CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 69 Laws,” July 2. Captain Webb drowned in attempt to swim the Tower, January 24. Fall of Khartum ; General Gordon killed, Niagara Rapids, July 24. James Carey, Irish informer, shot, January 26 (born, 1833). Wreck of Sir C. Wilson’s steamers reJuly 29. Spanish military risings suppressed, August 4-9. Death turning from Khartum ; rescue by Lord Charles Beresford, January of Dr R. Moffat, August 9 (born, 1796). Death of the Comte de 28-February 9. Defeat of Sudanese at Kirbekan ; General Earle Chambord, August 24 (born, 1820). French protectorate over killed, February 10 (born, 1833). Capture of Lang Son, Tongking, Tongking and Annam, August 25. Eruption of Krakatoa ; many by the French, February 12. Death of General Sir H. Stewart at thousand lives lost, August 27. Death of Ivan Turguenietf, Gakdul, February 16 (born, 1843). Sir C. Warren Military Governor September 3 (born, 1818). Riot at Canton, European quarter of Bechuanaland, February 23. New South Wales troops leave sacked, September 11. German war monument unveiled on the Sydney for the Sudan, March 3. Lord Wolseley’s army at Korti, Niederwald, Riidesheim, September 27. King Alfonso of Spain March 12. Arab attack on Sir J. M‘Neill’s force near Suakin, insulted by a Paris mob ; apology by President Grevy, September March 22. Death of Sir Harry Parkes, March 22 (born, 1828). 29, 30. Surrender of Cetywayo to the British, October 16. Death British reserve forces called out, March 26. Chinese recapture Lang of Captain Mayne Reid, October 22 (born, 1819). Peace between Son, March 28. Fall of M. Ferry’s Ministry, March 30. Russians Chile and Peru, October 20. Hicks Pasha’s army destroyed by under General Komaroff attack Afghan positions on the Kushk, the Mahdi at El Obeid, November 3. Death of Lord Overstone, March 30. Visit of the Ameer of Afghanistan to Lord Dufferin at November 17 (born, 1796). Death of Sir William Siemens, Novem- Rawal Pindi, March 31. Death of Lord Cairns, April 2 (born, ber 18 (born, 1823). Death of Signor Mario, December 11. Irish 1819). Prince and Princess of Wales visit Ireland, April 7. “national tribute” of £38,000 presented to Mr Parnell in Dublin, Rising of half-breeds and Indians under Louis Riel in Canada, December 11. Capture of Son Tai, Tongking, by the French, April 24. Opening of the International Inventions Exhibition, December 18. Ten dynamiters sentenced to penal servitude at South Kensington, May 4. Death of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Glasgow, December 21. Assassination of Colonel Soudeikin, chief May 9 (born, 1820). Capture of Louis Riel, May 15. Publication of the Russian police, by Nihilists, December 28. Australian of the Revised Version of the Bible, May 18. Vote of credit federation movement. Internal troubles in Austria-Hungary. of £11,000,000 passed, May 20. Death of Victor Hugo, May 22 1884. Dismissal of the Egyptian Ministry of Sherif Pasha, (born, 1802). Death of Sir Julius Benedict, June 5 (born, 1804). January 7. The Poet Laureate created Lord Tennyson, January Peace between France and China, June 9. Redistribution Bill 16. General Gordon sent to Khartum on a special mission, passed, June 12. Resignation of Mr Gladstone, June 12. Lord January 18. The Ilbert Bill passed by the Calcutta Legislative Salisbury appointed Prime Minister, June 15. Evacuation of Council, January 25. Death of M. Rouher, February 3 (born, Dongola by the British, June 15. Death of Prince Frederick 1814). Defeat of Baker Pasha by Osman Digna near Tokar, Charles of Prussia, June 15 (born, 1828). Death of Field-Marshal February 4. Death of King Cetywayo, February 8. Arrival Manteuffel, June 17 (born, 1809). Death of the Mahdi reported, of General Gordon at Khartum, February 18. Death of Mr T. about June 20. Opening of the Hull and Barnsley Railway, July Chenery, editor of The Times, February 12 (born, 1826). Retire- 16. Death of General Grant, July 23 (born, 1822). Marriage of ment of Sir H. Brand from the Speakership of the House of Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg, July 23. Death Commons ; Mr A. Peel chosen to succeed him, February 25, 26. of Sir Moses Montefiore, July 28 (born, 1784). Panjdeh surDynamite explosion at Victoria railway station, February 26. rendered to Russia. German occupation of one of the Caroline Convention between Great Britain and the Transvaal signed Islands, August 14. Expiration of the Crimes Act, August 14. in London, February 27. Sudanese defeated at El Teb by Gen- Sir H. D. Wolff’s Egyptian mission to Constantinople, August 22. eral Graham, February 29. Defeat of Osman Digna at Tamanieb Meeting of "the Austrian and Russian Emperors at Kremsier, by General Graham, March 13. Death of the Duke of Albany at August 25. Severn tunnel completed, September 5. First Cannes, March 28 (born, 1853). Great fire at Mandalay, April international yacht race off New York, won by the American 2. Death of Charles Reade, April 11 (born, 1814). Death of yacht Puritan, September 14. Union of Eastern Rumelia to Sir Michael Costa, April 29 (born, 1810). German Protectorate Bulgaria proclaimed, September 18. Death of Lord Shaftesbury, over Angra-Pequena, April 24. Health Exhibition opened at October 1 (born, 1801). Death of Lord Strathnairn, October 16 South Kensington, May 