-! l!!iliiil!iiltii;ii!^i |ii lil Jijiiiii ■ i'ti^i'l'l sir 'I I'''" rWmm lliillil'"' ^sm - 0^- :l '''^^ ''^^ ', ' %■^^^ ^. ,^x^'' ^>?^.* .^•• ■\ "' ,0o. . ^ I. * '/^ ^. %: A> Oo. // -^ \^ % C?-' o^^ ■■<>• ^^'' aU ^ ' a •^0^ ^-^^ -^^ ■ 0-^ '/'9: 3o ■V L^ ■- i^-v^ss; I s^riulo(jtout)<, I § 12, esp. pp. 84, 85). Delitzsch, 608 16 Ancient History. B. c. Ionia the whole of northern Mesopotamia on the right bank of the Tigris, the rest falling to the share of Cyaxares,^ who had already subjugated Armenia and the Iranian portions of the kingdom of Assyria. The Grecian story of the effeminate Sardanapalus (Ctesias m Dio- dorus, II.) is the counterpart of their tales about the masculine Semi- ramis. According to this story, Sardanapalus, on the fall of the city, burns himself upon a magnificent bier, 400 feet high, wliich burns for 15 days. This story seems to be an application of the myth of the god who burned himself and rose from the flames, whom the Semitic peoples associated with Istar (Astarte), and whose nature they con- founded with hers.'^ 608 (605)-538. (New) Empire of Babylon. After the Assyrian conquest of Babylonia, about 710 (see p. 14); the latter country continued subject to Assyria, with intervals of rebellion, until the successful combination of Nahopolas- sar and Cyaxares destroyed the power of Assyria. Babylon then took the lead among the nations of the East, rivalled by Media alone. 604-561. Nebuchadnezzar {Nahu-kud^ir-ussur), son of Na- bopolassar, during the reign of his father defeated Necho, king of Egypt, at Carchemisch on the Euplrrates (605), conquered Syria, destroyed Jerusalem (586), and subdued Tyre (585). Enlargement and adornment of Babylon (on the east bank of the Euplrrates). Construction of a bridge over the Euphrates, and of a new palace, with the " hanging gardens " which tradi- tion assigns to Semiramis. Erection of the Median tvall from the Euphrates to the Tigris. Magnificent water works. The reservoir at Sippara (Sepharvaim). After Nebuchadnezzar^ rapid decline of the dynasty, which became extmct m 555. 588. Babylon (last king Nabonetics, or Nahunahid, reigning in conjunction with his son Bel-shar-ussu7% the Biblical Belshazzar) taken by Cyrus. Babylon a Persian prov- ince. § 4. PHCENICIANS AND CARTHAGINIANS. Semitic. (Down to the war of the latter with the Romans.) Geography .3 Phoenicia (^oir-i/cT?, Phoenice) is the Grecian name of Canaan (see p. 7), and was derived from the tribal name iolvii,. In the narrower sense the name denotes the strip of coast, 5-14 miles wide and 150 miles long, which lies N. of the country of the Philistines and the Hebrews and W. of Mt. Leb- anon. This strip was inhabited by three tribes : 1. Sidonians, i. e. " fishers " (cities: Sidon, Zor, called by the Greeks 2\p'os); 2. Arvadites (city : Arvad, in Greek Arados); 3. Giblites (cities : Byhlus or Gehal, and Berfftos). Eleligion of the Phoenicians. The god Baal {Bel, of the Babylo- 1 For the Median Empire, see p. 25. 2 Duncker, II. chapter i. ; also III. 265- 3 Kiepert, Atlas Antiquus, Tab. III. B. c. PhceniciaJis mttl Carthaginians. 17 iiians) and the goddess Ashera {Baaltis, Belit of the Babylo- nians), the divinities of life, birth, and the genial forces of na- ture, were opposed to the god Moloch (i. e. "king," the Babylonian Aflar), the devouring and destroying, and yet cleans- ing tire, also god of war, and the maiden goddess Astarte. Human sacrifices: to Moloch, boys and youths ; to Astarte, youths and maidens. Afterwards Baal and Moloch were con- fused into 07ie divinity, who, under the name of Melkart (i. e. " king of the city " ), became the guardian divinity of Tyre. In the same way yli'Aera and Astarte were united into one divinity, who when represented as a grim wandering goddess vanishing with the changing light of the moon bears the name Dido, but when represented as a kind and gentle divinity newly restored to the knowledge of mankind that of Anna (i. e. " pleasant "). Tlie Political Constitution of the Phoenician cities was an he- reditary monarchy, but the royal power was checked by the existence of two senates. 1300. Period of Sidon's greatest power. Favored by the sit- uation of their country, and urged by an energetic industry which led to the invention or development of many arts and manufactures, such as purple dye, weaving, glass-making, min- ing, work in metals, and architecture, the Phcenicir.ns estab- lished at an early period, certainly not later than 1500, a car- rying trade by land (to Babylonia, Arabia, Assyria, Ai'meuia) as well as by sea, wliich time only made more extensive. In close connection with the commerce by sea was the foundation of numerous colonies. Thus in Cyprus were founded Citium, Ama- thus, Paphos, the centre of the worship of Ashera, whence originated the Grecian worship of Aphrodite, that goddess " born of the foam of the sea " (i. e. whose cult came to Greece by sea). Other colonies were founded in Cicilia, Rhodes, Crete, Cythera, as well as on many of the islands of the iEgsean sea, and at points along the coast of Greece; further west, again, colonies were planted in Mellte or Malta, in Sicily (on the southern coast Minoa, Gr. Heraklea, on the northern coast Soloeis (sela == " cliff "), Panormus (Machafiath ?), at the western end of the island Motye^, on Sardinia (Cardlis), on the north coast of Af- rica (two cities of Leptis, Hadrumetum, Utica, the two towns of Hip- po), in the country called Tarsis or Tarshish, i. e. southern Spain, beyond the columns of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar), Gadir or Gades, i. e. " walls," " fortress," now Cadiz, founded about 1100. From this point the Phcenicians extended their commercial deal- ings still further to the western coasts of Africa, and to the Islands of Tin (the Cassiterides), Britain, i and the coasts of the German Ocean, where they bought amber which the native tribes obtained by barter from the Baltico Mythical representations of these voyages and settlements of the Phcenicians are contained in a series of well-known Grecian tales. 1 English antiquarians of the present day consider it probable that the Phr?- nicians never set foot either in the Scilly Isles or in Britain, but received what British tin they did obtain, at second or third hand, from the Celts of Gaut' ^Veneti?). Tin was found in the river beds of western Gaul. [Tkans.] 2 18 Ancient 'History. B. c Story of the rape of Europa (i. e. " the grim "), daughter of PhcB* nix (i. e. " the Phcenician ") from Sidon by Zeus in the form of a bull (whereby is denoted the moon-goddess Dido-Astarte, who flees to- wards the west). Story of Minos, the son of Zeus and Europa, the powerful ruler of Crete; his wife is Pasiphae (i. e. " she who shines upon all "). Story of the Minotaur (i. e. Bull of Minos, another con- ception of Baal-Moloch), shut up in the Labyrinth, to whom Athens had to send human offerings. Dcedalus, builder of the Labyrinth in Crete, is the personification of that technical dexterity which the Hel- lenes acquired from the Phoenicians. Cadmus, too, who in search of his sister Europa landed in Thera and Thasos, built the Cadmea in Bceotia, and invented the alphabet, is the mythical representative of Phcenician settlements from which the written alphabet and other elements of eastern civilization were carried to the Greeks. 1100. Tyre, though younger than Sidon, attained the first rank among the Phoenician sea-board towns. 1001-967. Tyre, at the height of its prosperity, under king Hiram, the contemporary of David and Solomon, and the lat- ter's friend. Exploring expedition of the Tyrians, accompanied by the servants of Solomon, through the Red Sea to the coast of India (Ophir). Hiram filled in the space between the island upon which stood the temple of Melkart, and New Tyre (which was also situated on an island), and erected buildmgs on the new land. He also narrowed the strait between New Tyre and Old Tyre on the main land. 917 (?). Ethbaal (Ithabalus), high priest of Astarte, murdered PhaleSj the last descendant of Hiram, and made himself king. About seventy (?) years later, according to a Grecian authority, a grandson of this Ethbaal decreed in his will that liis minor son Pyg- malion and his daughter Elissa should govern Tyre in common under the guardianship of their uncle, the high priest Sicharhaal, who was to marry Elissa. The democratic party deprived Elissa of her share in the government, and Pygmalion, coming of age, murdered Sichar- baal. In consequence of this internal strife, and influenced probably by the unfavorable state of the foreign relations (advance of the Assyrian power towards the Mediterranean, see p. 15), a large part of the older families left Tyre with Elissa. On an excellent site, on the north coast of Africa, they founded about 850.^ Carthage ^ (in Punic, Kathada, i. e. " the new city "), between Utica in the W. and the present cape Bon m the E., not far from the present Tunis. Double harbor. Citadel Byrsa. Later the foundress, Elissa, became confused with the goddess, Dido-Astarte, the protectress of the colony.^ 1 According to TimSBus, 814. Concerning the chronology, see Duncker, II. 270. 2 See Kiepert, Atlas Anfiquus, Tab. VIII. 3 The credibility of this narrative and the interpretations put upon it, both as regards the chronology and the facts, are contested by O. Meltzer, Gesch. d n. c. Phcenicians and Carthaginians. 19 CartliatTfe, so far as it comes ^vitllill the realm of history, appears to have been an anstoe'i'atic re})ublic', with two Sufetes, or jiulges, fre- quently called "kings," and compared with the Spartan kings, and two senates, a large and small. Oidy upon occasion of a disagree- ment between these branches of the government were the jjcoplo called upon to give their opinion. The government tended constantly toward the oligarchical form. 850. Decline of the i)ower of the PhoBnician cities, especially of Tyre, which was distracted by civil dissension. The Plicenicians fell repeatedly under the rule of the Assyrians, and, for a time, under that of the Egyptians. After the fall of the Assyr- ian empire (025, COG), they became dependent upon the Babylonians, Tyre alone maintaining its freedom until 573. Favored by the political situation, the Greeks, who had already (about 1000) driven the Phoenicians out of the ^gean Sea, began to extend their iiiHuence in the eastern Mediterranean, and, especially after the second half of the eighth century, along the coasts and islands of the western Mediterranean, and in Lower Italy and Sicily (p. 51). Foundation of Cijrene (p. 49) and Massalia (about 600), attempted settlements upon Corsica, Sardinia, and the shores of Spain. In short, the Phceiiician power was tlireatened with destruction throughout the :)ntire West. Brought face to face with this danger, Carthage, which had mean- time grown considerably stronger, began about GOO to gather the other PhcEuician cities under its control, to subjugate the country around its own commercial stations, and to secure its possession by the establishment of new colonies. The Carthaginians annexed to their territory the African coast from Hippo in the W. to beyond Leptis in the E., and opposed armed resistance to the advancing power of Ci/rene. In the peace which was concluded, the altars of the Phi- Ueni, E. of Leptis, were made the boundary. The Carthaginians subjugated Southern Spain and Sardinia, and, with Etruscan aid, drove the Phocceans from Corsica (537 ?). 586-573. Tyre successfully endured a thirteen years' siege, from the land side, by Nebuchadnezzar, but was finally forced to acknowledge the supremacy of the king of Babylon. 538. After the destruction of the Babylonian monarchy, by Cyrus, Phoenicia became STd)ject to Persia. The Phcenician cities, however, retained their independence and their native kings. The Phcenicians henceforth furnished the principal part of the Persian fleet. An ex|)edition for the conquest of Carthage, proposed by Cambyses, king of Persia, after the con- quest of Egypt, was rendered impossible of execution by the refusal of the Phcenicians to figlit against their colony. During the Persian supremacy, Sidon was again the first city of Phoenicia. The Carthaginians, favored by the civil dissensions of the Karfhnf/er, B(L I., 1879, wlio admits the truth of these statements only : that Carthage was a Tyvian colony, and was certainly founded before the eighth century. 20 Ancient History. b. c Greeks in Sicily, and by the Persian war with Greece, attacked the Greek colonies in Sicily (being secretly in alliance with Xerxes ?) 480. War of the Carthaginians, in alliance with Selimis, against the other Greek cities in Sicily. The Carthaginian army under Hamilcar was utterly defeated* and scattered at Himera by the tyrants Gelon of Syracuse {jZvpdKovcai) and Jlieron of Agrigentum ('AKpdyas)- The Carthaginians purchased peace for 2000 talents, thereby sav- ing their Sicilian cities, Panormus, Solosis, Motye. 409-339. Repeated wars between the Carthaginians and Greeks in Sicily. The Carthaginians, called in to assist Segesta (^'Ey^cTTo) against Seli- nus, after conquering Selinus, Hhnera, Agrigentum, and Gela, secured the supremacy over the western half of Sicily, a position which they maintained against all attempts of the tyrant Dionysius I. and Timo- leon, who restored republican liberty to the Grecian cities, to dislodge them. 332. Capture of the island city, New Tyre, by Alexander the Great after a seven months' siege. Phoenicia became a part of the great Grae co-Macedonian monarchy, and later a part of the kingdom of the Seleucidae, and for a time of that of the Ptolemies. 317-275. New wars between the Carthaginians and Greeks in Sicily. Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse, sought to bring all Sicily under his rule. The Carthaginians despoiled him of his conquests and besieged Syracuse. Agathocles effected a landing in Africa (310), and overran a large part of the Carthaginian territory, while the Syracusans re- pulsed and annihilated the Carthaginian army under the walls of Syra- cuse. Agathocles returned to Sicily; liis army, which he left before Carthage, was destroyed. In the peace with Syracuse the Cartha- ginians regained their former possessions in Sicily (306). After the death of Agathocles, party broils in Syracuse favored the advance of the Carthaginian power. Pyrrhus of Epirus, then in Tarentum, was called to the aid of the Syracusans (278). He was at first successful, but offending most of the Grecian cities by his sever- ity, they took sides with the Carthaginians, and Pyrrhus was forced to leave Sicily. On the voyage back to Italy he was defeated by a Carthaginian fleet (276). § 5. LYDIANS AND PHRYGIANS. Lydians, Semitic. Geography : Lydia, in the strict sense, or Mseonia, was the middle one of the three divisions of Asia Minor lying on the ^gsean Sea, the aorthern being Mysia, the southern Caria. Rivers : Hermus, Caystrus, B. C. Lydians and Phrygians. 21 Pactolus (golden-sand) in Lydia; Mceander in Caria. Capital of Lydia: Sardes at the base of the Tmolus range. The Lydians belonged to the Semitie race, like the Cilicians, and pr()bal)ly the Carians, whereas the other peoples of Asia Minor were in all likelihood Aryans. The kingdom of Lydia at the period of its greatest extent reached to the Ilalys river (now the Kisil Irmak), and included, beside the countries mentioned above, Bithynia and Paphlayonia on the Pontus Euxinus (Black 8ea), and the inland country of Phrygia. Religion : Worship of the sun-god Sandon, and the goddesses Bla (JMylitta-Ashera) and Ala (Astarte). The last two became united in one goddess, under the name " the great mother " {Cyhele), who was worshipped in Ephesus as Artemis (Diana). Chronology : Lydia was ruled by two successive mythical dynas- ties, the Attyadce from Attys, son of the god Manes (prior to 1229), and the Sandon idee, who traced their origin to the god Sandon (1229- 724). The Greeks saw in this latter divinity their Heracles, and called this dynasty, therefore, the Heradidce. The last king of this line, Candaules, was murdered (689^) by his favorite Gyges in collu- sion with the king's consort. With Gyges the G89 2-549 (?). Dynasty of the Mermnadae came to the throne. Under these sovereigns the Lydian kingdom, after suffering severely from the Cimmerians, and being at times subject to Assyria, grew in power and extent. Gyges himself extended his sway over Mysia and to the Hellespont. His two succes- sors conquered Phrygia, and carried on an unsuccessful war with the Grecian cities on the sea coast. Alyattes, the fourth of the Mermnadce, warred watli CyaxdreSf king of Media, wdtli success. 610(?). Indecisive battle between ^/?/a/tef and Cyaxdres. Eclipse of the sun predicted by Thales of Miletus. In the treaty of peace the Halys was made the bomidary between the Lydian and Median kingdoms. The daughter of Alyattes was given in marriage to Astyages, son of Cyaxdres. Alyattes sub- dued Bithynia and Paphlagonia in the north, Caria in the south, took Smyrna and Colophon, but failed to subdue the re- maining coast towns. A vast treasure collected in the royal palace at Sardes. Magnificent buildings. Ruins of royal tombs north of Sardes. 503-549 (?). Croesus, Son of Alyattes, captured Ephesus, and afterwards subdued all the Grecian cities of the coast, Ionian, ^olian, and Dorian, with the exception of Miletus, with which he formed a league. Active intercourse with European Greece. Solon, of Athens, visited Sardes. After the deposition of his brother-in-law Astyages, of Media, by Cyrus the Persian, Croesus attacked the Persian empire. Following the am- biguous advice of the Delphic oracle he crossed the Halys. Inde- «isive battle between Croesus and Cyrus at Pteria. Croesus returned 1 Eupebius, 609 ; Herodotus, 719. 2 Duncker, Hist, oj Antig., 111. 414, note 2. 22 Ancient History. b. c. irresolutely to Sardes, whither he was followed by Cyrus, who de- feated him ill a second battle, captured Sardes, and took Croesus prisoner (see p. 26). 549 (?). Fall of the kingdom of Lydia, which was united with the Persian empire. Phrygians. 750, or earlier, an independent monarchy was formed in N. W. Phrygia, having its capital at Gordmum. Its monarchs, the dates of whose reigns are uncertain, bore the names of Gordias and Midas alternately. A Midas contemporary with Alyat- tes (about 600-570), and a Gordias with Croesus (570-560). Phrygia conquered by Lydia about 560. (Rawlinson.) § 6. INDIANS. Aryan. Geography : India, the central peninsula of the three which pro- • ject from the southern coast of Asia into the Indian Ocean, is a vast triangle, having a base and a height of about 1900 miles, bounded ' on the N. by the Himalaya Mountains, on the E. by the Bay of Bengal, on the W. by the Gulf of Arabia. It falls into three geo- graphical divisions : I. The region of the Himalayas. The central range forms an almost impassable barrier between India and the Mongol tribes of central Asia (Mt. Everest, 29,000 ft.). On the : E. this region is separated from Burmah by the lower ranges of ' the Ndgd, Patkoi, and Yomas (Aeng Pass), which are pierced by the Brahmaputra. On the W. the Sufed Koh, Suldimdn, and the Hdlas separate India from Afghanistan and Baluchistan, but are pierced by the Indus River, the Khaihar Pass (3373 ft.), and the Boldn Pass (5800 ft.). This region includes Nepal and Kashmir. II. The fertile valley of the great rivers, which receives the drainage of the northern as well as of the southern slopes of the Hima- layas. River systems: Indus, SutleJ (provinces of Punjab, i. e. the five streams,! Sind); Ganges (provinces of Bengal, Oudh, Rdjpu- tdna ; cities : Calcutta, Benares^ Delhi, Allahabad) ; Bramaputra (province of Assam). Deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra. III. The Deccan, or southern plateau, separated from the Ganges valley by the Vindhyd mountains (5000 ft.), and bordered by the East Ghats (1500 ft.) and West Ghats (3000 ft.). Rivers: Goddvari, Krishna, Kdveri, all flowing through the East Ghats into the Bay of Bengal. Provinces : Madras, Bombay, Mysore, etc. Religion : The religion of the early Indians, as portrayed in the Vedic hymns, was a worship of Nature : Dyaush-pitar, Father of Heaven; Farima, the sky; /nc/m, the rain- vapor; Agni,¥iie; Maruts, gods of the storm. After the settlement in the Ganges valley, this primitive faith underwent a change. History : The Indians (^Hindus) migrating from the northwest, came at first to the valley of the Indus and the Punjab, and thence slowly pushed their settlements down the valley of the Ganges^ 1 Indus, Iheluni, Chenaub, Ravi, Sutlej (modern names). B. C. Indians. 23 where they were prohah'y established as early as 1/500 b. c. The native tribes whom they t(mnevelo})ment of the royal power and of the j)ricstly in- fluence. Four principal castes: Brahmaus, priests; Kshattriyas, warriors; Vaisi/as, agricultural settlers. These three were of purt; Aryan descent. The Sudras, or servile caste, were of aboriginal descent, the Ddsas, " slaves." Transformation of the ancient faith into the religion of Brahma : Brahma, the creator ; Vishnu, the pre- server; Siva, the destroyer and restorer. Spiritual tyranny of the Brahmans, accompanied by a high development of philosophy, gram- mar, etc., by the Brahmans, in connection with the explanation of the Vedas ("revelations"), or services for the various religious cere- monials: Rig-Veda, the simplest form; Sama-Veda ; Yayur-Veda (black and white), Atharva-Veda. To these were in time attached prose treatises composed by the priests and called the Brahmanas, one being attached to each Veda. A second series of additions were the Sutras ("sacred traditions"). Poetry, the epics: Maha-bhdrata, RamCiyana. Regulation of the entire thought and life in accord- ance watli strict prescriptions, which were afterwards (about GOO ?) gathered together into the book of the laws of Manu, being, as it was claimed, a divine revelation to him, the tribal ancestor of the whole race. Complicated system of rites and ceremonies. Pre- scriptions concerning cleanliness. Terrors of the doctrine of the second birth. Magnificent monuments of Indian arcliitecture, especially tlie Cliff Temples, which were excavated in the rock, both upon and be- low the surface of the earth. Later, Pagodas. In the sixth century, appearance of the reformer Buddha, i. e. "the enlightened" (023 to 543), properly Gautama, afterwards Sid- dhartha (i. e. " he who has fulfilled his end "), son of prince Sud~ dhodana. Buddhism, called after its founder, was originally a philosophical system, without creed or rites, having for its object the attainment of moral perfection. Through its doctrine of the essen- tial equality of all men, it was directly opposed to Brahmanism. The progress of Buddhism produced, along with certain changes in the old system, a strong Brahmanistic reaction. The war of the re- ligions ended with the expulsion of Buddhism from India. It main- tained itself in Kashmir and Ceylon only, but the loss was offset by great gains in central and eastern Asia, where it has to-day over 300,000,000 devotees in Thibet, China, Japan, etc. 327. Invasion of the Punjab by Alexander the Great (p. 75). 317-291. Formation of great empires of short duration (empire of Magadha, under Chandra-gupta (Greek, Sandra-kottos), and his grandson, 263-226 (?). Acoka, the friend of Buddhism. After the reign of A90- ka the Punjab fell under the supremacy of the Grieco-Bactriau 24 Ancient History. B. c. empire in central Asia, and thus some tincture of Greek civ- ilization was imparted to this part of India. The Bactrian rulers were finally expelled by Scythian invaders, several dy- nasties of whom appear to have reigned in the Punjab and along the Ganges. Wars of the native prince Vikramaditya agauist the Scythians (57 B.C. ?). Kanishka, Gr. Kanerke, was the founder of the last dynasty of Scythian kings, who were succeeded by an unknown people, the Guptas. Another branch of the Indo-Scytliians making their way down the Indus came into conflict with the Guptas, and with a general league of the Hindus of the south. In the 78 A. D. (?) Battle of Kahror the invaders were utterly defeated and are henceforward not mentioned. The Guptas reigned in Oudh and northern India until they were overthrown by foreign invaders (Tatars ?) in the latter half of the fifth century A. d. § 7. BACTRIANS, MEDES, PERSIANS. Aryan. Geography: The Bactrians, Medes, and Persians inhabited the plateau of Iran,i between the Suldimdn range on the E. and the val- ley of the Euphrates and Tigris on the W., between the Caspian Sea on the N., and the Erythrcean Sea (Indian Ocean) on the S. On the western border of this highland: Media (Ecbatana, Med. Hangma- tana, i. e. " place of assemblies ") ; on the southern border along tiie Persian Gulf, Persis (Pasargddce, Persepolis), Carmania; on the Ery- thraean sea, Gedrosia; on the eastern border, Arachosia, the land of the Paropanisddce, at the foot of the Paropanisus (Hindu Koosh) ; ^ on the northern border, Bactria or Bactriana (Baktra), Parthia and Hyr- cania on the Caspian Sea; in the centre, ylriia and Drangiana- between the Oxus and the Jaxartes, Sogdiana (Maracanda). East of the lower course of the Tigris, in the lowlands: Susiana (the ancient Elam) with Susa, the principal residence of the Persian kings. Within this broad plateau, a widely accepted theory locates the primeval home of the Aryan or Indo-European or Japhetic race, from which in prehistoric times successive colonies wandered away to the south and west. About 1000 (?). Zoroaster (Zarathustra) whose doc- trine, a spiritual reform of the old Iranic superstitions, was contained in the 21 (?) books of the Avesta, of which one only has come down to us: the Vendidad, i. e. "delivered against the Daeva,^^ the bad spirits. The pith of the doctrine as set forth in the Avesta^ is the conception of a continuous war- fare of the good spirits, whose leader was the good god Ahura- viazda or Auramazda (in modern Persian Ormuzd), and the evil spirits, or Daeva, whose leader was Angromainyu, in mod- ern Persian Ahriman), over the life and death, welfare or in- 1 Kiepert, Atlas Antiquus, Tab. II. 2 Kiepert, Manual of Ancient Geography, p. 39. •3 Avesta is the law itself, Zend the later commentary on the law; hence Zend> mvesta, and the expressions Zend-languayt, Zend-people. B. c. Bactrians, Medes, Pcisidiis. 25 jury, of mail and his soul after death. In this new doctrine Alithra the sun-jii'od, orij^inally the hipaopTr7s, Pers. Fravartis) , wslh the first who united the whole country under one ruler and established the independence of Media. He made the Persians tributary, although their native ruler AclicBmenes {Hakhamanis), who was raised to the throne after the revolt of the Persians from As- syria, retained his crown under Median supremacy, and be- queathed it to his descendants. After Phraortes had fallen fighting against the Assyrians (p. 15) his son, 633-593. Cyaxares (KwalapT/s, Pers. Uvahksathra) succeeded him and continued the war with Assyria successfully. Inroad of the Scythians. After their departure (about 626 ? see p. 15), Cyaxares subjugated Armenia. War with Alyattes king of Lydia (p. 21). 606 (625?). Cyaxares, in alliance with Nahopolassar of Babylonia, captured Nineveh and destroyed the Empire of Assyria (p. 15), whose territory on the left shore of the Tigris fell to the Medians. He also conquered eastern Iran. Media at the death of Cyaxares was the most powerful monarchy of Asia. His son, 593-558. Astyages ('Ao-TuoyTjs), last king of the Medes. Cyrus, of 26 Ancient Hlstorij. b. c. the family of the Achcemenidce in the Persian tribe of the Pa- sargadce, whicli reigned in Persia under Median supremacy, deposed Astydges. 'J'he supremacy passed (558) from the Medes to the Persians. Herodotus (I. 107, etc.) reports a tradition of the Median descent of Cyrus through his iwother Manddne, daughter of Astydges, which js adorned after the Oriental maimer, with the dream of Astydges, the interpretation of the Magi, the exposure, miraculous rescue and rec- ognition of the boy Cyrus, the cruel punishment of Harpdgus, his treachery, etc. This story is evidently an invention of the Medes, who would not admit that they were conquered by a stranger. According to Ctesias, the daughter of Astydges was named Amy- tis, and was the wife of a Mede, Spitamas. After the deposition of Astydges and execution of Spitamas, Cyrus made her his consort. 558-330. Persian Empire founded by 558-529. Cyrus (KCpos, Pars. Kuriis) . Cyrus strengthened the Persian power over those peoples of Iran which were formerly subject to the Medes, and over the Armenians and Cappadocians. War against Croesus of Lydia (p. 21). After the indecisive battle of Pteria (564:?), Cyrus advanced on Sardes, defeated Crcesus in a second battle on the Hermus, stormed Sardes, captured Crasus, and deprived him of his kingdom, but otherwise treated him as a friend and ad- viser (554).^ The Grecian story told by Herodotus (I. 86) of Cyrus' intention to burn Crcesus, who, on the pyre, calls to mind his interview with Solon, of his consequent pardon by Cyrus, and the miraculous quenching of the flames by the Delphic Apollo, wiio had formerly re- ceived valuable presents from Crcesus, betrays a purpose of bringing Grecian wisdom into strong relief (proverb of Solon, that no mortal is to be called fortunate before death), and of vindicating the Grecian god. It is inconsistent with the command of the Persian faith, not to contaminate the sacred fire. Probably Croesus wished to appease the anger of the gods against his people and country, according to Semitic usage, by burning himself; according to the Lydian story, the sun-god Sandon does not accept the offering, but puts out the flames with rain. Cyrus returned to Ecbatana. A revolt of the Lydians was quickly repressed. Mazdres and Harpdgus made the Grecian coast cities tributary to the Persians. A portion of the Plioccmns migrated to Corsica; driven thence (see. p. 19) they went to Elea ( Velia) in southern Italy. Harpagus conquered Caria and Lycia. 539-538. War of Cyrus against the Babylonians. After a siego of nearly two years (diversion of the Euphrat'^s) Babylon was captured. The Babylonian Empire ■was in corporated •with the Persian ; the Phoenicians and CiUciam 1 The date of the fall of Sardes is disputed. Duncker (Book viii., chap. 6), gives ^A^. i{. C. Bdclrions, Mules, Persians. 27 retained their native rulers under Persian suprema,cy ; the Jews were sent iroiu Babyh>« hack to Palestine (p. 11). 529. Ci/ras, who was occupied during- the last nine years of his reij^n with wars against the eastern peoj)les, fell in one of these expeditions. The story of his death, like that of his l)irth, has been poetically adorned and variously related. Accordiii*^ to one tradition, probably of Median origin (Herodotus, 1. 202-214), Cyrus fell in battle against Tomyris, the queen of the Massac/etce, whose son he had overcome by deceit. She thrust the dissevered head of the Persian monarch into a skin- bag of blood that he might " drink his fill of blood." Ac- cording to Ctesias, Cyrus died, on the fourth day, of a wound which he received m a victory over the Derbices. The son antl successor of Cyrus, 529-522. Cambyses {Kaii^varj^, Pers. Kamhiijiya), con quered Egypt by his victory at Pelusium (p. 7). 525.^ Capture of Memphis. Expedition up the Nile toward Ethiopia; failure of provisions in the desert compelled him to tiirn back. The tyrant ot Cyrene acknowledged the supremacy of Cam- byses, but a projected attack ujion Carthage by sea was pre- vented by the refusal of the PhoeJiicians to lend their ships (p. 19). Destruction of the army corps dispatched against the temple of Jupiter xVmmon (Oasis Sivah). Cambyses slaughtered the bull Apis in Memphis ^ (?), and mani- fested in all ways a choleric and bloodthirsty disposition. On the way back from Egypt, he died in Syria, either from an accidental wound, or by his own hand. A Magus seized the sceptre and pro- claimed himself the brother of Cambyses, 522. Bardija (Gr. 2/x6p5is), who had been murdered at Cambyses' command. After a short reign the usurper was put to death by the princes of the seven Persian tribes, the most intluential of whom, 521-485. Darius (Aapeto*;, Pers. Darayavus), son of Hys- taspes ( Vistagpa), was made king. The father of Darius, Hystaspes, was the head of the younger line of the Achcemejiidce (the elder became extinct with Cambyses and Bardija) and the rightful heir to the Persian throne. The son^ Darius, however, was recognized by the other princes as king. Later his accession was ratified by the production of auguries. (Anecdote of the neighing horse in Herodotus, III. 85.) Revolt of the Babylonians. The city of Babylon recaptured only after a siege of more than 20 months. (Self-mutilation of Zopyrus, in order to deceive the Babylonians.) 518 (?). Afterwards Darius suppressed revolts which had broken out in other parts of the empire (in Media, Persia, Partliia, etc.), and conquered the right bank of the Indus. 1 Accordinc: to Brugsch, 527. - See on tliis point Brugsch, Hist, of Egypt, II. 289 ff., who, by the genealogy of the Api, showed the improbability of the story. 28 Ancient History. B. c. J 513 (?). Unsuccessful expedition of Darius against the Scythians with a land force of 700,000 men. The Heet of the Greeks of Asia Minor was conducted by the tyrants of the Ionian cities. Bridge of boats across the Bosphorus. Bridge over the Ister (Danube). After an aimless advance, lack of provisions in- duced a retreat (Herodotus, IV. 130 seq.). Darius rescued by the faithfulness of Histiceus of Miletus (against the advice of Miltiades of Athens, tyrant in the Chersonese). Thracia made subject to Persia. Cyrene conquered by a force sent from Egypt. Susa, in Susiana, since the time of Darius the principal residence of the " Great King " (jSaaiAeus twj/ ^aaiXecov, fx4yas ^aaiXcvs, Pers. Khshayathiya-Khshayatluyandm, whence the modern Persian Shahin- shah). Ecbatdna in Media was the summer residence. Erection of a new royal palace at PersepoUs in Persis, where ruins with inscrip- tions and sculptures have been discovered, as well as at Susa. At Persepolis, too, the tombs of the kings. Divine worship paid to the king, the satisfaction of whose wants was the final purpose of the state. Maintenance of a costly court, with an elaborate ceremonial. Construction of great military roads. Completion of the canal from the Nile to the Red Sea, which Ramessu 11. had begun and Neku had continued (p. 5). Establishment of postal stations, of course only for the carriage of royal messages. Division of the empire into 20 (?) satrapies, each under a satrap (Persian Kkshatra-pati, i. e. " lord of the province "), with regal accommodation in palaces surrounded by extensive gardens (Para- disice). Subject cities or tribes, and mdeed whole nations, enjoyed their own laws and separate administration, under native though de- pendent princes. 600-494. Revolt of the Ionian Greeks, incited by His- ticeus of Miletus, who had been accused to Darius and sum- moned to Susa, and his son-in-lavs^ Aristagoras. With the assistance of Athens and Eretria, Sardes was captured and burned. The lonians, defeated by the Persian army, were abandoned by their allies from Athens and Eretria; their fleet was defeated at Lade, opposite Miletus. The lonians were again reduced to subjection, and the Milesians, by command of i)arius, were settled about the mouth of the Tigris. 493-490. War of Darius against the European Greeks (p. 56). Great preparations for a new expedition against Greece. Re- volt among the Egyptians. 485. Death of Darius. He was succeeded by his son, 485-465. Xerxes I. {a^p^vs, Pers. Khshayarsha). 480. War against Greece (p. 58). Xerxes and his eldest son mur- dered by Artabdnus, captain of the body-guard. The second son of Xerxes, 465-424. Artaxerxes I. (Pers. Artachshatra), called Ma«:p<^xf'P, Ltm- gimdnus, succeeded to the throne. 462-455. Second revolt of the Egyptians under Indros, assisted by B. c. Bactrians, Medes, Persians. 29 the Athoiiians, su])pressed by the satrap Mefjahyzus (Amj/r- tifus alone maintained hinis 'It' abont the months of the Nih'). Wars with the (ireeks (j). Gi5). Beginnin*;- of the internal de- cay of the Persian empire. Revolts of the satraps. Merce- nary troops. The son of Artaxerxes, 424. Xerxes II., after rnling one month and a half, was mui'dered, by his brother, Sogdianus, who after six and a half months, was murdered by his brother Ochus, who reigned under the name 424-405. Darius II., Nothus. He was under the influence of his wife Parijsatis. Third revolt of the Egyptians, who maintained their independence for sixty years (414-354). 405-362. Artaxerxes II., Mnemon. Revolt of his brother, the younger Cyrus, who, assisted by Grecian mercenaries, attacked the king in the neighborhood of Babylon. 401. Cyrus fell in the battle of Cunaxa in personal combat with his brother. 400. Retreat of the 10,000 Greeks, Xenophon {Anahash). 302-338. Artaxerxes III. Revolt of the rhoenicians and Egyptians suppressed. Artaxerxes poisoned by his favorite, the Egyp- tian Bagoas, who placed on the throne the king's youngest son, 338^36. Arses, whom he likewise murdered, in order to put a great- grandson of Darius Nothus in his place. 336-330. Darius III., Codomannus. Bagoas executed by poison. War with Alexander of Macedonia ; Darius murdered by the satrap Bessus wdiile fleeing, after the battle of Gaugamela (331). 330. Destruction of the Persian Empire. See Grecian history, 4th period, p. 74, § 8. PARTHIANS.i Turanianf'2' Geography: The Parthian empire extended from the Euphrates to the Indus, from the Caspian Sea and the Araxes to the h^dian Ocean, covering nearly the same ground, and having in the main the same divisions, as the Persian empire, of which it was, indeed, in many ways an avowed imitation. Parthia proper, the region between the Jaxartes, and the desert of Iran, the Caspian Sea and the province of Aria, was a satrapy of the Persian empire. About 250. The Parthians revolted under the lead of Arsaces, the chief of a tribe of the Dahcc (Scythians). The revolt succeeding, 250(?)-247. Arsaces I. was raised to the throne. He w^as suc- ceeded by his brother Tiridates as 247-214. Arsaces II., who firmly established the independence of Parthia. His son, 214-196. Arsaces III., successfully resisted Antiochus the Great. Arsaces IV. (Priapatius) and Arsaces V. (Phraates /.) accom- plished but little of importance. The son of the latter, 1 Kawlinson. 2 The use of this name must not be understood as implying belief in the racial unity of all the peoples to whom it is apjilied. It denotes merely the mass of Asiatics who belonged neither to the Semitic nor to the Aryan family. 30 Ancient History. b. c.-a. d. 174-136. Mithridates I., founded the Empire of the Par- thians, extending* his sway over Media, Sicsiana, Per- \ sia, Babylonia, Bactria. Subject nations were permitted to retain their native kings in subjection to Parthia. The Parthian civilization was rude and of a low order. 13&-127. Phraates II. {Arsaces VII.) repressed a revolt of Baby^ Ionia, but fell fighting against the Turanians. The incursions of these nomadic tribes became more frequent under Artabanus {Arsaces VIII.), 127-124, who likewise fell in battle against them. They were, however, effectually checked by Mith- ridates II. {Arsaces IX.), 124-87, who also extended the power of Parthia in other directions, until towards the close of his reign he was defeated by Tigranes of Armenia. Under Phraates III. {Arsaces XII.), 69-60, the Parthians first be- came embroiled with Eome, war with this power breaking out in 54. Under Orodes I. {Arsaces XIV.), 54-37, Expedition of Crassus (p. 140). Expedition of Antonius, 36, against Phraates IV. {Arsaces XV.). From 37 b. c. to 107 a. d. Parthia was ruled by a series of ten monarchs, whose reigns were mostly occupied with struggles for the succession. Volo- geses I., 50-90 ; Armenia lost. An attempt made by 107-121 A. D. Chosroes {Arsaces XXV.) to recover Armenia brought about the successful Parthian expedition of Trajan, whose conquests were, however, abandoned as soon as made. Vologeses III. {Arsaces XXVII. ), 149-192 a. d., became in- volved in a war with M. Aurelius, which terminated in the complete submission of the Parthian. His successor, Vologeses IV., 192-213 A. D., lost northern Assyria to Rome. 215-226 A. D. Artabanus III. {Arsaces XXX.), last king of Par- thia. In his reign Parthia suffered severely at the hands of Caracalla, but, after his death and the defeat of Macrinus, had regained its former power, when the empire was brought to an end by the success of an insurrection of the Persians under Artaxerxes, son of Sassan, who defeated and slew the Parthian monarch. The Tatar empire was replaced by the Aryan king- dom of the Sassanidae, or the Ne-w Persian Empire (2£6- 652 A. D. (p. 187). § 9. CHINESE. Turanian. Geography: China in the broad sense, or the Chinese Empire, embracing Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet, as well as China proj^er, is bounded N. by Asiatic Russia, E. by the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and the Sea of China, S. and S. W. by the Sea of China, Cochin China, Burmah, W. by Kashmir and East Turkestan. China (land of the Seres among the ancients, Cathay in the Middle Age), comprises less than half of the Chinese empire, Oeiug about 1474 miles long by 1355 wide. Vast alluvial plain and delta in the N. E. Mountahious and hilly in south. Rivers: Hwang-ho {Yelloio River); Yang-tsze- Keang; Se-keang. Provinces: 1, Chih-li (or Pe-chih-li), with Peking, 13. c. Chi'nese. 31 the capital of the empire; 2, Kennf/soo, the most populous and best watered of the proviiu-es, with tlie cities, Nan-kinfj, Shanxj-hai; 3, Gan- hioiuj; 4, Keang-se; 5, Che-k-eanr/, with the city N'mg-po; (3, Fuh-keen, comprising- the island of Formosa ( Taiwan) ; 7, Hoo-pih; 8, Hoo-nan-, 9, Ho-nan; 10, Shan-tung with the Tai-shan mountain; 11, Shan-se; 12, Shen-se; 13, Kan-suh; 14, Sze-chuen; 15, Kwang-tung, with the cities, Canton, Macao, Hong-Kong (properly Hiang-kiang) ; IG, Kwang- se; 17, Yun-nan; 18, Kinei-choiv; 19, Shing-king. Peligion: Uncertainty concerning the oldest religion of the Chi- nese. By some writers it is considered little higher than fetichisn\ while others see a monotheistic belief in the worship of Ti. Their religion embraced a worship of ancestors, of deified rulers, and of spirits generally, classed in antitheses of opposing qualities (yang and yin), hea\'en and earth, male and female, from whose interaction all created beings sprang. Ideas of future life indistinct, no system of rewards and punishments. System of offerings; never human sac- rifices. In the fifth century B. c. appeared the philosopher Con- fucius (ICung-foo-tsze, 551-478), who taught no new theology, and did not remodel the old religion, but whose ethical code and personal influence secured for him an enthusiastic following. It was a revi- val, rather than a reformation, of the ancient faith. Enunciation of the Golden Rule.