Serious floods protection August 13 (born, 1835). Arrival in Egypt of Sir G. Wolseley, in Holland, December 30. Land League agitation in Ireland; commanding the British expedition against Arabi Pasha, August numerous agrarian outrages. Massacre of the Joyce family at Maamtrasna, Galway, August 1881. Employers’ Liability Act in force, January 1. Great 15. Suez Canal held by British troops, August 19. Battle of strike of Lancashire miners, January 14. Attempt to blow up 17. Kassassin, August 28. Death of Sir G. Grey, September 9 (born Salford barracks, January 14. Capture of Geok Tepe by the about Rout of the Egyptian army at Tel-el-Kebir, SeptemRussians, January 16. Lima taken by the Chilians, January 21. ber 13.1798). Occupation of Cairo by the British and surrender of End of the trial of Mr Parnell and his associates for conspiracy : Arabi Pasha, 14. Death of Dr Pusey, September 16 disagreement of the jury, January 25. Repulse of Sir G. Colley (born, 1800). September Return of the Khedive to Cairo, September 25. by the Boers at Lang’s Nek, January 28. Panama Canal begun, Attempted assassination Mr Justice Lawson in Dublin, NovemFebruary 1. Removal of Mr Parnell and thirty-four other Irish ber 12. Review of the ofarmy from Egypt by the Queen in St members from the House of Commons for obstruction, February 3. James’s Park, November 18. Arabi Pasha banished from Egypt Death of Thomas Carlyle, February 6 (born, 1795). Battle of for life, December 3. Death of Archbishop Tait, December 3 Ino’oo'o, February 8. Battle of Majuba ; death of Sir G. Colley, (born, 1811). Royal Courts of Justice opened the Queen, February 27. Irish Coercion Bill passed, March 2. Armistice December 4. Death of Louis Blanc, December 6by(bom, 1811). with the Boers, March 6. Assassination of the Tsar Alexander Death of Anthony Trollope, December 6 (born, 1815). Great fire II., March 13. Peace with the Boers ; surrender of Potchefstroom, in Wood Street, Cheapside, December 8. Belt v. Lawes libel case: March 21, 22. Earthquake at Chios, 5000 lives lost, April 3. £5000 damages for plaintiff, December 28. Death of Gambetta, European Note to Turkey on the Greek question, April 19. Death December 31 (born, 1838). of Lord Beaconsfield, April 19 (born, 1805). International Married Women’s Property Act in force, January 1. Death monetary conference in Paris, April 19. British evacuation oi of 1883. General Chanzy, January 4 (born, 1823). Arrest of Prince Kandahar, April 21. French occupation of Bizerta, April 30. Napoleon a manifesto against the Republic, January H.M.S. Doterel blown up in the Strait of Magellan, May 4. Ex- 16. Deathforofpublisliing Dore, January 22 (born, 1832). Cetywayo pulsion of Mr Bradlaugh from the House of Commons, May 10. restored King Gustave Zululand, January 29. Mr Davitt, Mr Healy, Marriage of the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, May 10. French and Mr Quinn ofimprisoned sedition, February 8. Death ot treaty with Tunis, May 12. Attempt to blow up the Central Sir Salar Jung, February 8.for Death Henry Smith, Police Station, Liverpool, May 16. Revised edition of the New February 9 (born, 1827). Murderers of©f Professor F. Cavendish and Testament published, May 17. Prince Leopold created Duke of Mr Burke identified, February 10 ; JamesLord Carey turns informer, Albany, May 23. Prince of Rumania crowned king, May 23. 11. Death of Richard Wagner, February 13 (born, 1813). Johann Most, proprietor of Die Freiheit, found guilty of incitement February Jules Ferry, Premier of France, February 21. Orleanist princes to murder, May 25. Fortune Bay fishery award : Great Britain to M. from the French army, February 25. Death of Mr J. R. pay America £15,000, May 28. Great fire at Quebec, June 8. removed Green, historian, March 7 (born, 1837). Death of Prince GortchaScrutin de liste rejected by the French Senate, June 9. Attempt koff, 11 (born, 1798). Death of Karl Marx, March 14 to blow up Liverpool Town Hall, June 10. Death of M. Dufaure, (born,March 1818). Attempts to blow up the Local Government Board June 27 (born, 1798). President Garfield shot, July 2 ; died, Sep- office’and The Times office with dynamite, March 15. Lord tember 20 (born, 1831). Death of Lord Hatherley, July 10 (born, Dufferin’s Egyptian reform scheme published, March 20. Death 1801). Capture of Sfax (Tunis) by the French, July 16. Death of Sir G. Jessel, March 21 (born, 1824). Two infernal machines of Dean Stanley, July 18 (born, 1815). Convention with the seized at Liverpool, March Murder of M. de Majlath, Chief Transvaal: British suzerainty reserved, August 3. Irish Land Justice of Hungary, March 28. Louise Michel arrested in Pans Bill becomes law, August 22. Mutiny of Egyptian troops under for incitement to plunder, 29. March 29. Explosives Bill passed, Arabi Bey, September 9. Evacuation of Thessaly by the Turks, April 9. Trial of Irish “ Invincibles,” April 10. Impeachment September 15. Meeting of the German and Russian Emperors at Danzig, September 16. General Arthur sworn President of the of the Norwegian Ministry, April 23. Death of Prince Batthyany, 25 (born, 1804). Amsterdam International Exhibition United States, September 22. Defeat of Ayub Khan by the Ameer April Abdurrahman of Afghanistan, September 22. Severn tunnel opened, May 1. Death of Lord Justice Deasy, May 6 (born, 1812). of the Royal College of Music by the Prince of Wales, borino-s completed, September 27. Death of Baron Haymerle, Opening 7. Mr Kruger elected President of the Transvaal, May 9. October 10 (born, 1828). Arrest of Mr Parnell, October 13. May Condemnation of the Land League by the Pope, May 11. InterSwansea docks opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales, national Fisheries Exhibition, South Kensington, opened by the October 18. “No rent” manifesto by the Irish Land League, of Wales, May 12. Execution of five of the Phoenix Park October 18. The Land League proclaimed an illegal association, Prince May 14-june9. Lord Lansdowne appointed GovernorOctober 20. First meeting of the Irish Land Courts, October 20. murderers, of Canada, May 21. French force under Commander Death of Professor Bluntschli, October 21 (born, 1808). Arrest of General destroyed by “Black Flags” at Ha Noi, Tongking, May the Maori chief Te Whiti for sedition, November 6. British Riviere French bombardment of Mojanga, Madagascar, May 24. North Borneo Company receives a charter, November 8. M. 20. Coronation of the Tsar Alexander III., May 27. Bombardment Gambetta becomes French Premier, November 12. Burning of the and of Tamatave, Madagascar, by the French, June 13. Ring Theatre, Vienna, several hundred lives lost, December 8. Deathcapture of Bishop Colenso, June 20 (born, 1814). Death of Sir “ Reign of Terror ” in Ireland. 1882. Death of Mr W. Harrison Ainsworth, January 3 (born, Wm. Knollys, June 24 (born, 1797). Death of Mr W. Spottis1805). ' Death of Mr Bernal Osborne, January 4 (born, 1814). woode, June 27 (born, 1825). Prussian modification of the “Falk