8. Provisional treaty of peace between (born, 1803). Conference in Constantinople on the Eastern France and China, May 11. Fall of Berber, May 23. Admiral question, November 5. British ultimatum to Burma; advance Hewett’s treaty with Abyssinia, May 26 (about). Death of Sir of General Prendergast’s force, November 9. War declared Bartle Frere, May 29 (born, 1815). Dynamite explosions in St between Servia and Bulgaria, November 13. Battle of Slivnitza, James’s Square and Scotland Yard, May 30. Marriage of the November 17-19. Dissolution of Parliament, November 18. Grand Duke Serge of Russia to Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, Death of Marshal Serrano, November 25 (born, 1810). Death of June 15. Railways sanctioned by the Chinese Government, June King Alfonso XII., November 26 (born, 1857). Surrender of King 20. Death of the Prince of Orange, June 21 (born, 1851). Thebaw of Burma ; occupation of Mandalay, November 27, 28. Collision between French and Chinese at Lang Son, June 23. Death of Mr W. H. Vanderbilt, December 8 (born, 1821). European conference on Egypt meets in London, June 28. Inter- Federation favoured by the Australasian Colonies, excepting New national Forestry Exhibition opened in Edinburgh, July 1. Death South Wales and New Zealand, December 9. Death of King of General Todleben, July 1 (born, 1818). Death of the Rev. Ferdinand of Portugal, December 15 (born, 1816). M. Gr4vy reMark Pattison, July 30 (born, 1813). International Conference on elected President of the French Republic, December 28. Sudanese Education opened at South Kensington, August 4. Bombardment defeat at Kosheh, December 30. British general election ; Liberal of Ki-lung, Formosa, by the French, August 6. Death of Sir success. Revival of Irish Nationalist tyranny. Erasmus Wilson, August 8 (born, 1809). Death of Lord Ampthill, 1886. Upper Burma annexed by Great Britain, January 1. August 25 (born, 1829). French attack on Foo-chow, August 26-28. Mersey tunnel opened by the Prince of Wales, January 20. Lord Northbrook leaves London for Egypt on a financial mission, Parliament opened by the Queen, January 21. Defeat of Lord August 31. Political riots in Brussels and Antwerp, September 7. Salisbury’s Government on the agricultural labourers’ holdArrival of Lord Wolseley in Cairo to command an expedition to ings question ; return of Mr Gladstone to power, January 28Khartum, September 9. Lord Dnfferin appointed Viceroyof India in February 1. Social Democratic riots in London, February 8. succession to Lord Ripon, September 10. Revival of the “ League Crawford v. Crawford and Dilke divorce case, decree nisi granted, of the Three Emperors,” September 15. Wreck of H.M.S. Wasp February 12. Death of Randolph Caldecott, February 12 (born, at Tory Island, 52 lives lost, September 22. Colonel Stewart, Mr 1846). Death of Lord Cardwell, February 15 (born, 1813). Power, M. Herbin, and about forty men massacred by Arabs on Suspension of the Commercial Bank of South Australia, February the Nile, reported October 6. Death of Mr Fawcett, November 24. Peace signed between Servia and Bulgaria, March 3. Death 6 (born, 1833). British protectorate over part of New Guinea, of Archbishop Trench, March 28 (born, 1807). Guildhall meeting November 6. Mr Cleveland elected President of the United to protest against the proposed Irish Home Rule Bill, April 2. States, November 7. Berlin Conference on West African affairs Death of Mr W. E. Forster, April 5 (born, 1818). Conference of opened, November 15. Imperial Federation League formed, the Powers in Constantinople ; Prince Alexander of Battenberg November 18. Finney v. Garmoyle, breach of promise case, nominated Governor-General of Eastern Rumelia, April 5. plaintiff awarded £10,000, November 20. Adams v. Coleridge, European ultimatum to Greece to cease arming against Turkey, libel case, plaintiff awarded £3000 damages ; verdict reversed by April 26. Colonial and Indian Exhibition opened by the Queen, Mr Justice Manisty, November 22. Rising in Korea, December May 4. Socialist riots at Chicago and Milwaukee, May 4, 5. 4. Franchise Bill passed, December 6. Attempt to blow up European blockade of Greek ports, May 8. British evacuation of London Bridge with dynamite, December 13. Arrival of Lord Suakin, May 16. Death of Lord Farnborough, May 17 (born, Wolseley at Korti, on the Nile, December 15. Earthquakes in 1815). Death of Leopold von Ranke, historian, May 23 (born, Spain, over 1000 lives lost, December 25-31. Sir P. Lumsden’s 1795). Serious riots in Belfast, June 6. Irish Home Rule Bill Afghan frontier mission. British expedition to Bechuanaland rejected by the House of Commons, June 8. Eruption of Mount under Sir C. Warren. Skye crofters’ agitation. Tarawera, New Zealand; the “Pink Terraces” destroyed, June 1885. Death of Cluny Macpherson, January 10 (born, 1805). 9. Suicide of King Ludwig of Bavaria at Tegernsee, June 15 Battle of Abu Klea ; Colonel Fred. Burnaby killed, January 17 (born, 1845). Death of the Maharajah Holkar of Indore, June 17 (born, 1842). Battle near Metammeh ; General Stewart wounded, (born, 1832). Death of the Maharajah Scindia of Gwalior, June January 19. Dynamite outrages at the Houses of Parliament and 20 (born, 1835). French Princes’ Expulsion Bill passed, June 22.
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