^ Contemporary with Confucius was Lao-tsze, the author of a system of ethical philosophy, Taoism, the " way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest devel- opment of their nature" (Legge). At a later time there grew up a system of gross and mystical superstition, which took the name of Taoism, deified Ldo-tsze, and became one of the recognized religions of the empire. Buddhism introduced into China about a. d. 65, where it has degenerated into a low superstition, but still numbers many dev- otees and has deeply affected the older religions. Begging priests. Mohammedanism has also its adherents. The common religion of the lower classes is the old ancestor and spirit worship, complicated by the introduction of elements from all the sects above mentioned. No state religion; toleration of all faiths. Chronology. The Chinese regard themselves as aborigines. For- eign scholars derive them from wandering bands of Tatars, or from the peoples of Tibet and Farther India. It is probable that the fii-st settlements were made in the valley of the Hwang-ho. The Chinese possess an intricate system of chronology which ear- lier writers trusted almost implicitly, but which modern scholars have severely criticised. The dates assigned before 800 b. c. are probably wholly untrustworthy. Chinese annalists place the creation between two and three millions of years before Confucius, and divide the inter- vening space into ten epochs. In the eighth of these are placed the fa- mous emperors Yeiv-chaou She (" nest builder ^^),Suy-jin She, the dis- coverer of fire, Fuhi, Chin-nung, inventor of the plough, and Yaou, who first drained the valley of Hwang-ho. These sovereigns are to ])o regarded as largelv mvthical, as are the dynasties of Hia (2205-176(3} and Shang (1766-1123). 1 Legge, Reliyions of China, 137-139. 32 Ancient History, b. c.-a. d. 1123-255. Chow Dynasty. During the time of this dynasty ' we reach historic ground. Development of a feudal system. The imperial domain lay in the middle of the empire, whence the name applied to the empire, " Middle Kingdom." Un- der Sing-wang, birth of Confucius, 551 B. c. 255-206. Dynasty of Tsin, famous for the energetic monarch Cht-wang-te (240-210), who extended the empire to the sea, defeated the Mongols, built the Chinese Wall (1400 miles long, 15-30 feet high, 15-25 feet broad); 213, Che- wang-te ordered the destruction of many thousand historical and philosophical books. 206 B. C.-221 A. D. Dynasties of East and West Han. Brilliant period of Chinese history. The power of the feudal lords limited, the empire consolidated and strength- ened, and extended westward to Russian Turkestan. Conquest of northern Corea (109 A. D.). Annexation of Hainan. This period was succeeded by one of great confusion. 221-265 A. D. Epoch of the Three Kingdoms: Wei, in the north; Wu, in the east; and Sliuh, in the west. Wuti, 265 A. d., re- united a large part of the empire and founded the dynasty of Tsin, but the country soon relapsed into a divided state, which continued until 590 A. D. Yang-Kian, prince of Sny, in the northern king- dom of Wei, extending his conquests southward, united the whole empire under his sceptre and founded the dynasty of Suy. § 10. JAPANESE. Turanian. Geography: The Japanese^ empire, Dai Nippon, is a chain of Isl- ands which skirts the eastern coast of Asia opposite Corea, Man- churia, and Amur. It comprises four large islands: Kiushiu- Sliiko- ^w;Hcndo,2 or Honshiu, the principal island; Yezo; and some three thousand small islands.^ Nature of the country, rocky, mountainous, volcanic. Highest mountain, Fusiyama (12,000 ft.), in the centre of the east coast of Hondo. Rivers numerous but small; among the largest: Tone-gawa, Shinano-gawa, Kwa-gav^a, Ti-gaiva. Lake Biwa in Hondo. Principal cities: Kioto, Yedo, or ToJcio, Yokohama, Osaka. Religion: The most ancient religion of Japan bears the native name of Kami-no-michi, " the way of the gods," but is better kno\\^i abroad by the Chinese term Shinto. It consisted of a theology which comprised the gods of heaven, the mikados, many deified mortals, ani- 1 Japan {Zipnnrju in the Middle k^e) is a name given to the empire by foreigners. It is probably of Chinese origin. 2 This is the name recently applied to the main island by the Japanese gov- ernment; previously the Japanese had no name for this island. Nippon, the name frequently given it by foreigners, is the name of the whole empire. 3 Saghalin was given to Russia in 1875 in excliange for the Kurile islands. B. c.-A. D. Japanese. 33 mals, plants, and natural objects, and of a ritnal for the worship of those deities. The chief coninmnd of the religion was implicit obedi- ence to the gods, especially to the mikado. It had no moral code. It was emphatically a state religion, and was often used as a political engine. In oo'i a. d. Buddhism was introduced into Japan, where it spread rapidly. Development of a score or more of sects. (Among others S/tln-shu, which teaches salvation by faith in Buddha.) Bud- dhism for a time overshadowed the older religion, but the present government has fully reinstated the Shintu faith. Chronology : The origin of the Japanese is uncertain. They in- vaded the islands from Asia, and conquered them from the savage Ainos, whom they found there. The present Japanese are certainly a mixed race, containing Turanian and Malay elements. While the mythical history of Japan comprises a dynasty of gods, followed by a dynasty of rulers descended from the sun-goddess, and who are sometimes assigned reigns of hundreds of thousands of years each, the earliest date of what is believed in Japan to be authentic history is 660 B. c. ; the dates are probably untrustworthy until much later. 660-585 B. c. Jimmu Tenno,^ the first Mikado,^ being the 5th in descent from the sun-goddess. lie was leader of the invasion, and conquered Kiitshiu, Shihoku, and a part of the main island. Jimmu is regarded by many foreign scholars as a mythical character. He wos the founder of an unbroken dynasty, of which the reigning mikado, Mutsu-Hito, is the 122 d (123d counting Jingu) sovereign. The 10th mikado, Sujin (97-30 B. c.) introduced reforms, reorganized the administra- tion of the empire and generally advanced the civilization of the people. Intercourse opened with Corea. Succeeding em- perors continued the war with the native Ainos, who were pushed further and further to the north. Especially famous is the reign of the 12th mikado, 71-130 A. D. Keiko, whose more famous son, Yamato-Dake, "the warlike," conquered the great eastern plain, the Koanto. The 14th mikado, Chinai, dying suddenly, was succeeded by his wife the renowned 201-269 A. D. Jingu-Kogo, sometimes called the 15th mikado, al- though never formally crowned. She suppressed a rebellion in Kiushiu, and herself led an army to Corea, which she re- duced to submission. Diplomatic relations with China. Her son and successor, 270-310 A. D. Ojin, was a great warrior, and is still worshipped as "'■ His true name was Knn-yamato-iware-hiko-no-milcoto. After the introduc- tion of Chinese characters, the lonf? native names of gods and emperors were transcribed into the shorter Chinese equivalents. It also became customary for the mikadns to receive after death a different name from that which they had borne while living. The first mikado received the name Jimnm, "spirit of war," to which was joined one of the official titles of the mikado, Tenno, "lord of heaven." '- Mikado, the most f^eneral title of the emperors, fs derived either from Mi, "honorable," and Kar/o, "gate" (compare "Snlilime Porte," and "Pharaoh " p. 1, note 3), or from Mikn, "great," and to, " place." 34 Ancient History. b. ( the god of war. Introduction of Chinese literature and civil- | ization, which at this date was far in advance of the Japanese. From this time to the sixth century the aunals of Japan are marked by no great events. B. WESTERN PEOPLES. § 1. CELTS. Aryan. Celts, or Kelts, is the name given to that race which, at the dawn of authentic history, occupied the extreme west of Europe. They be- longed to the Indo-European family, and, if the Asiatic origin of that family be accepted,^ were the first branch to enter upon the westward migration. a. Continental Celts. Gauls. Geography: At the time of the Roman conquest (59-51), Gaul, or that part of Europe occupied by the Celts (K^XtoI) or Gauls (TaKKoi), was divided among three great groups of tribes: Belgians, dwelling between the lower Rhine, the forest of Ardennes, the Marne, and Seine. This people have been claimed as Teutons, but the weight of evidence assigns them to the Celts."-^ Tribes : Remi, Suessiones, Nervii,^ Menapii. Gauls, ^ dwelling between the Seine, Marne, middle Rhine, Rhone, and Garonne. Tribes ; In the valley of the Seine (Sequana): Parisii (with the city Lutetia Parisi- orum, now Paris), Senones ; in the valley of the Loire (Liger) : Namnetes, Turones, Carnutes, Boii, ^dui, Averni ; W. of the Seine : \ Treviri ; in the valley of the Saone &\\(\. Rhone : Sequani, Allobroges. The Aquitanians, between the Garonne and the Pyrenees, were not j Celts, but Iberians. In Switzerland: Helvetii, Vindelici. Religion : Soon after the conquest the theology of the Gauls was largely superseded and corrupted by the introduction of the Roman gods. Little is therefore known of the pure Celtic religion, whose nature has consequently become a favorite subject for dispute. It was a pantheism, which had its cycle of great gods, its local divin- ities, its deifications of forests, rivers, and fomitains. Among the great gods are the following, with their Roman equivalents : Bormo, Grannus (Apollo), with his companion the goddess Damona ; Segomo, Cannulas {Mars), with the goddess Nemetonia; Belisama {Minerva ?); Taramicus {Jupiter). Complicated and imposing ceremonial, con- ducted by the Druids, or priests, who were accorded at least equal honors with the nobles. They did not form an hereditary class, but were recruited from the people. Exemption from military service 1 See Introduction. 2 The Belgians are also claimed as non-Aryans, of the same i-ace as the Aquitanians. 3 Dahn, Urrjesch. d. Germ. Ill 20, note 9. ■* In spite of Cajsar's statement that the Gauls were called Celts in their own lanijfuage, the two names are not considered SA'nonymous. It is probable that the Gallic tribes formed a division distinct from the Celtic tribes (using Celt in the narrow sense of inhabitant of Gaul). The attempt has even been made to draw the geographical boundary between them. B. C. Celts. 35 and taxes. Use of writing, with Greek alphabet. Exercise of jtiiis- '.liftion. Unman saeritiees. Civilization : That tha Celts of Ganl had reached qnite an ad- vanced stage of civilization ^ is clear from tiic readiness with which they accepted the higher civilization of Home, and from tlie fact tiiat their social state as depicted by Ctesar exhibits a degeneracy which was not seen again in northern Europe until the decay of the Neus- trian state under the Merowingians, in the fiftli and sixth centuries B. C. Chronology: Before the concpiest the history of the Celts of Gaul is tlie history of their collisions with the southern nations. Tiie Celtic migration was slow, and large bodies were left behind at various points, as in Bohemia and throughout Germany, wiiere many traces of Celtic occupation survived the Teutonic conquest. According to some writers the Celts innnigrated in two bands, the Goidelic or Gadhelic Celts being the more northerly, and the Bry- Ihonic or Cymric Celts the more southerly ; this is but a surmise. Not earlier than 2000. The Celts reached the western shores of Europe. Their principal settlements were made in central France. They here attained their highest culture, and from this point detachments went forth to conquer new lands. There were four principal emigrations. 1. To the British Isles. Date unknown. See p. 3G. 2. To Spain, where they mingled with the Iberian inhabitants and formed the Celtiberians. Celts in Spain were known to Herodo- tus in the fifth century B. C. 3. To Northern Italy. The legendary history of Rome places this event in the reign of Tarquinius Priscus, or about 600 b. c. Tribe followed tribe until the whole of northern Italy was occupied (Gallia Cisalpina). Tribes : Biturige.^ (Milan), Cenomani (Brescia and Verona), Boii (Bologna), Senones (coast between Rimini and Ancona). 390. Conquest of Rome by the Senones under their Brennus, i. e. military leader. 283. Extermination of the Senones by the Romans ; defeat of the Boii on the Vadimonian lake. 238. General league of Cisalpine Gauls against Rome. Defeat of the league at Telamon, 225. Capture of Milan by Scipio. Formation of Roman colonies at Placentia, Cremona, Mutina. In the second Punic War, Hannibal induced the Gauls to take up arms, but in the 193. Battle of Mutina, the last resistance of the Boii was broken and northern Italy was rapidly Romanized. 4. To Greece and Asia Minor, In 278 a band of Gauls under a Brennus ravaged Macedonia and Greece. After a futile attack upon Delphi, the survivors made their way by land to Asia Minor, where they settled in the interior, and gave their name to Galatia. - The stacje of development in civilization attained by ancient peoples must be largely determined by the dejjfrec of complexity found in their social and political system?. In our day, wlieti material comforts and conveniences form a so much larp^er part of the pojndar idea of civilization than they ever did before, it is well to reuieuiber this iu judging the civilizations that are gone. 36 Ancient History. B. c. Of the Celts of Gaul little is known until the Roman conquest. Some time before this, it is probable, the pressure of the Teutonic migration had made itself felt in tha west, but the details of the conllicts are unknown. Celts and Teutons became here and there interspersed, but in general the Rhine was the boundary. About 125-121, the Romans conquered Southern Gaul and made it a province {Gallia Narhonensis). While the Celtic origin of the Cimbri may not be admitted without question, it is certain that Gallic tribes played a considerable part in that great invasion of Italy (113-101). 58-51. Conquest of Gaul by Caesar (p. 138), after which the history of Gaul belongs to that of Rome. b. Celts of the British Isles. BRITAIN. Geography : The island of Britain forms an irregular triangle, and is bounded E. by the German Ocean, S. by the St7^aits of Dover and the English Channel, W. by St. Georgeh Channel, the Irish Sea, North Channel, and the Atlantic Ocean. It falls into three geographical divisions, corresponding somewhat to the later political divisions. I. The extreme north, beyond the deep indentations of the Frith oj Clyde and the Frith of Forth, is mountainous and barren, with numer- ous small lakes {Loch Ness, Loch Tay, Loch Lomond), and sharply cut coasts on the west. II. The southern and eastern portion : hilly in the N. and W. ; on the E. a broad plain, well watered and fertile. Eastern rivers : Humber {Ouse, Trent), Witham, Welland, Nen, Ouse, running through a broad fen-land into the Wash, Thames. Western rivers : Severn, Mersey. Island of Wight. In early times the greater part of this plain, the modern England, was covered with forests, of which scanty traces remain. The Andredsioecdd covered a large part of tlie counties of Surrey and Sussex ; north of the Thames a huge forest extended nearly to the Wash, of which Epping and Hain- ault forests formed a part. The fens about the Wash were much more extensive than now. III. The broad western promontory of Wales, mountainous with small rivers. Island of Anglesea. Religion and Civilization : The Celts of Britain were ruder than their brethren of Gaul, and never reached the same stage of civiliza/- tion, but they seem to have resembled the continental Celts in cus- toms and religion. Druids. Bards. History, a. Mythical: Inordinate pride of ancestry, a fertile im- agination, and an acquaintance with Biblical and classical history en- abled the British bards and priestly historians to compose for their race a mythical past, unique in its extent, its detail, and its disregard of time and space. Gaul was colonized by Meschish, son of Japhet, son of Noah, about 1799 (Anno Mundi) under the name of Samothes. Meschish ruled Gaul 109 years, when he conquered Britain in 1908 (a. m.) and reigned over both countries 47 years. He was followed by six sovereigns of his race, but on the accession of the seventh, Lucius, 2211 A. M., Britain was wrested from his rule by Albion, a descendant of Ham. He and his successors reigned over Britain B. C.-A. D. CeUs, 37 until 2890 a. m. or 1108 b. c, when the line of Japhct recovered the island in the person of Brute, <;reat-<>i'an(lson of yJ-Jneas of Troy. Brute built Trot/noaant, aftervvanls LmFs Toicn, Lond:m. lie was followed by his descendi;nts, among whom we may mention Bladud, founder of Bath, Leir (811-791), Ferrex and Porrex (490^91), with whom his line expired. Britain for a time divided into live king- doms, was finally reunited under Malmucius Dunwall, the son of Cloten king- of Cornwall (441-401), whose son Brennus left his island home to saek Rome, assault Delphi, and found the kingdom of Galatia.^ Among tlie sueeessors of Malmucius were Colli (100-140). Pijrrhus (00-01), and Lud (who in some mysterious manner began to reign in 09) Cassivelaunus (expedition of Cresar), Cymbeline (19 B. c.-lO A. D.), Caractacus, Vortigeni (44o-15o (485) A. D.). Arthur (508-542). Finally the list merges in the historical line of the kings and princes of Wales. h. Probable. The Britons of historic times were Celts who came to the island from Gaul at two periods. The first invasion was very early, and the invaders were Celts of the Goidelic (Gadhelic) or northern branch. From the testimony of sepulchral monuments it is conjectured that the Celts found two races in Britain : a small, dark-haired race, perhaps of Iberian stock, and a large light-haired race of Scandinavian origin. The Goidelic Celts conquered without exterminating the previous inhabitants, and held the land many cen- turies, until a new invasion of continental Celts occurred. This time it was the Bri/thonic or Cymric Celts of the southern stA)ck, who crossed the channel, probably not very long before the expedition of Cfesar, and dispossessed their kinsmen of the southern and eastern portion of the island. Tribes : Cant'd, the most civilized, Attrebatu, Belgce^ Damnon'd, Silures, Trinobantes, Iceni, Brigantes, etc. The ancients received their first direct knowledge of Britain from Pytheas of Massilia, who landed on the island in the third century B. c. That the Phoenicians ever visited Britain is doubted by English scholars, who contend that they obtained their tin either from the rivers of Gaul, or from the Gallic tribes wdio imported it from Britain. With 55-54 B. c. The two expeditions of Csesar, the actual history of Britain begins. The effect of the invasions was transitory. 43 A. D. Claudius began the conquest of Britain in earnest, and liis generals reduced the country south of the Avon and Severn. 58. Revolt of Boadicea, leader of the Iceni ; her defeat. 78-85. Agricola, under Vespasian and Domitian, carried the Roman arms far into Scotland and built a wall from the Frith of Forth to the Frith of Clyde as a defense against the wild tribes of the north. Henceforward Britannia formed a tolerably quiet part of the Roman empire. Roman fortresses, towns and villas covered its soil in profusion. 121. Hadrian built a wall from the Tyne to the Solway. In 1 Brennus killed himself afte^- the repulse from .">eiphi; his army settled iu Galatia. 38 Ancient History/. b. c. 139. Antoninus strengthened the wall of Agricola. In 210 Severm advled new defenses to that of Hadrian. 180. Legendary conversion of Lucius, king of the Trinobantes, to Christianity, after which the new religion spread throngh- ont the conntry, a chnrch was organized and bishoprics founded at Canierbarij and York (.^). With the decay of the empire its power in Britain declined. Troops were withdrawn to assist in defending the continental borders, or in supporting the claims of rival aspirants for the crown. During the third century the attacks of the Picts and Scots in the north grew more and more severe, while the southern and eastern coasts suffered from the ravages of the Frank and Saxon pirates. Count of the Saxon Shore,^ the officer in charge of the coast between the Wash and Southampton water, which was most exposed to these ravages. From 286-294 Britain was independent under Cerausius, who proclaimed himself emperor of Britain. 360. Scots from Ireland ravaged the western shores. 410. Honorius renounced the sovereignty of Britain. The with- drawal of the legions left Britain to her own resources. A period of civil dissension and exposure to foreign inroads fol- lowed, broken by the 411. " Alleluia Victory " of the Britons accompanied by St. Ger- manus, over the Picts. Finally the king of the Damnonii^ Vortigern (Guorthigen), either by usurpation or election, ob- tained the sovereignty over a large part of the island, and, as the story goes, invited the invasion of the Teutonic conquer- ors (p. 176). IRELAND. Geography : Lying W. of Britain, Ireland is bounded on the E. by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St. George's Channel ; on all other sides by the Atlantic Ocean. It is a low plain, fringed with hilly tracks upon the coast ; abounding in lakes {Lough Corrih, L. Mask, L. Erne, L. Neagh, Lakes of Killarney, L. Dearg, L. Ree^, and rivers {Boyne, Liffey, Barrow, Black water. Shannon). Religion and Civilization: In Ireland as in Britain we find Celtic inhabitants, Celtic religion, and Celtic cidture, but both in a still more primitive form than in England ; so much so, indeed, that it may be, the Celts of Ireland were the best representatives of primitive Aryan civilization. Druids. Bards. History: Again the historian is confronted with a vast mass of very valuable tradition mingled with a great amount of priestly in- vention. The Irish historical books speak of five invasions of Ire- land. I. Partholan led a force from central Greece, which ruled 1 Comes Litoris Snxonici per Britanniam. An attempt has been made (Lap- penberf?, Kemble) to show that this name indicates the settlement of Saxons upon this shore long before the Teutonic conquest. What people, it has been asked, would name a portion of their country after its worst enemies ? A ref- erence to our " Indian Froutier," by which is meant land held by the whites but molested by Indians, might di"s])el this objection. The argument from coinage is stronger, but on the whole the assumption does not seem to be proved. c. Greeks. 39 Ireland 300 years, and >hen died of the plaj^'ne, and were succeeded by II. Nemed, from SeyMiia, who also died of the plague. III. Fir- bolgs, who came under five chiefs and settled in various i)arts of the island. IV. The Tuatlia De Dananii, of the race of Nemed, who defeated and nearly exterminated the Firboigs. V. Milesians or Scots, who under Galam, son of Breogan, came from Spain, and conquerhig the Tuatha De Dunann, divided Ireland among- the sons and other relatives of Galam. The ancestry of Galam goes hack to Noah. The historical interpretation of these legends seems at })resent to be that Ireland at the conmiencement of the Christian era was occupied in the north by Goidelic Celts {Cruithni, Picts) ; in the east and centre by British and Belgic tribes {Cymric), and in the southwest (Munster) by a people of southern extraction {Ibe- 7-ians ?). Between the numerous petty kingdoms thus established incessant war prevailed, with the details of which the legendary his- tory is tilled. Tuathal (died IGO A. d.), a powerful king who reigned over Leinster and Meath, and warrecl with the rival kingdom or kingdoms in Munster, is probably historic. Irish Invasions of Brit- ain : Settlements in Wales, Devon, and Cornwall, and especially in the north. Ireland was never conquered, or even invaded, by the Romans, though Agricola had planned an Irish expedition. The Irish were converted to Christianity in the fifth century. Palladias, sent to Ireland, 431 a. d., died soon after. St. Patrick (Succath or Maun), took up the work and brought it to a successful conclusion. Establishment of numerous monasteries, which in the next cen- tury attained ^vdde renown for the learning of their members. § 2. GRECIAN HISTORY. Aryan. GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF ANCIENT GREECE. See Kiepert, Atlas Antiquus, Tab. V and VI. The peninsula of Greece (Hellas, ^ *EAAo$) bounded N. by Mace- donia and Illyria, and on all other sides by the sea (E. mare jEgceam, S. mare Myrtoum and mare Creticum, W. mare Ionium), is divided into four prinaipal regions : Peloponnesus, Central Greece, Thessaly, Epirus. A. Peloponnesus (7? TleXoiTSvvncTos, Island of Pelops), coimected wnth the mainland by the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, washed on the N. by the waters of the Corinthian Gulf, is divided into nine dis- tricts : 1. Achaia, formerly inhabited by lonians, in twelve com- munities, or cantons. jEgium, capital of the confederacy, Paine. 2. Elis or Eleia, in iEolic dialect, Valis, drained by the Alpheus and Peneus. It is subdivided into Eiis Proper, or Hollow Elis : Elis and its harbor Cyllene, Pisatis : Olympia, not a city but a temple of Zeus, in a walled grove ("AAtis), with places for games, altars, and va- rious buildings, and Triphylia. 3. Messenia : Pylos, the home of Nestor, opposite the island of Sphacteria, Messfne, built in 369 B. c, the hill fortresses of Ithome and Ira. 4. Laconia (AaKooviKr)), with the mountain range of Taygetns, ending in the promontory Ttenarus : Sparta (^TrapTT?), on the right bank of the EurOtas ; north of Sparta, Sellasia . on the coast Helos, and Gythium the harbor of Sparta, 40 Ancient History. b. c. 5. Argolis (rb "Apycs, v 'Apyeia) comprised many cantons, politicall5i independent of one another : Argos, with its liarbor Nauplia, on the gulf of Argolis, near by Tirj/ns, with Cyclopean walls, Hermiuney Troezen, Epidaurus, on the Saronicus sinus; inland, Mycence with Cyclopean structures. The Lion Gate, the so-called Treasure House of Atreus. G. Phliasia : Phlius. 7. Corinthia : Corinth, formerly Ephfira with its, c\iii(\.e\. Acrocorinthus. 8. Sicyonia: Sicyon (^lkvwv). 9. Arcadia, the mountainous region in the interior, with the ranges Cyllene aud Erymanthus on the borders of Acliaia; Mantinm, Tegea^ Megalopolis, the latter founded in 370. B. Central Greece,^ also divided into nine districts: 1. Megaris, since the Dorian conquest, belonging ethnographically and politi- cally to Peloponnesus: Megara, and its harbor Niscea. 2. Attica (^Attlkt)) with the mountains Parnes, Brllissus (Pentelicus}, HymettuSy and the promontory of Sunium, the rivulets Cephissus and Ilissus. Athens {'AdT^vai) with the Acropolis (Propylcea, Parthenon, Erech > theion), the fortified harbor of Pirceus (Tleipaievs), connected with the city by the Long Walls (to, jxaKpa nlxv ; ra aK€\r)), the two unimportant harbors Munychia and Zea and the open bay of Phaleron, which served as a roadstead. Attic denies : Eleusis, Marathon, Decelea, Phyle, etc. 3. Bceotia, with Mts. Helicon, and Cithceron, Lake Copa'is, traversed by the Cephissus; Thebes (eirTdnu^os), with its citadel the Cadmea ; Thespice ; Leuctra ; Platcem, which separated itself very early from the Boeotian league and allied itself with Athens ; Haliartus, Coronea, Orchomenos. On the coast; Aulis, Delium, and, not far distant, Tan- dgra. 4. Phocis: At the base of Mt. Parnassus, Delphi (AeA^ot), with the oracle of the Pythian Apollo, Crissa, with its harbor, Cirrha ; Elatea. 5. Eastern Locris : (AoKpol rj^oi), ior a time di- vided by a part of Phocis into the southern region of the Opuntiau Locrians with the town Opus, and the northern of the Epicne- midian Locrians (i. e. they who dwell on the mountain of Cnemis) with the town Thronium. 6. Western Locris (AoKpol eairipioi, called by the other Grecians AoKpol dC6\ai, "the stinking"). Amphissa^ Naupactus. 7. Doris {Aoipls), between the mountains CEta and Par- nassus, the country of a small body of Dorians, who at the time of the Dorian invasion remained in the north, called from its four unim- portant villages, the Tetrapolis. 8. iEtolia, Calydon, Pleuron, and Thermum (afterwards the place where the assembly met at the time of the vEtolian league). 9. Acarnania, with the promontory Actium; Stratus, near the river Achelous, ('AxfAwos) which separates Acarna- nia from JEitolia. C. Tliessaly, watered by the Peneus (valley of Tempe), with the mountain range of Pindus in the W. on the border of Epirus; in the S. Othry^; in the E. Pelion, Ossa; in the N. Olympus and the Cambu- nla.i mauutains.2 Five divisions from S. to N.: 1. Phthiotis, in the jnost soutliorn part, Malis, on the Sinus Maliant-^ was the Pass of Tliermopylce, i. e. " gate of the warm sjirings ; " Lamia. 2. Thessa- liotis, Pharsdlus. 3. Pelasgiotis, Pherce, Crannon, Larissa on the 1 T!ie expression Tlellas propria first appears in the Roman period ; the Greeks never used Hellas for the name of tliis i^articular part of the country. ^ But see Kiepert, Lehrb. d. a. Geogr., § 210, note 1. ,15. <;. Greeks. 41 IVneus. 4. Hestieeotis. o. The eastern coast land, Magnesia, lolcos, on the Si/ius J*n(/asrU. Also Grote, Hist, of Greece, vol. I.; Curtius, (Jri'tch. Gesch. I. 543-60; 456-549 pas-.^un. 42 Ancient History. b. c< sort of Zeiis; Athena, the maiden goddess sprung from the head of Zeus, the embodiment of wisdom and of hoiisewifery; Artemis, god- dess of hunting, afterwards connected with the moon, as her brother Phoebus Apollo, with the sun ; Aphrodite, goddess of sensual love, prob= ably introduced from the East; Hestia, goddess of fire, especially of the hearth-fire ; Demeter, " earth-mother," presiding over agriculture. In the lower rank of gods may be mentioned : Diomjsius, god of wine and drunkenness; Hades, god of the lower world, the Graces, the Muses, the Fates, the Furies, e'.c. The fields and forests, the ocean and the rivers were crowded with Njjmphs and Hamadryads, Naiads and Nereids, while creatures of a lower order. Satyrs (among whom Pan rose to the level of a god of the second rank) and monsters (^Cyclopes, Gorgons, Centaurs, etc.) abounded. Reverence was also paid to the heroes, ideal representations of fa- mous men, real or imaginary. Such were Cadmus (Thebes), Theseus (Athens), and Heracles, the mostly widely known of all (see p. 45). The gods were worshipped by invocation, and by sacrifices offered in accordance with a rigid ritual at altars which could be im- provised anywhere. There were, however, permanent altars for all divinities, in temples where the statue of the divinity was also en- shrined. These temples were frequently erected on lofty and com- manding sites, and upon their construction and decoration was lav- ished the highest skill in architecture and sculpture. Brilliant coloring was also employed upon the temples. Each family, tribe and race, each city, district and country had its recurring fes- tivals of special honor to the gods (Panathencea at Athens). Re- ligious festivals of all Greece: Olympian (Zeus) every fifth year, in July or August, at Olympia in Elis; Pythian (Apollo), every fifth (9th) year, at Delphi; Isthmian (Neptune), every five years on the Isthmus of Corinth; Nemean, every third year, at Nemea in Argolis. These festivals were the centre of Grecian national life. Amphyctio- nic Council, the most important of the Amphyctionios (p. 51), a reli- gious conference which met at Delphi, and represented the political side of the Pan-Hellenic religion. Consultation of oracles, for obtain- ing the counsel of the gods, especially at Delphi. Mysteries, or rites of secret religious societies, the most renowned at Eleusis. No liierarchy of priests; yet those who had charge of the sacrifices, and more espe- cially of the oracles, often attained great influence. Ideas of future life vague and unsatisfactory. The more advanced minds among the Greeks undoubtedly attained to the idea of the es- sential oneness of divinity. GRECIAN HISTORY CAN BE DIVIDED INTO FOUR EPOCHS. ^-1104 (?). I. Mythical period down to the Thessalian and Dorian migration. 1104 (?)-500. II. Formation of the Hellenic states. Period of con- stitutional struggles down to the Persian wars. 500-338. III. Persian rears and internecine strife for the hegemonij down to the loss of independence at the battle of Charonea. 338-146. IV. Grseco-Macedonian or Hellenistic period down to the- subjugation of Greece by the Romans. Destruction of Corinth. B. c. G reels. 43 FIRST PKRIOD. Mythical time, do-wn to the Thessalian and Dorian migration (x-1104?).! The Greeks,"^ or as tlicy called themselves the Hellenes ("EAA77J/6S), beh)iig to the Itido-Euro/fean or Aryan family. Tlie Cireeks state that the ori<;iiial inhabitants of their country were the Pelasgians. The meanini;- of this name is much disputed. Aci'ordiuii^ to some scholars it denotes the hand wliich afterwards divicUnl into the Italians and Hellenes. Another view rej>ards the Pt'lasoians and Hellenes as the same i)eo[de, but holds that the latter name is a})j)lied to those tribes which, " endowed with peculiar abil- ities and inspired v.ith peculiar energy, distinguished themselves above the mass of a great people, while they extended their power within the same by force of arms," ^ so that their name became in historic times the one generally accepted. Others, again, regard the name l^ehugian as Semitic, and so applied originally to the Pluenician in- habitants of the coast, especially to the Minyce of Orchomenos, and afterwards erroneously transferred to the Illyrian aborigines of Epirus, Acadia, etc. Dodona, in Epirus, ^vith the oracle of Zeus, the god of the sky, was the oldest centre of the Pelasgian life and religion. Remains of Pelasgian buildings, called by the Greeks Cyclopean, are found in Tiryns in Argolis, and in Orchomenos in Bojotia. Our earliest historical information shows the Hellenes divided into various tribes. Of these the Achaeans were most prominent during the heroic times, and their name was therefore used by Homer to den.ote the entire race. In historic times, on the contrary, the Dorians and lonians occupy the foreground; the other tribes are then classed together under the name JBolian, and the dialects which were neither Dorian nor Ionian are kno^\^l as jEolian. The following mythical genealogy seems to have been invented at a very late period, and to have originated at Delphi. Hellen (son of Deucalion) ^olus (i, e. the many-colored) Dorus Xuthus (i. e. the exile) Ion Achjeus. We have no authentic information about the manner of the Hel- lenic migration into Greece. According to one well-founded theory, a part of the immigrants, and among them the ancestors of tlie Do- rians, forced their way over the Hellespont into the mountainous region of northern Greece, where they establislied tliemselves as shepherds and tillers of the land. Other bands, among whom were the ancestors of the lonians, having descended from the highlands of Phry- - According to Duncker, IJlst. o/Antiq., 100 years later. 2 Griiken (Grivci, Vpai<6i) was the name ^nveii to the (ireeks by the people /)f Italy; it was the name of a tribe in Epirus, or the Illyrian name for the Heiloiu-s MX general. 3 Curtius, Griechische Geschickte, I. 29; Hist, of Greece, N. Y. 1876, I. 41 44 Ancient History. B. c, gia, by way of the valleys, to the coa3t of Asia Minor, were there transformed into a race of seamen^ and gradually spread themselves over the islands of the Archipelago to the mainland of Greece.^ (The former formed the western, the latter, the eastern Greeks). Remembrance of the fact that western Greece received its civilizar* tion from the East gave rise, at a later period, to stories about un- authentic immigrations.^ Cecrops (Ke«po;//), according to the original story autochthonus king of Attica, and builder of the Cecropia (Acropolis of Athens), was afterwards, in consequence of that identification of Grecian and Egyptian mythology which is illustrated by the conception of Neith, goddess of Sais, as Pallas Athena (p. 2), falsely represented as an Egyptian immigrailt from Sais. The truth seems to be that the cliffs by the Ilissus, which were called the Cecropia, formed the first fortress of the inhabitants of the region, upon which their altars and sanctuaries found protec- tion, and around which the first beginnings of political life in Attica grouped themselves. Afterwards the Cecropia was per- sonified under the name Cecrops. According to the legend Cecrops was succeeded by Erichthonios, the latter by Erechtheus, the two becoming soon united into one person, in whom the Erechtheion^ the temple of Poseidon Erechtheus, on the Acropolis, is personified. The legend makes Erechtheus the founder of the festival of Pan- athencea and conqueror of Eumolpiis (i. e. sweet singer) of Eleusis, the centre of the worship of Demeter (story of her daughter Core, in the lower world Proserpina; the Eleusinian mysteries). Eleusis was united with Athens into one community. Erechtheus, according to the legend, was succeeded by Qineus, the latter by jEgeus, the father of Theseus, the national hero of the lonians (p. 45). A later legend tells how Danaus, brother of yEgyptus, came from Upper Egypt to Argos. He, too, with his fifty daughters, the Dan- aides, who, with the exception of Hypermnestra, murdered their hus- bands, the sons of yEgyptus, and were for this crime condemned to fill the bottomless tub, belongs to the native mythology. The Dan- aides are the springs of Argos, which, in the summer time, exert themselves in vain to satisfy the soil ; the water which gushes from them being dried up in the chalky earth. According to the legend the descendants of Lynceus and Hypermnestra ruled in Argos. On the other hand the legend of the migration of the Pelopidae from Lydia to Greece seems to have a historical foundation. Pelops, son of king Tantalus, who ruled the country about the Sipylus, came to Elis in Peloponnesus. His sons Atreus and Thyestes, with the help of Achceans from Phthiotis, made themselves masters of Tiryns and Mycence, which had been founded by Perseus. Of the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon reigned over the whole of Argolis, while Menelaus became king of Sparta and' Messina. The buildings and sculptures in Mycense, which are ascribed to the Atridce, resemble Assyrian art, and Assyrian art could have come to Greece earliest by way of Lydia. "•^ Curtius, I, Griech. Ge.estilence resembling the plague broke out at Athens, of which 429. Pericles died. In the spring of this year capture of Potidrea. Cleon ^ came for- ward as the leader of the democratic party; the head of the aris- tocratic party was Nicias. 1 This first period of the Peloponnesian war, down to the peace of Nicfns (421), commonly known as the Archidamian war, is called by Thucydides (V. 25) 6 SfnaeTTji; TroAe/uo?. 2 Not a tanner, but an owner of manufactories, who carried on his businesJ by means of slaves. Curtius, Hist, of Greece, III. 61. 5 C6 Ancient History. B. c. 428. Revolt of Mytilene in Lesbos {Methymna remained faithful to the Athenians). Before the arrival of the help promised Ly 427. the Peloponnesians, Mytllme was compelled to surrender Ly the Athenians mider Paches. The Athenian assembly decreed that all citizens of Mytilene should be put to death, a sentence which on the following day was restricted to the aristocrats. More than a thousand were slain, the city was razed, and the land on the island, with the exception of the territory of Meth- ymna, divided among Athenian citizens. 427. Platcece forced to surrender. The survivors of its brave defenders, 225 in number, were executed by the Spartans. Bloody party contests in Corcyra, where victory at last remained with the democrats. Suecessfid expedition of the Athenians under De- mosthenes to assist the Acarnanians against the Amhraciots, who received help from the Peloponnesians. 425. Demosthenes landed in Messenia and fortified the ruJfted fortress of Pylos. The Spartans under Brasidas occupied the island of Sphacteria, opposite Pylos. The Athenian fleet under Nicias cut off their retreat. Spartan envoys in Athens offered peace, but their proposals were rejected at the instigation of Cleon, who, being appointed by the people strategus in place of Nicias, took Sphacteria by storm, and brought 292 of the enemy, among whom were 120 Spartiatce, with him to Athens. The Athenians threatened to put the prisoners to death whenever the Pelo- ponnesians should invade Attica again. 424. The island of Cythera occupied by the Athenians. From Cythera and from Pylos, to which latter place the Athenians conveyed Messenians from Naupactus, the Laconian territory was harassed incessantly. The Athenians invaded Boeotia, but were defeated by the Boeotians at Delimn {Socrates, Alcihiddes). Expedition of the Spartans under Brasidas by land to Mace- donia and Thrace, with the design of putting an end to the su- premacy of the Athenians there. Revolt of several towns from Athens; Brasidas G?i^i\\vedi AmpMpdlis, on account of which the Athenian general Thucydides (the historian), who lay with a squadron at Thasos, was banished. The Athenians sent Cleon to Tlirace. Cleon was defeated in the 422. Battle of Amphipolis by Brasidas, and fell during the flight. Brasidas died of his wounds. 