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Birth of the Princess Royal

His Majesty's Sister, Caroline, married to the

King of Denmark

Successes of Lord Clive

Death of His Majesty's Brother, the Duke of

York

Birth of the Duke of Kent

General Paoli seeks asylum in England

The Jesuits suppressed

The Irish Parliaments made octennial

More riots for Mr. Wilkes

Death of Allen in St. George's Fields

Birth of the Princess Augusta

Lord North's Administration

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1771 .. ibid.

Hyder Ally opposes the British in India

Sir Fletcher Norton chosen Speaker

Princess Elizabeth born

Plymouth Docks set on Fire

The Lord Mayor and an Alderman committed

to the Tower

The Duke of Cumberland born

Death of the Poet Gray

The Commons assert their privilege against the

Lords with respect to Money Bills

Duke of Sussex born

Disputes with America encrease

Birth of the Duke of Cambridge

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1772 .. ibid.

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Captain Furneaux returns from a Voyage

round the World

Battle of Bunker's Hill

Rise of General Washington

War with France, &c.

Birth of the Princess Mary

Death of Hume, the Historian

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John the Painter burns the Dock Yard at

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Portsmouth

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Princess

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War with Holland

Amount of the National Debt

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Death of Major Pierson

Hyder Ally successful against the English

Lord North resigns

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Exploits of Elliot, Hood, Hughes, Barrington,

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Addington chosen Speaker

A stone thrown at his Majesty by John Frith
Deaths of Dr. Franklin, and Howard the Phi-

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Tippoo Saib makes War against the British in
India
Marriage of His Royal Highness the Duke of
York with the Princess Royal of Prussia
Resolutions passed in the House of Commons
for the abolition of the Slave Trade
Payne's Rights of Man disseminated

Tippoo Saib defeated by Lord Cornwallis, gives
his Sons up as hostages for the performance
of a Treaty of Peace

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War between France and Great Britain

The French Fleet beaten by Lord Howe Marriage of His Royal Highness the of Wales

War with Holland

Rise of Bonaparte

Batavia, &c. surrender to the British.
The French re, ulsed at Bantry Bay

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1790 ... ibid.

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Lord Malmesbury sent to Paris to treat of

Peace, but does not succeed

Maroon War in Jamaica

Princess Charlotte of Wales born

Guineas withheld by the Bank

Lord St. Vincent's victory over the Spanish

Fleet

Lord Duncan's victory over the Dutch off
Camperdown

Royal Procession to St. Paul's

Mutiny at the Nore

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Lord Malmesbury again sent, unsuccessfully, to treat of Peace at Lisle

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1798 ibid.

Deaths of Mr. Wilkes and the King of Prussia..........
Troubles in Ireland
The French land, and surrender, at Killala Bay
Lord Nelson defeats the French Fleet in

Aboukir Bay

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Sir Sidney Smith defeats Bonaparte at Acre.. 1799 .. 268

Conquest of Mysore, and fall of Tippoo Saib ....
His Majesty narrowly escapes Assassination
at a Review, and, on the Evening of the same
day, at Drury-lane Theatre

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Battle of Alexandria, and death of Abercrombie 1801 .. ibid.

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The British detained as Prisoners in France.....

Despard and his Associates executed

Murder of Lord Killwarden by the mob in
Dublin

Capture of many French setttlements

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Victories in India by Marquis Wellesley
Mr Pitt resumes the Ministry

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St. Domingo self-erected to an Empire
Captain Sir Nicholas Dance defeats Admiral

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1804 .. 278

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Loss of the Abergavenny East Indiaman

Death of Marquis Cornwallis

Death of William Pitt

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Second Bombardment of Copenhagen

The Cape of Good Hope surrenders to the

British
Admiral Duckworth takes three line of Battle

Ships, and destroys two

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Buenos Ayres retaken by the Spaniards

ibid.

Admiral Sir J. Duckworth forces the passage

of the Dardanelles, but is afterwards obliged to retire

ibid.

The Slave Trade ceases

ibid.

The Count de Lisle (King of France), and the

Duchess of Brunswick, land in England The King of Spain lured by the French to

ibid.

Bayonne

1808

ibid.

Spain and Portugal commence their glorious. struggle for liberty

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Battle

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