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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE of the Orange Free State, July 14 (born, 1823). Armada tercenDissolution of Parliament, June 26. General election; ConservaJuly 19. Meeting of the Emperor William II. and the tive victory. Resignation of the Gladstone Cabinet, July 21. tenary, off Kronstadt, July 19. Death of General Sheridan, August British convention with China, July 24. Death of Liszt, July 31 Tzar 1831). Local Government Bill passed, August 9. Defeat (born, 1811). Lord Salisbury’s Ministry accept seals of office: 5of(born, Italians by Abyssinians at Sanganeiti, August 13. Meeting Lord R. Churchill Chancellor of the Exchequer, August 3. between Prince Bismarck and Signor Crispi at Friedrichsruh, Conspiracy at Sofia ; Prince Alexander kidnapped, August 21. August 21. Retaliatory measures against Canada recommended Abdication announced, September 4. Death of the Due Decazes, by President Cleveland, August 24. Imperial British East Africa September 16 (born, 1819). Death of Mr J. L. Hatton, September Company chartered, September 7. Defeat of Ishak Khan by the 20 (born, 1809). Death of Lord Monkswell, October 27 (born, Ameer of Afghanistan, September 29, 30. Black Mountain 1817). Irish “Plan of Campaign” proclaimed unlawful, December Expedition: British successes, October and 18 ; final 18. Lord R. Churchill resigns the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, submission of tribes, November 18. Visit4,of 5,the9,German Emperor December 23. the Pope, October 12. Opening of the Special Commission 1887. Death of Serjeant Ballantine, January 9 (born, 1812). to to examine into the charges made by The Times in Death of Lord Iddesleigh, January 12 (born, 1818). Meetings at appointed “Parnellism and Crime,” October 22. Marriage between King St James’s Palace and the Mansion House to found an Imperial Milan and Queen Natalie dissolved, October 24. General Institute. January 12. Meeting of the “ Round Table Conference” elected President of the United States, November 6. at Sir W. Harcourt’s house, January 14. Mr H. M. Stanley Harrison leaves London to relieve Emin Pasha, January 21. Death of Sir Death of Lord Lucan, November 10 (born, 1800). Death of Sir Baggallay, November 13 (born, 1813). Anglo-German blockade Joseph Whitworth, January 22 (born, 1803). Serious riots at R. Belfast, January 29. Queen Victoria’s Jubilee celebrated in India, of Zanzibar on account of the slave trade, December 2. British February 16. Earthquake on the Riviera, many lives lost, victory at Suakin, December 20. Death of Count Loris Melikoff, February 22. Death of Father Beckx, formerly “General” of the December 22 (born, 1835). Suez Canal Convention ratified by the Jesuits, March 4 (born, 1794). German Army Bill passed by the Powers, December 22. Death of Lord Eversley, December 28 Reichstag, March 9. Triple Alliance said to have been signed, (born, 1794). Rising in Zululand ; surrender of Dinizulu, JulyMarch 13. British Colonial Conference at the Foreign Office, November. Continued Irish agitation. Separation movement in April 4. Arrest of M. Schnaebele, French Commissary at Pagny, W 3/1GS. 1889. Death of the Crown Prince of Austria, January 30 (born, by Germans on the frontier, April 20. Defeat of dervishes by Egyptians at Sarras, April 29. Jubilee Exhibition at Manchester 1858). Anti-rent riot near Gweedore ; District-Inspector Martin opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales, May 4. Address of murdered by the mob, February 3. Mr Parnell s Scottish action congratulation presented to the Queen by the Lord Mayor and against The Times dismissed, February 5. New Japanese conCorporation of London, May 9. Inaugural stone of the North stitution proclaimed, February 12. Collapse of the Paris copper Sea and Baltic Canal laid by the German Emperor, June 3. syndicate ; panic checked by Government and other support, Fiftieth anniversary of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne, March 5-9. Abdication of King Milan of Servia, March 6. June 20. General celebration of the Queen’s jubilee; State French decree of banishment against the Due d’Aumale dismissed, procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, June March 9. Abyssinians defeated by the Mahdi, March 10-12. 21. British annexation of East Zululand, June 21. Metropolitan Death of Mr John Bright, March 27 (born, 1811). _ Meeting school children visited by the Queen in Hyde Park, June 22. between Queen Victoria and the Queen-Regent of Spain at San “ Women’s Jubilee Offering” of £75,000 accepted tty the Queen, Sebastian, March 27. Flight of General Boulanger from Paris, June 22. Jubilee thanksgiving in St Paul’s Cathedral, June 23. April 1. Death of the Duchess of Cambridge, April 6 (born, 1797). Review of volunteers by the Queen at Buckingham Palace, July 2. Death of Father Damien, missionary to the Sandwich Island lepers, First stone of the Imperial Institute laid by the Queen, July 4. April 10 (born, 1841). Conference on Samoa in Berlin, April 29. Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg elected Prince of Bulgaria, July Murder of Dr Cronin in Chicago by members of the Clan-na-Gael, 7. Irish Crimes Bill passed by the House of Commons, July 8. May 4. Centennial celebration of the opening of the States. Great review at Aldershot by the Queen, July 9. Death of Herr General at Versailles, May 4. Opening of the Paris Exhibition, Krupp, July 13 (born, 1810). Russo-Afghan boundary settled, May 6. Death of Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne, May 9 (born, July 20. Naval review at Spithead, July 23. Death of Michael 1808). Great floods in Pennsylvania, about 10,000 lives lost, May Katkoff, editor of the Moscow Gazette, August 1 (born, 1820). 31. Delagoa Bay railway seized by Portugal, June 25. Arrival of Meeting of the German and Austrian Emperors at Gastein, the Shah of Persia at Gravesend, July 1. Defeat of dervishes at August 6. Offer by the Nizam of Haidarabad of £200,000 a year Aro-uin by Colonel Wodehouse, July 2. Marriage of the Princess for three years for Indian North-West frontier defences, August 26. Louise of Wales and the Duke of Fife, July 27. Visit of the Trafalgar Square demonstration against the proclamation of the German Emperor to Queen Victoria at Osborne, August 2. Rout Irish National League, August 27. Nationalist riot at Mitchels- of dervishes at Toski by General Grenfell, August 4. Mrs town, September 9. Centenary of the United States Constitution Maybrick convicted of poisoning her husband at Liverpool, celebrated, September 15-17. Mr W. O’Brien, M.P., sent to August 7. Death of Signor Cairoli, Italian statesman, August 8 prison for incitement to resist the law, September 24. Anglo- (born, 1826). Sentence of perpetual imprisonment passed upon French Convention neutralizing the Suez Canal, October 24. General Boulanger by the Paris High Court, August 12. Great French agree to withdraw from the New Hebrides, October 24. strike of London dock labourers, August 15 (ended September 16). Lord Lytton appointed British Ambassador to France, October 29. French general election; Republican success, September 22. Death of Sir G. Macfarren, October 31 (born, 1813). Death of Death of Wilkie Collins, September 23 (born, 1824). Death of Jenny Lind, November 2 (born, 1820). Death of Lord Wolverton, General Faidherbe, September 29 (born, 1818). Death of the King November 6 (born, 1824). Surrender of Ayub Khan to the of Portugal, October 9 (born, 1838). Charter granted to the Indian Government, November 9. Great riot in Trafalgar Square, British South Africa Company, October 15. Visit of the German November 13. Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie, November Emperor and Empress to Constantinople, November 2. Death of 24, 25. Quetta and other districts incorporated as British Lord Falmouth, November 6 (born, 1819). Forth Bridge comBaluchistan, November. Resignation of M. Grevy, President of pleted, November 6. Revolution in Brazil; deposition of the the French Republic ; succeeded by M. Sadi Carnot, December 2. Emperor, republic proclaimed, November 15. Anti-slavery Death of Lord Lyons, December 5 (born, 1817). Attempt to Conference opened in Brussels, November 18. Close of the Parnell murder M. Jules Ferry, December 10. Articles on “ Parnellism Commission, after sitting for 129 days, November 22. Arrival of Mr Stanley and Emin Pasha at Bagamoyo from Central Africa, and Crime ” published by The Times, March-June. 1888. One hundredth anniversary of The Times, January 1. December 4. Death of Jefferson Davis, December 6 (born, 1808). New South Wales centenary celebrated, January 24. Death of Death of Robert Browning, December 12 (born, 1812). Collapse Sir Henry Maine, February 3 (born, 1822). Austro-German of the Panama Canal Company, December 14. Death of Count alliance of 1879 published, February 3. German Army Bill Karolyi, December 26 (born, 1825). Disturbances in Crete. _ 1890. Death of Dr Dollinger, January 10 (born, 1799). British (increase of 700,000 men) passed, February 8. Resignation of the Viceroyalty of India by Lord Dufferin ; Lord Lansdowne ap- ultimatum respecting East Africa accepted by Portugal, January pointed, February 8. Canadian Fisheries Treaty signed in 12. Death of Lord Napier of Magdala, January 14 (born, 1810). Washington, February 15. Death of the Emperor William L, Death of Sir William Gull, January 29 (horn, 1816). Federation March 9 (born, 1797). General Boulanger removed from the of shipowners formed, February 4. South Metropolitan Gas French army, March 27. Death of Matthew Arnold, April 15 Company’s strike ended, February 5. Parnell Commission report (born, 1822). Panama Canal Lottery Loan Bill passed by the issued, February 13. Death of Count Julius Andrassy, February French Chamber of Deputies, April 28. Glasgow International 18 (born, 1823). Forth Bridge opened, March 4. Resignation of Exhibition opened by the Prince of Wales, May 8. Tibetans Prince Bismarck, March 17. General von Caprivi appointed defeated by the British at Gnatong, May 23. Death of Marshal German Chancellor, March 19. Arrival of Mr H. M. Stanley in Leboeuf, June 7 (born, 1809). Lord Stanley of Preston sworn in England from Africa, April 26. Return of Prince Albert Victor as Governor-General of Canada, June 11. Death of the Emperor from India, May 2. Anglo-German agreement with reference to Frederick, June 15 (born, 1831). Duel between M. Floquet and Africa and Heligoland signed in Berlin, July 1. Anti-Jewish General Boulanger, July 13. Death of Sir J. H. Brand, President edicts in Russia, July 25. Anglo-French Convention with refer-