421. Peace of Nicias, concluded for fifty years. Both sides restored conquests and pris- oners, a condition which was, however, but imperfectly executed. Al- though Sparta even entered into alliance mth Athens to force this peace upon their confederates, the war broke out again in three yeart;, when Alcibiades persuaded the Athenians to join the league which Argos had formed with several Peloponnesian states, in order to op- pose the oppressive ascendancy of Sparta. The united Ar gives and Athenians were defeated in the B. c. Greeks, 67 418. Battle of Mantinea. By this victory the Spartans regained their supremacy in Pelo- ponnesus. 416. The Athenians captured Melos and put all the citizens to death. 415-413. Expedition of the Athenians against Syracuse, Suggested by the request of Egesta for help against Selinus and S_i/racuse (Herniocrates), which was granted by the advice of Alci- biddes. A fleet of 134 triremes, carrying 36,000 men inclusive of sailors, among which number were 5100 hoplites,^ sailed for Sicily under Alcibiddes, Nicum, and Lamdchus. After the occupation of Naxoa and Catana, Alcibiades was recalled to answer to a charge of participation in a sacrilege (mutilation of the Hermce, ridiculing the Eleusiuian mysteries). lie went to Argos, was condemned to death in his absence, and his property was confiscated. Seeking revenge on his enemies, he forthwith went over to the side of Sparta. 414. Nicias gauied a victory before Syracuse and besieged the city with some success. Death of Lamdchus. At the advice of Alcibiades, the Spartans sent a small fleet under Gylippus to the assistance of Syracuse. The Athenians attacked the city 413. by storm, and were repulsed. They sufl'ered from sickness and want. Reinforced by 73 triremes and 5000 hoplites under Demosthenes, they were nevertheless defeated in two naval bat- tles ui the harbor of Syracuse ; their fleet was surrounded ; the 413. remnants of their army on the retreat by land (on the Assi7ia- Sept. rus) were in part cut to pieces, in part captured. Nicias and Demosthenes were executed in Syracuse; 7000 prisoners were sent to the quarries (xaTo/xiai). 413. By the advice of Alcibiades the Spartans occupied and forti- March. fled the village of Decelea in Attica, The last nine years of the Peloponnesian war are therefore known as the 413-404. Decelean war. The Spartans made forays from Decelea into all parts of Attica. Distress of the Athenians, flight of slaves, financial difficulties of the government. The influence of the aristocratic party revived. Establishment of a new board of ten councillors (irpoihuKoi) .'^ Regu- lation of the finances. Renewed preparations for war. Alcibiades induced Chios, Erythrce, Clazomence, and Miletus to revolt. He was in- strumental in forming an alliance between the Spartans, who declared their willingness to abandon to the Persian king all Greek cities for- merly subject to him, and the Persian satrap, Tissaphemes, who paid a subsidy to the Spartans. A new Athenian fleet appeared off the coast of Asia Minor and defeated 412. the Peloponnesian fleet near Miletus, but was prevented from taking the city by a squadron from S^Tacuse. The Athenian fleet, increased to 104 ships, anchored off Samos. Alcibiades, 1 Curtius, Hist, of Greece, III. 357. 2 Tlu'ir functions are a matter of dispute. Cf. Grote, History of Greecef VII. 362. 68 Ancient History. b. c. |B'< being suspected and maligned by the Spartans, went to Tissa- pliernes, over whom he soon exercised great influence. At the same time he intrigued with the oligarchs in the Athenian army, whom, however, he only kept in suspense and finally deceived. In the mean time 411. the oligarchs overthrew the democratic constitution at March. Athens by a coup d'etat. A new oligarchical council of 400 citizens was established ; the popular assembly was limited to 5000 members; the payment of all state salaries, with the ex- ception of the pay of citizens serving in the army, was abol- ished. The oligarchy entered upon negotiations for peace with Sparta, and endeavored to break up the new order of things by executions and banishments. Their rule, however, was of short duration. The army before Samos refused to rec- ognize the alteration of the constitution; elected new leaders {Thrasyhulus) and recalled Alcibiades, who assumed com- mand, but refused to lead the lleet against the oligarchs in Athens, and insisted that it should remain in the face of the enemy. At Athens the oligarchical rule of the new council of 400 was broken after it had lasted four months without direct interference on the part of the army; the old council of 500 was reestablished; the popular assembly remained limited to 5000 members (until 410?). The abolition of salaries was not repealed. The Spartans broke off all connection with Tissaphernes, and en- tered into alliance with Pharnabdzus, satrap of Bithynia. The Athenians under Thrasybulus defeated the Peloponnesian fleet under Mindarus and Pharnabdzus in the 411. Sea-fight at the promontory of Cynossema, near Abydos. July. Tliree months later Alcibiades defeated the Peloponnesians in a 411. Second sea-fight at Abydos. Alcibiades, taken prisoner by Tissaphernes, soon escaped, as- sumed command of the Athenian fleet again, and annihilated the Peloponnesian fleet in the 410. Battle of Cyzicus, Feb. where he also gained a brilliant victory over the enemy after he had escaped to the land. Having subdued the coasts of the 409. Hellespont and Propontis, and captured Byzantium, 408. Alcibiades returned to Athens in triumph. June. The sentence of Alcibiades was repealed, and he was ap- pointed commander by land and sea, with unlimited power. He guarded with the army the festal procession to Eleusis, which had been for a long time discontinued. Alcibiades con- ducted the Athenian fleet to Asia Minor. The Spartan, Ly- sander, had in the mean time assumed the command here, and the brother of the future king of Persia, Artaxerxes IL, the younger Cyrus (son of Darius II.), a friend of the Spartans, had become satrap of Asia Minor. While Alcibiades was engaged on a foraging expedition in the country around I^hoca:a, the I. c. Greeks. 69 Athenian fleet was involved by the junior commanders in an enj^ao-enient, and defeated by Lysander in the :07. Battle of Notium, in the gulf of Ephesus. On account of this misfortune, Alcibiades was deposed from his command. He retired to the Hellespont, and died in 404. The new Spartan admiral Callicratides, surrounded the Athenian leet under Conon at Mytiltne. The Athenians with the greatest ex- rtions fitted out a new fleet, which hastened to the aid of Conon. The united Athenian fleet completely defeated the Pelopomiesians in he great t06. Battle of Arginusae, >ept. {al Apyivovaai, small islands off the coast of Asia Minor, east of Lesbos). Six of the victorious generals were sentenced to death in Athens for having abandoned shipwrecked troops in a storm and not buried the bodies, and were actually executed. Lysander, again appointed admiral by the Spartans, defeated and mnihilated the Athenian fleet in the 105. Battle of ^gospotami (Alyhs TroTa/xol, goat river), opposite A.ug. ? Lampsacus. Conon escaped with eight ships. Slaughter of 3000 Athenian prisoners. Lysander, having flrst completely destroyed the Athenian power on the coasts and islands, and everywhere established oligarchical constitutions, appeared with the Peloponuesian fleet before Pirseus, while the Peloponnesian army enclosed Athens on the land side. Starvation caused the 404. Surrender of Athens and end of the war. ^pril. The walls of Pirteus, and the long walls between the city and the harbors, were torn down. All ships of war but twelve were delivered to the enemy. The democracy was overthrown, and the government entrusted to thirty men of the oligarchical party. 404-371. Second Hegemony of the Spartans. 404-403. Government of the so-called Thirty Tyrants, of Avhora the best known is Critias, at Athens. The Thirty, instead of forming a new constitution, endeavored to secure the permanent control of the state, and to strengthen their power by receiving a Spartan garrison in the Acropolis, and by nnmer- 3US executions. At last, one of the Thirty, Theramenes, was put to leath at the instance of Critias. Thrasybulus assembled the demo- ratic fugitives in Phyle, defeated the troops of the Thirty, and seized Pirajus ; Critias was slain. Ten more moderate oligarchs took the place of the Thirty. Through the mediation of Pausamas, king of Sparta, an understanding was reached between Thrasybiilus and the oligarchs in Athens. Tbe remainder of the Thirty were put to death. General amnesty. Reestablishment of a moderate democracy. The government was rearranged by the revision of the laws made by Euclides (403). 401-400. Retreat of the 10,000 under Xenophon (p. 29). 399. Socrates (4G9-399) executed in Athens by poison. His scholar, Plato (427-348). 70 Ancient History, b. c |).C. 399-394. War between the Spartans and Persians. Thcj 51 Persian satrap, Tissaphernes, attempted to punish the Greel cities of Asia Minor for their share in the expedition of the younger Cyrus. The Spartans came to the aid of the cities. at first under Thibron, then under Derci/Uidas, finally under Agesildus. The latter forced his way into Asia and defeated Tissaphernes, who was executed by command of his successor.! Tithraustes. Persian gold produced the 395-387. Corinthian war against Sparta, whose liarmosts (apfioo-rai,^^ governors) had made themselves universally hated. Coalition of Thebes, Corinth, and Argos, joined by Athens. The Spartani 395. Lysander fell at Haliatus in Bceotia, in battle with the allies.^i The Lacedaemonian fleet was defeated in the 394. Battle of Cindus by the Athenian Conon and the Persian^ satrap Pharnabazus. The Spartan harmosts were driven fromi the Grecian cities of Asia Minor. Agesildus was recalled,! traversed Thrace, Macedonia, and Thessaly, and defeated thei allies in the 394. Battle of Coronea in western Bceotia. Conon and the Per- sian satrap Pharnabazus plundered the coasts of Laconia. Conon rebuilt the (2) long walls with Persian money. After some years of fighting, in which Iphicrdtes and Chabnas were the Athenian leaders, the 387. Peace of Antalcidas was concluded between the Grecian states and the Persians. It took its name from the Spartan admiral who was sent as envoy to Susa. The Grecian cities of Asia « Minor and the islands of Clazomence and Cyprus were abandoned I) to the Persians. The Athenians retained control of LemnoSy Imbros, and Scyros only ; all other states and islands were to be independent under Spartan and Persian guaranty. 379-362. War between Thebes and Sparta, caused by the occupation of the Cadmea in Thebes (383) by the Spartan Phcebidas, who was urged to take this step by the aristocratic party in Thebes, as he was conducting an army through Bceotia against Olynthus. The Tlieban democrats had taken refuge in Athens, whence under Pelopidas they liberated Thebes in 379 and compelled the Spartans to withdraw from the Cadmea. Cleombrotus and Agesildus were dis- patched to Bceotia, but met with little success. The Spartans at- tempted to surprise Pirfeus. This induced the Athenians to enter into open alliance Avith Thebes. They founded a new confederacy (symmachy), embracing seventy communities, under more just con- ditions than those of the first league (378). The Spartans were re- peatedly defeated at sea by the Athenians Chabrias, Phocion, and Timotheus. Peace between Sparta and Athens. Cleombrotus invaded Bceotia anew, but in the 371. Battle of Leuctra, he was defeated by Epaminondas, and fell on the field. 371-362. Hegemony of the Thebans. . C. Greeks. 71 70. First invasion of Peloponnesus by the Tliebans, under Epam- inondas and Pelopvlas in order to protect the Arcadians, who had revolted from Sparta. Megalopolis founded. \\i attack by the Thebans on Sparta proved unsuccessful, but they ravas^ed Laconia and proclaimed the independence of the Messenians. Foundation of Measme. The Athenians came to the aid of the Spartans. Retreat of the Thebans. »69. Second Theban invasion of Peloponnesus. j( »67. Third invasion. Sicyon revolted from Sparta. Tlie third in- vasion produced a momentary alliance of Achaia and Thebes. The Corinthians and Phliasians concluded peace with Tliebes. In the north the Thebans sent several expeditions a^-. Alexander decided the battle l)y annihilating the Holy Band of the Thebans. Philip punished the Thebans severely and placed a garrison in the Cadmea; to the Athenians he granted a favorable peace. Peace of Demades. He advanced into Pelopomiesus, took a large part of her territory from Sparta, and divided it among the Messenians, Argives, and Arcadians. Macedonian Hegemony. At a national assembly at Corinth, where the Spartans only did not appear, Philip caused himself to be chosen leader (with dictatorial power) of the Grecian forces against the Persians (^o-rpaTTjyhs avTOKpdrwp tcSu 'EWtjuwu). In other respects the Grecian cantons were to retam their autonomy; a congress {aweSpiov} at Corinth should adjust their differences. FOURTH PERIOD. Graeco-Macedonian or Hellenistic Epoch down to the Sub- jugation of Greece by the Romans (338-146). After the murder of Philip, who was on the point of beginning the war against Persia, by Pausanias (336), the Macedonian throne was occupied by his son, who had been educated by Aristotle ('ApicrTOT€\r]s, 384-322), and was now 20 years old. 336-323. Alexander the Great ('A\e^ai/Spos).i He forced the Greeks to transfer to him the Hegemony and the command against the Persians, quickly reduced the revolted Thracians (Triballians), Getce and Illyrians in the north, appeared on the news of a Grecian uprising (of the Athenians and Thebans) for the second time in Greece, defeated the Thebans, destroyed Thebes ynth. the exception of the house of the poet Pindar (522-442 ?), and sold the inhabitants as slaves. The terrified Athenians submitted and were pardoned. Antipdter left as vicegerent in Macedonia. In 330 revolt of the Spartans put down by Antipater in the bloody battle of Megalopolis, where oOOO Spartans, under their king Agis II., met a heroic death. 334. Expedition of Alexander against Persia," Spring. which was not merely a war of conquest, but also a scien- 1 Droysen, Geschichte Alexanders des Grosscn (Gcschichte des Ilellenismus, 2 Anil., 1877, Th. I. with 5 maps bj' R. Kieport). Hertzberg, Die asiatischen Feldziif/e Alexanders d. Gr., with a map bv H. Kie|)t'rt. * For the route, see Kiepert, Atlas Antiquus, Tab. II. 74 Ancient History. b. c. tific expedition, and a journey of" discovery. Alexander crossed the Hellespont at Ahydos with 30,000 infantry and 5000 cav- alry (generals: Perdiccas, Clitus, Parmenio, Hephcestio, Craterus, Ptolemceus, Antigunus), defeated the Persian satraps and Mem- non, leader of the Grecian mercenaries of Darius, completely in the 334. Battle of the Granicus (a rivulet in Troas). Rescue of Alexander by CUtus. Advancing through Mysia and Lydia, Alexander proclaimed the freedom of the Grecian cities and islands from Persian rule, conquered Miletus and Halicarnassus, and traversed Caria and Lycia. Prevented from advancing further by the steep mountains, he went northward through the land of the Pisi- dians to Phrygia by way of Celcence, Gordium (tlie Gordian knot), and through Cappadocia to Cilicia (bath in the Cydnus). At Tarsus he was taken ill, but speedily recovering (potion of the physician Philip- pus) he passed through the Syrian Gates to Myriandrus on the coast in Syria. Meantime the Persian king, Darius III. (p. 29) had ap- proached from the Euphrates with a large army and got to the rear of the Macedonians. On hearing this, Alexander turned back from Syria and gained a brilliant victory over the Persians in the 333. Battle of Issus, in Cilicia. Nov. An immense number of Persians fell; the rest were captured or scattered. Darius escaped, but his mother, his wives, and daughters fell into the hands of the victor. In order to completely destroy the Persian power at sea, Alexander conquered Syria, Phoenicia, where he besieged Tyre for seven months, and Palestine, advanced into Egypt without opposition, and went from Pelusium to Memphis. Foundation of Alexandria on a well- chosen site. Expedition across the Libyan desert to the oracle of Zeus Ammon in the oasis of Sivah. Leaving Egypt, Alexander passed through Palestine and Syria by way of Damascus, crossed the Eu- phrates at Thapsacus, traversed Mesopotamia, crossed the Tigris, and defeated the Persian army, Avhich outnumbered his own 20 times, in the 331. Battle of Gaugamela or Arbela (ra "Ap^eXa), Oct. not far from the ruins of Nineveh. While Darius fled north- ward, Alexander crossed the Tigris a second time, entered Babylon without resistance, traversed Babylonia, crossed the Tigris a third time, captured the capital of Persia, Susa in Susiana, and traversed Persis. Capture of Pasargddce and PersepoUs. In the spring of 330 Alexander set out in pursuit of Darius. Crossing Media to Ecbatana in the north, he hastened through the- Caspian gates to Parthia. There, in the neighborhood of Heea- tompylos, Darius Codomannus was murdered (330) by the satrap Bessus, who fled to Bactria and assumed the royal title. After an expedition northward to Hyrcania against the Grecian mercenaries, Alexander traversed Parthia toward the east, turned southward, for the purpose of punishing an insurrection of satraps, and crossed Aria and Drangiana. In Prophihasia discovery of the conspiracy of 5. C. Greeks. 75 f hilotas, wlio was eoiuleimied by the army and executed ; his father, Parmenio, was put to death in EcbatCina (330) at Alexander's eoni- nand. Alexander now crossed Arachosia in a northeasterly direction, 'rossed the Paropanisus (p. 24), or Indian Caucasus, in the spring )f 329 (foundation of a navf Alexandria), advanced into Bactria, pur- uied Bessus. who had retreated beyond the Oxus, but was delivered ;o Alexandei", and idtimately crucified. Alexander went northward is far as the Jaxartes (the modern Sir Daria), where he founded ilexandria Eschdta; after some short expeditions against the nomades [Scythians) on the other side of the Jaxartes, he remained for some time in Sogdiana (murder of Clitus in 328 in Maracanda, now vimarcand), after which he went to Bactria. Marriage witli Rox- aua, daughter of a Bactrian prince. Alexander began at this time to adopt oriental clothing and customs. 327. Expedition of Alexander to India. Having once more crossed the Paropanisus, Alexander, after sharp fighting with the mountain tribes, reached the Indus, crossed it, and entered tlie Punjab (country of five rivers). In alliance with the Indian prince Taxiles, at the 326. Battle of the Hydaspes ( FiVas^a, now Ihelum) he defeated Porus, and took him prisoner, treated him, how- ever, with magnanimity, and replaced him on his throne as a dependent prince. Foundation of Niccea and BucepMla. Alexander w^ent eastward as far as the Hyphasis (Vipa^a, now Vjdsa, or Bey as), when the Macedonian soldiers refused to go farther, and compelled him to re- turn to the Hydaspes. Construction of a fleet of some liOOO (?) ships, which conveyed a portion of the army down the Hydaspes to the Acesines (now Chenaub), while the remaining part (with 200 ele- phants) marched along the shore. Contest with the Malli. Alex- ander's rash bravery and severe wound. After his recovery the fleet and army proceeded, and finally reached the junction of the united Punjab rivers with the Indus. In 325 army and fleet went down the Indus. Craterus returned to Persis with a part of the army by the short route to the west. Alexander continued with the fleet and land force to the delta of the Indus, where the fleet under Nearchus entered the Indian Ocean. Ebb and Jiow of the tide. Nearchus coasted to the west, and discovered the entrance to the Persian Gulf, while Alexander conducted the rest of the army through the desert of Gedrosia (Baluchistan). After terrible suffering and severe loss he arrived in Carmania, met Craterus, and later Nearchus on the coast. The latter was dispatched to discover the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates. 324. Return of Alexander to Persis ; arraignment and punishment Jan. of the avaricious and cruel governors who had given up tlie king and his army for lost. Arrival in Susa. Here Alexan- der disclosed his great plan of Hellenizing the East, uniting the victor and the vanquished into one great nation and found- ing a great Macedonian-Persian universal empire on a 76 Ancient History. b. o •basis of equality of the Gi-ffico-Maeedonian and the Oriental po pulation. Marriage of Alexander with the eldest daughter o: Darius III. and the youngest sister of Artaxerxes III., whih Hephcestion took to wife the youngest daughter of Darius III Eighty Macedonian officers married Persian ladies of gooo family, and in consequence of rewards offered by the kingi 10,000 Macedonians took Persian wives. Great plans for open^ ing commercial relations with other nations and for the con struction of roads on a large scale. Alexander, as successoii of the Great King, required to be worshipped as a divinity. I 324. A mutiny of the Macedonian army at Opis on the Tigris was July, quelled by Alexander's courage and wisdom. The veterans were disbanded after receiving great rewards and sent tc Macedonia under Crater us, while Antipdter was to bring new troops thence. Death of HephcEStion. Alexander undertoo' the exploration of the Euphrates. 323. Death of Alexander the Great, June, at Babylon, which he had destined for the capital of the newi empire. 323-276. Wars of the Diadochi (successors of Alex-j ander.)^ I These long and complicated contests, which broke out immediately^! after the death of Alexander, destroyed the newly founded universal empire, but carried on successfully in another way the work which Alexander had begun of Hellenizing the east, and spreading Grecian language and culture. {^Hellenistic language, ^ kolvt) S/aAe/cros), so thatt! the new Persian empire which afterwards grew up on tliis ground was very different from the old Persian monarchy, and a worthy rival of its great opponent, the empire of Rome. Perdiccas became regent in Asia for Alexander's half brother Philip Arrhidceus and his posthumous son by Roxana, Alexander. An- tipater and Craterus shared the regency of the west. The other generals received lieutenancies : Ptolemaeus, Egypt ; Antigonus, Pamphylia, Phrygia and Lycla; Eumenes, Alexander's secretary, Pa- phlygonia and Cappadocia, which however he had first to subdue; Cassander, Caria; Leonnatus, Phrygia on the Hellespont. The plan of Perdiccas, who married Alexander's sister, to make himself king, caused a league of the other generals against him. Perdiccas was nmrdered by his own troops while on an expedition against Ptolemseus (321). The new regent, Antipater, made a new assignment of the lieutenancies, wherein Seleucus obtained the satrapy of Babylon. After the death of Antipater (319) a war followed between his son Cassander, and the aged Polysperchon over the regency. Antigonus, in league with Cassander, was victorious in Asia over Eumenes, who was betrayed by his own soldiers and whom he executed, while Cas- sander was victorious in Europe (316). Lysimachus made himself master of the lieutenancy of Thrace. Antigonus wishing to bring the whole empire under his sceptre, a 1 Droysen, Geschichle des Hellenismus, 2 Ed. Pt. 2 u. 3, 1877, 78 B. C. Greeks. 11 l4315-301. war broke out between Antigonus and tbe otber generals, III in the course of which Antigonus and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes {Uo\iopKr)T'ns) assumed the royal title (300). Their example was followed by Seleucus, L//sini(s, Cassander. During- this i)eriod, atinie abounding in hoirors, every luendjer of the royal family of Alexander j)erished, mostly by murder. ]His ambitious and cruel mother Olympias was condemned to death at the histance of Cassander, and stoned by the relatives of her own victims. After a long contest attended with varying success, the war against Antigomis was ended by the 301. Battle of Ipsus {"Ixl/os in Phrygia). Antigonus fell, his son Demetrius fled and led for many years an adventurous life as a pirate. In Europe the war still lasted. After the death of Cassander (296), his two sons quarreled about the succession. Demetrius took the opportunity to seize the supreme power in Macedonia and Greece. He lost his power indeed through arrogance and desire for conquest after a reign of seven years, but his son Antigonus Gonatas after a changeful career gained permanent possession of Macedonia (278). Thus after many divisions and the formation of many sovereignties of but short duration, there grew up out of the Macedonian-Persian universal empire, five monarchies, of decidedly Hellenistic character, in which Greek was the language of the court and the government, of inscriptions and coinage, and of the educated classes, and in some of which Grecian art, literature and learning reached a high develop- ment. Nevertheless, these five monarchies, from their formation to their fall, bore the imprint of the deepest moral decay. These five states, to which we must add the republic of Rhodes and the Grecian Cantons, were : 1. Egypt under the Ptolemies or Lagidse with its capital at Alexandria. Ptolemceus I. (323-285), called Soter, i. e. saviour, because he sent aid to the Rhodians, or Lagi, i. e. son of Lagus, founder of the king- dom. Ptolenueus II. (285-247) called Philadelphus from being the husband of his sister Arsinde; foundation of the museum with the Alex- andrine library. Ptolemceus III. (247-221), called Euergetes, i. e. benefactor, by the priests, temporary conquest of Caria, Lycia, Cilicia, Cyprus. Ptolemceus IV., Philopater (221-205), decline of the power of the monarchy. Ptolemceus V., Epiphdnes (205-181); Egypt be- comes dependent on the Romans. 2. Syria, under the Seleucidae. Ca})ital at first Seleucia, on the Tigris, afterwards Antiochia on the Orontes. Seleucus I. Nicator (312-280), founder of the kingdom. AntiocJius I. Soter (280-262). Antiochus II. Theos (2G2-247). Seleucus II. (247-227). Seleucus III (227-224). Antiochus III. the Great (224- 187). Defeated at Magnesia (190) by the Romans, Antiochus was 78 Ancient Hlstury. B. C. compelled to accept a peace, which struck the kingdom of the Seleu- cidje from the roll of the great powers. The following states separated themselves from the Syrian realm of the Seleucidse, and did not belong to the Hellenistic system of states. 278. a. The confederacy of the Galatians (p. 35) in Asia Minor, , between Bithynia, Phrygia, Lycaonia and Cappadocia, founded by Gallic tribes, who, during the wars of the Diodochi, had ravaged Macedonia and Greece, crossed the Hellespont and in 278 settled in Asia Minor. They consisted of the three tribes of Trocmi, Tectdsages and Tolistohoii (each under four Tetrarchs) with the three capitals Tavia, Ancyra and Pessinm. In the first century before Christ, Deiotdrus became king of all Galatia, which Augustus made a Roman province. 250. b. The Parthians (p. 29) who under the Arsacidae (250 B. c. to 226 A. D.) conquered all lands between the Euphrates and the Indus, and formed a dam, in the east, first against the Hellenistic and afterwards against the Roman power. 167. c. The Jews under the Maccabees (p. 11). The two following countries were never dependent on the emjjire of the Seleucidae. a. Pontus, which had, it is true, submitted to Alexander the Great, but was recognized as independent under its own kings of Persian descent (of the Achfemenidfe it was claimed, p. 25), by the victors at Ipsus (p. 77). The last kings were Mithridates VI. the Great, and his son Phamaces (see Roman History, Fourth Period, p. 129). b. Armenia, although kings of Armenia first appear after the battle of Magnesia, (190). 3. The kingdom of Pergamon under the Attalidae, Capi- tal, Pergamus in Mysia. Founded by Philetcerus (283-263) who had been appointed gov- ernor by Lys'imachus. Eumenes I. (263-241). Attdlus I. (241-197). Eumenes 11. (197-159), founder of the library of Pergamus. Atta- ins II. (159-138). Attdlus III. (138-133), who bequeathed the kingdom to the Romans. 4. Bithynia. Capital, Nicomedia. Founded by iV^icome^es /. (277-250?). ZeiYas (250-228?). Pru- sias I. (228-183), with whom Hannibal took refuge. Prusias II. (183-149). Nicomedes II. (149-91). Nicomcdes III. (91-75), who bequeathed the kingdom to the Romans. 5. Macedonia under the descendants of Demetrius Poli- orcetes. Capital, Pella. Antigonus Gonatas (278-239). Demetrius II. (239-229). Antigonus Doson (229-221). Philip V. (Ill), (221-179) defeated by the Romans at Cynoscephdlce (197). Perseus (179-168). After the battle of Pydna (168) Macedonia became a dependency of Rome, in 146 it was made a Roman province (p. 122). 6. The island of Rhodes (To'So?), iince the battle of Ipsus (301) an independent state ; since the sec- B. C. Greeks. 79 Olid century (b. c.,) dependent ally of the Romans ; made a province by the Emperor Vespasian, 71 A. D. 7. The Greek cantons, under the lead of Athens, made a futile attempt, immediately after the death of Alexander the Great, to throw off the Macedonian yoke. From the city of Lamia in Thessaly, in the neighborhood of which the war was principally waged, it was known as the 323-322. Lamian War. The Greeks were at first successful under Leosthenes, and defeated Leoimdtus, but were defeated by Antipdter and Craterus at Crannon, south of the Peneus. The cantons submitted one after another. The Athenians were compelled to receive a Macedonian garrison in MumjcMa and to give up their democratic constitution. (Phocion and Demddes, the political leaders). Citizenship was regulated by a property census. Demosthenes fled and took poison on the island of Calauria (Argolis). During the war between Cassander and Polys- perchon (p. 76) the democratic party regained its supremacy in Athens, and Phocion was executed ; later, however, Demetrius of Phaleron^ the political companion of Phocion, became under Macedonian su- premacy, the ruler of the Athenian commonwealth (317-307). In the course of the wars of the Diadochi Demetrius Poliorcetes gained possession of Athens several times and made the Acropolis the scene of the greatest debauchery (307-295). The last attempt to throw off the Macedonian yoke and regain its old importance in Greece was made by Athens under Glaucon and Chremomdes in 263 B. c. but it was defeated after a three years' war and continued to be tributary to the Macedonians. Thenceforward Athens had no political influence in Greece ; it retained, however, its autonomy as regarded its municipal administration, and continued to be the seat of culture and learning. Thessaly, during this period, was a Macedonian province ; Epirus was for a time a separate state, afterwards it was allied with Mace- donia. Most of the cantons of central Greece and Peloponnesus became allies, more or less dependent, of the Macedonian sovereigns. The complete subjugation of Greece by Macedonia was prevented by the 280. .^tolian League founded about 280, and the Achaean League which was renewed at the same time. Tlie latter grew to considerable power and acquired the hegemony in Peloponnesus after it was joined by Sicyon (251) which was freed from its tyrants by Aratus, and by Corinth (243), which Ara- tus had freed from the Macedonian garrison. Jealous of this hegemony the ^tolian League and Sparta, wliich had completely lost her ancient simplicity of life, and was in the hands of a wealthy oligarchy, joined forces against the Achfean League. The young king Agis IV. paid with his life for liis attempt to induce a reform of the Spartan state (241 ?). A similar at- tempt made by King Cleomtnes III. had better success, though for a time only : he caused the ephors to be surprised and put to death, 80 Ancient History. b. c. banished eighty oligarchs, and established a reformed constitution. Cleomenes conquered Argos and Mantinta, and waged successful war against the Acluean League. Aratus sought aid against Sparta from the Macedonian king Antigonus Boson, and delivered the Acropolis of Corinth into his hands. The Spartans were defeated in the 221. Battle of Sellasia (in Laconia). Cleomenes escaped by flight and died in Egypt (220). The Macedonians entered Sparta, restored the oligarchy and forced upon the Spartans an alliance with the Achrean League, now under Mace- donian Supremacy. The latter was immediately afterwards in- volved in a war with the iEtolian League, during which the Spartans took sides against the Achseans, and Peloponnesus was horribly rav- aged (220-217). About this time the ^^tolian League formed an alliance with the Romans against Philip V. {III.), of Macedonia, who was allied with Hannibal. (First Macedonian war, see Roman history, third Period, p. 116). Philopoemen, who has been called " the last of the Greeks," be- came Strategus of the Achsean League in 207, and defeated the Spartans under their tyrant, Machanidas, in the 206. Battle of Mantinea, and slew the tyrant. In the second Macedonian war (see Roman history, p. 118). the Achcean League likewise joined the Romans against Philip V. {III.), who, after the battle of CynoscephaUe (197), was forced to abandon the hegemony of Greece. The Romans proclaimed the freedom of all the Grecian cantons, but they gave support everywhere to that party which devoted itself to the advance- ment of Roman interests, and caused themselves to be fre- quently appealed to as arbitrators. After the death of a second Tyrant of Sparta, the cruel Nahis, Philopoemen humbled the Spartans again, and forced them to reenter the Achaean League, but was soon after taken prisoner and put to death in a war against the Messinians, who had revolted at the in- stance of Deinocrdtes (183). After the death of Philopoemen, decline of the poTver of the Achaean League, which made a final exertion in the so-called Achaean war against the Romans, which ended with the Defeat of the Greeks at Leucopetra, on the isthmus, and the 146. Capture and destruction of Corinth, The Corinthians were sold as slaves; a part of their land was given to Sicyon ; the rest became the property of the Roman state. The remaining Greek cantons were treated with kind- ness, and for the most part retained their own administration and jurisdiction, but were subject to the Roman governor of Macedonia. It was not until later (27) that Peloponnesus and Central Greece seem to have become a Roman province under the name of Achaia. C. Roman History. 81 II, ir §3. ROMAN HISTORY. GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF ANCIENT ITALY. (See Kiepert, Atlas Antiquus, Tab. VIL, VIII., and IX.) Italia was first used as the general name of the larger part of le peninsula, which is traversed hy the Apennines and extended to le Macra and Rubicon, since the middle of the third century before hrist ; as applied to the ichole peninsula, as far as the Alps, Italia was i-st employed in scientific usage by Polyhius (about 150) ; it was not sed officially and in a political sense, until after the time of Au- ustus. It was divided into Upper Italy, Central Italy, and lovrer Italy. I. Upper Italy, traversed by the Fadns (Po), and the [th<^sis or Atdgis (Adige, Etsch), and containing the lakes, Lacus Ver- dnus (Lago Maggiore), Lacus Larius (L. di Como), and Lacus Bena- us (L. di Garda), comprised the following three districts which, before Augustus, were not reckoned a part of political Italy: 1. Liguria, ^ercellce (Vercelli), Taurasia, later Augusta Taurinorum (Torino, ?urin), Genoa (Genova); 2. Gallia Cisalpina, also called togata, [1 distinction from transalpine Gaul, which was known as Gallia bra- ata, divided by the Padus (Po) into: a. Gallia transpadana, Co- ■lum (Como) ; Mediolanum (Milano, Milan) ; Ticlnum (Pavia), on the Ficlnus, a branch of the Po; Cremona, on the Po; Mantua, on the Mincius, a branch of the Po, near which was the village of Andes, he birthplace of Vh'gil; Verona, on the Athesis. b. Gallia cispa- iana: Placentia CPiacenza), at the junction of the Trebia and the ^adus, Mutina, (Modena), Parma, Bononia (Bologna), Ravenna, in mcient times a seaport. 3. Venetia: Patavium (Padua), birthplace Livius, Aquiltia. IT. Central Italy, lying between the little rivers Macra and Rubicon in the N., Sildrus and Frento in the S., was usually divided nto six districts : Etruria, Latium, Campania, on the Mare Tyrrhe- mm, or Inferum; Umbria, Pioenum, Samnium, on the Mare Ad~ -iaticum or Superum. The Tiber, running from N, to S., divided Etruria on the right, from Umbria and Latium on the left bank. The lame of Samnium is, however, more correctly applied to the southern nland district of Central Italy, so that the Sabellic tribes, who were related to the Samnites and Picentes, formed geographically a sepa- rate seventh group, under which were included the Vestini, Marrucmi and Frentani, extending to the Adriatic coast, and the inland districts of the Sabines, Pceligni, and Marsi. 1. Etruria, inhabited by the Etruscans (Rasenna), or Tuscans, in twelve communities under kings or Lucumos. These formed a con- federacy, whose federal constitution seems to have been exceedingly loose. The most important places in Etruria were, from N. to S.: Pisfc, Volaterrre, Arretium (Arezzo), Cortona, Perusia (Perugia, west of which Lake Trasimenus), Populonia, on the coast, Clusiuin (Chiusi), Volsinii, Tar(iuinii, Falerii, CcerCy Veii 6 82 Ancient History. b. qi b. 2. Latium. In the smaller district of the Latini : Roma, oi' the left bank of the Tiber (a part of the modern city, Trasteven and Borgo, is on the right bank, but the principal part of tin city is still on the left bank), traditionally said to be built on sevei hills (montes: Capitolinus, Palatinus, Aventinus, Ccclius, Esquilinus. colles : Viminalis, Quirinalls). ^ On the southern summit of the Mons Capitolinus the Capitolium with the temple of Jupiter Capitol* inus, and the Tarpeian Rock; on the northern summit, separatee from the southern by the Intermontium, the Arx with the temple o\ Juno Moneta. At the foot of the Capitol, the Forum Romdnum (tlw market-place), consisting of the Forum proper, and the Comitiwn. with the speakers' platform {Rostra, named from the prows of the ships from Antium) between the two. In the last century of the republic the forum was surrounded by temples and basilicas (e. g^ Basilica Julia). The imperial forums were not open places, but masses of buildings and columned porticos. The Palatinus with the' palaces of the emperors; E. of this, the Amphitheatrum Flaviumi (Colosseum, for 80,000 spectators). N. from the Capitolinus to tliei Tiber lay the field of Mars, Campus Martius, during the republic an open field used for military practice, atldetic sports, and political gatherings, after Csesar and during the imperial period covered with splendid buildings, now the centre of the modern city. The: buildings on the right bank of the Tiber did not belong to the Urhs proper. They were situated partially on the Mons Janiculus, par- tially on the Mojis Vaticanus, where the Vatican and the church of | St. Peter now stand; eastward stood, by the Tiber, the Mausoleum' Hadriani, where the Castle of St. Angelo now stands. Finally must^ be mentioned the island of the Tiber. Sixteen great artificial roads ran from Rome in various directions : Via Appia and Via Latina to the S., Via Valeria to the E., Via Flaminia to the N., Via Aurelia to the W., etc. Ostia,^ the harbor of Rome, on the left bank of the Tiber, existed 1| at the time of the kings; under the emperors a second harbor, Portns, on the right bank of the Tiber. Laurentum, Lavinium, Ardea, Suei<.-^a Pometia, Aricia (on the Via Appia), Velitrm not far distant. Alba Longa on the slope of Mt. Albanus, near the lake of Albania, Tusculum (near the present Frascati), Gabii, Tibur (Tivoli) on the Anio, a branch of the Tiber; Fidence, north of Rome, south of the brook Allior. In the land of the jEqui, Prceneste (afterwards a Latin city again. In the land of the Hernicce, Anagnia. In the land of the Volscii, Fregellce, Arpinum, the birthplace of Marius and Cicero ; on the coast, Antium and Tarracina (Anxur), south of the Pomptme marshes. In the land of the Aruncii : Formice, Minturnce, on the Liris (Gari- gliano) ; Suessa (Aurunca), near the Afons Massicus and the Ager Falernus (famous wines). 1 The expression " seven-hilled city " applies properly to old Rome, the pala- tine city. Its transfer to the Servian and republicnn Rome is the result of a later misunderstandnij^. The description of the city of the time of Con- ; staatine, leaves out the two colles, Qiiirindlis and Vimincdis, and increases the i number of montes to 7 by addini,' the Vaticanus and the Janiculus, which '\ lay outside of the city proper. See Momnisen, Hist, of Rome, I. 116, note, j! B. c. Jiomnn History. 83 8. Campania, traversed by the Volturnus (Volturno), with the mountains (faums and V'^esucius near Naples. Two bays separated from one another by a rocky istlimus: Sinus Cwnanus (Bay of Naples), and Sinus Pcestnnus (Bay of Salerno). Along the coast: Liternum; Cumce (Kv/xr], founded by a colony from Chalcis in P]uba3a in 1050 ?) ; Alisemun near the promontory of similar name ; Puteoli (Puzzuoli) ; Bai(r. near lake Lucrinus, famous as a watering place ; Parthenope or PalcwpoUs, the oldest part of NeapoUs (NidiroKis, Napoli, Naples); Herculaneiun and Pompeii, buried in 70 a. d. by lava and ashes from Vesuvius; Salernurn on the Sinus P;estanus, the chief city of the Picentes who had been transferred thither. Inland: Capua (not the modern Capua, but Santa Maria Maggiore), with an immense amphitheatre; Nola. 4. Umbria. On the coast: Ariminum (Rimini), Pisaurum, Sena Gallica (Sinagaglia). Inland: Sentlnum, Iguvium, Spoletium. 5. Picenum. Ancona on the coast; Asculum Picenum. 0. Samnium (in the wider sense, see p. 81). In the land of the Sahini : ^miVernum, birthplace of Sallust ; Cures^Reate. In the land of the Pceligni : Corfinium ; Sulmo, birthplace of Ovid. In Samnium proper: Bovianum; vEsernia; Beneventum (Benevento), former Mal- ventum; Caudium, in the neighborhood of the Caudiue Pass {Furculce Caudince). III. Lower Italy, also called Greater Greece, Magna Gra3ca ('EAAas t] /xeyaK-n), was divided into four districts : Apulia, Calabria in the east, Lucania and Bruttium ^ in the west. 1. Apulia : Luceria, A{u)sciilum Apulam, Canme, Venusia, birth- place of Horace, near Mt. Vultur. '2. Calcibria : Brundisiuni (Briudisi), the port of departure for Greece; Tarentum (Tapas, see p. ol). 