INDEX



Code Napoleon, 1806.
Coleridge, S. T., 1826; death of, 1834.
Cold Harbor, battle of, 1864.
Colenso, battle of, 1899.
Collins, Wilkie, death of, 1889.
Columbian celebrations, 1892, 1893.
Commerce and Labor, Department of,
  1903.
  Commune, the, at Paris, 1871.
Comonfort, President of Mexico, 1855,
  1856.
  Comte, Auguste, death of, 1857.
Concordat, between Napoleon and Pius
  VII, 1802; abolished, 1814, 1905.
Confederation of the Rhine, forma-
  tion of, 1806.
Congo Free State, 1885; Belgian an-
  nexes, 1895; cruelty in, 1904.
Conkling, Roscoe, 1881; death of, 1888.
"Constitution,"   takes   "Guerriere,"
  1812; takes   "Jena,"   1812;  takes
  "Cyane" and "Levant," 1815.
Cooper, J. Fenimore, 1823, 1826, 1828,
  1829, 1840, 1841; death of, 1851.
Copenhagen,   battle  of, 1801;  bom-
  barded, 1807; fire in, 1847.
Copyright in Great Britain, 1842; in
  United States, 1891.
Corn cultivator, McQuiston patents,
  1859.
Corn  Laws, sliding   scale  of  grain
  duties, 1814;  reduction   of  grain
  duties, 1842; repeal of, 1845, 1846.
Cotton famine, 1862; Sully's corner in,
  1904.
Courrieres, mine disaster at, 1906.
Cracow, fire in, 1850.
Credit Mobilier, 1852.
Creeks, war with, 1836; deported, 1836.
Crete, insurrection in, 1889, 1890, 1896,
  1897; governed by King George, 1898.
Crimean War, 1854, 1855, 1856.
Crispi, death of, 1901.
Cronje, General, in Boer War, 1899,
  1900.
Crystal Palace, World's Fair in, 1.851.
Cuba, insurrection of Quesada, 1833;
  rebellion, 1876, 1895, 1896, 1897; Amer-
  ican administration of, 1899, 1901;
  Constitution, 1901; grants naval sta-
  tions to United States, 1903.
Cuban reciprocity, 1902, 1903.
Cumberland, Duke of, charged with
  conspiracy, 1835; in Hanover, 1837.
Curie, Pierre, aids wife in discovery
  of radium, 1903; death of, 1906.
Cushing, Lieutenant, exploit of, 1864.
Custer, defeat and death of, 1876.
Cuvier, death of, 1832.
Cyprus ceded to England, 1878.
Czerny, Carl, death of, 1857.

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DAGuaRaE invents photography, 1839.
Dahomey, French subdue, 1892.
Dalton, John, death of, 1844.
Damien, Father, death of, 1889.
Dantzig, capitulation of, 1807; surren-
ders to Austrians, 1813.



Darwin, "Origin of Species," 1869;
  death of, 1882.
Daudet, Alphonse, death of, 1897.
Davenport, Fanny, death of, 1891.
David, J. L., death of, 1825.
Davis, Jefferson, President of the Con-
  federacy, 1860; captured, 1865; death
  of, 1889.
  Davoust, Marshal, 1804, 1806, 1807,
  1809, 1812, 1813, 1815; death of, 1823.
Davy, Sir Humphry, death of, 1829.
Decatur suppresses Barbary pirates,
  1815.
Delagoa Bay awarded to Portugal,
  1875.
Delhi, rebels against British, 1856,
  1857, 1859; Durbar at, 1903.
De Long, Arctic Expedition of, 1879.
Denmark, war with England, 1801;
  war  with   Sweden, 1808; ally    of
  France, 1813; wars with    Germany,
  1846, 1863, 1864.
Dessalines, 1803, 1804, 180f
Detroit, surrender of, 1812.
De Vere, Aubrey, death of, 1846.
De Wet, General, in Boer War, 1899-
  1902
Dewey, Admiral, in Civil War, 1862;
  in Spanish War, 1898.
Dhargai Pass, British take, 1897.
Diaz, Porfirio, rebellion, 1872; Presi-
  dent, 1876.
Dickens, 1836, 1837, 1842, 1847; death
.of, 1870.
Dingaan, wars with Boers, 1835, 1836,
  1837; killed, 1839.
Disraeli. (See Beaconsfield.)
Dollinger, Dr., death of, 1890.
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, 1822;
  dissolves constitution, 1823; accepts
  constitution, 1824.
Doniphan in Mexican war, 1847.
Donizetti, death of, 1848.
Dornberg, conspiracy of, 1809.
Dostoyevsky, death of, 1881.
"Dreadnought" launched, 1906.
Dred Scott decision, 1857.
Dreibund, Russia, Austria, and Prus-
  sia, 1851.
Dresden, battle of, 1813.
Dreyfus case, the, 1894, 1895, 1898, 1899,
  1904.
Dumas, Alexandre, pere, death of,
1876.
Dunbar, P. L., death of, 1906.
Dvorak, Antonin, death of, 1904.

                  E
EDWARD VII, accession, 1901; corona-
  tion, 1902.
Eggleston, Edward, death of, 1902.
Egypt, Mehemet Ali revolts against
Turkey, 1832; war with Turkey, 1839,
1840; war with Great Britain, 1882.
Eisenach, Luther celebration at, 1817.
Eliot, George, death of, 1880.
Elkins Anti-Rebate Bill, 1903.
Embargo, United States declares, 1807,
1808.



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