3. Lucania: Pcestum (Posidonia, Uoaeilwvia), Avith notable liiinsof temples; Metapontum; Heraclea ('HpaKAem). 4. Bruttium: S//hdris {^.vdapis), destroyed in 510,' by the Crotonians ; TJmrii al'terwards built in its neighborhood (see p. 64); Croton {KpSrccv), not far from the promontory of Lacinium; Locri Epizephyrii (AoKpol 'Eni{e(pvpioi) ; Kheginm {'Piiyiou, i. e. rent, from ^iiyvvfiij the present Ueggio). Consentia (Cosenza on the river Busento). Italian Islands. Sicilia (2i/ceAfa), separated from Italy by the Fretuin Siculum (Strait of Messina), formerly called Sicania, also Trinacria, w^ith its three capes, or promontories: Pelorum in the north, Pachynum in the south, and Lilylxeum in the west. On the eastern coast from north to south : Messana (formerly Zancle, p. 51), Tauromeninm (Taormina), Catdna (Catania) at the base of ^tna, Syracusae l^vpaKovaai, Siragossa, see p. 51), at the time of its greatest extent comprising five cities: Ortygia, situated on an island, and hence also called Nasos, which now forms the w'liole cit}^ with the spring of Arethusa, Achradina, Tycha, Neapolis, and Epipolce, at first a suburb. 1 This form (instead of Brntfii, BniUius Ager) has, however, no ancient authority. The Hyzniitines aft<'r the tenth century, A. n., gave TJruttium tlui name fdl/thriil, after llie Noruians hail di^po-sessed them of Cahibria proper, and the eastern peni>isula was known after that time as Apulia. 84 Ancient Histortj. b. c. On the south coast: Camarlna, Gela, Agrigentum ('AKpdyas, now Girgenti), between Gela and Agrigentum the promontory of Ecnomos, not far from the mouth of tlie (southern) river Himera ; Selinus (2eAi(/oDs). On the west coast: Lihybceum, Drepdnum, Eryx. On the north coast: Panormus (Tldvop/xos, now Palermo, see p. 17), Himera, Mylce. In the interior of the island: Henna. Sardinia (2apSc6): Caralis (Cagliari). Corsica (Ku/jj/os): Alalia, \iitev the Roman colony of Aleria. Of the smaller islands the following are noteworthy: 1. Melita, now Malta, and Gaudos, now Gozzo, south of Sicily. 2. The Insulce JEgates, on the west of Sicily, not far from the promontory Lilybseum. 3. The Insulce jEolice (now the Liparian islands) the largest, Lipara, north of Sicily. 4. Caprece, now Capri, and ^fiaria, now Ischia, at the entrance to the Bay of Naples. 5. The Pontian islands, Pontia, Pandataria. 6. llva, now Elba. RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT ROMANS. ^ The Romans possessed an ancient religion entirely distinct from that of Greece. It was a common inheritance of the Italians, though probably early receivmg Etruscan and Grecian elements. In the last centuries of the republic the theogony of Greece was imported into Roman literature, and to some extent into the state re- ligion. At a still later time, under a policy of tolerance, all forms of faith and superstition were represented in the great capital. The religion of the Romans was a polytheism, but their deifica- tion of nature was not so detailed, nor were their deities so human as was the case among the Greeks. Their faith had a sterner aspect, the practical side of religion was more natural to them than the poetic side. They honored and utilized their gods, but they wove few fancies about them. The great gods were: Jupiter, god of the sky, "father of gods and men; " Juno, his wife, goddess of maternity; Minerva, goddess of intellect, presiding over the arts; Mars, god of war, the most representative of the Italian divinities; Bellona, goddess of war; Vesta, patron of the Roman state, goddess of the national hearth, where burned the sacred fire; Ceres, Saturnus, goddess and god of agriculture; Ops, goddess of the harvest and of wealth; Her- cules, god of gain, presiding over the sanctity of contracts; Mer- curius, god of traffic; Neptunus, god of the sea. Venus seems not to have been one of the original Italian divinities. She first appears as a goddess of agriculture, but was soon identified with Aphrodite, the Grecian goddess of love. Of the lesser gods there were many, watching over every act of individuals and of the state, and over every stage of growth and development. Such were Tellus, Silvanus, Terminus, Quirinus, Janus, the god of the beginning and end, represented with a double face, (Gate of Janus in the comiturm, open in time of war, closed in time of peace). Lares and Penates. presiding over the family and the home, Sol, Luna, etc. 1 Rawlinson, Reliyions of the Ancient World, chap. VIII. Mommsen, Uid. oj Rome, Book I. chap. XII. Leighton, Hist, of Rome, chap. IV. ( . Roman History. 85 "Worship. The worship of the Romans consisted of a round of prenionies, — prayers, sacriiiees, games, — of strictly prescribed .)rm, with the object of securing the good-will, .averting the anger or scertaining the intentions of the gods. In private life tliese ceremonies i-ere performed in the family and were conducted by its head, the atcr fam'dias; in matters affecting the whole people, the state, which ■ as a larger family, conducted the worship. In early times the king resided at the ceremonies. Under the republic a rex sacrijiculus was pi)()inted to perform those religious acts wliich were formerly the xclusive right and dut}^ of the king. The state maintained at public cost : 1. " Colleges of sacred lore " aving general supervision over religion and all matters connected llere^vith. The most important were: The college of PontificeS; our in number (afterwards nine and sixteen), the highest religious ower in the state. Witii them rested the decision as to which days k^ere suitable for the transaction of business, public or private, and vhie-h not (dies fasti et nefasti). Hence they controlled the calendar, vhereby they, with the augures, became important instruments in the laiuls of the government. The pontifices also decided upon the ac- ion made necessary by the auguries. At their head stood the pontifex laximus, who appointed the rex sacrificulus, the Jiamines and vestales. IJoUege of Augures, originally four, then nine and sixteen, who con- ulted the \\\\\ of the gods, as revealed in omens, by the observation f the flight, cries, and manner of feeding of certain birds. College )f Fetiales, twenty (?) in number, presiding over the relations be- ween the Romans and other peoples. They conducted the conelu- ion of treaties, acted as heralds, and performed the ceremony of de- laration of war, by throwing a blood-tipped spear into the hostile erritory.i Duumviri Sacrorum, having the charge of the Sihylline jooks. The haruspices exercised the art of interpreting the will of he gods from the examination of the entrails of slaughtered victims, riiey were an Etruscan institution. 2. Colleges of officiating priests: Flamines, who presided in va- ious temples with chapters of assisting priests. Salii, or dancing briests, of Qalrinus and Mars, the latter having charge of the sacred shields of Mars (ancilke). Vestal Virgins, guardians of the sacred ire of Vesta, six maidens who had taken the vow of virginity. Lu- perci, Fratres Arvales, etc. Besides the observance of sacrifices and the offering of prayers, the priests had charge of conducting various public games: Lupercalia, Feb. loth), Ferice Latince, Saturnalia (Dec.) and others. ETHNOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ITALY.^ At the extreme south the lapygians. Their descent is not certainly established, though they undoubtedly belong to the Indo-European family and probably to the Illyrian race. In historic times the rem- nants of the tribe appear, in striking contradistinction to the true Italici, in process of rapid Hellenization. '^ ^yhen the 2;rnwth of the Roman dominion had made this a m-^tter of diffi- rulty. a j)l()t of ground in Koine was set a[)ait to represent hostile territory, and into tliis the spear \v;is imrlcil. - Momirsen, Hist nf liomc. I. cliap 2. 86 Ancieiit History. B. c To the Indo-European family belonged likewise the inhabitants of central Italy, the Italic! proper, who were divided into the Latin and the Umbro-Sabellian (Oskan), tribes. They were the next ol kin of the Hellenes. The Italici entered Italy by land. The Latim occupied the western lowlands {Latium, comiected with Idtus),^ the Umhro-Sabellian tribes spread themselves over the eastern part oi Central Italy {Umbrians, Picentes, Sabines, Mar si, Hernici, Volscii). A main division of this group, the Samnites, occupied the mountain region which was named after them, and drove back the lapygians. From the Samnites several tribes branched off; so the Campdnians. called after the plain {Campus) which they settled along the Tyr- rhine sea. Peculiarly distinct from the Latin and Sabellian Italici, in language," religion and customs were the Etruscans (in their own language, Rasenna). Up to the present time all attempts to establish their ethnographical position, have failed to reach settled conclusions. The attempt recently made, to prove them members of the Indo- Eviropean family and the Etruscan language closely related to the Latin, must, it would seem, be regarded as a failure. ^ Perhaps the Etruscan people were formed by the union of two dif- ferent tribes, one of which came to Italy over the Raetian Alps, while the other came by sea. Before the invasion of the Celts, Etruscans dwelt north of the Apennines, on both sides of the Po, between the territory of the Veneti (as far as the Adige), and the Ligurians. The whole of Upper Italy was occupied by Celtic tribes (about 500 B. c.?), which gradually forced the Etruscans and Umbrians soutli- ward. Besides all these migrations into Italy from the north by land, colonization of no mean extent began very early on the part of the Hellenes, in Sicily and Lower Italy, by sea. (The Dorians, Chalcid- ians (i. e. lonians), and jliioUans were principally engaged therem). Roman History can be divided into five periods. 753(?)-510(?) 1. Mythical time of the kings. 510-264. II. Development of the constitution by struggles between Patricians and Plebeians. Subjugation of Italy proper (Cen- tral and Lower Italy), down to the beginning of the Punic loars. 264-146. III. Epoch of the Punic wars, and beginning of the univer- sal rule of Rome, down to the destruction of Carthage and Corinth. 146-31. IV. Firm establishment of the universal supremacy of Rome, by the conquest of the East, Spain, and Gaul. Epoch of the civil ivars, down to the beginning of the absolute rule of Octavian, in consequence of the battle of Actium. 1 The Ansonii (Aurunci, in Campania) probabh' belonged to the Latin race, as well; also, perhaps the Italici in the nnrrotoer sense, who dwelt originally in the western part of lower Italy, and the Siculi. '^ "W. Corssen, Ueher die Sprache der Etrushev, 1874. "W. Deecke, Etruskische Forschnnr/en, is of the contrary opinion, as is K. O. Miiller, Dit Etrusktv, ed. by W. Deecke, 2 vols., 1877.' B. c. Roman History. 87 31 H. C.-476 A. D. V. Sway of the Roman Ccesars, down to the fall of the Roman Empire of the west. The last period extends into Mediaeval History. FIRST PERIOD. Mythical Epoch of the Kings (753 1-510). Foundation of Rome according to the Roman legends. Kiii^- Numltor of Alha Longa, the descendant of ^neas, who had settled in Latium with some Trojan refngees, was deprived of his throne hy his brother Amulius, who put his son to death, and caused his daughter Rea Silvia to become a vestal virgin, in order that the Ihie of Numitor should perish. The twins, Romulus and Remus, the sons of Rea Silvia and Mars, the god of war, were, by command of the king, tlu-own into the Tiber, then overflowing its banks. Their cradle being caught by the roots of a fig-tree, the children were rescued from drownmg, were suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by the royal shepherd Faustulus. As they grew up, Ronnilus and Remus led other shepherds on the hunt and in forays for booty. At the festival of the LupercaUa, they were surprised by robbers ; Romulus was taken prisoner, brouglit before Numitor, and accused of having plundered his fields. Numitor recognized liis grandsons. The latter thereupon attacked the usurper Amulius at the head of their band, slew him, and placed the rightful king, their grandfather Numitor, again on the throne of Alba Longa. With the king's per- mission, the twins founded a city on that place on the bank of the Tiber where they had been exijosed. (Festival of Palilia or Pariliay April 21, celebrated as the anniversary of the foundation.) lu a (piarrel as to who should give his name to the city, Remus was killed. Romulus, being now the only king, called the city after himself, Roma.'^ Surmises about the real origin of Rome. The results of mod- ern scientific investigations leave not the least doubt that the Ro- man story of the foundation of the city is not historical, but an invention, having not the slightest basis of fact. It is perfectly clear that in reality Rome and the Romans did not derive their name from the founder of the city, but that, on the contrary, the name Romulus was formed by the inventors of che legend from the name of the city and the people.^ All tribal heroes are of divine origin ; that those of the Romans should be sons of Mars, the god of agricidture and of war, needs no explanation. The legend of the exposure of the t^\^ns and of their miraculous preservation and recog- nition bears a striking resemblance to the story of the jouth of Cyrus (p. 26). The fabulous descent from the Trojan /Eneas as- cribed to the family of the founder of Rome was an invention of 1 According to Yarro's era 753, according to Cato's 751 ; but to change years of the city into years before Christ, 754 or 752 must be used as the minu- end. Both dates belong to the conventional chronology. See pp. 88 and 80. 2 Livius, I. 1-7. 3 Compare besides Mommsen, Schwegler, Riivi. Gesch., and Peter, Eouk Gesch., 1. 56. 88 Ancient History, b. Grecian writers {Stesichorm in the sixth century, Thnceus in the thi century, B. c). The tale of the building of Rome by emigrants fr( Alba, under guidance of two princes of divine birth, was a nai attempt to explain the growth of a city in the barren and .unhealtl lloman Campagna by connecting it with the common metropolis o Latium. Nothing can be considered historical except that Rome was, a: regards the greater part of its population, a Latin settlement The city was founded, or rather gradually arose, at a whollj unknown time and under wholly unknown circumstances The settlement was formed very near the border of Latium, and jusi at the head of navigation (for small vessels) of the Tiber, the natura highway of commerce for Latium, without regard to the sterile char- acter of the immediate neighborhood. This gives probability to tlit sui)position that Rome in its earliest days " was a border trading-posi of the Latins." ^ Not that Rome was ever a mercantile city, aft.i the manner of Corinth and Carthage ; it was merely a trading village where the imports and exports of Latium, wliich was essentially an agricultural district, were exchanged. The opinion that the Roman people was a mixed race cannot l^e maintained, when it is considered that the development of the Romuii language, political institutions, and religion, was free and individual to a degree seldom equalled. Of the three tribes or townships (Gauen) which seem to have united to form Rome (the Ramn s (identical with Romani), the Titi{em)es,?a\^t\\e Luceres), the first wan certainly, the third in all probability, Latin ; the second was, it is true, Sabine, but it was soon completely blended with the Latin ele- ments, as the Roman language shows. The Royal Epoch, according to the Roman Legend.^ 75^716. Romulus, warrior king. Establishment of a retreat on the Capitolinus. Ap-- pointment of 100 Senatores ov P aires (fathers), whose descendants are' called Patricians. The three centuries of knights : Ramnes, Titi(ens)eSf and Luceres. Rape of the Sabine women; war Avith the Sabines fol- lowing, their king, Titus Tatius, seized the fortress on the Capitol through the treachery of Tarpeia. Battle between the Romans and Sabines interrupted by the Sabine women, who had been carried off. Union of the Romans and Sabines in one double state under the common rule of Romulus and Tatius, until the latter's death. War of Romidus with Fidence and Veii. Romulus is translated during a thunder-storm, and henceforward worshipped as the god Quirinus. 715-673. Numa Pompilius of Cures, elected, after a year's interregnum, by the Romans from among the Sabines. Peaceful king; arranges the religious services of the Romans according to the advice of the Camoenas (prophetess) Egeria, his consort. Temple of Janus. Appointment of the five PontiJiceSf the first of whom is the Pontifex Maximus, the Flamines, 1 Mommsen> Hist, of Rome, Book I. Chaps. 2 and 4. 2 liivius, I. 8 foil. li, c. RonKui. Jlislory. 89 Fetiale^, the four A uffurea, the four vestal virgins, afterwards increased to six. 673-G41. Tullus Hostilius, warlike king-. War with Alba Lorif/n; contest of the Horntii und Curatii decides in favor of Rome, to which Alha is obliged to sid)niit. War with Veii and Fidcnce; treachery of the dictator of Alba, Mettius Fuffetius, who is torn in pieces. Destruction of Alba Longa; the in- habitants are transferred to Rome. 641-610. Aucus Marcius, grandson of Numa, at the same time peaceful and warlike ("et Numte et Romuli meinor "). Development of the institution of the Fetiales. Successful war with four Latin towns, the inhabitants of which are settled on the Aventine. For this reason Ancm Marcius is represented in the traditional story of the kings of Rome, as the founder of the class of the j)lebeians.^ Fortification of Janiculum, con- struction of a bridge of piles (po7is sublicius) over the Tiber. Foundation of the harbor of Ostia. 616-578. Tarquinius Priscus, who with his wife Tanaquil emigrated from the Etruscan city of Tarquinii, and for whom Grecian descent from the Bacchiadce of Cor- inth was afterwards invented. He became guardian of Ancus' son, and was elected to the tlu'one. Commencement of the construction of the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline hill. Construction of the cloacce. The Senate increased to 300 members; the number of equites doubled. Circus Maximus. Successful wars with the Sabines, Latins, and Eirus^ cans. After the murder of Tarquinius by the sons of Amicus, 678-534. Servius Tullius becomes king through the cunning of Tanaquil. He was the son of the slave woman Ocrisia and a god, was educated like a prince by Tanaquil in consequence of the utterance of an oracle, and became the son-in-law of Tarquinius. Wars with Veii. Rome joins the Latin league. Construction of the wall of Rome. Establishment of the census and the division of the centuries (p 92). Servius Tullius murdered by his son-in-law, 534-510. Tarquinius Superbus, represented by tradition as a cruel despot. Tarquinius Superbus (i. e. the haughty) subjugates the Latin league, conquers Suessa Po- metia, completes the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, and gains posses- sion of the city of Gabii by the deceit and treachery of his son Sextus. Tradition ascribes to him the acquisition of the Sibylline books. Embassy of Titus and Aruns Tarquinius, the king's sons, to the oracle at Delplii. They are accompanied by their cousin, L. Junius Brutus, who represents himself as feeble-minded, in order to protect his life against the cruelty of the king; a story which was invented to explain the name of Brutus. Siege ol'Ardea. The rape of Lucretia, ^vife of L. Tarquinius Collatinus (i. e. from Colldtia), hy the king's son, Sextus, lends to the ex|)ulsion of the Tarquins and the abolition of monarchy. The insurrection is headed by L. Junius Brutus, whom the legend makes Tribunus Celerum, although he was commonly considered an imbecile. Over the body of Lucretia, who died by her own hand, he 1 Peter, Rih... Gesc/i., l^ ^5-3 Compare, on tlie oth?r liaml, p. 90. 90 Ancient History. b. c. called the people to arms, and incited tlie army against the king, who found the city gates closed upon him, and went into exile (Livius, I., 57-CO). Historical Facts of the Epoch of the Kings.i There is no doubt that the constitution of the oldest Roman state was a patriarchal monarchy ; and that, after the new settlemeni^ had become an independent community, the highest power in Rome was exercised by a line of sovereigns elected for life (rex, from the same stem as regere, to govern). But neither the number nor all the names of the traditional kings, nor yet the deeds ascribed to the reign of each, still less the chro- nology of their reigns, can be considered historically authentic. The artificiality of the first four reigns, which are alternately v/arlike and peaceable, is self-evident. Doubtless the extension of the Roman ter- ritory and Rome's hegemony over the Latin league was not acquired without severe contests and brilliant deeds of arms; but the story has come down to us in a fabulous form and has been arbitrarily revised. The destruction of Alba, the ancient metropolis of Latium, is an his- torical fact ; the contest of three Roman against three Alban broth- ers, their cousins, is probably only a personified designation of a war between two closely related towns, with similar political divis- ions. As regards the last three reigns, it can be considered liistorical that the royal family of the Tarquins was of Etruscan origin ; that under its rule Rome made an important advance in power and civilization ; that the division of the people into c/asse.s, the erection of the so-called Servian wall, portions of which are still in existence, and the construc- tion of the first cloacse date from their reigns. At the commencement of the actual history of Rome there is found to exist a sharp division of the population into Patricians, or citizens with full political rights, and Plebeians, or free inhabitants without political rights (like the Lacedtemonian Periceci and the Athenian Metoeci; see pp.50 and 52). The traditional legend gives no explanation of this important fact, but only two hints at one, and those contradictory.^ Tlie citizens having full rights are evidently the de- scendants of the original settlers, the victors and later conquerors. Since, according to Roman usage, marriages of equals in rank con- ferred the rights of citizenship on the children, those having such rights called themselves Patricii, i. e. " Children of the fathers." The people who were not included in these families, but stood under their protection, who were compelled to have a protector (Patronus), v/ere distinguished by the name Clientes (from cluere). Their dc scendants, increased by the former citizens of Latin towns conquered in war, formed gradually a second Rcrtnan community, whose mem- bers were not citizens. These Were called the Plebeians, the Plebs (or 1 See Mommsen, Hist, of Home, Book I. cliap. 4. Peter, Edm. Gesch. F 54-50) likewise ascribes but a limited historical value to the traditioiia' history of the kings. 2 See pase 88 the reii;n of RodiuJus. and p. 89, that of Ancus Marcius. Comp- MommaeB, Ilist. of Rome, Book I. chap. 5. B. c. Roman History. 91 ^lehe^, connected wtli pleOy plenum) ; i. e. the masses, the (jreal mob. As the majority of tlie population of conquered cities were compelled I to enter the plebeian class, whether they were settled in or near Home i or remained in their old homes, it is incorrect to imagine the plebs I composed of poor people entirely ; there were from the beginning many wealthy and respected families among them. Under the oldest constitution of Rome, which is commonly called, from the legend, the Constitution of Romulm, the Patricians alone formed the municipality and the military force, the populus (con- nected with populari, to ravage), since they alone performed military service. They were divided into curice, districts, at first 10 in num- ber, after the union of the Titus and Luceres with tlie Ramnes 30 (p. 88), each curia being divided into ten families or gentes. The assembly (populus) of the citizens or patricians, called by the king when he had an announcement or an inquiry to make, formed the comitia curiata. To this body citizens under sentence had the right of appeal for pardon (provocatio) ; only, however, with the consent of the king. The comitia elected the king, who, after elec- tion, exercised absolute power, having to consult the community only when changes of the existing law or the commencement of an offen- sive war were in question. The Senate (council of the elders, seniores, senatores) was an advisatory body, named by the king, but representing the gentes after a manner. This oldest form of the community was essentially altered by a reform conducted during the reign of the last dynasty, and which tradition has coupled with the name of Servius Tullius. Military service and payment of the tributum was thereby made obligatory on all land-owners, whether they were citizens or merely inhabitants of the class of metoeci. Every freeholder between seventeen and sixty years of age was now liable to service. The cavalry, composed of citizens, continued as before, but there was added to it a force of double its strength, which consisted wholly, or in great part, of ple- beians. The wealthiest land-owners were drawn upon to furnish the cavalry. No regard at all was paid to political or class differences in making up the infantry, but the kind of armor to be furnished by the warriors was regulated in accordance with a property classifica- tion. This is the Servian classification,^ for military service and taxation, of Patricians and Plebeians according to their property (Cen- sus). A. Cavalry (Equites). C pure (?) patrician, 12 plebeian (and patrician) centuries ; in all 1800 horse, all of the first class. 1 The census was not expressed in monev until the time of Appius Claudim iB. c. 312). Leighton, Hist, of Rurue, p. 22, n. 5. [Trans.] 92 Ancient History. b. i B. Foot-Soldiers (Pedites). Class. Number of Centuries. Property in Assea .1 Armor. Weapon 1. '80 C. with 20 jugera 100,000 galea, clipeus, oc- ^ 1 re£e, lorica 1 2. !| 20 C. with 1 as much 75,000 galea, scutum, ^ ocrege ■ oT 3. 3 20 C. with I as much 50,000 galea, scutum s 4. >-> 20 C. with 1 as much 25,000 scutum 'i 5. 28 C. with H 1-10) as much 12,000 J fundi It appears from the number of centuries (i. e. companies) in th different classes, that the division of the land at that time was sue] that more than half the farms contained 20 jugera or more, and i farm of that size was considered the standard. In the five classes : 168 centuries of foot-soldiers, each of 100 men = 16,800 men ; i. e. 4 legions of 4200 men each, 2 legions juniores (firs levy, 17-4:6 years old, for service in the field) and 2 legions seniorei (second levy, 47-60 years old, for garrison service). To be added arc 3 centuries of fabri (pioneers), tubicines and cornucines (musicians) 2 centuries accensi velati (unarmed substitutes), 2 centuries prole- tarii and capite censi, making, with the cavalry, 193 centuries. As the population increased the number of centuries was not enlarged, but the separate divisions were strengthened by the addition of new. recruits, without doing away entirely with the standard number. This new military body, arranged in classes and centuries, was henceforward consulted by the king in regard to offensive wars as the army had been when divided into curiae. This was at first the only privilege which the new citizens shared ; all other rights were reserved to the coniitia curiata, which consisted exclusively of patricians. It was not until later (at the beginning of the Republic) that the new arrangement of the community acquired political importance, and that a new popular assembly, the coniitia centuriata, de- veloped out of the new military organization. The reform ascribed to Servius had originally a purely railitary character. It gave the Plebeians at first scarcely any rights, but only burdens ; it opened the way, however, whereby they became true citizens. The inhabitants who were not land-owners, be they cUentes or foreign metceci, were henceforward distinct from the land-owning plebs. The inhabitants who owned no land were called, after the money wliich they had to pay for protection, aerarii.^ For purposes of conscription the city and township were divided into four wards (Tribus), so that each legion contained the same number of recruits from each ward. Every 4, later every 5 years a new census was taken, which closed with a sacrifice for purification (lustrum), whence in later times lustrum denoted a space of five years. 1 Mommsen, Hist, of Rorne, Book I. chap. G. Livius, I., 42 and foil. 2 Mommsen, Hist, of Rome, Book I. chap. 6. B. C. Roman Histort/. 93 SECOND PERIOD. Struggles between Patricians and Plebeians, Subjugation of Italy Proper, to the Beginning of the Punic Wars (510-2G4). 510 (■'). Expulsion of the Tarquins, Rome a Republic. Accoi'ding to Roman tradition, the consuls for the first year of the republic were 509 ('?). Lucius Jimius Brutus and L. Tarquinius Collatinus. The latter, it is said, being related to the exiled royal family, soon fell under suspicion, and was replaced by L. Valerius Popli- cola, the first Consul suffectus, to whom tradition ascribes the lex Valeria de provocatione (Ne quis magistratus civem Romanuni ad versus provocationem (p. 91) neceret neve verberaret). On the same authority, the first dictator (p. 94) was Titus Lartius (oOl, against the Sabines). The Grecian historian Polybius calls the consuls of the first year 509 (?). Lucius Junius Brutus and Marcus Horatius.i We know absolutely nothing which is historically authenticated about the details of tliis revolution. This alone is certain, that the arbitrary rule of the last king brought about his expulsion and the banishment of the whole gens Tarquinia. (The family sepulchre has been discovered in Ccere, in Etruria). The fear lest the common- wealth should be transformed into a tyranny seems to have united the patricians and plebeians for a short time. We are better informed about the nature of the constitutional change, since on this point inferences can be drawn from the institu- tions which we find in existence in liistoric times. The change in the constitution was, as far as this is possible in a revolution, conservative in character. The sovereign reigning during life was replaced by two rulers holding office for a year, taken from the patricians. They were called at first Praetores, Judices, or Consules ; later, the lattei name only was applied to them.^ They exercised, generally, regal power: Imperium (i. e. sovereignty in zrar and /leace) ; auspicia publica (i. e. supplication of the gods m behalf of the state) ; convening the popular assembly and the senate ; taking the census ; appointment of senators and the two patrician qucestors. The latter, whose office was established during the time of the kings, exercised the functions of crimmal police, and soon acquired the administration of the state treasury under the supervision of the consuls. The consuls were assigned 12 lictores as a public indication of their official power. i Polybius, III. 22. The statement of Polybius, that the first treat}^ be- tween Rome and Carthage fell in the first year of the Kepublic, ie disputed by Mommsen ( /?o/ft. Chronoloyie bis auf Ccesar, 2 Ed. p. 320), but is strongly defended by JMissen {Jahrbiicher fiir Philologie, 18G7), and others. 2 The derivation of consul and prcetor is doubtful. Consul denotes either "administrator of the state " {qui consulit reipnhlicce), or merely colleague. Prcs' tor denotes "general" {qui prteit exei'citui, like the (Jerman Ilerzof/), or one who presides over the state {qui praeit, praeest reipublicae). See Marquardt Mommsen, Rom. Altertkiimer, II. p. 71 f. 94 Ancient History. b. c. According to the lex Valeria de provocatione ^ (509), all citizens had right of appeal from sentences of death pronounced by the con- suls, which were not delivered according to military law, to the peo- ple, even against the will of the consuls; and this appeal was not to the old " populus," composed of patricians, but to the comitia centuriata, the assembly of the new military and political com- munity founded by the Servian constitution (p. 92). The comitia centuriata acquired, moreover, in consequence of the violent alteration of the constitution, the right to elect the consuls, or rather, according to old Koman interpretation, the right of desig- nating them to the consul who presided over the election, who there- upon appointed them (creare). The comitia centuriata acquired also the right of accepting or rejecting bills laid before it, but the six patrician centuries of equites retained the important right of voting first on any proposed measures. The Senate, formerly consisting of patricians exclusively, was now enlarged, or rather brought up to its legal number, by the ad- mission of plebeians from the equites, i. e. the wealthy. Hence the fornmla: Patres [et'] conscripti. The nature of the changes which the comitia curiata (p. 91) underwent in consequence of the revolution is much disputed; it is certain only that it soon sank into complete insignificance. According to the view which is most commonly received, it retained at first the right of approving the elections or resolves of the comitia centuriata, a privilege expressed by the formula patres (i. e. patricii) auc- tores fiunt.^ Others understand the expression patres to apply to the senatores, and claim the right of approval mentioned above for the Senate.^ At a tune of special danger the consuls were replaced by an ex- traordmary official, the dictator, or magister populi, who was not elected, but appointed by one of the consuls (dictatorem dicere) without the participation of the citizens. (Practically, however, the Senate commonly played an important part in the selection.) As soon as danger was over the dictator resigned his office (dictatura se abdicare), which he could not hold longer than six months in any event. The dictator appointed his magister equitum (master of the horse) ; the sign of his power, which was thoroughly royal, was 24 (?) lictors. Appeal from his decisions was allowed only in cases where it had been permitted against the king (p. 91). 1 "The habeas corpus act of the Romans." Leighton, Hist, of Rome, p 53. [TuA.Ns.] - Becker, Eo7n. Alth. I[. 3, p. 183, u. Schwegler, Earn. Gesch. II. 160. 3 According to Mommsen {Hist, of Rome, I. 2U-i), all neio citizens, that is, all land-uwnimj plebeians were in consequence of the revolution (510) admitted to tlie comitia curiata, and the old body of citizens, or tha patricians, thereb}' lost the rii;ht of debating and deciding iov jwlitical purposes, in an assembl}' apart from the rest of the citizens. This opinion is opposed by other scholars, who main- tain that plebeians were first admitted to the comitia curiata toward the end of the Republic. Mommsen thinks that the right of approval belonged to the smaller \)urely patrician senate, while the larger senate, increased by the addition oi plebeian conscripti, was, during the lirst years of the Republic, an advisor;^ council for the consuls. B. c. Roman History. 95 509. According to the Ptoman legend a conspiracy of young pa- tricians was discovered in Rome, which purposed the restora- tion of the monarchy. Execution of Brutus' son. 508. Unsuccessful war of the Romans against jJie Etruscan king Porsena of Clnsium. The Romans were defeated, and com- pelled to purchase peace by a surrender of territory and com- plete disarming. Roman story of Horatius Codes, the brave defender of the bridge over the Tiber, of the heroic courage of Mucins Sccavola (i. e. left-handed ; the well-known story is probably only an attempt to explain the name), and Cloelia, in Livius II. 9-13. AVlien the Etruscans advanced further into Latium they were defeated by the Latins and their allies from lower Italy before Aricia, and could not maintain themselves lon the left bank of the Tiber. In consequence of this Etrus- can defeat, Rome seems to have freed itself from the dis- graceful peace imposed upon it, and to have gradually re- gamed its former powerful position. 496 (?). Tradition of a great victory of the Romans over the Latins by the small lake Regillus, near Tusculum, won by the dictator, Aldus Postumius, ^\^th the aid of the Dioscuri (Livius II. 19). The inner history of the Roman community for this period deals with two contests, one political and one social. 1. Contest of the patricians, who gradually developed into an hereditary nobility, against the new citizens, or plebeians. The latter, who could, it is true, become senators (conscripti), but were excluded from the offices of state and from the priesthood, aimed at complete political equality. Since the offices of state in Rome, as among the ancients generally, were administered without pay (hence, honores, officers of honor), it was essentially the wealthier plebeian families alone who were mter- ested in this contest. 11. The social contest between the well- to-do property-o-wners and the owners or renters of small farms, who were growing poorer, or had been deprived of their pos- sessions. The use of the ager publicus, i. e. the public land, acquired by conquest (comprising both cultivated land and pasture), belonged legally to the patricians only. \\\fact the senate made exceptions in favor of the rich plebeian houses which had become members; the small plebeian land-owners and renters were strictly excluded from the privilege. Very seldom, on occasion of new conquests, a dis- tribution of land was made among the poor plebeians, but the greater part of the state domain was leased to the patrician land-owners for a moderate rent, which was, probably, hardly ever regularly collected, and these estates were soon treated as private property. Gradually the tillage of the large farms was given over to slaves, and the ple- beian tenants were thereby driven from their holdings. The plebeian owners of small peasant holdings sank into a condition of the great- est misery, through frequent military service, taxation, excessive in- terest on loans, and the cruel Roman law of debt, which placed the person and property of the debtor in the creditor's hands. In conse- quence of this there were repeated uprisings and refusals to perform military service, which, in 49o, was overcome only by the appointmer' 96 Ancient History. B. c. of a dictator. Finally, when the patricians refused to grant the prom- ised alleviations, and continued their ill treatment of those who be- came their slaves through debt (nexi), the plebeian soldiers in the victorious army, as,they were retiirning home, turned aside, under the leadership of pleUeian military tribunes, to a small hill on the Anio (later called Mons Sacer), and threatened to found a plebeian city in that fertile region (three miles from Rome). This is the so-called 494 (?).^ Secession of the Plebeians to the Sacred Mount (secessio plebis in montem sacrum), which compelled the patricians (Menenius Agrippa, fable of the belly and the members) to make sincere concessions. After abrogation of the oppressive debts, 494 (?). Creation of the tribunate (tribuni plebis) and the plebeian sediles. The tribunes of the people (at first 2 (?), then 5, finally 10), were always chosen from the plebs.^ They were inviolable (sacro- sancti). They had the right of protection (jus auxilii) for every plebeian against injustice on the part of an ofticial. This privilege developed into an extensive right of intercession (jus intercessionis) against every administrative or judicial act, with the exception of the imperium militare, - — that is to say, against the dictator and against the consul when he was more than a mile from the city. From the first the tribunes of the people exercised judicial functions, convened the assemblies of the plebeians, and proposed criminal sentences for their consideration. Later (448), the tribunes were admitted to the senate, where, by their veto, they could deprive any resolution of the senate (ssnatus consultus) of its legislative force, and reduce it to a mere ex- pression of opinion (senatus auctoritas). The two aediles of the people (cediles plebis) assisted the tribunes, and superintended the business of the markets. Their name was probably derived from the temple (cedes) of Ceres, where they preserved the official docu- ment which decreed the establishment of the plebeian magistracy. During this time (according to some authorities, not until later) occurred the establishment of the important comitia tributa. In this assembly the citizens voted according to wards or tribus; not, however, the four wards of the Servian constitution (p. 92), but ac- cording to a later (perhaps 495) division into 20 tribus, to which was added the Crustuminian tribus (494), making 21, and the num- ber gradually rose to 35. It is probable that, down to the time of the legislation of the decemvirs, plebeians only, after that time, however, the whole body of land-owning inhabitants, both patri- cians and plebeians, voted in the comitia tributa.^ In this comitia 1 Cf. Moramsen, Hist, of Rovie, T. 279. 2 It is commonly assumed as probable that up to ;he lex Publilia (472) the tribunes were elected in the comitia centuriata, and approved by the coviitia curiata. According to the testimony of Dionyslus (IX. 41) and Cicero (pro forn.), they were chosen by the curiata; according to Mommsen's view (p. 94, note), this denotes that they were at tirst elected by the plebeians assembled bj CU7-iiE. ^ See the different opinions in Becker, Rom. Alther., II. 1, p. 175 and 399. c. Roman History. 97 ach trihm had one vote, which was decided by the majority of voters the tribus. Compared with tlie comitia centuriata, therefore, the scendeucy of tlie wealthy was done away with, as was also the privi- ge, enjoyed by the nobility, of throwing their votes first. 93. In the consnlate of Spiirius Cassius, renewal of the eternal alliance between Rome and the Latin league on a basis of eqnality. Only gradually did Rome acquire again the he- gemony over the Latins. Continual disputes with Etruscans, Sabines, yEqiii, Volscians. Continuation of the contests be- tween patricians and plebeians ; the institution of the tribu- nate proving to be the organization of civil strife and anarchy. An attempt was soon made to abolish the tribunate by the patrician 91. Cn. (C. ?) Marcius, called Coriolanus (from the storm of Corioli), w^ho, during a famine, proposed to grant the plebeians grain at the expense of the state, only on condition that they gave up the tribunate. When summoned by the tribunes be- fore the comitia tributa, Coriolanus declined to appear; being banished in his absence, he went to the Volscians, and, accord- ing to the story, led their troops against Rome, but, at the rebuke of his mother, Veturla, and the entreaties of liis wife, Volumnia, gave up the war against his native city (Livius, II. 40). 87. The Hernici invaded the Roman territory. Being defeated by the consul Aquillius, and, in the next year, by the consul Spip- rius Cassius, the Sf). Hernici joined the Latin league. 86. Spurius Cassius Viscellinus ( Vecellinus ?), consul for the third time, brought forward the first agrarian law. He pro- posed to divide a part of the public lands among needy plebeians and Latins ; the rest to be actually leased for the profit of the public treasury. The patricians and wealthy plebeians joined forces against Spurius Cassius ; the lower classes were dissat- isfied that the Latins should also receive land and abandoned him. After the close of his term of office he was sentenced and executed. 79. Withdrawal of the gens Fabia and their 77. destruction by the Etruscans at the brook Cremera. 73. Murder of the tribune of the people, Gnceus Genucius, who had ventured to call two consuls to account. 72. Law carried by the tribune of the people, Volero Publilius, to the effect that the plebeian magistrates should, in future, be elected by the comitia tributa (lex publilia: ut magistratus plebei comitiis tributis creentur, p. 90). 33. Plague in Rome and throughout Italy. 62. Motion of the tribune of the people, C. Terentilius Arsa, for the appointment of a body of ten men to reduce the laws to a written code. Violent opposition of the patricians. 30. Surprise of the Capitol by Htrdonius at the head of some polit- ical refugees (Livius III. 15). Renewal of civil discord. In order to satisfy the plebeians, the uuni- 7 98 Ancient History. b ber of tribunes of the people was raised from 5 to 10 (457) ; in the following year the Mons Aventinus was divided into building lots, which were distributed among the poor citizens. Dictatorship ol I,. Quinctius Cincinnatus, who rescued an army which had been siir- rounded by the ^Equi (Livius III. 26). A compromise was reaclud in regard to the codification of the laws, whereby three ambassadors were sent to Greece to bring back copies of the Solonian laws and, others (454). After their return 4:51. Decemvirs, a body of ten men, were chosen from the patricians {Decemviri consulari imperio legihus scribundis), and the consulate, tribunate, and right of appeal were for the time suspended. The code of laws drawn up by the decemvirs was accepted by the people, engraved on copper tables, and set up in the forum. As an appendix seemed necessary, 450. Decemvirs were appointed again, three being plebeians, who added two more tables. Henceforward the law of the city and county of Rome, accordmg to which the consuls were to ex-; ercise their judicial functions, was known as the laws of the' twelve tables (Leges duodecim tabularum). By their exposure the patrician administration was henceforth sub-' jected to the control of public judgment. Instead of giving; place to the regular magistrates after the completion of the' two supplementary tables the decemvirs remained in office' during the succeeding year (449). An attempt of the mod- erate aristocracy, headed by the Valerii and Horatii, to« compel the abdication of the decemvirs, was unsuccessful.! The latter, under Appius Claudius, the head of the extreme! party of the nobles, acquired the preponderance in the state.' At first the people sidjmitted and acquiesced in a levy for thet war against the Sabines and Volscians. The oppression of the* decemvirs, especially of Appius Claudius: murder of the former tribune of the peojDle, Siccius Dentatus, and the attack on thei liberty and honor of the betrothed of the former tribune L. Icilius, Virginia, whom her own father Virginius stabbed in the forum, brought about an uprising (Liv. III. 44 foil.). The plebeian soldiers occupied the Aventine and the Sacred Mount. Valerius and Horatius managed a compromise, ac' cording to which the decemvirs abdicated. Appius Claudius and Spurius Oppius disembowelled themselves in prison, the others were sent into exile. It is impossible to decide what part of this romantic story is historical. It seems certain that j the consulate and tribunate were reestablished. The power of the nobility was further weakened by the i48. Laws of the consuls Valerius and Horatius {leges HoraticE)' 1. The resolves {plebiscita) of the comitia tributa were given equal force with those of the comitia centuriata {ut quod tribu^l tim plebs jussisset populum teneret). 2. Every magistrate, in- cluding therefore, the dictator, was obliged, in future, to allow | appeals from his decision (ne quis idlum magistratum sine pro vo^ catio7ie crearet, qui crcasset,eumJusfasqueessetoccldi). 3. Recog- B. C. lion) (in It I story. 99 iiition of the inviolal>ility of the trihunes of the people, and ex- tension of the same privileoe to the fediles {ut qui tribunis plebis, cerlilibus nocuisset, ejus caput Join sacrum esset). About the same time (447) t^vo queestors were appointed whose i)e- culiar charo-e was the military treasury (making- in all 4 (pia^st- ors, see p. 1)3) ; they were patrieians, but were ai)pointeil t)y the' eomitia tributa, wherein both patricians and plebeians voted henceforward, if not before (p. 90). In 421 the qujestorship was opened to the i)lebeians. Moreover, the tribmies of the people ac(piired the right of taking auspices, and were admitted to the senate, though at first required to occupy a bench near the door. 445. Law of the tribune Canuleius legalizing marriage between patrieians and plebeians {lex Canuleki cle conuhio : ut cnnuhia ple- bei cum patribus essent). The children inherit the rank of tlie father. The motion brought forward by this tribune that tlie consuls might be chosen from the plebeians (ut populo poteslas esset, seu de plebe seu de patribus vellet, consules faciendi), was vio- lently opposed by the nobility. A compromise was effected, and it was decreed that instead of consuls 444. military tribunes (6) with consular power (tri buni militum consulari potestate) should be appointed, and that to this office plebeians could be elected. At the same time creation of a new patrician office, that of censor. The two censors were elected in the eomitia centuriata, at first for 5 (4 ?) years, after 434 for 18 months, but every fifth year only, so that the office was vacant 3^ years out of every five. Functions of the censors: 1. Taking the census every 5 (^l ?) years (after every lustrum), and compiling the lists of citizens and taxes; appointment of senators {lectio senatus) and the equites {recognitio equikmi). 2. Preparation and publication of the budget, management of the state prop- erty, farming the indirect taxes (vectigalia), superintendence of the public buildings. 3. Supervision of the public morality {regimen morum). The duties and privileges included under the latter head gave the office great moral and political im- portance in the next century (Notatio censoria). 439. Spurius Mrelius, a rich plebeian, who, during a famine, distrib- uted grain at a low price, was accused of aiming at royal power, and was slain by C. Servilius Ahala, the master of the horse of the octogenarian dictator, L. Quinctiu's Cincinnatus. 405-396. Siege of Veil, the history of which, like that of the previous wars with the Etruscans, has been much ornamented by tradition. The long continuance and obstinacy of the war with Veii is proved by the fact that then for the first time the campaigns were not interrupted during the winter. The residt was, that the citi- zens who served in the armv now for the first time received pay from the public trea-^'.iry (i. e. out of the taxes on the public lands ).^ Capture and destruction of Veii by the 1 Leighton, Ilist. of Rome. p. 70, note 1. ['I'n/NS. U ofc. 100 Ancient History. b. c. i 8. dictator, M, Furius Camillus. The fall of Veil marks the beginning- of the decline of the Etruscan power, which was hard pressed at the same time by the Latins in the south, Celts (^Gauls) from beyond the Alps in the north, and from the sea by the Sicilian and Italian Greeks, especially the Syracusans, whose attacks had endured upward of a century. 391. Camillus went into exile in consequence of a complaint of in- justice in the division of the booty from Veil. Latium invaded by the Gauls in consequence of Roman ambas- sadors having taken part, in the war of the Etruscans of Clusium, against the Gauls. The Gauls demanded that the ambassadors (the three Fahii) should be delivered to them, to which the senate agreed. The proposal was, however, rejected by the citizens. 390 (July 18). Battle of the Allia, a brook, which falls into the Tiber eleven miles north of Rome. Utter defeat and rout of the Romans on the right bank of the Tiber, whereby the city was left defenceless. Abandoned by the citizens (the Mons Capitolmus alone contin- ued to be occupied), Rome was taken, plundered, and burnt by the Gauls under their Bremius, i. e. military ruler. Slaughter of the senators. Unsuccessful attempt to surprise the Capitol. The geese of Juno. AI. Manlius Capitolinus. After a seven months' siege of the fortress, the withdrawal of the Gauls was purchased with gold. Legend (a later invention) of an expul- sion of the enemy by a victory of Camillus, who surprised the haughty Brennus ( Vce victis !) in the forum, while the gold was bemg weighed (!). Return of the inhabitants. The plan of emigrating to Veil broken up by Camillus. Hasty, but irregu- lar, reconstruction of the city, which soon' regained its old power, after the jEqui, the Volscia7is, and the Etruscans, who had taken up arms again, had been defeated by Camillus. Equalization of the old orders. Origin of the new nobility. Recommencement of the civil contests against the patricians: 1, by the plebeian aristocracy to get admission to the consulate; 2, by the poor, indebted plebeians to obtain a reform of the laws of debtor and creditor, and a share of the public lands. The exertions of those tribunes who were friendly to the poorer classes were often neutral- ized by the opposition of their colleagues who represented the inter- ests of the plebeian aristocracy. The patrician IvI. Manlius Capi- tolinus, who had released plebeian debtors at his own expense, was accused of aiming at royal power, declared guilty of high treason, and thrown from the Tarpeian rock (384). A compromise was finally agreed upon between the plebeian aristocracy and the plebeian com- mons, whose results were seen in the 376. Laws proposed by C. Licinius and Lucius Sextus, trib- unes of the people (rogationes Licinice). The first two were designed to secure the poorer classes a material alleviation; the third to give the plebeian aristocracy the loug-wished-for equality with the patricians. {. c. Roman History. 101 I. Relief of the debtors by the deduction of interest already laid t'loiu the piincipul; the rest to be paid within three years in hree installments {ut, deducto eo de capite quod usuritt pernumeratum sset, id quod superesset triennio cequis porlionibus persolveretur). II. No one should possess more than 500 jugera of the public ands {ne quis plus quam quingenta j ugera agri publici'^ possideret). III. Abolition of the tribuni mUitum comulari potentate. One, at east, of the two consuls must be chosen from the plebeians {ne rihunorum militum comitia Jierent consulumque utique alter ex plebe crea- -etur). After a long contest, and after the appointment of Camillus to the lictatoiship had failed to accomplish anything, 367. The Licinian laws were passed. 366. L. Sextius Lateranus, colleague of the tribune Licinius, first plebeian consul. At the same time one of the three great colleges of priests (decemviri [formerly duociri'] sacris faciundis) was opened to the plebeians. In order to retain at least the administration of the judicial de- partment in the hands of their order, the patricians procured the establishment of a new patrician magistracy , the praetorship. The praetor (since 243, one praetor urbanus, and one prajtor inter cives et peregr'inos; since 227, four; since 197, six prsetors) had the jurisdiction (dare sc. judicem, dicere, se.sententiam, a^f/Zcere, sc. rem), and was the vicegerent of the consuls during their absence. At the same time a new cedile was appointed, called, to distinguish him from the plebeian officer of that name, the curule aedile ; this office was, however, soon (probably since 364; certainly since 304) made accessible to the ple- beians, and patrician and plebeian curule fediles were elected for alternate years, 't'he duties of the two aediles curules were: 1. to manage the ludi Roniani ; 2. to supervise the markets and the street- police, and to preside in the police courts connected thercAvith. Although after the passage of the Licinian laws the patricians contin- ued their opposition to the political equalization of the orders, and even succeeded several times in electing two patrician consuls in open, violation of the third Licinian law, cdl public offices were, neverthe- less, opened to all Roman citizens, in rapid succession: the dictatorship 350 (the office of magister equitum before the adoption of the Lici- nian laws 368), the censorship actually 351, legally 338, the prcetorship 337, the colleges of pontifices and augures (the number of members in each being increased to nine) 300, by the lex Ogulnia. The patrician order thereupon ceased to exist as a legally privileged caste, and con- tinued only as a social order or rank. A new nobility (optimates, nobiles) was gradually developed in political life, composed of those patrician and plebeian families which had for the longest time retained possession of the chief public offices (summi honor es). These families regarded every citizen who obtained office, but did not belong to their set, as an upstart (homo novus). The 1 The wordpuhlici is lackinf^ in the text of Liviiis (VF. 35). But it is clear that the law could have referred to public land lished bv an inscription found in 1862. See Mommsen, i^owi. Geaoh.. 1.6, p. 699, note. " 116 Ancient History. b. c. and IntibiU, and maintained themselves in southern Spain, until 212, in spite of varying fortune. At the same time they were pressing the Carthaginians in Africa through their ally, Syphax^ king of western Numidia. The alliance with Pliilip of Macedon likewise brought no help to Hamiibal. The 215-206. First Macedonian war was successfully conducted by the Romans with scanty forces. The irresolute Philip did not dare to fulfil his promise to Hannibal of landing m Italy. In 212 the Romans brought about a league of Gre- cian states against Philip, under the lead of the JGtolians, which was joined by Illyrian and Thracian chiefs, and even by King Attains of Pergamus. The war was^ on the whole, unfavorable to Philip. In 206 peace was concluded between Philip and the Romans, against the wishes of the latter; but it was, nevertheless, accepted by the senate. The alliance with Syracuse proved also of no use to Hamiibal, as the 214-212. War in Sicily (Siege of Syracuse) was decided by Marcellus in favor of the Romans. After the destruction of the Carthaginian army of relief under Hamilcar, by defeat and disease in the swampy lowlands of the Anapus, 212. Syracuse was captured and plundered, in spite of a brave resistance (A rchimedes) . In Italy Hamiibal gained possession of Tarentum through treachery (212), and laid siege to the citadel of that city by land and sea. Death of Tib. Sempronius Gracchus in Samnium. Hannibal advanced to Campania and compelled the Romans to raise the siege of Capua, after which he defeated two Roman armies in Lucania and Apulia, but retired to Tarentum. The Romans again laid siege to Capua. In Spain the war took an unfavorable turn for Rome in this same year, 212. Both Scipios were defeated and killed by the Cartha- ginians and their ally, Massinissa, son of the king of eastern Nu- midia (king himself in 208). The Romans were driven back over the Ebro. 211. Hannibal attacked the Roman army before Capua. He was repidsed, and in order to force the Romans to raise the siege he marched through Samnium to the territory of the ^qui on the later Via Valeria, past Tibur, across the Anio, directly upon Rome, and encamped a mile from the city (Hannibal ante portas !). Finding the Romans prepared for defence, he retired, after ravaging the neigh- borhood, to lower Italy, without having gained his end. 211. Capua surrendered to the Romans, who visited a terrible punishment upon the city. Fifty-tliree citi- zens were beheaded, many sold into slavery ; the community was de- prived of the right of self-government. Hannibal's attack on Rhe- gium and on the citadel of Tarentum having miscarried, his Italian allies abandoned him, and tried to make their peace with the Romans. VJ.O. P. Cornelius Scipio, son and nephew of the brothers who fell in Spain, and now 25 years old, was sent to Spain with procon< Bular powers CLivius, XX VI. 18). B. C. Jxoniuii History. 117 In Italy ITannil)al fji-aiued a victory over the proconsul Cn. Fulinu^ at Herdonea. In Sicily the Romans captured Agriyentum, slangh- tering- the Carthaginian garrison and selling the popuhiee as shives, and re(hiced the whole island under their power. Li Spain Scipio crossed the Ehro (201)) and concpiered New Carthage. 209. M. MarceUus, having been defeated in an encounter with Han- nibal, gained a victory over him in a second battle on the fol- lowing day. Q. Fabius Maximus captured Tarcntum ; 30,000 Tarentines were sold as slaves. liamiibal retired to Meta- pontum. 208. Marcellus fell in a cavalry skirmish at Venusia. Great ex- haustion of Rome and its allies in consequence of the war in its own country, now in its tenth year. In Spciin Scipio (208) pressed victoriously southward, but fought a drawn battle at Bcecula with Hasdrubal, and was unable to prevent him from crossing the Pyrenees on his way to his brother Hamiibal. Arrived in upper Italy (207), Hasdrubal was successful in inciting the Cisalpine Gauls to arms. Great preparations in Rome (23 legions) to prevent his union with Hamiibal, who was advancing to meet him through Lucania and Apulia. The consul M. Livius Salinator was sent against Hasdrubal, the consul C. Claudius Nero against Hannibal. Drawn battle at Grumentum in Lucania, between iVero and Hannibal ; the latter broke through the enemy, marched to Apulia, and encamped by Canusium. Nero, who had followed liiin, left a part of the army to watch Hannibal, while with the rest he joined his colleague by means of forced marches. The two consuls defeated Hasdrubal in the bloody 207. Battle of Sena gallica, not far from the river Metaurus. Death of Hasdrubal. On receijjt of the news of this defeat (the Romans threw the head of Hasdrubal among the Cartha- ginian pickets), Hannibal retired to Bruttium. In Spain victory of Scipio at Bcecula over Hasdrubal, so7i of Gisgo. 206. After completing the expulsion of the Carthaginians from Spain by the capture of Gades (Cadiz), and after concluding a secret alliance wath Massiiiissa, P. Cornelius Scipio returned to Rome. For the following year 205. Scipio was elected consul, and made preparations in Sicily for an African expedition. Mago, the youngest brother of Hannibal, landed at Genoa wath the remnants of the Spanish army of the Carthaginians, and called the Ligurians to arms. At once, the Romans levied three armies against him. 204. Scipio landed in Africa. INIassinissa, who had been driven from his tlirone by the Carthaginians, and by Sgphax, husband of HasdrubaVs daughter Sophonisbe, now their ally, joined Scipio. 203. Scipio defeated Hasdrubal, son of Gisgo, and St/phax by a night attack, and threatened Carthage. Unsuccessful negotiations for peace. The Carthaginians recalled Hannibal and Mago from Italy. The latter died on the passage. Hannibal cm- barked at Croton, having previously massacred the Italian sol- diers who refused to accompany him. After fruitless personal negotiations between Scipio and Hannibal the 118 Ancient History. b. c. 202. Decisive battle of Zama was fought, wherein the Carthaginian army was defeated and annihilated. Hannihal escaped to Hadrumetum. 201. Seipio granted the Carthaginians peace on the following con- ditions : 1. Surrender of their Spanish possessions and of all Mediterranean islands still under their control. 2. Transfer of the kingdom of Syphax to Massinissa. 3. Payment of a yearly tribute of 200 talents (.'$2o0,000) ior fifty years. 4. Surrender and destruc- tion of all ships of war except ten. 5. No war to be undertaken without the permission of Rome. P. Cornelius Seipio, who received the cognomen of Africanus, celebrated his triumph in Rome with a splendor never before witnessed (Syphax). The Itidian allies of Hannibal were in part sentenced to cede large portions of their territory, in part reduced to subjects of Rome, de- prived of their independence and their right to bear arms (peregrini dediticii). Foundation of numerous Roman colonies in Lower Italy. In consequence of another general rising of the Cisalpine Gauls a.nd the Ligurians, 200-191. Upper Italy was again subjugated after a severe strug- gle. Although the peoples of Transpadane Gaul retained their tribal constitutions they soon became, with few exceptions, com- pletely Latinized. This took place still more quickly among the Cis- padane Gauls after the leading tribe, the Boii, had been almost exter- minated in war. Numerous colonies were in part founded, in part reorganized. Via .Siinilia from Ariminum to Placentia. Spain was regarded as a Roman province after 205. It was divided into : 1. Hispania citerior, later TarracoJiensis ; and 2. Hispa- nia ulterior, or Bcetica and Lusitania. The country was, however, dur- ing this period, and a part of the next, commonly in a state of war. In 195 the consul, M. Porcius Cato, gained a great victory over the Spaniards, and decreed a universal disarmament. The insurrections soon began again. A victory of the prietor L. jEmilius Paullus (189), and another, still more important, gained by the prsetor, C. Calpur- nius, over the Lusitanians (185), induced quiet for a time in Hispania ulterior. The victories of Q. Fulvius Flaccus (181) and Tiberius Grac- chus (179-178) partially subdued the Celtiberians of Hispania citerior. 200-197. Second Macedonian War. Cause: A Macedonian force of mercenaries sent, as the senate maintained, by king Philip, had fought at Zama against the Romans. King Attalus of Pergamus, the inhabitants of Rhodes and Athens be- sought assistance from the Romans against King Philip V. (III.) of Macedonia, who, in alliance with Antiochus III. was warring with Egypt and also grievously troubling the supplicants. In the autumn of 200 the Romans landed at Apollonia, in lUyria, under P. Sulpicius Galba. The Roman fleet guarded Pirseus and threatened Eubcfia. Philip was repulsed before Athens, and driven from Central Greece. The Romans, who were joined in 199 by the Italians and afterwards by the Achceans, carried on the war witK Tarying fortune, but without result, until (198) the consul, T. Quinc- B. C. Roman Illstory. 119 tius Flamininus, took comniand of the army. lie Riil)(lut'd Epirus, got into the icai- of Philip's strong position, and defeated the king in the 197. Battle of Cynoscephalse (Kvi o? Kct^aAat', in Thessaly). Peace : Philip was obliged to give up the hegemony of Greece, and in general all possessions outside of Macedonia proper, and to pay 1000 talents (61,250,000) in ten years. He was to maintain no more than 5000 soldiers and five ships of war, and not to carry on war beyond his own borders without the consent of Rome. During the Isthmian games, T. Quinc- tius Flamininus proclaimed, under general rejoicing, the de- cree of the Roman senate declaring the Greek states free and independent. The majority joined the Aclueau league. The Romans limited, without destroying, the power of Nobis, tjTant of Sparta, hoping thus to comiterbalauce the Achsean league. 195. At Carthage a democratic reform of the constitution was car- ried out by the influence of Hannibal. The oligarchs defamed Hannibal before the Roman senate, which demanded that he be delivered to the Romans. Hannibal fled to the East. 192-189. War with Antiochus III., of Syria. Cause : Interference of the king of Syi'ia in Grecian affairs, and of the Romans in Asiatic politics ; reception of Hannibal at the court of Antiochus. Antiochus, deceived by the ^tolians who had fallen out with Rome, and promised to join him with all the Greek cantons as allies, began the war, without listening to the advice of Hannibal, by landing in Thessaly on the Gulf of Pagasse, whence he went to Eubcea. Most of the Greeks, especially the Achsean league, remained true to the Ro- mans, who were also joined by Philip of Macedon, Eumenes of Perga- mus, and Rhodes. Antiochus occupied the pass of Thermopylae. Landing of the consul, Manius Acilius Glahio, in Epirus (191) and march to Thessaly. The former consul, M. Porcius Onto, conqueror of the Spaniards, who served as military tribune in the Roman army, surprised the iEtolians on the mountain path of Ephialtes, while the consul captured the pass itself and scattered the army of Antiochus, who escaped to Chalcis vnth. a few soldiers, and there took ship for Ephesus. The Romans besieged the ^tolians in Nanpactus ; their fleet, under C. Livius, defeated that of Antiochus at Chios. In the following year (190) a fleet from Rhodes defeated a fleet of the king, under the command of Hannibal, at the mouth of the Eurijmedon, and somewhat later the Roman fleet, with that of Rhodes, won a naval victory at Myonnesus. A Roman army, nominally under the command of the consul, L. Cornelius Scipio, but really under his brother, P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, marched through Macedonia and Thrace, crossed the Hel- lespont, and defeated Antiochus in the 190. Battle of Magnesia on the Sipylus, not far from Smyrna, whereupon the king concluded peace in 120 Ancient History. b. c. the following year : 1. Surrender of all European possessions, and of liis Asiatic possessions as far as the Taurus. 2. Payment of 15,000 Eubcean talents ($19,125,000) within twelve years. 3. Surrender of Hannibal, who, however, escaped. This peace struck the kingdom of the Seleucidfe from the list of great powers. The Roman senate having resolved, for the present, not to acquire any immediate pos- sessions in Asia, divided the ceded territory among its allies, Eumenes of Pergamus, and Rhodes, and proclaimed itself the protector of the Greek cities of Asia against the Galatians (189, Expedition of Cn. Manlius Volso), and regulator of the political relations of Asia. In Greece the iEtolians were conquered and subjugated, the other can- tons retained, for the present, their independence. Internecine quar- rels continued among the Greeks, and the Roman senate was in all cases appealed to as arbitrator. Philip of Macedonia received but scanty remmieration for his services in the war against Syria. 183 (?). Death of Hannibal. He poisoned liimself at the court of Pru^ias, king of Bithynia, by whom he saw himself betrayed. Death of his conqueror, P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, at Linternum, whither he had retii'ed after he and his brother, Lucius, had been ac- cused by M. Porcius Cato of having been bribed by Antiochus. 180. The lex annalis of the tribune, L. Villius, established, besides a military service of ten years, a fixed age for all the curule offices : ffidiles, 37 years ; prtetor, 40 ; consul, 43. Since the first Punic war the expenses of the great games were no longer borne by the public treasury, but by the tediles, which at once closed the office to all who were not men of property. The higher offices of state, and the position of senator, became more and more decidedly privi- leges of the nobility (p. 102). 171-168. Third Macedonian war. Destruction of the Macedonian monarchy. Cause : The plan of Philip V. (III.), to revenge himself on the Romans, and to regain the old borders of Macedonia, was carried forward by his son and successor, Perseus, the murderer of his brother Demetrius, who favored Rome. King Eumenes of Pergamus informed the senate of the preparations of Perseus. During the first tJiree campaigns, weak and unsuccessful conduct on the part of the Roman generals, combined with injustice and cruelty against the allied Achseans and Epirotes, who were thereby forced to actual desertion. At last L. ^milius Paullus, son of the consul who fell at Cannse (p. 115), obtained the chief command. He restored dis- cipline in the Roman army, drove back the Macedonians, and defeated Perseus in the I 168 Battle of Pydna. ' Sept. 11,000 Macedonians were captured, 20,000 perished. Perseus fell into the power of the Romans (in Samothrace). Splendid triumph of .Sjinilius Paullus. The spoils brought to Rome were so im- mense that henceforward the citizens were relieved from the trihutum. Dissolution of the kingdom of Macedonia, which was transformed into 4 confederacies dependent upon Rome, neither the right of emi< B. c. IxoiiKiii Ilist.oru. 121 ^ration nor of intermarriage (commercium et cojinuhiniri) being allowed them. Genth'us, king of Illt/ria, who had been an ally of Perseus, be- ing soon con(iuered (108), that country was divided into 3 tributary districts with federal constitutions, Epirus was cruelly punished, 70 towns being plundered and destroyed, 150,000 Epirotes sold as slaves. Tlie Greek cantons, friend and foe alike, were reduced to the condi- tion of subject clients. 1000 Achteans of high standing, among whom was the historian Polyhius, were carried to Rome for examination (1()7), and detained without trial 16 years in Italian cities under sur- veilhince. The old allies of the Romans, Eumenes of Pergamus and Rhodes, who had attempted to hold the position of mediators during ihe war, were chastised and all the possessions of the latter on the mainland taken away. In a war which broke out between Syria and Egypt the senate interfered as guardian of both powers. The Ro- man ambassador, C. PopilUm Lcp.nas, arrogantly and insultiil^gly or- dered Antiochus IV., king of Syria, to retire from before Alexandria. He drew a line around the king with his staff, and bade him decide before he stepped from the circle. (Polybius, xxix. 27.) 149-146. Third Punic War. Cause : The Carthaginians, whose commerce and maritime power had begun to increase, having been unable to procure from Rome any reparation for several losses of territory which they had sustained at the hands of Massinissa, finally took up arms themselves. The Roman senate, on the instigation of AI. Porcius Cato (" Ceterum censero Carthaginem esse delendam ") declared this a breach of the peace. Two Roman armies landed at Utica. Humble submission of the Carthaginians, who at the command of the consul delivered up their war-ships and weapons. But when ordered to abandon their city and make a new settlement ten miles from the sea, the Carthaginians re- solved on a desperate resistance. With the greatest sacrifices on the part of all the inhabitants of Carthage, without regard to rank, age or sex, new equipments were provided. Weapons were manufac- tured day and night. A new fleet was built in the inner harbor. An attack of the Romans was repulsed. Siege of Carthage. 147. P. Cornelius Scipio ^milianus (son of ^milius PauUus, adopted son of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus (Major), assumed the command. He shut off the city completely on both the land and sea side. 146. Capture and destruction of Carthage. Street fight lasting six days, and a conflagration which lasted seventeen days. The remaming inhabitants were sold into slavery. The coast land from the river Tusca, opposite the island of Galatha (Galita), to Thence, on the SjTtis minor, was made a Roman province under the name Africa, with the capital at Utica. The rest of the country fell for the present to the allied kingdom of Numidia. Splendid tri* umph of Scipio, who received the name of Africanus (Minor). 148-146. Fourth Macedonian War, 122 Ancient History. b. c. against Andrhcus, who gave himself out as PMlippm, brother of Per- seus (Pseudo-Philipjnis), and incited the Macedonians to rise against the Roman rule. He was defeated in two battles and captured by Q. Ccecilius Metellus. Macedonia became a Roman province (146). 146. Achaean "War. Cause : Return of 300 Aehseans from Italy, after an imprisonment of 16 years (p. 121). The anti- Roman party was thereby strengthened in all cities. Incited by Critolaus and Diceus, the Achaean league be= gan war with Sparta, with whom the Romans took sides. The senate pronounced the dissolution of the League. Victory of Metellus over Critolaus at Scarphea in Locris. Diceus summoned all who could bear arms together on the Isthmus, and armed 12,000 slaves. He was defeated by the consul L. Mummius in the 146. Battle of Leucopetra. Corinth, the chief city of the Aehjean league, was occupied by Mummius without a blow. The art treasures were sent to Rome, and the inhabitants were sold as slaves. The territory of the city was in part given to Sicyon, in part transformed into Roman public land. Corinth destroyed at the command of the senate. The other Greek cities were, for the most part, mildly treated, and allowed to retain their autonomy (their own administration and jiiris- diction), but in such a way that they were subordinated to the governor of Macedonia and had to pay tribute to Rome. Not until later (p. 80), it seems, did Greece become a Roman province with the name Achaia. At the close of this epoch Rome possessed eight provinces: 1. Sicilia (241). 2. Sardinia (238), with Corsica. 3. Hispania cite- rior (205). 4. Hispania ulterior (205). 5. Gallia Cisalpina (191?), 6. Illyricwn (168). 7. Africa (I'lO). 8. il/acec?t>ma (146), and Greece (Achaia). The lirst four provinces were at first governed by praetors, so that, counting the prcetor urhanus and the prcetor inter cives et peregri- nos (p. 101) who always stayed in Rome, there were six prretors elected every year. Later, however, it Avas decreed that all six (after Sulla, 8) praetors should remain in Rome during their year of office, 4 (0) to preside over the standing courts {qucestiones perpetuce). Of these the first, for cases of extortion (de repetundis),wii& established in 149 by the lex Calpurnia ; to this were added down to the time of Sulla (p. 132) courts having jurisdiction over fraud in obtaining office (de ambitu), over high treason (de maiestate), over embezzle- ment (de peculatu). Sidla created courts for the trial of cases of murder and poisoning (de sicariis et venefciis) of forgery of wills and of counterfeiting (de falsa). For the year succeeding their year of office the prsetors went as pro-praetors to the provinces which had fallen to them by lot The proprietors received, as a rule, however, only those provinces B. C. Roman History. 123 which were considered (|uiet, and which coidd be administered with- out any considerable niilit:iry force. Those which were still the scene of warfare were assio^ned to one of the consuls in office, or to a ■proconsul, the consul of the preceding year having his term of conmiand prolonged for the prosecution of the war (imperiiim proro- gare) or an ex-consul (vir consulai'is) or an ex-pr?etor (yir prcetorius) being appointed proconsul. Thus the provinces were at a later period distinguished into proconsular and proprretorial. The organization of a province was commonly entrusted to the gen- eral who had conquered it, and a commission of ten senators. Many cities in the provinces retained their own jurisdiction and municipal government {civitates Uberce), in consequence of a treaty concluded with the Roman people (foedus, hence civitates foederatoi), or of a law {lex) or decree of the senate (senatus consultum). The taxes of the provinces were generally let to tax-farmers (jjublicani), mostly Ro- man citizens of the equestrian order {oj'do equester) many of whom also did business in the provinces as bankers {negotiatores).^ In 153 the term of service for the consulate began in January for the first time, and this soon became the rule. Especially noteworthy in tliis epoch is the practical disappearance of the dictatorship. The last dictator Avith military power was appointed after the battle of Cannse (21G), and the last nominated for municipal business was in 202. After this, in times of peculiar danger, the senate conferred dictatorial power on the consuls, by the formula : " The consuls shall take measures for the public good according to their discretion." (Videant consules ne quid detrimenti respuhlica capiat), which some- what resembles a modern proclamation of martial law or state of siege. FOURTH PERIOD. Firm Establishment of the Universal Power of Rome. Pe- riod of the Civil Wars (146-31). 143-133. Numantine ^War. Continuance of hostilities in Spain. War in Lusitania against Viriatkus, 147-139, ended only by the latter's murder. The war in northern Spain centred around the fortified city of Numantia,^ which was vainly besieged by Metellus, and then by several incapable generals, who utterly neglected the discipline of the army. Finally P. Cornelius Scipio JEmilianus Africanus (Minor) received the com- mand. He restored discipline, and, after an investment of fifteen months' duration, starved the city into submission. Desperate de- fence. 133. Surrender and destruction of Numantia. Scipio -3^milianus received the surname of Numanticus. After the fall of Numantia all Spain, excepting the mountain tribes of the north, was reduced under Roman government. 135-132. First servile war. Insurrection of the slaves in Sicily, who were terribly ill- treated, under the Syrian Eunus, who called himself king AntiochuSf 1 Marquardt-Mommsen, Rom. Alt. IV. 338 foil, and 377 foil. 2 The preseut Garray^ an hour's walk north of Soria on the Duero. 124 Ancient History. B. C] and fought a long time successfully against the Roman armies, main- taining himself in Henna and Taurornenium, but was finally captured and executed, together with a great number of the insurgents. 133-121. Civil disturbances under the Gracchi, excited by the political and social reforms urged through revo" lutionary means by the brothers Tiberius Gracchus and Caius Gracchus. Constant increase in the number of great estates worked by slaves (Latifundia). The number of slaves in Italy was immensely increased by the successful wars, and by a most extensive slave trade, especially with eastern Asia. The order of free peasants and renters was thereby greatly reduced, while there was formed in the capital a numerous rabble without property or occupation, who lived on bribes and gifts of grain. Bad government of the optimates (p. 101). Fam- ily cliques which took exclusive possession of all public offices and places in the senate. Tib. Sempronius Gracchus (163-133), son of the plebeian con- sul of the same name (through his mother, Cornelia, grandson of the victor of Zama, p. 118), when tribune of the people proposed the reenactment of the Licinian agrarian lavr (p. 101) wliich had! long been forgotten, with this alteration, that besides the 500 jugera, 250 jugera of public land should be allowed for every two sons, and that damages should be paid for all buildings erected on land which had to be given up. Opposition of the tribune M. Octavius, who had been gained over by the senate, and whom Tib. Gracchus caused to be deposed by an unconstitutional popular decree. The agrarian law was accepted by the people ; its execution was entrusted to Tib. Gracchus, his father-in-law Appius Claudius, and his brother C. Gracchus. 133. Death of Attalus III., king of Pergamus, who left his kingdom and his treasures to the Romans. Tib. Gracchus proposed in the popular assembly, contrary to the common usage, according to which the senate had the disposal of this inheritance, to divide the treasures of Pergamus among the new land- owners, in order that they might procure the necessary equipment. Preparation of further popular laws of political tendency; shorten- ing of the timie of military service ; extension of the right of appeal, etc. Tib. Gracchus tried, contrary to the constitution, to secure the election to the tribunate for the following year. The election was forcibly stopped by the senate. Tib. Gracchus and 300 of his followers were killed by the optimates, armed with clubs and chair-legs, and led by the consul, P. Scipio Nasica. 129. After the defeat of Aristonicus, a pretender to the throne of the Attalidse, by Perpcrna, Pergamus became a Roman prov- ince under the name of Asia. 133-129. The division of the public lands was partially carried out as decreed. The struggle between the democracy and the optimates continued. The leader of the latter party, P. Scipio JEmilianus, husband of Sempronia, the sister of the Gracchi, B. C. lloman History. 125 who had successfully opposed the proposals of the democratic 129. tribune, C. Carbo, found dead in his bed (murdered?). 125. The democratic consul, AI. Fulvius Flaccus, who had unsuc- cessfully proposed to give the right of citizenship to all Ital- ians, was sent by the senate, which wished him out of the way, to assist the Massiliotes against the Gauls, by whom they were hard pressed. He laid the foundation of Roman supremacy in Transalpine Gaul. The immediate purpose of this occupation was the establish- ment of communication by land, between Italy and Spain. In 123 the ^. u'onsul. S-n-i/n.h Mace(U)nia and Thrace, crossed the Helles- pont to Asia, and throu<;h the mediation of Archelaus concluded 84. Peace with Mithridates in Dardaiios. I. Evacuation of the Kt)nian province of .isia, restoration of all conquests made by Mithridates, and reinstatement of the kings of Bithynia and Cappa- docia. II. Mithridates surrendered 80 ships of war and paid 3000 1 talents. After the conclusion of peace, Sulla turned his attention to the Roman army of the democratic party which had gor^e to Asia iu 80 imder the consid Flaccus, and, after his murder, had fought suc- cessfully under Fimbria (victory over the younger Mithridates at MiletopoUs). A part of the army having gone over to Sulla, Fim- bria committed suicide, whereupon the rest of his army joined Sulla. After leaving these troops behind {milites Flaviani, two legions) under Licinius Murena, and inflicting upon the Grecian cities of Asia Minor the immense tine of 20,000 talents (^825,000,000), which Lucullus was to collect, Sulla sailed from Ephesus to Pineus, went by land to Patrce, and thence by sea to Italy. 83. Sulla landed with 40,000 men in Brundisium. After the death of Cinna (84), during a mutiny in Ancona, where he intended to embark against Sulla, his colleagues Carbo, the younger Marius^ and Sertorius were the leaders of the democratic party ; never- theless for the year 83 neither of them, but instead two uicapable men, L. Scipio and C. Norbanus, were elected consuls. Sulla, who upon landing was joined by the 23-year old Cn. Pompeius with an army of volunteers, formally guaranteed their rights to the Ital- ians and marched against the consuls. He conquered Norbanus on Mt. Tifata and o;>ened negotiations with Scipio, in the course of which the entire armv of the latter went over to Sulla. 82. Sulla rested for the winter in Capua, and fought durhig the fol- lowing year against the younger Marius and Carbo, who had been appointed consuls. At Sacriportus Sulla defeated Marius, who retired to Prreneste, where he was surrounded by a division of the army under Q. Ofella. Sulla perceived this, and passed rapidly through Rome to attack the democrats in Etruria, whither also a part of his army under Metellus, Pompeius, and Crassus had already forced its way from Picenum and Uinbria and were pressing Carbo hard. On receipt of the news that strong Samnite bands were advancing to the relief of Prt^neste, Sidla went back to Latium, prevented the relief of Prjeneste, and repulsed an attack of the Samnites upon Rome (Nov. 82). More than 3000 prisoners were slaughtered at Sulla's command. Prseneste surrendered, the younger Marius was put to death by his slaves at his own command. The l)arty of Marius in northern Italy had already been completely defeated at Faventia. Carbo and Sertorius fled. Stdla took terrible vengeance upon the con- quered cities and towns of Italy. The party of Marius in Spain was defeated at a later time by C. Annius and Valerius Flaccus ; in Sicily and Africa it was defeated by Pompeius, whom Sulla allowed to tri- umph, and saluted with the surname of Magnus. 132 Ancient History. B. c 82. • Sulla had himself appointed dictator in Rome for an un- limited time, for the sake of reorganizing the commonwealth (dictator reipublicce constituendcEy a power analogous to that of the de- cemvirs). Reactionary Reign of Terror. Proscription lists of the coil /i minded {lex de proscribendis malis civibus). The number of the out- lawed, on whose death a reward was set, and whose property v/r.s confiscated amounted to 4700. Allotments of lands to the veterans of Sulla and establishment of military colonies with full right of citizenship in the territories of cities of the hostile party, whos3 right of citizenship was abrogated. Liberation of 10,000 slaves be- longing to the proscribed citizens, and bestowal upon them of the right of citizenship (the so-called Cornelians). 83-81. Second Mithridatic War, conducted by the proprietor Murena (p. 131), who occupied Cappadocia, which Mithridates, in spite of the peace, had not com- pletely evacuated, and invaded Pontus, where he was defeated by Mithridates and obliged to withdraw. The war ended in a treaty which was a renewal of the first peace. Attempt at a conservative aristocratic reform of the government in Rome, by a series of laws originated by Sulla (leges Cornelire). Reorganization of the senate which had suffered severely from tlie proscriptions of the civil wars. It was now enlarged in an unprece- dented manner by the addition of 300 members to be chosen by the comitia tributa. Admission to the senate became a prerogative of tlie quffistorship. Henceforward 20 qucestors were annually elected by the comitia tributa. Abolition of the censors' privilege of revising the roll of the senate every five years, and consequently introduction of the irremovability of the senators. Thus the senate, for a short time, was indirectly chosen by the people, and acquired a representa- tive character. The places in the juries which C. Gracchus had transferred to the equites (p. 125) were restored to the senate. The privileges of the senate were further increased ; it acquired, hi particular, the right of prolonging the term of office of proconsuls and propraetors, and of removing them. The comitice lost the power of electing the priests, which had been given them in 104, the priestly colleges receiving again the right of filling their own vacan- cies. On tlie other hand Sulla gave up the Servian order of voting, the restoration of which had been attempted in 88. Powers of the tribunes of the people reduced, misuse of the right of interpellation punished with heavy fines, the right of the tribunes to initiate roga- tions subjected to the approval of the senate ; it was also decreed that acceptance of the tribunate conveyed incapacity for accepting higlier offices. Reorganization of the department of justice, increase of the perpetual courts {qiuMstiones perpetwe). Henceforward 8 praetors. Criminal legislation (lex de sicariis, clef also, etc.). 81. Sulla permitted the election of consuls, but continued to conduct the government under the title of dictator. For the year SO. He caused himself and his companion hi arms, Q. Metellus, to to be elected consuls, and so bridged the way to constitutional government. B, c. Roman History. 133 79. Sulia voluntarily abdicated the dictatorship and retired to jn-ivate litV;. 78. Death of Sulla, probably in consequence of a hemorrhage.' 78-77. Attempt of M. ^Emilius Lepidus (consul with Q. Liitatluo CatuluSf 78) and the Marian M. Junius Brutus, to violently overthrow the work of Sulla. Lepidus, on his way from Etruria to Rome at the head of an army, was defeated on the Campus Martins by Catidus • defeated a second time at Cosa, he fled to Sardinia, where he fell sick and died. Brutus was forced by Pompeius to sur- render at Mutina, and was afterwards put to death. 80-72. War against Sertorius, who in 83 had been allotted Lusitania and Spain as Ais prov- ince. He had been driven out (82) by Sulla's generals, and, after leading a roving life as an adventurer along the coasts of Spain and Africa, returned to Lusitania. Here this party leader, alike distin- guished as statesman and general, had founded an independent sov- ereignty. Q. Metellus and even Cn. Pompeius waged for a long time misuccessf 111 war against him. He formed an alliance with Mithri- dates, but was murdered, in 72, by his subordinate Perpema. The latter was defeated and executed b}^ Pompeius. 73-71. War of the Gladiators and (third) Servile War. Bands of gladiators who had escaped from a gladiatorial school at Capua occupied Vesuvius under command of two Gauls and the Thraciau Spartacus, and from this vantage-ground plundered and burned throughout the neighborhood. Reinforced by numerous slaves they grew to an army, and defeated four Roman armies in succession. Spartacus, who wanted to leave Italy, was forced by his companions to remain. He marched upon the capital. Terror in Rome. The prjetor M. Licinius Crassus received the cliief com- mand. The insurgents refrained from attacking Rome and wandered abont Italy ravaging and plundering. Crassus defeated them in two battles, in the second of which, on the Siiarus, Spartacus fell, light- ing valiantly. The remnants of the bands were annihilated by Pom- peius, who was returning from Spain. In 70 the consuls M. Licinius Crassus and Cn. Pompeius Mag- nus restored to the tribunate the privileges whioh it had lost under Sulla (p. 132). The Aurelian law (lex Aurelia), passed during their consulate, repealed the enactment of Sulla that tlie jurors should be taken exclusively from the senators ; henceforth one third should be senators, two thirds men of the equestrian census (of these one lialf should be taken from the so-called trihuni-(ernrii) . Already, in 72, the privilege of the censors, of revising the roll of the senate, which Sulla had abolished, had been restored (p. 132), and probably five years became again the length of the censors' term of office. 64 senators were expelled from the senate by the censors GelUus and Len~ iulus. 1 He did not die of the so-called Phthiriasis. Cf. Momiusen, flist. of Rome^ III. p. 390. 134 Ancient History. B. c. 78-67. "War against the pirates. The result of the neglect of the Konian marine since the destruc- tion of Carthage, and of the oppression of the Roman governors in Asia was a constant increase of piracy. There gradually grew up an organized pirate-community, whose principal seats were Crete and Cilicia. The pirates controlled the entire Mediterranean as far as the columns of Hercules, and captured the vessels which were convey- ing grain to Rome. 78. War had been waged with the pirates since 78, at first under the proconsul of Asia, P. Servilius, who destroyed many pirate 75. cities, and in the year 75 took possession of Isauria, Pamphylia^ Pisidia, for Rome, under the name of Cilicia, and afterwards 74. under the prietor M. Antonius, who possessed most extensive powers, but accomplished little, and in 71 died at Crete aftei being defeated by the Cretans. 68. Metellus after a long contest, subdued Crete (province since 67), whose inhabitants lived for the most part, upon piracy. As piracy still continued, 67. Pompeius received, on the motion of Gabinius (lex Gahinia), for three years unlimited command over the whole Mediterra- nean and its coasts for fifty miles inland ; the public treasuries and resources of all the provinces and client states were placed imcondi- tionally at his disposal. In three months Pompeius, in two short cam- paigns, completedly cleared first the western, then the eastern, Mediterranean of pirates, captured 3000 vessels, put to death 10,000 pirates, destroyed their fortresses, captured 20,000 men, and settled them in the interior of the country. (Construction of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia.) 74-64. Third Mithridatic war. Cause : Strained relations between the Romans on the one side, and Mithridates of Pontus and his son-in-law, Tigranes of Armenia, on the other. The latter took possession of the kingdoms of Cappadocia and Syria. When Nicomedes III., of Bithynia, likewise son-in-law of Mithridates, bequeathed his kingdom to Rome, and Bithynia wiis made a Roman province, Mithridates declared war and occupied Bi- thynia. 74. The conduct of the war was entrusted to the two consuls L. Lu- cullus, who was to enter the kingdom of Pontus through Phry- gia, and M. Aurelius Cotta, who sailed with the fleet for the Propontis. Mithridates defeated the latter by land and sea at Chalcedon and laid siege to Cyzicus, which was relieved by Lu- cullus, who hastened from the south. 73. Mithridates was forced to retreat with great loss. Lucullus as proconsul conducted the war successfully at sea ; then took the offensive on land, crossed the Halys (Kisil Irmak), traversed Pontm, defeated Mithridates at Cabira, and drove the king completely out of his kingdom. He took refuge with his son- in-law, Tigranes, while Lucidlus, after a tedious siege, cap- 72-70. tured the trading cities Heraclea, Sinope, Amisus, and occupie^f Armenia Minor. B. c. Roman History. 135 Without waiting for authority from the senate, Lucullus opened war upon Tigranes, crossed the Euphrates into Armenia proper, de- feated Tigranes I'l tlie famous 69. Battle of Tigranocerta, captured that city, and then turned against the two kings who had now joined forces. Luculhis forced the passage of the Euphrates (08) by a second successful encounter with the enemy, crossed the river here in its upper course for the second tinie,^ inarched through the Armenian plateau toward Artaxata, the residence of Tigranes, but was compelled by a nuitiny among his soldiers (P. Clodius, broth- er-m-law of Lucullus) to begin a retreat over the Tigris to Mesopo- tamia, long before he had reached Artaxata.'^ Lucullus took Nisibis by storm, but was obliged to cross to the right bank of the Euphrates again to rescue a division of the army which had been cut off (67). Meantime Mithridates returned to Pon- tus and defeated a Roman force under Triarius at Zela (Ziela^. New mutinies in the army of Lucullus, who was at the same time in- formed that he was slandered at Rome, that he had been recalled, and the consul J7'. Acilius Glabrio appointed in his stead. Glabrio went to Asia, but in coiisideratioii of the difficult position of affairs, did not assume command. LuecUus conducted the Roman army by a mas- terly retreat back to Asia Minor. Mithridates, having not only reconquered Pontus, but also com- menced to ravage Bithynia and Cappadocia, a law was passed at the instance of the tribune of the people, C. Manilius (Cicero's oration, pro imperio Cn. Pompeii, ot pro lege Manilla), entrusting 'Se. Cn. Pompeius with the command in Asia with unlimited pow^ers. Unfriendly meeting of Lucidlus and Pompeius at Danala in Galatia. After concluding a treaty with the Parthians, whom he guaranteed possession of Mesopotamia, Pompeius opened the campaign partly with new troops, drove Mithridates out of Pontus, and defeated him in the 66. Battle by night on the Lycos (Yeshil Irmak), near the future Nicopolis in Armenia minor. Abandoned by Tigranes, Mithri- dates fled to Colchis. Pompeius followed as far as the Phasis, return- ing then to Armenia, where his ally, the king of the Parthians, had meantime made an inroad. At Artaxata Tigranes gave himself up to Pompeius, who permitted him to keep Armenia proper for his own kingdom, but took from him all his conquests, Sijria, Phoenicia, Cappadocia, and imposed upon him a fine of GOOO talents. 65. After an expedition northward, where he fought successfully with the Caucasian tribes, Pompeius for the second time aban- doned the pursuit of Mithridates, who had taken refuge in the Tauric Chersonese (Crimea), and went to Pontus, and thence to Syria. 1 Cf. Kiepert, Atlas AiUttpnis, Tab. III. - The .•icfoni/ victory of Luculhis was not gained near Jrtaxata. CI Mommsen, Hist, oj korm, IV. p. 70. 136 Ancient History. B. C. 64-63. Organization of the Roman possessions in Asia, under Pom- peius. New Provinces : 1. Pontus, comprising Bithynia (already treated as a province since 74), the coast of Paphlagonia, and the western part of Pontus proper, along the coast. The rest of the kingdom of Mitlu-idates was given to vassal kings. 2. Syria, comprising at first only the coast from the gulf of Issus to Damascus, afterwards considerably enlarged. 3. Cilicia, reorganized by Pom- peius, although it had been a province in name since 75. It uicluded Pamphylia and Isauria (p. 134). These Asiatic provinces were much cut up, and surromided by: (a) territories of autonomous cities j (b) princely and priestly sovereignties under Roman supremacy. The most distinguished of the vassal kings of Rome in the east were the king of Cappadocia, and Deiotarus, king of Galatia (p. 78). In Palestine, after the capture of Jerusalem and the Temple, Pompeius restored Hyrcanus, who had been driven out by his brother, as high- priest and civil governor, but made him tributary to Rome. 63. Mithridates, who had busied himself with gigantic schemes of a land exjjedition to Italy, killed himself at Panticapceum, in the Tauric Chersonese, in consequence of the revolt of his son, Pharnaces. Upon receipt of this news Pompeius returned to Pontus. He confirmed Pharnaces in possession of the kingdom of the Bosphorus. 61. Return of Pompeius to Italy. He dismissed his army at Brvm- disium, and entered Rome as a private citizen. Magnificent triumph, lasting two days. 66-62. Conspiracy of Catiline. Union of the democrats and the anarchists. Leaders of the demo- crats: M. Crassus and C. Julius Caesar (born 102?, son-in-law of Cinna, outlawed by Sulla, afterwards pardoned, 67 qusestor in Spain, 65 sedile, 63 pontifex maximus). Leader of the anarchists: L. Ser- gius Catilina, ex-prsetor, one of Sulla's executioners. The demo- crats dreaded the reconciliation of Pompeius, whose military dictator- ship was the work of their own hands, with the optimates. Hence they sought to overthrow the existing government before the return of Pompeius, by a violent revolution, while the anarchists, in part pro- letarians, in part young men of honoraole families who were sunk in debt, hoped for plunder and confiscation of property. T1\\Q first conspiracy, in 66, according to which the consuls for 65 were to be murdered, and Crassus made dictator, and Ccesar, master of the horse, failed of execution through the indecision of some partici- pants. At the close of the year 64, it was again renewed for the pur- pose of securing the election of L. Catilina and C. Antonius (also a former follower of Sulla) at the consular elections for 63, by the in- fluence of Ccesar and Crassus, who were to remain in the background. Antonius alone was, however, actually elected; his colleague for 63 was M. Tullius Cicero, a favorite lawyer and orator, belonging to no party unreservedly (born 106, 75 qujBstor in Sicily, 70 prosecutor of Verres, 69 jedile, 66 prfetor urbanus). The latter resigned before- hand to Antonius, who was deep in debt, the lucrative governorship of Alacedonia, thereby detaching him from the conspirators. J. c. Jiomun History. 137 Forniation of an insurgent army in Etrnria, nnder C. Manlius, a onuiule of Catiline; at Rome or<;anization of the conspirators, who, it a given signal, were to fire the city, and thereby pro(lnee universal onfusion. Plan of Catiline to murder his competitors at the con- ular election for 62, and the consul, Cicero, who would preside over :he election. Cicero, informed of this by his spies, denounced the .conspiracy in the senate, appeared on the day of the election sur- [•ountled by numerous armed guards, and defeated the election of T'atiline. The hitter's j)lan of having Cicero surprised and murdered n his own house was also betrayed and failed. 63. Nov. 8. First speech of Cicero against Catiline delivered in the senate. Catiline left the city, and betook himself to the army of Manlius in Etruria. Nov. 9. Second speech of Cicero against Catiline, to the people. Tlie accomplices of Catiline, Lentulus, Cethegus, Gabinius^ Statilius, and Cceparius, were taken into custody on the strength of written proofs of guilt obtained by Cicero. Dec. 3. Third speech of Cicero against Catiline, to the people. Dec. 5. Fourth speech of Cicero against Catiline, in the senate. De- cree of the senate that the traitors be strangled in prison with- out trial and sentence {Ccesar opposed the resolution ; Cato's speech determmed the vote), executed by the consul Cicero. Cicero greeted as pate?' patrice. The consul Antonius was entrusted with the conduct of the war against Catiline. His lieutenant defeated Catiline at Pistoria (62). Catiline and 3000 of liis followers fell on the field. 62. Caesar administered the prsetorship in Rome. A part of his large indebtedness having been paid by Crassus, he went for 61. the year to Hispania Ulterior, as proprietor, where he laid the foundation of his military fame, and where he found means to discharge his debts. He returned bearing the honorary title of " imperator," but refused to triumph, in order that he might become a candidate for the consulship. The refusal of the senate to grant the allotment of lands requested by Pompeius for his veterans, led to a complete break between Pompeius and the government, and resulted in the so-called 60. First Triumvirate, a reciprocal agreement of the three statesmen Pompeius, Caesar, and Crassus. They secured the election for the next year of 59. Caesar as consul. As his colleague, the optimate M. Bibulus, and the senate op- posed the proposals brought in by Cjesar for an agrarian law, espe- cially in the interests of Pompeius' veterans {lex Julia de agro cam- pano : ut ager campanus plebi divider etur), and the ratification of the organization of Asia, these measures were submitted to the popular assemblies and passed by them, without the ai)proval of the senate. Violence offered Bibulus and AI. Po7'cius Cato. Bibulus did not dare leave his house again during his year of office. Intimate lo8 Ancient History. B. c. friendship and close family ties between Csesar and Pompeius. Csesar's daughter, Julia, 23 years old, given to Pompeius in marriage. On the motion of P. Vatinius, tribune of the people, Csesar received by a popular decree the government of Gallia Cisalpina and Illyri- cum for 5 years, with extraordinary powers. At Pompeius' motion the astounded senate added Gallia Narbonensis (p. 125) to Caesar's^ province. A. Gabinius, a friend and military companion off Pompeius, and L. Piso, father-in-law of Csesar, were elected consuls for the following year. The execution of the agrarian law was en- \ trusted to Pompeius and Crassus. Before Csesar departed for his province, 58. The absence of Cato and Cicero from Rome was procured l| by P. Clodius, tribune of the people, who had secured this office at the sacriiice of his patrician rank by hasty adoption into a plebeian family. Cato was appointed by a popular vote to take pos- session of the kingdom of Cyprus, which had been left to Rome by will. Cicero was driven to flight by the decree, " Whoever shall have caused the execution of a Roman citizen without legal sentence shall be punished with outlawry " {lex Clodia : ut qui civem Romanum in- demnatum interemisset ei aqua et igni interdicei^etur), and then banished by a second lex Clodia to a distance of 400 Roman miles from Rome. Clodius caused Cicero's house on the Palatine to be burned, and his Tusculan and Formean estate to be ravaged. 58-51. Conquest of Gaul by Caesar. Results of Csesar's eight years of brilliant warfare, and its meaning in the history of the world. 1. Anniliilation of the Celts, as a nation, for whose lastmg Romani- zation Csesar opened the way. 2. Creation of a dam which for four centuries protected the Romano-Hellenic civilization against destruction by the German bar- barians. 3. Enlargement of the loundaries of the old world, not only by the immediate conquest, but also through the information obtained by Csesar's expeditions to Britannia and Germania. 4. Acquirement of the means for accomplishing the change, now become necessary, of the Roman republic into a monarchy : the vet- eran legions and troops of the allied states, who had become at- tached to their general and expert in war. 58. Victory of Csesar over the Helvetians, who had invaded Gaul, at Bibracte,! and over the German prince Ariovistus, N. E. of Vesontio (Besan^on) in the vicinity of Muhlhausen in Alsace 2 (Csesar, Bellum Gallicum, I.). 57. Subjugation of the Belgii. Annihilation of the Nervii in Hen- negau by a terrible battle on the Sambre, not far from Bavay (B. Gall. III.). In the southeast, occupation of Octodurus (Martigny), to secure the Alpine pass of the Great St. Bernard. 56. Subjugation of the Veneti in Armorica (Bretagne) by Csesar, 1 On the site of the modern Aufun, according to v. Goler ; two miles west Df Autun according to Napoleon JII. ( Vie ae Cesar.) 2 See Momnisen, Hist, of Rome, IV. p. 244, note. B- C. Roman History. 139 after h.ard fighting on land and sea, and of the Aquitnni by his lieutenant P. Crassus, son of the triumvir. In the north- east, successful war with the Mormi and Menapii (B. Gall. III.). 50. Cresar drove the Germanic tribes of the Usipetes and Tenchtcri back across the Rhine. Passage of the Rhine on a bridge of piles, between Coblence and Andernach. After a stay of fifteen days on the right bank, Csesar recrossed the stream. (5. Gall IV.) First expedition to Britain with two legions. Departure from two ports, one of which was Itius partus, E. and W. of Cape Grisnez, landing between Dover and Deal, probably at Walmer Castle.^ (B. Gall. IV.) 54. Second expedition to Britain, with five legions. Cassivelaunus, leader of the British Celts. Csesar crossed the Stour and the Thames (between Kingston and Brentford), while Cassivelau- nus attacked the Roman camp where the ships lay. Retreat and embarkation of Caesar after he had received hostages. {B. Gall. V.) 53. Insurrection of the Ehurones under Amhiorix, and of other tribes. Cfesar crossed the Rhine a second time. {B. Gall. VI.) 52. General insurrection of the Gauls under the Arvernian, Vercin- getorix. Siege and capture of Avaricum (Bourges) by Cjb- sar, occupation of Lutetia Parisiorum (Paris) by Labienus. Unsuccessful siege of Gergovia, near Clermont in the Auvergne ; Csesar, compelled to retreat, united with Labienus. Siege of Alesia (Alise Samte-Reine at Semur in the Dep. Cote d'Or, between Chatillon and Dijon) by Csesar, while the Roman army was in turn surrounded and besieged by the insurgent army of relief ; after a hard fight, complete victory of Csesar. Vercingetorix forced to surrender himself. He was exe- cuted at Rome, five years later {B. Gall. VII.). 51. Completion of the subjugation of Transalpine Gaul (cruel pun- ishment of the insurgents). Ten legions located in detach- ments throughout the country held it in obedience to Csesar. While these magnificent feats of war were placing the older mili- tary fame of Poinpeiiis in the shade, the latter was trying unsuccess- fully to master the anarchy at Rome. Leader of the ultra-demo- crats, the former tribune, P. Clodius (pp. 135, 138). In opposition to him the recall of M. Tullius Cicero was procured in 57, by the efi'orts of the tribune T. Annius Milo. In the same year M. Porcius Cato returned to Rome. The aristocratic reaction opposed the armed bands of Clodius, which patrolled the streets and forum, with the armed bands of Alilo. The attempt of the republicans in the senate to free themselves from the influence of the rulers, and the resolution to revise the agrarian law passed during the consulate of Csesar, resulted in a renewal of the alliance of the three statesmen. 1 Compare Heller, Ccesnr^s Expedition rrnch Brittanien, in the Zeitschrift fur alii). Erdkunde, 18fi5. According to v. Goler, thfi Jirst expedition started from Wissant near Cape Grisnez, the second from Calais. 140 Ancient History. b. c. > ■ In 56 a meeting of the triumvirs Caesar, Pompeius, and Crassus, and their followers (200 senators) took place in Luca. In conse^ quence of agreements there concluded, the election of Pompeius and Crassus as consuls for 55 was carried by the use of force. A decree of the people {lex Trebonid) then assigned to Pompeius the \ government of both Spains for five years, and to Crassus that of Syria, while Caesar's command in Gaul was prolonged for Jive years ^ more, and the payment of those troops which he had recruited on his j own authority was assumed by the state. The Roman aristocracy was obliged to submit to these decrees. After the close of his year of office as consul Crassus went to Syria in 54, where he undertook in 53 an expedition against the Par- thians. He suffered a terrible defeat at Carrhse in Mesopotamia, and was shortly after killed by the Parthians during an interview with one of their satraps. Pompeius remained in Rome, and dele- gated the administration of his provinces to his legates. In 52 Clodius and Alilo happening to meet on the Via Appia, a fight sprang up between their followers, during which Clodius was wounded, and then, at Milo's command, put to death. Clodius' corpse was carried to the Curia Hastilia, near the forum in Rome, and there burnt, together with the building. To put an end to the disturbances of the mob which followed tliis event, Pompeius was appointed "consul without a colleague" by the senate, and clothed with dictatorial power. Trial of Milo, who was condemned by the jurors, in spite of Cicero's oration ^ in his defence, to be banished. Cicero proconsul in Cilicia. Breach between Csesar and Pompeius, whose connection had been previously weakened by the death of Julia (54). Pompeius selected his new father-in-law, Metellus Scipio, for his colleague in office, caused his governorship in Spain to be prolonged for five years, and deprived Cfesar of two legions, urging the impor- tance of the Parthian war, which a victory had already ended. Pompeius openly reassumed the leadership of the republican aris- tocracy (lex de vi et ambifu). Caesar remained leader of the democ- racy, which under a constitution without representation led of neces- sity to monarchy. Demand of the senate that Caesar should resign his command before the expiration of the term which had formerly been granted him. Refusal of the senate to permit Caesar to stand for the consulship during his proconsulship, as had been allowed by the citizens. This brought about the 49-48. Civil war between Caesar and Pompeius. The senate declared Caesar a public enemy (hostis) should he not disband his army within a given time. The tribmies of the peo- ple who favored Caesar fled to him at Ravenna. 49. Caesar, with one legion, crossed the brook Rubicon, the boundary of his province, and thereby opened the civil war. Great con- sternation at Rome. Pompeius, who had only commenced his prepa- rations, and the greater part of the senate, fled to Brundisium. Caesar, 1 Not the one which we have. This was written for the occasion, but the tumult and fear prevented its deliver}-. . c. Roman History. 141 nuforeod by .a second losi^ioii which had overtaken liim, marched u-ougli Umhrla, Picenum, where Doniitius, at Corjinium, was obliged ) suiTender, and Apulia to Bramlishtm, to which lie laid siege, after third legion of veterans had joined him, and he had levied three ew legions. Pompeius sncceeded in conveying his troops, by two xpeditions, to Greece, before the capture of the city. Ctesar, unable J follow him from lack of vessels, commenced the construction of a eet, and went to Rome. There he quieted the apprehensions of a 'turn of the horrors of the first civil war. Maguauiinous behavior oward his foes (Csesar, Bell. Civ. 1-33). 9. Cresar went by land to Spain to subdue Pompeius' legates, pring. leaving Trebonius to besiege Massilia. The legates of Pom- 5J. peius, Afranius and Petreius, were compelled to surrender at Vug. Ilerda (Lerida), N. of the Ebro, and their army was dis- banded (Ciesar, Bell. Civ. I. 34-87). Varro, who commanded in Hispania ulteriora, threw himself into 9ades (Cadix), but most of the cities joining Caesar, he capitulated. 3n Ciesar's march back to Italy, Massilia, which was suffering from ;tarvation, surrendered on being threatened with a storm (Csesar, Bell, Civ. II. 1-22). Meantime Csesar's legate Cujio had reduced Sicily o subjection. He then crossed to Africa, wiiere he was at first victo- rious at Utica, but was afterwards defeated at the Bagradas by Juba, king of Numidia, who had declared for Pompeius, and fell in the battle (Cffisar, Bell. Civ. II. 23-44). Caesar, during his absence, was proclaimed dictator at Rome by the praetor M. jEmilius Lepidus (on the authority of a new lex de diclatore creando), but abdicated the office after eleven days, and had himself appointed consid, ^vith P. Servilius, for the year 48. wliile that part of the senate which had participated in Pom- peius' flight to Greece prolonged the term of office of Pom- peius and all the officials of the previous year. Caesar landed in northern Epirus, at Oricum, not far from the promontory of Acroceraunia, with a part of his army. The trans- ports which returned for the rest of the troops were mostly captured by the fleet of Pompeius; and the coasts of Italy being sharply watched, Caesar was placed in a situation of great difficulty, as M. Antonius was able to transport the second half of the army only after several months. His army being at last united, Caesar inclosed the army of Pompeius at Dyrrhachium by a long chain of military posts. Daily skirmishes, for the most part favorable for Caesar. At last however, Pompeius broke through Caesar's line. Caesar, defeated and compelled to retreat, went to Thessaly, whither Pompeius fol- lowed him, leaving Cato in Dyrrhachium. In the Thessalian plain was fought the 48. Decisive battle of Pharsalus. Aug. 9. Caesar, with about 22,000 men, defeated and completely scat- tered the army of Pompeius, which had more than twice that strength; 20,000 men laid down their arms. Pompeius fled to the coast, and took ship for Egypt by way of Lesbos. At the command 142 Ancient History. B. c. of the minister of the yoimti^ king, Ptolemjens, he was mnrdered upon landing". Ciesar followed Ponipeius and landed in Alexandria with 4000 men (C«sar, Bell. Civ. III.). Especial honors paid to Cfesar in Rome (consulate for five years, tribunate for life, dictatorship for one year). Csesar having taken it upon himself, at Alexandria, to decide between the ten-year old Ptole-' mreus and his followers and his sixteen-year old sister Cleopatra, there broke out the so-called 48-47. Alexandrine war, an xiprising of the whole population of Alexandria, sup- ported by the Koman army of occupation, which had been in garrison there since the restoration of the king Ptolemceus Auletes (55). Csesar, besieged in the royal palace, was in the greatest danger, from which only his reckless daring rescued him. He caused the Egyptian fleet! to be set on fire, whereby the famous library of Alexandria (s. 77) was also burned. Cfesar, with the help of an army of relief which arrived from Asia, defeated the Egyptian army on the Nile. The ; young king Ptolemfeus was drowned on the flight. The government was given to Cleopatra and her younger brother, under Roman su- premacy, and a Roman garrison was left in Alexandria. Csesar went to Asia Minor, and in a Jive days* campaign (veniy vidi, vici) ended the 47. War against Pharnaces, son of Mithridates (p. 136), who had occupied Pontus, Arme- /lia Minor, and Cappadocia. Ceesar defeated liim at Zela and forced him to fly. Pharnaces fell in battle against a revolted governor. Arrangement of the Asiatic relations. Deiotarus, who had fought against Cfesar at Pharsalns, lost the greater part of his kingdom. Return of Cffisar to Rome. After he had subdued a mutiny of the tenth legion, he undertook the 47-46. War in Africa against the adherents of Pompeius, Sextus Pompeius, Scipio^ Cato, Labienus, Petreius, king Juba. Csesar landed at Hadrumetum, where he was in great danger, since the larger part of his force did not arrive till later in consequence of a storm. After several unim- portant encounters Cfesar defeated and annihilated the republican army, v/liich far outnumbered his own, in the 46. Battle of Thapsus, during and after which 50,000 of the enemy were slaughtered by Cfesar's embittered soldiers. Scipio killed himself on the flight, Cato committed suicide in Utica, Petreius and Juba agreed to kill one another, in a personal contest. Juba struck Petreius clown ; and being himself but slightly wounded, had himself killed by one of his slaves. Labienus and Sextus Pompeius escaped to the hitter's brother, Cn. Pompeius, in Spain. A part of Numidia was united with the province of Africa by Caesar; the rest was given to Bocchus, king of eastern Mauritania. Return of Csesar to Rome, where he celebrated four triumphs, foi 3. c. Homan History. 143 jQul, Egfipt, Phamacea, Africa. Entertainments for the people, splen- iid giuiR'S, distribution of gold and grain. Cjesar was appointed dic- tator for 10 years, and censor without a colleague, under the title trrrfectus morum, for 3 years. Correction of the Calendar, by an extraordinary intercalation of 07 days in the year 40; thereafter there ^as a solar year of 305^ days (a leap-year every four years ivithout exception). 46-45. War against the sons of Pompeius, Cnceus and Sextus, and the rest of the Pompeian party. Al- ;hough repulsed before Corduba by Sextus Pompeius, Caesar by great exertions defeated both brothers in the 15. Battle of Munda, north of Ronda, between Cordova and Gibraltar, in which he was obliged to lead the legions against the enemy in person. Over 30,000 Tompeians were jlain, and among them Labienus, Varus, Cn. Pompeius ; Sextus es- aped. After Cfesar had returned to Rome he caused the senate to appoint [lim at first (4o) consul for 10 years, afterwards (44) dictator, and L^ensor /or life. Since 48 he had borne the new official title Impera- tor, which denotes the possessor of the imperium, the concept of civil md military official power. ^ Tliis mcluded full control of the finances md the military power of the state, and also the right of coining money with the portrait of the ruler of the state. As prcefectus morum (censor) Caesar had the right of enlarging the senate ; as pontifex maximus he possessed the control of religious affairs ; as possessor since 48 of a power resembling that of the tribunes, he had the ini- tiative in legislation, and was the inviolable (sacrosanctus) protector and representative of the people. Accordingly the position and powers of the new democratic monarch were almost exactly analo- gous to those of the old Roman kings. The people retamed, nevertheless, at least in form, a share of the sovereignty, all laws affecting the constitution requiring, as under the republic, to be ratified by the comitiae, which were, however, easily controlled. The senate became again, what it had been under the kings, an advisatory council only. Caesar brought the number of members up to 900 and increased the number of quaestors from 20 to 40. Election to this office, it will be remembered (p. 132), admitted the holder to the senate. The democratic monarch, however, exercised to the utmost his right of appointing senators, and thereby gravely offended the nobility. Ex-centurions, Spaniards, Gauls, sons of freed- men, etc., found through him admission to the senate. The monarch had an extensive right of nomination at the elections of magistrates. Restoration of the old royal jurisdiction exercised by decision of the monarch alone, from whose sentence there was no appeal, — a right which, of course, was but rarely exercised (trial of Ligarius and of Deiotarus). In general the ordinary judicial system was retained. Praetors increased to 16. Reorganization of the military system. Creation of legati legionis 1 Cf. Mommsen, Hist, of Rome, IV. 468, note. 144 Ancient History. b. c. pro prcEtore, appointed by the imperator. Reform of the Jinnncial ad" ministration. The system of tax-farming was exchanged for the im- position of direct taxes. Allotment of the Italian domains, particu- larly among the veterans. Wide-spread colonization in the provinces with the view at once of Latinizing the provinces, and of diminishing the number of proletarians in the capital. Commencement of mag- nificent buildings in Rome. New system of provincial administration! for the protection of the provinces against the extortions of the gov- ernors. Sumptuary laws. Criminal legislation. Arrangement of the- relations of debtor and creditor. Project of a war against the Parthians, to revenge the Roman de- feat under Crassus (p. 140) and add to the security of the easterm boundary of the empire. Conspiracy . of some 50 republican aristo- crats against Caesar's life {M. Junius Brutus, C. Cassius, LonginuSy C. Trebonius, Decimus Brutus, Tellius Cimber, etc.). 44. Assassination of Csesar during a session of the March 15. senate, which on that day was held by chance in a hall in the theatre of Pompeius. Csesar fell, pierced with 23 wounds, at the foot I of a statue of Pompeius. For a moment the senate took the reigns of government again, audi decreed that Caesar's laws should continue in force, and offered an' amnesty to his murderers. But the populace of the capital, incited 1 by the funeral oration of M. Antonius, violently assaulted the conspira- tors. The leaders of the conspirators departed for the provinces which i the senate had assigned them : M. Brutus to Macedonia, Cassius to Syria, Decimus Brutus to Gallia cisalpina. In Rome M. Antonius (consul with Dolabella), having possession! of Csesar's papers, assumed an uncontrolled power under pretext oft executing the will of the dictator, and caused Macedonia, the prov-- ince of M. Brutus, to be assigned to himself with five of the six legions which Caesar had dispatched thither for the Parthian war. Dolabella received Syria, the province of Cassius, while the provinces of Crete and Cyrene were assigned to M. Brutus and Cassius. Anto- nius, moreover, procured from the popular assembly the province of Gallia cisalpina, which the senate had refused him. In the hope of balancing the usurped power of Antonius, the senate entered into negotiations with the eighteen-year-old C. Octavius, Csesar's grand- nephew and adopted son, henceforward known as C. Julius Caesar r Octavianus. The latter, who was beloved by his soldiers, took com- mand of two legions. Antonius, endeavoring to eject Decimus Bru- tus from his province of Gallia cisalpina, there broke out the so-called 1 44-43. "War of Mutina. As was advocated by Cicero in the Philippics, Hirtius and Pansa, consuls for 43, and the young Octavianus as proprretor, were sent against Antonius, who was besieging Decimus Brutus in Mutina (Modena). Pansa died at Bononia of a wound received in the first encounter ; Hirtius fell as victor in the 43. Battle of Mutina against Antonius, who was now declared an enemy of the state i. c, lioman History. 14.3 ' hosti;, Athens, and at Patrce in Achaia, Octavianus completed his preparations and transported his army to Epirus. His fleet of 250 ships, under the command of Agrippa, defeated the fleet of Antonius and Cleo- patra, which outnumbered it, in the 31. Battle of Actium, Sept. 2 Cleopatra fled before the battle was entirely decided, and was followed by Antonius. The army of Antonius surrendered to Octavianus without a blow. 30. Octavianus went to Asia, where he entered upon his fourth con- sulship, returned for a short time to Italy by sea to repress a revolt, and then returned to his troops and marched through Syria to Eg}"pt. Antonius, abandoned by his troops, killed himself on hear- B. c. Roman History. 147 ing- a false report of Cleopatra's death. The latter, when convinced that Oetavian spared her only that she nii<;ht ^vaim^ his trinnij)li in Rome, ])oisoned lierself . Octavianus made Egypt a Roman province. Octavianus sole ruler, after the maimer of Caesar (p. 143). 129. Octavianns celebrated three trinmphs in Rome, and the temple of Janus was closed for the third time in Roman history.^ FIFTH PERIOD. Reigns of the Roman Emperors down to the Fall of the Western Empire.'^ 31 (30) B. C.-476 A. D. B. C. A. D. 31-08. The five Julii, or the descendants of Caesar's adopted son, 31-14. Caesar Octavianus Augustus. The surname Augustus (ijJie Illustrious, the Sublime), which was given Octavianus by the senate in 27 b. c, is the name by wliich, as sole ruler of the Roman world, he is most commonly known ; it also became, like Princeps,^ Ccesar, Imperator (p. 143), the title of the Roman sovereigns. In later times Ccesar became a peculiar designa- tion of the appointed successor of a reigning Augustus. Augustus reduced the senate to 600 members and made a high census (one million sesterces) the necessary condition of admission. The consular office was retained in name, but was sometimes held for a series of years by the imperator ; sometimes granted, as a special distinction, to some one else for a short time (two months). The prcefectus urbi, having police and criminal jurisdiction, and the prrefectus prcetorio, commander of the standing body-guard of nine (afterwards ten) praetorian cohorts, became the most important of- ficers. Division of Rome into 14, of Italy into 11, regiones. B. C. 27, new division of the provinces into senatorial, comprising those quiet provinces which could be admmistered without an army {Africa, Asia, Acliaia, Illyricum, Macedonia, Sicilia, Creta., with Cij- renaica, Blthynia, Sardinia, Hispania Boetica), and imperial, including those where an army was maintained, and which were administered by legates in the name of Augustus (Hispania Tarraconensis, Lusi- tania ; the four provinces of Gaul : Narbonensis, Lugdunensis, Aqui- tania, and Belgica ; Germania superior et inferior, McEsia, Syria, Cilicia, Cyprus, jEgyptus).'^ Aerarium and Fiscus. Period of the highest development of Roman literature. Mcpce- nas (f B. c. 8), friend of Augustus, patron and protector of the poets : p. Vergilius Maro (70-19 b. c), Q. Horaiius Flaccus (C5-8 b. c.) ; 1 Once under Numa, and once in 235. [Trans,] - Peter, Rom. Gesch. III.3, 1871, and Rom. Gesch. in kiirzerer Fassunq, 1 0.1. 1878, p. 475 foil. 3 Frinceps Avas, it is true, not an ojjicinl title. About tlie meaning of this de- iru.ition and its relation to the fliijiiity of the Princeps senatus, see Max- quardt-Mommsen, Rom. Alth. II.-, 2, p. 750 foil. ^ Lnter many changes were made in this division. All provinces created after 27 v.. c. were assigned to the emperor. 148 Ancient History. b. c the elegiac poets, C. Valerius Catullus (87-54 b. c), Albius Tibullus (54-19 B. c. ?), S. Propertius (49-15 b. c. ?) ; P. Ovidius Naso (bom 43 b. c, 9 A. D. banished to Tomi on the Pontus Euxinus, f 17). The historian T. Livius (59 b. C.-17 a. d.) Family of Augustus. C. Julius Csssar Octavianus Augustus, b. 63 b. c, f 14 a. d. Married : 1. Claudia. 2. Scribonia. 3. Livia. Tiberius and Drusus, Sons of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia. Julia, t A. D. 14. Married : 1. Marcellus, son of Octavia. t B. c. 23. 2. M. Vipsanius Agrippa. t B.C. 12. 3. Tiberius. Gaius C^sar. Lucius Csesar. Agrippina. Julia. Agrippa Postumus. t A. D. 4. t A. D. 2. t A. D. 33. t A. D. 28. f A. D. 14. Julia (the elder) was banished to the island of Pandataria because of her excesses. Gaius Ccesar. and Lucius Cmsar were adopted by Augustus B. c. 17, and designated as his successors. Agrippina (the elder) married Germanicus, son of Drusus, and became the mother of the younger Agrippina, the mother of Nero (p. 150). Agrippa Postumus, almost an idiot, was adopted, but afterward banished to the island of Planasia. Julia (the younger) was also banished. Tiberius, son of Livia by her first husband, Tiberius Claudius Nero, was adopted by Augustus, A. d. 4. 29. Mcesia subjugated (made a province in 16 b. c. ?). 27-25. Expedition of Augustus against the Cantabri and Astures, the operations against whom he was obliged, on account of sick- ness, for the most part to leave to his legates. 25. Expedition to Arabia, without results, conducted by C. jEUus Gallus, prefect of Egypt. Subjugation of the Alpine tribe of the Salassi. Foundation of Augusta Prcetoria (Aosta). 23. Augustus caused the senate to confer upon him for life the dig- nity of the tribunate, and the proconsular imperium in general. 22 and 21. Successful war against the Ethiopians, conducted by Pe- tronius, the successor of Gallus in Egypt. 20. Campaign of Augustus against the Parthians, whose king Phra- ates, upon hearing of the arrival of Augustus in Syria restored the Roman standards which had been taken from Crassus. Tigranes was reinstated in the kingdom of Armenia by Tibe- rius. 19. Subjugation of Spain completed by the conquest of the Cantabri and Astui-es. 15. After the subjugation of the tribes from the northern boundary of Italy to the Danube, Raetia was made a Roman province, along with Vindelicia (Augusta Vindelicorum.. now Augsburg) and Noricum. c.-A. D. Roman History. 149 2-0. Starting from the left bank of the Rhine (Germania superior and Germania inferior, which had been constituted provinces in 27), Drusus undertook four cani])aigns in (xerniany proper, and led the Roman armies to the Weser and the Elbe. Drusus died upon the way back. -7. Tiberius, the brother of Drusus and his successor in the com- mand, after he had subjugated Pannonia (12-9), compelled a portion of the Germanic tribes on the right bank of the Rhine to recognize the supremacy of Rome. Birth of Christ (four years before the commencement of our era?). 5-9. An attack made by Tiberius upon the Suevian kingdom of Mar- bod was interrupted by an insurrection of the lUyrian and Pan- nonian tribes, wdiich were reduced to subjection only after a severe contest. .0. Pannonia (the S. W. portion of Hungary) made a Roman prov- ince. )(?). Three Roman legions under Quintilius Varus annihilated in the Teutoburg forest, by Arminius (Hermami ?), a leader of the Cherusci, and husband of Thusnelda. Lex Papia Poppcea and Lex Julia direcliied against celibacy. L4. Augustus died at Nola, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. 14-37. Tiberius (Claudius Nero), step-son of Augustus, by whom he had been adopted, a sus- picious despot. The (formal) right of ratifying laws transferred from ;lie comitice to the senate. The law against high treason (de maiestate) was extended to include the most trivial offences offered the sover- eign. Rewards given to informers (delatores). Revolt of the legions on the Rhine, quelled by Germanicus, son of the elder Drusus, and of the legions in Pannonia quelled by the younger Drusus, son of Tiberius (Tacitus, Annales. I. 16-49). 14-16. Three expeditions under Germanicus against the Germans. On the third attempt, which was made by sea, Drusus landed at the mouth of the Ems, and crossed the Weser. Roman victory in the battle on the Campus Jdistaviso (according to Grimm, Idisiaviso, " meadow of the 'elves ") over Arminius, between Minden and Hameln, In spite of the success of the Roman arms the right bank of the Rhine remained free (Tac. Ann. II. 5-26). 17. Germanicus recalled from Germany, through the envy of Tibe- rius, and sent to the East, installed a king in Armenia, made Cappadocia a Roman province, and died (19) in Syria (of poi- son, administered by Piso?). 23-31. Rule of the abandoned Sejanus, Tiberius' favorite. By uniting the praetorian cohorts in one camp near Rome, Sejanus laid the foundation of the future power of the prcetorians. 23. Sejanus poisoned Drusus, son of Tiberius. 27. Tiberius took up his residence in Caprerr. (Capri). 29. Banishment of the elder Agrippina (f 33). — Livia f . 150 Ancient History. A. C* 31. Trial of Sejaniis, who was executed in company with many others, (accomplices in the conspiracy?). Macro succeeded Sejauus in the favor of Tiberius. 37-41. Caligula (properly, Gains Ccesar Germanicus), youngest son of Germanicus, called by the soldiers Caligula (bootling), a cruel, half-crazy tyrant {oderint, dum rnetuant!). Self- adoration. Bridge over the bay of Puteoli. Childish expedition with an immense army to the coast of Gaul (39^0), which ended with tlie collection of mussels (spolia oceani). After his murder the praetorians proclaimed as imperator his uncle, 41-54- Claudius {Tiberius Claudius Nero), son of Drusus, younger brother of Germanicus, a weak- minded, vacillating prince, ruled by miserable favorites (the freed- men Narcissus smd Pallas) and his wives: 1, the shameless Messalina, and, after he had caused her to be killed, 2, the ambitious Agrippina, daughter of Germanicus (Tacitus, Annales, XI. and XIL), 43. Commencement of the conquest of Britain under the command of A. Plautius and his legate, T. Flavins Vespasianus ; the southern part of Britain became a Roman province (Tacitus, Agricola, 13, 14 ; Ann. XII. 31-40). During Claudius' reign the following provinces were incorporated : in Africa, Mauretania, Tingitana, and Mauretania Ccesariensis (42); in the east Lycia (43), Thracia (46), Judcea, which had been a de- pendent kingdom 4l1-A4:, became in 44 a province again. Agrippina persuaded Claudius to adopt L. Domitius, her son by Cn. Domitius (he took the name of Nero at his adoption), and to appoint him his successor in place of liis own son by Messalina, Britannicus, whose sister Octavia was the promised wife of Nero. As Claudius showed signs of repenting of the adoption of Nero, Agrippina poisoned him. 54-68. Nero {Nero Claudius C(rsar Augustus Ge7'ma7iicus), proclaimed imperator by the prjetorians, was for the first five years of his reign under the guidance of the prcefectus prceto- rio Burrus and his teacher L. Seneca, who prevented the influence of his mother Agrippina from becoming predommant. Law against informers. With Nero's passion for the freed woman Acte, and afterwards for Poppcea Sabina, the opposition between himself and liis mother grew stronger and stronger, and the list of his crimes began. He poisoned (55) his step-brother Britannicus, whom his mother had threatened to make imperator, had Agrippina put to death (59), drove from him his wife Octavia, whom he afterwards executed (62), and married Poppcea Sabina. Excesses and mad cruelty of Nero. He appeared in public as chariot-driver in the races, actor, and singer. Crawling servility of the senate (Tac. Ami. XIII.-XVI.). 61. Revolt in Britain, suppressed by Suetonius Paulinus. 58-63. War with the Parthians and Armenians. After the capture and destruction of Artaxata, Domitius Corhulo forced King Tiridates of Armenia to acknowledge the supremacy of Rome, A. D. Roman Hhtory. 151 64. A fire of six days' duration, followed by another lasting tlu'ee days, destroyed a large i)art of Rouie (set by Nero's eoniniand, in order that he might rebuild the city more beau- tifully ?). Nero accused the Jews and the communities of Christians of setting tire to the city. 64. First persecution of the Christians.^ Re-building in Rome, on a large scale. The palace of Nero (clomus aurea) occupied the entire Palatine and extended to the Esquiline. 65. Conspiracy of Piso discovered (Seneca f). 68. Revolt m Gaul (C Julius Vindex) and in Hispania citerior, where the governor Sulpicius Galba, then 73 years of age, was proclaimed and acknowledged imperator. Nero fled and killed himself on the estate of one of his freedmen in the neighbor- hood of Rome. 68-69. Galba (Servlus Suljncius Galba), June- Jan. whose avarice soon gained him the hatred of his soldiers (Tac. Hist. I.), and who became the victim of the revolt of 69. OtlcLO {Marcus Salu las Otho Titianus), Jan.-Apr. once a favorite of Nero's (Tac. Hist. I. II.) The legions on the Rhine had already proclaimed as imperator 69- Vitellius {Aulas VitelUus), Apr.-Dec. who defeated Otho in the neighborhood of Cremona, entered Rome and made the city the scene of his senseless gluttony and extravagance. (Tac. Hist. II., III.) 69-96- The three Flavian emperors. 69-79. Vespasianus {Titus Flavins Vespasianus) proclaimed imperator through the influence of Licinim Muci- anuF, governor of Syria, at fii-st in Alexaiidria, afterwards by his own legions and those Of Syria in Palestine, where he was conducting the war against the Jews who had been in revolt since C6. Vespasianus transferred the military command to his son, Titus, and went to Rome, after a long stay at Alexandria, to find that his adherents had already put Vitellius to death. Restoration of discipline in the army and order in the finances. Reorganization of the senate. 69-71. Revolt of the Batavians under Julius (Claudius?) Civilis (Tac. Hist. IV.), one of their leaders of royal descent. The insurgents at first declared that they took up arms not against the Roman empire, but against Vitellius, and for Vespasianus. Thus they gained tlie assistance of a large part of the Roman soldiers in those parts. Claudius Civilis repeatedly defeated the Romans, and, reinforced by Cxernians from the other side of the Rhine, thirsting for booty, he advanced far into Gaul. A great part of the Gallic tribes joined i But see Overbeck, Studien z. Gesch. d. alten Kirche, Pt. 1, p. 93 foil. 152 Ancient History. A. d.| him, and for a moment he dreamed of founding an independeni Gallic Empire. When once Vespasian's power in Rome was seouri however, Cerealis, favored by the quarrels which had broken oui between the allied Batavians, Gauls, and Germans, put an end the revolt, and again reduced all Gaul under the Roman supremacy! 70. Capture of Jerusalem by Titus (p. 12). Triumphal arch of Titus in Rome. Erection of the Amphitheatrum Flavium (Col- osseum). 78. Agricola, father-in-law of the historian Tacitus, made prepara- tions for the complete subjugation of Britain. Vespasiauus was succeeded by his son, 79-81. Titus {Titus Flavins Vespasianus), called, because of his admirable qualities, amor et delicice g>. eris humani. Punishment of informers. 79. Eruption of Vesuvius. Herculaneum buried by mud, Pompeii b; ashes and mud. Death of the elder Plinius, the leader of th Roman fleet at Misenum. 80. Fire and plague in Rome. Titus was succeeded by his brother, 81-96. Domitianus {Titus Flavins Domitia7ius) , a cowardly, cruel despot. He undertook a campaign against the Chatti (83), but returned without having seen a foe, notwithstand- ing which he celebrated a triumph. During his reign the construc- tion of the Roman boundary wall between tlie Rlmie and the Danube was commenced. It was guarded by soldiers, who were settled upon public land along its course {agri decumates). 81-84. Successful campaigns of Agricola in Britain, whereby the^ Roman power was extended as far as Scotland. AgricolaH recalled by Domitian tlu'ough envy. ^ 86-90. Unsuccessful wars against the Dacians. Domitian bought peace of Decehalus by a yearly tribute. 93. Death of Agricola (poisoned b}^ order of Domitian ?). Cruel persecution of the Jews, Christians, and philosophers. 96. Domitianus murdered by the freedman Stephanus, the empress, who was in fear of her own life, and the prsefectus praetorio, Peironius Secundus, being cognizant of the crime. 96-192. Nerva and his adopted family. 96-98. Nerva {Marcus Cocceiiis Nerva), a senator 64 years of age, was raised to the throne by the mur- derers of Domitian. He repealed the law of treason, re- called the exiles, and reduced the taxes. He adopted and appointed as his successor 98-117. Trajan {Marcits JJlpius Traiaiius), governor of the province of Germania inferior, born in the Roman colony of Italica in Spain, the first occupant of the tiirone of the Csesars who was not an Italian. Excellent ruler and general. Magnificent buildings in Rome {Forum Traianum) and throughout the empire. L. D. Roman History. 153 .01-102. First war against the Dacians, in consequence of Trajan's refusal to pay the tribute promised by Doniitian. Trajan crossed the Danube, captured the fortress of the king Deceba- lus and forced him to make peace and cede a portion of his territory. l05-107. In the second war against the Dacians Trajan built a stone bridge across the Danube (at Turnu Severinu), crossed the stream, defeated and subdued the Dacians. Decebalus killed himself. Magnificent games at Rome, wherein 10,000 gladiators are said to have appeared. Dacia, that is Wallachia, Moldau, Eastern Hungary, and Transyl- )ania {Siehenburgen), made a Roman province. Settlement of nu- Qierous colonists in Dacia, from whom the present Roumanians de- rive their descent. It would be more correct to say their language 3nly, the Roumanian or Daco -Romanic, which prevails in Wal- laciiia, Moldau and a part of Transylvania. The column of Trajan \t Rome completed in 113. The governor of Syria took possession (105) of the region E. and S. of Damascus and of Judcea to the northern end of the Red Sea, as the Roman province of Arabia. ^ 114-110. Wars of Trajan with the Parthians. Chosroes, nephew of the Partliian king, driven from Armenia. Armenia, Meso- potamia, Assyria, including Babylonia, made Roman provinces. Trajan, favored, as it seems, by internal troubles in the Parthian monarchy, conquered Seleucia and Ctesiphon on the Tigris, and sailed down the river to the rersian Gulf. Trajan, having appointed a king over the Partliians, started upon his return, but died at Selinus (Trajanopolis) in Cilicia. 117-138. Hadrian {Fublius jElius Hadriamis), adopted by Trajan (?). A lover of peace, an excellent ad- ministrator, learned and vain. Hadrian abandoned the new provinces of Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria, so that the Euplu'ates formed the eastern boundary of the Roman empire. He restored quiet in Moesia, and strengthened his power by the execution of those who conspired against him. 120. Hadrian began his progress through all the provinces of the em- pire, with a visit to Gaul. Magnificent buildings : in Rome the Moles Hadriani, on the site of the present Castle of St. Angelo, and the double temple of Venus and the goddess Roma, and the Athencemn ; in Athens, the city of Hadrian (the Olympieum completed). Magnificent villa at Tibur (Tivoli). In Britain a wall of defence was built against the Picts and Scots. Collection of the edicts of the praetors (edictum perpetuum) com- menced by the jurist Salvius Julianas. 132-135. Revolt of the Je^ws on account of the foundation of thq colony of ^lia Capitolina (p. 12). Hadrian had adopted, during a fit of sickness, L. uElius Verus, an(^ 1 Tliat is, Arabia Petrma, po called from its capital, Petra. not the whole peninsula of Arabia. Kiepert, Atlas. Ant, Tab. XII. 154 Ancient History. A. D. appointed him Ccesar (p. 147) ; but as Verus died before him he adopted 2\ Aurelius Antoninus under the condition that the latter should adopt in place of a son his nephew, the young M. Aimlus Verus, under the name of Marcus Aurelius, and L. Commodus Verus, the son of the deceased Csesar, ^lius Verus. 138-161. Antoninus Pius {Titus Aurelius Antom7ius Fins). Peaceable reign, during which the borders were, however, vigorously defended against the attacks of the barbarians. Antoninus had his adopted sou, M. Aurelius, educated by phil- osophers of the Stoic school. 161-180. Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus), a wise and active sovereign, highly educated (pupil of Corne- lius Fronto), a Stoic philosopher. Until 169 he reigned in common with his brother by adoption, the dissipated Lucius Verus. 162-165. War against the Parthians under the command of L. Verus, who, however, ^oon gave himself up to dissipation in Antiocliia, while his legatees carried on the war with success, conquered Artaxata, appointed a king in Armenia, and burned Seleucia and Ctesiphon. A part of Mesopotamia was again made a Roman province. 166. Plague and famine in Italy. 166-180. War with the Marcommani and Quadi. Marcus Aurelius fought with various fortune against the barbarians, who con- stantly made new attacks. During a short peace with the bar- barians, conquest of the rebel Avidius Cassius in Syria, 175. Triumph in Rome, 176. The senate erected an equestrian statue in his honor, which still adorns the Capitol. Before he had succeeded in making the boundaries of the empire along the Danube secure, he died in Vindohona (Vienna). He was succeeded by his degenerate son 180-192. Commodus, who bought peace of the Germans at the price of a tribute, entrusted the government for the most part to the prtefectus prjetorio, abandoned himself to his inclination for dissipation and cruelty, and was finally murdered by his intimates. 193-284. Imperators for the most part appointed by the soldiers. 193. Pertinax, strict and economical, murdered after three months by the prsetorians, who placed on the throne in his stead 193. Didius Julianus, who, among all competitors, promised them the largest present. The Illyrian legions proclaimed 193-211. Septimius Severus, who was recognized by the senate and mamtained himself A. D. Roman History, 155 agaiust the other pretenders (Pescennius Niger in the East, Clodius Albinus m Gaul). Successful eanipaig-ns in Mesopotamia. Improve- ments in the administration of justice throuij^h the jurist Papinianus. In 208 expedition to Britain a«^ainst the Scots. Restoration of the Roman wall, which had been partially destroyed. Septimius 8ev- erus died in Eboracum (York). His son, 211-217. Caracalla {Aiitonlnus Bassianus) murdered his half-brother and co-reg-ent Geta along with thousands of his adherents, among whom was Papinianus. By the Constitutio Antoniana Roman citizenship was conferred upon all inhabitants of the provinces, for the sake of the higher taxation which could then be imposed. Systematic plundering of the provinces, unsuccessful wars against the Goths (wrongly called Getre) in Dacia, cruel treatment of the inhabit- ants of Alexandria. Plundermg expedition against the Parthians. Murder of Caracalla. His successor, 217. Macrinus, purchased peace from the Parthians. The soldiers proclaimed as imperator the fourteen-year-old 218-222. Elagabalus (the form Heliogabalus is a corruption), priest of the sun at Emesa in Syria, who was put forward as the son of Caracalla. He gave himself up to the most infamous de- bauchery ; the government was conducted by his mother and grancbnother. He adopted his eousm, the young Bassianus Alexianus, who succeeded to the throne after the murder of Elagabalus by the praetorians, under the name of 222-235. Severus Alexander. Excellent ruler, advised by the jurists Domitius Ulpianus and Julius Paullus. His strictness with the soldiers led to several mutinies, in one of which Ulpianus was murdered. 226. In consequence of the dissolution of the Parthian monarchy of the Arsacidae and the foundation of the ne"w Persian em- pire of the Sassanidae by Artakshatr {Artaxares, corrupted into Artaxerxes, new Persian, Ardeshir), a descendant of Sassan, a new war broke out in the East, which Severus Alexander carried on, ac- cording to the Roman historian Lampridius, with success; according to the Grecian Herodian, unsuccessfully. At all events there seems to have been an armistice in 233. After the murder of Severus Alex- ander on the Rhine the soldiers raised to the throne 235-238. Maximinus Thrax, a Thracian of extraordinary size and strength. Expedition across the Rhine ; German townships laid waste. Meanwhile the legions in Africa proclaimed the senator, 237. Gordianus I., then eighty years old, imperator. He appointed his son, Gor- dianus II., co-regent. They were both defeated by the prjefect of Mauretania: the son fell in the battle, the father put himself to death. 156 Ancient History. A. d. The senate at Rome, which had already taken sides against Maximi- nus Thrax, elected the senators Pupienus Maximus and Caelius Bal- binus, Augusti, to whom was added, at the people's demand, the thirteen-year-old grandson of Gordianus I. Maximinus Thrax was killed by his own soldiers at the siege of Aquileia. The praetorians at Rome murdered the two imperators appointed by the senate, Pt/- pienus and Balbinus, so that the young 238-244. Gordianus III. was left sole imperator. A new war with the Persians (241). The young imperator married the daughter of the veteran Misitheus (^Timesitheus), whom he made prsefectus prsetorio, and whose guidance he followed. After the death of his father-in-law Gordianus was murdered by the new prsefectus prsetorio, 244-249. Philippus Arabs, whom he had been obliged to accept as co-regent in 243 at the demand of the soldiers. Peace with Persia. Philippus returned to Rome (became a Christian in secret ?). 248. Celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the foundation of Rome. Revolt of the Mcesian and Pannonian legions, which proclaimed one of theii' officers imperator. 249-251. Decius, whom Philippus sent to quell the mutiny, was compelled by the legions to assume the title of imperator. He defeated and killed Philippus in the battle of Verona. 250. General persecution of the Christians. Martyrdom of Fabianus, bishop of Rome. Decius defeated the Goths, who were plundering Thrace, but fell in battle after he had followed them across the Danube. The legions elected 251-253. Gallus, who soon had his co-regent, HostUianus, son of Decius, put to death. Destructive pestilence in almost all parts of the em- pire. Gallus was deposed by the conqueror of the Goths, 253. ^milianus, who after four months was killed by the soldiers. He was succeeded by 253-260. Valerianus, the general of the legions in Gaul and Germania. He ap- pointed his son, Gallienus, co-regent, and both carried on the war with the German bands, who were constantly making new inroads, espe- cially the Franks in Gaul, the Alamanni, who invaded northern Italy but were driven back at Mediolanum, and the Goths on the Danube. Unsuccessful expedition of Valerianus against the Persians ; defeated at Edessa, he was captured, and at the age of seventy carried about as the slave of King Artaxerxes. His reign and that of his son, A. D. Roman History. 157 260-268. Gallienus, was distuibecl by the appearance of a ^eat number of pretend- ers to the throne, and by the invasions of the barbarians, particuhirly of the Goths, who came in ships from the Bhick Sea. Confusion throughout the empire ; the so-called " time of the thirty tyrants." Two pretenders only maintained themselves for any length of time, Tetricus in Gaul and Spain, and Odenathus (of Palmyra) in Syria. The latter wrested Mesopotamia from Persia, and was recognized by Gallienus as co-regent for the East. After the murder of Odenathus (2(37) his consort, Zenobia, ruled in Palmyra. Gallienus laid siege to Mediolanum, which had been occupied by the pretender Aureolus, and was there murdered by contrivance of the latter. Aureolus was put to death by 268-270. Claudius II., whom the soldiers raised to the throne. He defeated the Ala- manni and the Goths, and was succeeded by 270-275. Aurelianus. He concluded peace ^\dth the Goths by the sacrifice of the province of Dacia. The Danube was henceforward the boundary of the empii'e ; the greater part of the Roman colonists were transported to Moesia, a part of which was now called Dacia (Aiireliana). Anre- lian repulsed the Alamanni and Marcomanni, who had made an inroad into Italy (victory on the Metaurus), and began the erection of a new wall around Rome, which included the enlarged imperial city (271, completed in 276). He defeated Zenobia in two battles, at Antiochia and at Edessa, subdued Syria, besieged and destroyed Palmyra, cap- tured Zenobia, and reconquered Egypt (273). Having thus subdued the East, he turned against Tetricus in Gaul, whom he defeated and captured at Chalons (274). Aurelian, rightly called " Restorer of the universal Empire " (Restitutor Orbis), was murdered on an expedition against the Persians. At the request of the army the senate elected the senator 275. Tacitus imperator. He defeated the Alani, who had invaded Asia Minor, but died after three months. His brother Florianus, who attempted to secure the succession, was defeated by 276-282. Probus, who drove back the Franks, Burgundians, Alamanni and Van- dals, entered Germany, and streng-thened the wall between the Rliine and Danube (p. 152). He enrolled a large number of Germans as mercenaries in the Roman army, and employed the soldiers in drain- ing swamps and building canals and roads, for which reason he was nuudered by them. ' The prsefectus prsetorio, 282-283. Carus, succeeded. He appointed Ins sons Carinus and Numerianus Caesars, and afterwards Augusti, conquered the SarmatianSy and per- 158 Ancient History. a. d. ished (struck by lightning ?) on an expedition against the Persians, after having captured Ctesij)hon. 284. Numerianus, who had accompanied his father to the East, was murdered by his father-in-law. 284. Carinus, wlio had remained in the West, fought at first with success against 284-305. Diocletianus, who had been proclaimed imperator by the soldiers. Carinus was ultimately murdered by his own troops. Diocletian, who created an oriental court at Nicomedia in Bithynia, and thence ruled the East, entrusted the administration of atiairs in the 285. West to the brave Maximianus, as his co-regent or Augustus, who took up his residence for the most part in Mediolanum (Milan). 293. Diocletian appointed two more Ccesars : 1. Constantius Chlorus, who was obliged to divorce his wife Helena and marry the step-daughter of Maximianus, received the government of Gaul, Britain, and Spain, and dwelt commonly in Augusta Trevirorum (Trier), v/liile Maximianus was appointed to the government of Italy and Africa. 2. Galerius, who became Diocletian's son-in-law, and received the government of Illyri- ciim, including Macedonia and Greece. 296. Diocletian subdued the revolt of Egypt. Constantius sup- pressed a revolt in Britain. Galerius fought against the Persians, unsuccessfully in the first year, but in the second (297) he gained an important victory, and extended the frontiers to the Tigris again. Maximianus suppressed an insurrection in Africa. Con- stantius defeated the Alamanni. 303. General persecution of the Christians, which Constantius discouraged in his province. 305. Diocletian abdicated and retired to Salonce in Dalmatia, after he had obliged Maximianus also to resign his dignity. Constantius and Galerius were raised to Augusti. At the desire of Galerius, the claims of Constantinus, son of Constantius, and of Maxentius, son of Maximianus, being passed over, Severus and Maximinus were appointed Csesars, the fii-st receiv- ing Italy and Africa, the second Syria and Egypt. 306. After the death of Constantius in Britain, his son (by Helena), Constantine, assumed the administration of his father's prov- inces, Gaul, Spain, and Britain, with the title of Cfesar. He fought successfully with the Franks and Bructeri. Meanwhile the praetorians at Rome chose Maxentius imperator, where- upon his father, Maximianus, reassumed the dignity he had unwillingly resigned. The empire had thus six rulers, three Augusti and three Cffisars. 307. The Csesar Severus, having been created Augustus by Gale- rius, went to Italy to attack Maxentius, but was deserted by tis soldiers and put to death at Ravenna. Galerius appointed Licin- fL. D. Roman History. 159 LUS co-regent and Augnstns in liis stead, and Constantine therefore ftssumed the same title, so that there were now six Augusti in the empire. 310. In the strnggle that followed, tlie aged Maximianus was cap- tnred in Massilia and put to death by command of Constantine. Galerius died of disease (311). War between Maxentius and Constantine. The latter issued edicts in favor of the C/hristians. Maxentius was defeated at Turin 312. and at Saxa rubra, four miles from Home, by Constantine (Hoc signo vinces !), and perished by drowning as he attempted to cross the Tiber. Constantine became the protector of the Christians, but re- mained up to his death a catechumen. 313. Alliance between Constantine and Lioinius, who married Constantine's sister. Constantine took the field against the I Franks, Licinius against Maximinus, who was defeated, and \ killed himself in Tarsus ; so that now 313-323. Constantine and Licinius were the only rulers in the empire, the former in the West, the latter in the East. In 314, however, they were embroiled in conflict. Licinius, defeated in two encounters, was obliged to cede Ulyricum, Macedonia, and Achaia to Constantine. S23. Second war between Constantine and Licinius. The latter, de- feated at Adrianople and Chalcedon, surrendered in Nicomedia, and was executed (324) by Constantine's command. 323-337- Constantine (the Great) sole ruler. Christianity recognized by the State and favored at the expense of paganism. 325. First general (cjcumenic) Council of the Church at Nicaea, in Bithyuia. Arianism, i. e. the doctrine of Arius ('Apeios), formerly a presbyter in Alexandria, according to which Christ was not of the same nature, but of like nature only (oixoioixnos), with God the Father, was rejected, and the doctrine of Athanasius of Alexandria, according to which Christ was of the saine nature (Sfxoovaios, consub- stantialis) with God the Father, was declared a dogma of the Church by the Symbolum Niccenum. 330. Constantine selected Byzantium (Nova Roma, Constantino- polis) for the capital. The empire was redistricted. The four great prefectures, Oriens, Ulyricum orientate, Italia, Gallia, were divided into 13 dioceses, these into 116 provinces. ^ New hierarchy of officials, 7 superior court offices. Council of state (consistorium prin- cipis). New arrangement of the taxes. Cruelty of Constantine in his family. His eldest son, Crispus, and one of his nephews executed through the plots of his wife, Fausta, who was herself put to death. Constantine, before his death, divided the administration of the empire among his three sons as Augusti, and two nephews as Coisars. After his death, in Bithyuia, the two Cajsars were put to death by Constantius. The thi'ee sons of Constantine redivided the empire at Constantinople. 1 Kicpcrt, Athi.^ Aiii'qiinf, Tnh. XIL 160 Ancient History. a. d, 337-340. Constantinus II. received the West (the prefec-] tures of Italia, Gallia, and a part of Africa). 337-361. Constantius received the East, the prefecture Oriens. 337-350. Constans received the prefectures of IllyriGum\ orientale and a part of Africa. Constantius carried on a long and indecisive war with the Persians.; Constantinus II. attacked his brother Constans, and fell at Aquileia. In 350 Constans also died, so that Constantius, after the conquest of the usurper Magnentius (353), again united the whole empire. Julianus, a cousin of the emperor, who was appointed Caesar, fought success- fully with the Alamanni and Ripuarian Franks, and assigned the Salian Franks lands in northern Gaul. Constantius died on an expe- dition against 361-363. Julianus, who had been proclaimed Augustus by the legions. He is known as the apostate (apostata), because he was an adherent of the heathen philosophy and abandoned Christianity, hoping to bring about a reaction in favor of the heathen cult, which he wished restored in purified form. Julianus defeated the Alamanni and the Franks, rt stored the fortresses which had been erected agamst them along the frontier, and defeated the Persians at Ctesiphon, but died of a wound on his return. The soldiers raised the Christian 363-364. Jovianus, to the throne. He ceded the greater part of Mesopotamia to the Persians. Christianity reinstated in the privileges which Con- stantino had granted. After the sudden death of Jovianus the legions raised 364-375. Valentinianus I. to the throne. He appointed as co-regent first his brother, 364-378. Valens, an Arian, who governed the East from Constantinople, and afterwards, for the West, his son, 367-383. Gratianus, who, upon liis father's death, acknowledged as co-regent forj the administration of the West his four-year-old half-brother, 375-392. Valentinian II., who had been proclaimed imperator by the soldiers. 375- Beginning of the migrations of the TeutoniO] tribes (p. 170). 378. After the death of Valens at Adrianople in battle against thej West Goths, Gratianus created the heathen .D. Roman History. 161 r9-395. Theodosius oo-rcgeiit, and oiitrustecl him with the administration of the ast. Theodosius became a Christian after his recovery from a severe hiess, fought successfully against the West Goths, but was obliged > accept them as allies (fcederati) in their abodes in Maesia and hrace. Gratianus fell in battle against the imperator proclaimed y the legions in Britain, 83-388. Clemens Maximus, whom Theodosius recognized as co-regent under the condition iiat he should leave Italy in the hands of the young Valentinian II. \x 387 Maximus drove Valentinian from Italy. He fled to Theodo- lus, who, returning with him, captured Clemens Maximus at Aqui- iia, and executed him. 90. Insurrection in Thessalonica, cruelly punished by Theodosius (7000 executions). On this account bishop Ambrosius of ;iilan, eight months later, excluded the emperor from Clu-istian com- umion, until he had done penance. 92. After the murder of Valentinian II. by Arhogastes^ and after the new imperator, Eugenius, whom Arbogastes set up, had 94. fallen at Aquileia in battle with Theodosius, and Arbogastes had put himself to death, the whole empire was, for the last time, reunited under J94-395. Theodosius. After his death the division of administration into an eastern nd a western section, which had existed for a hundred years, became permanent division of the empire. 595-1453. Arcadius received the Eastern empire, also called the Byzantine or Grecian empire. Imperial vicar, Rufinus. Caj^ital Byzantium or Constantinople. The 595-476. Western empire, capital Rome, Ravenna im- perial residence after 402, mider p5-423. Honorius. Guardian and chancellor, the Vandal Stilicho, murdered in 408 I by command of Honorius to whom he had been defamed. After the death of Honorius the usurper lt24. Joannes reigned for a short time, but was finally over- ; thrown with the assistance of the Eastern empire and the six- i year-old |t25-455. Valentinian III. made imperator, the government being conducted at first by his mother Placida, sister of Honorius, in liis name. Valen- tinian was murdered by L65. Petronius Maximus, who married Eudoxia, widow of Valentinian, but was killed shortly before the capture of Rome by the Vandals (p. 173). 11 162 Ancient History. a. d, The throne was usurped by 455-556. Avitus who was soon deposed by Recimir, a military leader of the German mercenaries in the Roman army. Recimir placed upon the throne 457^61. Majorianus, whom he afterwards deposed in favor of 461-465. Libius Severus, after whose deposition (?) 465-467. Recimir conducted the government without the pretence of an imperial figure-head until 467 when he placed 467-472. Anthemius upon the throne, who was succeeded by 472. Olybrius. Recimir and his sovereign dying this year, the Eastern court interposed and placed 473. Glycerius on the throne of the West, who was succeeded by 473-475. Julius Nepos, also by appointment of the emperor of the East. In 475 Orestes, a leader among the mercenaries, placed his son 475-476. Romulus Augustulus upon the throne, who, combining in his name that of Rome first king and first emperor, became the last of the imperial line in the West, being deposed by 476. Odovaker (Odoacer), military leader of the Heruli and Rugii, who made himsel: ruler (not king) of Italy, and was recognized by the Eastern emperor Zeno as patricius of Rome and prefect of Italy (p. 173). § 4. TEUTONS. Aryan. Geography: The Teutonic race has occupied three regions in Eiirope. I. Germany comprises Central Europe, the slope from the Alps N. to the sea. It may be roughly bounded as follows : N. German Ocean, Baltic ; E. a vague line indicated by the Vistula, and the Car- pathian Mts. ; S. the Alps ; W. the Pihine. Tliis region falls into_ three physical divisions : 1. The broad and lofty chain of the Alps divided into the Swiss Alps on the W. and the Tyrolese Alps on the E., whose deep valleys fostered the rise of small independent communities (p. 245 ). Mont Blanc (14,748 ft.), Monte Rosa, Jungfrau, etc.. Lake Geneva, Lake Constance, Lake of Lucerne ( VierivaJdstattesee), etc. 2. A broad upland extending two thirds of the way from the Alps to the sea, and embracing the present Wiirtemberg, Bavaria, Bohemia, Sax- B. c.-A. D. Teutons. 163 onif, Saxon duchies, Hesse, etc. 3. A low plain reaching^ to the sea, and including^ the present Holland, Hanover, Prussia, etc. Modern (ifiinany comprises 2 and 3. The pcninsnla of Denmark has belonged, in historic times, j)olitically to Scandinavia and (Germany. Ihrou^h the middle of Germany a range of low mountains extends from S.E. to N.W. from the Jura in France to the Carpathians in Hungary. This range, known to the Romans as Hercijnia silva, in- cludes the /um, Vosges, Schwarzicald (Black Forest) 7\iunus, Thiiringer Wald, Erz Gebirge, Riesen Gebirge, Sudetes, and forms an arc whose convex side is turned toward the W. and N. The valley of the Dan- ube S. of this range, and the depression on its northern base extend- ing from the Lahn to the middle Elbe (the old commercial route be- tween Frankfort o. M. and Leipsic), are the two natural roads which give the East access to western Europe. Other mountain groups : Bohemian Forest, forimng the S.E. border of Bohemia, Harz, N. of the Frankfort road. Rivers : 8. the Danube, flowing into the Black Sea ; N. the Rhine, with its branches Neckar, Main, etc., Ems, Weser, Elbe, flowing into the German Ocean ; Oder, Vistula flowing into the Baltic. The Roman provinces Rretia, Vindelicia, Noricmn, Pannonia, occu- pied the Alps and the southern bank of the Danube. Germania superior and inferior were Gallic provinces on the left bank of the L pper and Lower Rhine. To Germany proper, which was never a province of the empire, the Romans applied the name, Germania magna. II. Scandinavia, the great peninsula jutting W. and S. from the north of Europe. It falls into two divisions : 1. A rugged, moun- tainous region on the W., with deeply indented coasts (Norway). 2. On the E. a less mountainous region with numerous rivers flowing into the Baltic and the Gulf of Bothnia (Sweden). The southern part of Scandinavia was known to the Romans under the name Scandia, and was thought to be an island. III. The British Isles. See pp. 36 and 176. Ethnology : I. According to the theory of the Asiatic origin of the Aryans, the Teutonic migration followed the Celtic and preceded that of the Slavs. The Teutons, or Germans, appear to have taken the northern route and to have first settled along the coast, on the plain, and in the northern portion of the plateau. The valley of the Danube and Bohemia were early occupied by Celtic tribes, and it was only gradually that these were dispossessed by the invading Ger- mans. Whether the Teutons entered Germany in two bands, is not clear ; certain it is that from a very early time a radical dift'erence has existed in language and customs among the Germans, whereby they are divided into High Germans, inhabiting the inland plateau, and Low Germans, dwelling on the coast. Tlie Romans divided the Germans {Gennaniy either into two sec- tions, the Suevi and the non-Suevi (Csesar), or into three branches which were named after the sons of " Mannus, the son of the earth-born god Tuisco,^^ Istcevones, Ingcevones, Herminones. The former division 1 The origin of this name is doubtful. See the disputed passage in TacituSt Germania, 2. 1 64 Ancient History. B. c.-A. d. is thought to correspond to that of High (Suev'i) and Low Germans ; the latter answers territorially to the fusions of tribes which later formed the Franks, Saxons, and Thuringians. Of the separate tribes may be mentioned: I. Non-Suevi: Isteevones, Ubii, Usipii, Tencterii, Sugambri, Marsi, on the right bank of the Rhine where we find later the Alamanni and Ripuarian Franks ; Ingsevones, Batavians, Fri- sians, Saxons, Chauci, Cimbri, along the coast from the Rliine to the right bank of the Elbe. II. Suevi, Chatti, in Hessen, Cherusci on the Upper Weser, Hermunduri in Thuringia, extending as far as the Danube (these three were included under the Herminones), Marc- omanni in Bohemia (see below), Quadi on the Danube, Semnones, the centre of what seems to have been a very loose political organization of the Suevi, between the Elbe and Oder, Langohardi, Rugii in the northeast toward the Vistida, Burgundiones on the Oder, Guttones (later Goths) extending beyond the Vistula, Vandali, Alani (?). In Denmark dwelt the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes, until the fifth century A. d., when a large part of these tribes migrated to England, and their place was taken by Danes from the islands on the E. II. Scandinavia was occupied by Finnish tribes (Sitones), from the N., and by invading Germans from the S. at an unknown time : Gautce (Goths), Sueones (Swedes) in Sweden ; Northmen in Norway. III. British Isles. See pp. 36 and 176. Religion : The religion of the Teutonic race was a pantheistic nature worship. I. Germans : Beyond the unsatisfactory passages in Csesar {Bell. Gall. VI. 21) and Tacitus {Germania 9, 10, etc.), all our knowledge of the ancient religion of the Germans before the introduction of Roman civilization and of Christianity is derived by inference from later sources, or from the younger but nuich fuller mythology of Scandinavia. Among the great gods (^Ases^ of the Germans were: "Woden (Odin in the north), the "all-father"; Donar (Tho?'), his son, at once the storm-god, and the god of agri- culture ; Zio or Thiu (Tyr) also a son of Woden, god of war ; Fro (Freyr), god of love ; Paltar (Baldur), god of justice ; Nerthus or Hertha (Frau Bertha), the earth ; Frauwa (Freyo), sister of Fro ; Friga {Fria), wife of Woden ; Helia (Hel) goddess of the lower regions. Below the Ases were the Giants, the Nornes or fates, the Walkyres or messengers of the gods. In the realm of lower mythology the German imagination was remarkably fertile. Fairies, cobolds, elves, Jiixes, abounded, and still live in childrens' tales, and the many popular fancies which the modern study of folk lore has revealed. The Germans had no corporation of priests like that of the Druids, though the priests and priestesses of certain divinities stood in high honor. Their worship consisted in the repetition of formal invocations, and in the offering of sacrifices, prisoners being often immolated to 2he gods. Woods and trees were held in special reverence and often devoted to the performance of worship beneath their branches. Cer- tain days were set apart for the worship of certam deities, whose names have come down to us in the names of the days of the week. Tuesday (Thiu'sdag), Wednesday (Woden'sdag), Thursday (Thor's- dag, Donnerstag), Friday (Freya'sdag). Some of the customs of B. c.-A. D. Teutons. 165 these recurring festivities were afterwards impressed into the service of Clu'istianity. Such was the decoration of trees with Hower- wreaths and candles, now a part of Christmas rites,^ and such the colored eg-gs in a " hare's nest," now an Piaster custom, hut originally an ottering to some heathen divinity. Divinations hy flight of birds, neighing of horses, throwing sticks, etc. II. Scandinavia : The faith of the northern Teutons was one of the most remarkable of the heathen religions, and one of the last in Europe to yield to Christianity. After being long transmitted by hearsay the northern mythology was first committed to writing in the poem of the Elder Edda in the twelfth, or as some scholars hold, in the thirteenth century. The poem is supplemented by the com- mentary known as the Younger Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241). In the beginning existed the All-Father. In chaos (^Ginungagap) he created two worlds, Nijiheim, the ice-world, in the north, and Muspelhehn, the fire-world, where sat Surt with the flaming sword, in the south. Midway of the two their opposing influences produced the giant Ymer, who became the progenitor of the evil race of frost- giants (Hrymthurses). Ymer was fed by the milk of the cow Aud- hiimbra, who licked the ice-blocks and set free the god Bwe, to whom a giant's daughter bore three sons, Odin, Vile, and Ve. These thi-ee slew Yj7ier, in the deluge of whose blood perished all the frost-giants, save two, who became the ancestors of a new race of frost-giants. Of the body of Ymer the gods formed the universe, the earth, the sky and the stars. Dwarfs were the earliest inhabitants of the earth. After- wards the first man and woman were created from two trees. The universe thus formed comprised nine worlds. Of these the highest was Muspelheim, in whose highest part was Gimle, the abode of the blest. Below Muspelheim was Asaheim, or Godheim, where dwelt the great gods (Asa) in their capital, Asgard, with its lofty halls, the fairest of which was Valhal, the hall of Odin. Below Godheim was Mannaheim, or Midgard, the earth, a disk of land sur- rounded by the ocean and held together by the Midgard-serpent which lay at the bottom of the ocean, its tail between its jaws. Across the ocean was Jotunheim, the world of the giants, whose one purpose was the annoyance of mankind, on which account they were perpetually at war \^-ith man's defenders, the gods of Godheim. Be- low the earth was Helheim, the world of the dead, and, lowest of all, Nijiheim, with the fountain Hvergelmer. Bifroust, the bridge between Godheim and Mannaheim. Gjallar-bridge between Helheim, Jotun- heim and the worlds above. These worlds were, in the fancy of the north, surrounded and united by a miglity ash-tree, Yggdra^il, with three roots reacliing to Godheim, Jotunheim, and Nijiheim. Tlie great gods were Odin and his sons : Thor, Vali, Haimdall, Vidar, Baldur, Braga, Tyr, Hodur, besides Aller, Forsete, and NJord, 1 In Germany the tree is simply decorcf^^d, the presents to be exchanged are piled around the support of the tree or placed on an adjacent table. The ex- change of gifts was not a part of the old German custom, but is perhajjs a sur- Tival of a practice observed by the Komans during the Haluvnalia (p. 85). 166 Ancient History. b. c.-A. d. Freyr, sea gods, and Lohe. Of the goddesses the chief were Frigga, wife of Odin, Freyja, goddess of love, Saga, goddess of history. Above all the gods were the Nornes, or fates. Below the gods were elves, trolls, witches, etc. Exploits of the gods. Especially famous were the dealings of Thor with the giants. After the creation fol- lowed a golden age when all was well in Godheim, but after a time evil crept in personified as Loke. Death of Baldur, killed through tlie contrivance of Loke by his brother Hodur with a sprig of mistle- toe, Frigga having bound all other created things not to hurt Baldur. Lake's children were the Fenris-wolf, chained until the coming of Ragnarok, the Midgard-serpent, and Hel. Binding of Loke. Finally comes the end of the world, Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods. Battle of the Asa-gods with the Midgard-serpent, Loke, and the Fenris-wolf, who have broken their chains. The good and the bad alike perish in the combat. Surt consumes Yggdrasil and the whole world in flames. Yidar, Vale, Hodur, Baldur, and the sons of Thor survive. A new earth and a new heaven are created. According to the belief of the Northmen, all good men and all who died in battle crossed over the bridge Bifroust (the rainbow) to Yalhal, where they spent their days feasting and fighting, until Ragnarok when they passed to Gimle. Cowards and evil-doers were punished in Helheim, and after Ragnarok in Naostrand} Civilization : It is probable that the Germans had not completed the transition from a pastoral to an agricultiiral people, when they arrived in central Europe. They were certainly in a low stage of civilization when they became known to the Romans, a stage not un- like that reached by the most advanced of the American Indians, the Iroquois. Cities were unknown to them ; they seem to have settled for the most part each mdividual apart, each tribe separated from the other by a broad strip of mark-land.'^ Orders : 1. Nobles, who derived their descent from the gods, but were entitled to no political privileges because of their nobility. 2. Freemen, that is, land-owners, men born to arms, the work upon whose land was done by their bondmen; out of this class developed later the lower nobility. 3. Freedmen (liti, lassen), or half-freemen, renters bound to military service, but excluded from the ownership of land, from the popular assembly, and from the courts. 4. Servants or bondmen, in part serfs bound to the soil (glebce adscripti), m part actual slaves. The latter two classes formed the majority of the population. Custom of comradeship {gasindi leudes), out of which the feudal system developed after the occupation of the Roman provinces and the division of land among the faithful (Jideles'), and under the in- fluence of the Christian religion. Feudal superior (suzerain). Vas- sen, vassals, or men ; fief (feudum or benefcium), held on tenure of service, distinct from allodium, property in fee simple. 1 The relation of these myths to Christianity, the extent to which thev have been influenced by acquaintance with the Scriptures, is a subject of active in- quiry, but nothino; can as yet be said to be detinitel}^ determined. See Bugge, Entstehunff der' Nordischen Gotter. 2 Whoever desires to become involved in that most hopeless of all historical questions, the social and political orp:anization of the ancient Germans, is re- ferred to Waitz, Veifassunf/S(/i'6clnchlt, where references will be found. B. c.-A. D. Teutons. 167 History : I. The date of the first arrival of Teutons in Europe is wholly unknown. Pytheas of Massalia, who visited the amber eoasts of the Baltic about 350 b. c, met with Gernum tribes. From that time on only the bare introduction of the word Germani in the Roman annals for 225 b. c. hints at any knowledge of the Teutons until the close of the second century b. c, when the tribes of the Cimhri and Teutones left their homes at the base of the Danish peninsula (driven from them by a flood?) and, after humiliating the Roman arms in (iaul, found their death on the fields of Aqu;e Sextije and Vercellae (102, 101, B. c, p. 127). The terrors of the invasion died away, but the Romans did not come again into contact with the Gi'rmans luitil Ciesar's invasion of Gaul brought on a contest with the Suevian prince Ariovistus which ended in the latter's defeat (58 b. c). Sub- jugation of the Germans on the left bank of the Rliine. Csesar's two expeditions across the Rliine (58, 55, p. 139). Lnder Augustus, systematic attempt to subjugate Germania magna. Conquest of Rcetia and Noricum by Drusus (15), of Pannonia and Vindelicia. Expeditions of Drusus from the Rhine : 1. With the fleet on the Ems (12) ; 2. Against the Cherusci on the Weser, foun- dation of the citadel Aliso (11) ; 3. Along the Main to the Werra and Elbe (9). Legend of the " white woman." Death of Drusus. His successor Tiberius, reduced all the tribes between the Rhine and the Elbe to submission and began the active construction of fortresses and colonies. The folly of Tiberius' successor. Varus, alienated the Germans and led to revolt. Under Arminius, one of the nobles Jof the Cherusci, three Roman legions were annihilated in the three days' battle in the Teutohurg Forest ^ (9 a. d. ?). Augustus gave up the hope of subjugating the Germans, and later emperoi's did not revive it. Expeditions of Germanicus in revenge for the Teutoburg massacre, 14, 15, 16. Thenceforward the Romans were contented with maintain- ing their borders against the free tribes, and with colonizing the land south of the Main and the Danube. Line of fortifications from Aschaffenburg, on the Main, to Regensburg, on the Danube (Pfahl- graben, Teufelsmauer). Along this line Roman soldiers were settled on land for the rent of which they paid a tenth of the produce, hence agri decumates. Foundation of colonies : Curia Rretorum (Chur) in Rpetia ; Juvenum (Salsburg) in Noricum ; Vindobonum (Vienna) in Pannonia ; Augusta Vindelicorum (Augsburg), Castra regina (Re- gensburg) in Vindelicia. Active intercourse between Rome and Ger- many. Germans served both as privates and as officers in the Roman army (so Arminius). Traffic in amber. Of the internal affairs of the free Germans we are but scantily informed. In the first century b. c. a portion of the Hermunduri, the Marcomanni, had invaded Bohemia, driven out the Celtic Boii (wh'> took refuge in Pannonia, where they were gradually exterminated by the Roman arms) and established a state which, under Marboi^ (Maroboduus), grew to formidable proportions. Intended expedv- tion of Tiberius against Marbod frustrated by the Pamionian revolt (8). Feuds between the German tribes fostered by the Romans, Arminius expelled Marbod from his kingdom, but was himself mur- 1 The locality has not been satisfactorily made out. 168 Ancient History. b. c.-a. d. dered under suspicion of aiming at supreme power. The Cheruscif Hermunduri and Bructeri were nearly exterminated in internecine strife. Revolt of the Batavians under Civilis (p. 151). War of Marcus Aurelius with the Marcomanni (p. 154). In process of time a change came over the political organization of | the Germans. The multitude of small tribes disappeared and we find in their stead a smaller number of more extensive tribes. At the same time the Slavs began to press upon the eastern Germans and urge them westward. The Germans increased in power and popula- tion, and became better and better trained in the arts of war and political intrigue as they came more and more into intimate connec- tion with Rome. The provincial armies were largely German ; Ger- man officers rose to high distmction and great influence in Rome- So Rome grew weaker and her foes stronger vmtil at last the im- pulse of the invading Hmis in the east set all the tribes in motion. II. Scandinavia : Northern annalists present an historical Odin, probably no less mythical than Odin the god. According to these tales (which, like some other m} thical history, may have greater his- torical value than the present credits them with), Odin was the leader of the Asas who dwelt in Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian. Attracted to the falling fortunes of Mitlu'idates, he was driven from his kmgdom by Pompeius. He conducted the Asas westward to Scandmavia where he subdued Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and gave these countries to his sons ; Denmark to Skjoldy Sweden to Yngave, Norway to Seeming. Odin ended his days in Sweden. The history of Scandmavia as far as ascertained belongs to the next period, and will be found on page 207. III. British Isles. For the liistory of the Teutonic invasion of England see p. 176. § 5. SLAVS AND LITHUANIANS. Aryan. These closely related peoples belong to the northern branch of the European Aryans, and their westward migration followed that of the Teutons. The Slavs were known to the late Roman geographers under the name Venedce (hence Wends) as inhabiting the region beyond the Vistula, which bore the general name of Sarmatla, from the nomadic Sarmatians who inhabited it, interspersed with the Slavs, from whom they differed in language and descent. In the fifth century A. d. the Slavs occupied the country between the Baltic and the Black Sea, between the Carpathians and the Don. They dwelt in the steppes of Russia as far north as Novgorod on the Volga, and their westernmost limit lay between the Vistula and the Oder. In the sixth century the Slavs began to extend them- selves south and west, a movement which resulted in the permanent occupation of Bohemia and of the Balkan peninsula, while their settlement extended east to Tyrol. In 623 A. d. temporary formation of a Slavic monarchy of great extent under Saino in Bohemia, which endured thirty-five years. The conquests of the Slavs came to an end with the seventh century, and tlie separate kingdoms of Poland, Bohemia, Russia, were gradually formed. A. D. S/ai's and Li/Znunua/is. 169 Of the religion of the IShivs little is known with certainty, owing to the diversity of nonienehiture among- the various divisions of this wide-spread people, and to the laek of trustworthy authorities. Among the Slavs of the Baltic, who had a class of priests and built temples, occur the names Svatovit or Scantovit, god of light or of the air, with a temple at Arkona ; Triglath, the three-headed god, worshipped in Pomerania (Stettin) ; Radigost, Rugevit or Ranovit (in Kiigen), Jarovit, all gods of war ; Zcerneboh, " the black god," an evil deity. The Russians worshipped Khors, Volos, or Veles, god of the herds (St. Blaise) ; Koupalo, god of the harvest ; Jarijlo, god of generation ; Strihog, god of the winds ; Lada, goddess of love and ])assion. The gods were worshipped by offerings of fruit and animals, seldom by human sacrifices. The Slavs were a pastoral and agricultural people. All inhab- itants of the same district were kinsmen, bearing a common name, liv- ing under the rule of an elected elder, and holding property in com- mon. A union of such districts formed a tribe ; a miion of tribes formed a people. The Lithuanians play no part in history before the tliirteenth centur3^ In the wider sense the name includes the Letts and the ancient Prussians, who were known to the Romans as jEstui. In the narrower sense it is limited to the iidiabitauts of the region between the Memel and the Finnish Esthouiaus. II. MEDIEVAL HISTORY. FIRST PEKIOD. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE MIGRATIONS OF THE NORTHERN TRIBES TO THE TREATY OF VERDUN ^ (375-843). §1. MIGRATIONS OF THE NORTHERN PEOPLES. Habitations of the Germanic tribes in the fourth century a. d, Alani, whose German descent is, however, not certain, on the lower Volga ; East Goths in southern Russia ; West Goths in Dacia (eastern Hungary, Roumania); Vandals in FRiinoma {southwestern Hungary) ; Suevi in Moravia, Boliemia, and Bavaria; Burgundians on the Neckar and the Rhine, with Wonns as their capital (compare p. 164); Ala- manni (or Alemanni) on the Rhine, between the Main and the Alps, partly along the Roman boundary wall (agri decumates) ; Ripuarian Frajiks on both sides of the lower Rhine (capital at Colonia Agrlp- pina) ; Salic Franks on the mouths of the Rhine (in Meergau, " dis- trict on the sea," the Meruwe, hence Merowingians ;) ^ Saxons from the Elbe almost to the Rhine ; Thuringians south of the Saxons ; Lan- gohards on the lower Elbe. The, peoples which appear in the so-called migrations of the peoples were generally heterogeneous armed bands under the command of a leader or king chosen for his military prowess (Heerkonig). 375. Beginning of the migration of the Teutonic tribes. Period of migrations and invasions. The Huns, a Mongolian race, crossed the Volga. The Huns, joined by the Alani, whom they had defeated, fell upon the East Goths (king Ermanaric or Hermanric, of the family of the Amali), and, in union with these, upon the West Goths. That part of the West Gothic race which had remained heathen took refuge in the Carpathians ; the Christians,^ and those wlio 1 Assmann, Geschichte des Mittelalters. 2d edition, by E. Meyer. 2 According to other scholars the name was a patronymic. 8 A Gothic bishop (Theophilus) took part in the "^council of Nica^a (325). "Wulfila (Ulfilas), bishop of the West Goths (348-381), translator of the Bible: cf. Dahn, Die Konige der Germanen, VI. 41. A. D. Migrations of the Northern Peoples. 171 were just on the point of uceepting Christianity (in tlie form of Arianisni), were allotted habitations in Mcesia by the em- peror Valens. Disputes with the Roman offieials .at the pas- sage of the Danube {FridU/ern, leader of the West Goths) led to war, and the Goths advanced, ravaging as they went. 378. Battle of Adrianople. Valens defeated and slain. His successor, Theodomis, made peace with the West Goths, who, for pay and the gift of a dwelling-place, were to protect the frontiers of the Roman Empire ix^ fuiderati. Alaric, leader of the West Goths, belonging to the family of the Ealthi (i. e. " bold ") enraged at not receiving pay from Arcadius, laid waste Macedonia, Illyria, and Greece (395), and advanced into Pelo- ponnesus. Stilicho, magister utriusque militke of the Western Empire (p. 101), came to the assistance of the Eastern court. Landing with an army at Corinth he surrounded the West Goths, but allowed them to escape. Alaric went to Illyria, and compelled the court at Byzan- tium to recognize him as dux in Illyricum orientale. 400 (1:01 ?). Alaric's first invasion of Italy. After a victory at Aquileia he crossed the Po. Stilicho hastened from Rjetia to meet him. 402. Drawn battle at Pollentia. Alaric made another attempt to advance southward, but was compelled to return to lUyria by disease, hunger, and desertion. 404-406. German bands under Radagais invaded Italy, but were defeated by Stilicho at Fccsulce, and annihilated by continued fighting and by hunger. 40G-409. Bands of Vandals, Suevi, and Alani left the regions along the Danube, crossed the Rhine, sustained great loss in contests with the Eranlcs, and finally (409) invaded Spain. Foundation of Teutonic monarchies in Roman territory. The Salian Franks gradually occupied northern Gaul. The Burgundians settled (406-413) on the middle Rhine ( Worms). 408. Stilicho murdered by the conmiand of the emperor Honorius (p. 161). Alaric's second invasion of Italy. He besieged Rome, but retired on receipt of a ransom. The court at Ravenna refusing to grant Alaric's request that the Goths should be assigned lands for a per- manent settlement in northern Italy, Alaric again advanced upon Rome, and forced the senate to appoint Attains, prefect of the city, emperor. Alaric besieged Honorius in Ravenna without success, quarrelled with Attains, whom he deposed, and advanced for the third time upon Rome. 410- Capture and sack of Rome by Alaric. Alaric went to Lower Italy with the intention of crossing to Sicily, and w thence to Africa, but died at the close of 410, at Cosenza, and *' was buried beneath the Busento. 410-415. Athaulf, brother of Alaric's wife, led the West Goths to Gaul, though whether in fulfilment of a treaty with Honorius 172 Mediceval History. a. d. to resist the Romans, who had forced their way into the province, or of liis own accord, is nncertain. He carried with him the sister of Honorius, who was detained as a hostage in the Gothic camp, and mar- ried her in Narbonne (414). The proposed treaty with the imperial court was not, however, concluded. Athaulf, hard pressed by tlie im- perial general Constantius, went to Spain, conquered Barcelona, and was murdered (415). After the murder of his successor, Sigric, 415-419. Walja became king of the West Goths. He concluded a treaty with Honorius, and fought for Rome against Vandals, Alani, and Suevi. He received a grant of southern Gaul under Roman supremacy. Walja was the founder of the 415-507. West Gothic (Visigothic) kingdom of To- losa, with its capital at Tolosa (Toulouse), which soon became independent.^ 429. King Genseric (Geiseric) conducted the Vandals and a portion of the Alani to Africa, at the invitation, as the story goes,'-^ of the Roman governor Bonifacius. The latter was slandered at court by Aetius, and accused of treason, but, making his peace with Placidia, the mother and guardian of the Emperor Valen- tinian III., he fought unsuccessfully against Genseric, who, after a short peace with the Romans (435), conquered Car- thage (439). 429-534. Kingdom of the Vandals in Africa. Capital, Carthage (S. Augustinus, bishop of Hippo Regius t4:30). 440. The Vandals, having created a great naval power, plundered I the coasts of Sicily and lower Italy, by their fleets. 443. The Burgundians settled on the upper Rhone and on the Saone ; the Alamanni extended themselves over the Roman province of Germania superior (hence called Alsace), and also occupied a part of Switzerland, east of the Burgundian territory. 449. The Angles and Saxons, long known as pirates along the coasts of the German Ocean, and having settlements on the coast of Flanders (litus Saxonicum^), were called in by the Brit- ons, after the withdrawal of the Roman legions from Britain, to assist them in repelling the robber tribes of the north- ern mountains, the Picts and Scots. The Saxons and Angles crossed to Britain (according to tradition, the first bands were led by Hengist and Horsa), and founded in the course of time 8 states : Kent, Sussex, Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Mercia, Deira, Bernicia. The last two were later united to form ■ Northumhria (north of the Humber); hence the number of! states was then 7 (heptarchy). ■ The Britons for the most part migrated to Wales, and to Ar-^ monca in Gaul, which was hence called Breiagne (Brittany). For the details of the settlements, see p. 176. 1 Cf. Dahn, Die Konige der Gtrmanen, Pt. V. 2 This is denied by the more recent authorities. ^ See, however, p. 38. A. 1). Miyrations oj the Northern J^eop/es. 173 451. Attila (F'.tzel, " Seonrg-e of God"), kinj^ of the Huns (in his train anuod bands of Germanic peoples, whom iic had sub- jected, East Goths, Gepidw, etc.), invaded and ravaged Gaul. He besieged Orlemis in vain. Battle on the Catalaunian fields (near Chdlons-sur-Marne: the battle-field itself was at 7'rot/es). Attila defeated l)y Aetius. the Roman governor of the small district around Lutetia, which alone remained in possession of the Romans, and the AVest Goths (with the aid of auxiliaries from the Fi-anks, Jjurgundians, etc.). Theodoric /., king- of the West Goths, fell in the battle. 452. Attila went to Italy, destroyed Aquileia. Venice founded by Italian fugitives. Rome saved by Bishoi^ Leo (i'). After the death of Attila (453) the monarchy of the Huns fell asunder. Not only the German tribes which had been subjugated by the Huns became free (the Gepidce were the first to shake olf the yoke); the Slavic peoples also regained their liberty. During the following centuries these latter tribes extended themselves throughout the east- ern parts of Germany. 455. Rome, after the murder of Valentinian III., by Maximus, plundered for 14 days by the Vandals, who had been called in by Eudoxia, mdow of Valentinian. The Vandals controlled the entire northern coast of Africa as far as Cyrene, and the islands of the western Mediterranean. 476. Odovakar (Odoacer), leader of Herulian and other German bands in the pay of Rome, became ruler in Italy, after the deposition of the last emperor of the West (p. 162). There was no conquest of the western empire by Odovakar, but the line of Emperors in the "West came to an end in consequence of domestic revolution, and thereby the last bond was broken which had united the provinces, long since occupied by the barbarians, who, however, had usually nominally recognized the supremacy of the Imperator or Augustus in Ravenna. 486. Battle of Soissons. The Merowingian Chlodwig (Cldodowech, Clovis, 481-511), leader of the Salic Franks, defeated the Roman governor Syagrius, the successor of Aetius. Kingdom of the Franks in northern Gaul. Clilodwif]^ by cruelty and deceit made himself sole ruler of all the Franks. 496. Victory of Chlod\\4g over the Alamanni (not at Tolbiacum or Ziilpich).^ Conversion of Chlodwig and the Franks to Catholic Christianity. Chlodwig baptized by RemigiuSy 1 Assmann, I. 53. 174 Mediceval History. a. d. bishop of Rlieims (^Mitis depone colla Sigamher, adora quod incendiati, incende quod adorasti). 493. Theodoric the Great (493-526), after having de- feated Odovakar, with whom he had been at war since 489, founded the 493-555. Kingdom of the East Goths (Ostrogoths) in Italy. Residence Ravenna, at times Verona, hence in the hero romances : Dietrich von Bern. Cassiodorus, historian. Boethins {de con solatione philosophice)^ and Syuinuichus, executed (525). 500. Chlodwig, king of the Franks, attacked the Burgmidians, to revenge himself on Gundobad, the uncle of his wife Chlotildey for the murder of her father, defeated them at Dijon, and made them tributary to the Franks. 507. Chlodwig defeated the West Goths at Vouille, or Voulon,i on the Clain, a branch of the Vienne, m the vicinity of Poitiers. The West Goths, assisted by the East Goths, defeated the Franks at Aries, and maintained their control of Septimania (the coast be- tween the Rhone and Pyrenees). Theodoric the Great united a part. of southern Gaul to the king- dom of the East Goths, and undertook the government of that part which the West Goths retained, as well as of the Spanish possessions of that people, as the guardian of their king, his grandson Ama- laric, a minor (son of Alaric II.), and retained it till his death (52(3), which first severed the connection of the two Gothic kingdoms. 507 (526)-711. West Gothic (Visigothic) Kingdom in Spain, with its capital at Toledo. 526. After the death of Theodoric, his daughter Amalasuntha be- came regent in the East Gothic kingdom for her son Athalaric. The latter died young (534), and his mother associated with herself as co-regent her cousin Theodakad {Theodat), who murdered her, thereby causing 535-555. War between the East Goths and the Eastern Empire. 533-534. Belisarius, general of Justinian, Emperor of the East (527-565), destroyed the Vandal power in Africa. Decay of the kingdom of the Vandals after the death of Genseric (477). Hilderic deposed by Gelimer, whom Beli- sarius captured. Brilliant campaign of Belisarius against Vitiges, king of the 540. East Goths, whom he carried captive to Constantinople. Belisarius, after he had declined the Italian crown, offered him by the East Goths, was dispatched by Justinian against the Persians. During his absence the East Goths, under their new king Totila, reconquered the greater part of Italy. 1 Dahn, Die Konir/e d. Germ. V. 109. A. D. Migrations of the Northern Peoples* 175 544-549. Belisariiis, sent a- lishing there the empire of Hia. Succeeding emperors were less for- tunate, and paid tribute to the Tatars (976-1101). I 212 MedicBval History. A. D. Japan.i From the reign of Ojin (270-310, p. 33) to tha close of the sixth 1 century, the history of Japan is a record of quiet progress in civiliza- tion, under the influence of continental intercourse and of increasing wealth. Throughout this period, as before, the Mikados were actual sovereigns and personal connnanders. The close of this epoch saw the introduction of Buddhism into Japan and its rapid spread (p. 33). The seventh century is of surpassing interest in the history of Japan, for then it was tliat causes long working in silence and un- seen resulted in changes subversive of the entire social and political life of the Japanese, — changes which led to the withdrawal of the Mikado from personal intercourse with his subjects beliind a veil of formal etiquette and heightened reverence, and to the predominance of the military over the civil power, until the actual govermnent of the country passed from its legal sovereign, the Mikado, into the hands of an usurping military chieftain, thus creating a long-enduring, much misunderstood system of dual government, — changes whose final outcome was a feudal system corresponding to that known to mediaeval Europe, which, with its legitimate offspring, oppression, weakness, anarchy, lasted until 1868. These changes were the following : I. The growth of a numerous court nobility of imperial, and hence of divine, descent. II. The creation of numerous offices of state which became the property of the court nobility. III. The division of the male population into an ; agricultural and a military class. IV. The separation of state offices into two sections, the civil and the military, and the continuance of each in the hands of one group of noble families. I. The kuge, or court nobility, owed their numbers to the practice of polygamy, Avhicli the necessity of providing against the extinction of a divine dynastic line imposed on the Mikados. They comprise at present one hundred and fifty-five families, which form among them- selves larger groups, or clans. Such clans are : the Fuji-wara, the most famous of all the huge; the Sugawara ; the Taira (Heike in Chinese characters) ; the Minamoto (Genji in Cliinese charac- ters). II. In 603 the requirements of a more extensive empire caused the establishment of eight great administrative departments, and of a host of smaller offices, which were filled by members of the huge, and gradually became vested in certain families. III. The demand of the grooving empire for increased military efficiency led to the division of the whole male population into two classes : 1. the class of agricultural laborers, comprising all who were unfit for military service; they were relegated to a life of un- broken toil, and were burdened with the annual payment of a quan- tity of rice sufficient for the support of the 2. military class, the Samurai, which included all the bravest and most intellectual men in Japan. Relieved from the necessity of working by the tax received from the first class, and not overbiu'dened with military duties, these ^ Gritfis, The Mikado's Empire. Reed, Japan. Adams, History of Japan. A. D. Crusades. 213 men were free to devote themselves to the pursuit of literature and learning-, foi-niin<;- the best element in the luition. IV. The Fujitcara, increasing in power, gradually absorbed all civil offices, while the military offices were hlled from the two families of Taira and Minamoto, better known as Hei and Gen. Thus did the Fiijiwara become enervated by the luxury of palace life ; thus did the Mikado, while his office gained in respect and reverence by its envi- ronment of titled officials, lose all real power, and sink to a mere pup- pet in tlu; hands of intriguing nobles, to be installed and dei)osed at will ; thus did both emperor and court constantly lose ground before the growing intiuence of those energetic families to whom were given the active duties of military command. The generals, or Shoguns, became the " Mayors of the Palace " of Japan. So originated the dual government, which was not, as foreigners long thought, a con- stitutional institution, whereby the civil and military functions of gov- ernment were vested in the ShOgtm or temporal emperor (Tycoon), and the religious functions in the Mikado or spiritual emperor, but an un- constitutional innovation, wherein a subordinate officer had usurped that authority which belonged of right to the only emperor, the Mi- kado, and whose position that emperor had never recognized. The natural result of this state of affairs was the evolution of mili- tary feudalism, whose rise is considered in the next period. 794. The capital of the empire, the home of the Mikado and the kuge', permanently fixed at Kioto, near Lake Biwa. 1156. Outbreak of war between the families of Gen and Hei {Mina- moto and Taira), which had previously shared the military offices in peace. THIRD PERIOD. EPOCH OF THE CRUSADES (1096-1270). § 1. CRUSADES. Cause : The pilgrimages of the Christians to the Holy Sepulchre, where . Crusades, 215 1147-1149. Second Crusade. Without result. Cause : CoiKjuest of Edessa hy Emadeddln ('Iniad-tjd-Deen) Zenki, Emir of Mossul (1144). Second conquest and destruction of the city hy his son Nouredd'm (Noor-ed-Deen) (1140). Bernard, ab- bot of Clairvaux, preached the Crusade. Conrad III. of Germany and Louis VII. of France started for Palestme ; the former from RegeJishurg (Ratisbon), the latter from Mdz, somewhat later. Both armies passed through Hungary to Asia Minor , the German army, being far in advance, entered Phrygia, where it was almost anniliilated by want and by the opposition of the Sultan of Iconium, but few regaining Nicfea. With this scanty fol- lowing Conrad joined the expedition of the Fi*ench army along the coast, but returned from Ephesus to Constantinople, on account of ill health. Louis and the French nobility took sliip from Pauiphylia for Antiochia. The common soldiery contumed by land to Cilicia, and were completely annihilated by hunger and the enemy. Conrad went from Constantinople to the Holy Land by sea (1148), and in conjunction with the French made an unsuccessful attack on Da- mascus. 1189-1192. Third Crusade. Conquest of Acre {St. Jean d'Acre), or Ptolemais. Cause : Capture of Veit (Gui/) of Lusignan, king of Jerusalem, at Tiberias on the sea of Genezareth. Conquest of Acre and Jerusa- lem by Saladin (Salah-ed-Deen) (1187), the founder of the dynasty of the Ayouhites in Egypt. He treated the Christians magnani- mously. The emperor Frederic I., who in his youth had taken part in the second Crusade, undertook in his old age an expedition from Regens- burg (Ratisbon) in the spring of 1189, passed through Hungary, spent the winter in Adrianople, crossed (1190) to Asia Minor, con- (uiered Iconium, and went to Cilicia, where he was dro^vned in the Calycadnus (Seleph). His son, Frederic of Swabia, led a part of the pilgrims, many having turned back, by way of Tarsus, Antiochia, and Tyrus to Accon (Ptolemais, St. Jean d'Acre). He died (1191) durmg the siege of this city, which was conducted by the king Guy of Lusignan, who had gained his freedom. Richard the Lion-Hearted (Coeur-de-Lion), king of England, but French in nationality and language, and Philip II., Augustus (French Auguste, a title of respect which was given him later), king of France, went by sea to the Holy Land (1190), — Richard from Mar- seilles, Philip from Genoa ; participation of Genoa, Pisa, and Venice. After a long stay in Sicily and many quarrels the two kings reached Acre, which Lusignan had already besieged for nearly two years. The city was now soon forced to surrender (July, 1191). Philip having quarrelled with Richard, returned to France (1191). Heroic deeds (and .cruelty) of Richard, who, however, was twice obliged to turn back from before Jerusalem. Armistice with Saladin. The strip of coast from Joppa to Acre given to the Christians ; pil- grimages to the holy places permitted. Richard gave Cyprus, which 216 Mediaeval History. a. d. he had conquered in 1191, as a fief to Veil {Guy) of Lusignan (au- tumn of 1192), who transferred his title of " King of Jerusalem " to Henry of Champagne. Richard on his return suffered a shipwreck at Aquileia, was recog- nized in Vienna, detained by Leopold, duke of Austria, at the com- mand of the emperor Henry VI., kept a prisoner by the emperor thirteen months in Trifels (near Annweiler in the county Palatine) and in Worms, and released only upon payment of a ransom and ren- dering homage.^ 1202-1204. Fourth Crusade. Latin empire (1204-1261). At the instance of Pope Innocent III. (preaching by Fulco of Neuilly) a Crusade directed originally against Egypt was undertaken by powerful French barons, assisted by Baldiuin, count of Flanders, and Boniface, marquis of Moutferrat. The Crusaders undertook the siege of Zara in Dalmatia, which the king of Hungary had seized, for the Venetians (Doge Henry Dandolo), partly in payment for transport. At the urgent request of Alexius, son of the Eastern emperor Isaac Angelus, who had been dethroned by his brother, a request strongly supported by Philip of Swabia, the Crusaders went to Constantinople with the Venetian fleet of 480 sail, captured the city, and replaced Alexius and his father on the throne (1203). The emperor was un- able to fulfill his compact with the Crusaders. (Union of the Greek Church with that of Rome ; large payments in money.) Contention, during which the city caught fire. Revolt of the Greek populace. (Isaac died.) After the murder of Alexius by the Greeks, second capture of the city, pillage, new conflagration, which consumed many works of ancient literature. Establishment of the Latin empire (Baldtvin, emperor) ; many coast districts and islands fell to the Venetians; the marquis of Mout- ferrat became king of Thessalonica ; French dukes in Athens, Achaia, etc. Villehardouin, historian of the expedition. Establishment of a Greek empire at Niccea by Theodore Lascaris, and a second, the empire of Trebizond on the coast of the Pontus Eur- xinus, by a descendant of the Comnenes. Michael Palceologus, of the Nicfean empire, put an end to the Latin empire in 1261. 1212. The children's Crusade. Thousands of German and French boys started for the Holy Land. Many died on the way, many were sold into slavery. 1217. Crusade of Andrew II., king of Hungary, without result. 1218-1221. Unsuccessful attack upon Egypt under John of Brienne^ " king of Jerusalem." 1228-1229. Fifth Crusade. Jerusalem regained for a short time. Frederic IL, emperor of the West, who was under the papal ban 1 It is probable that the story of the Austrian banner having betn trodden in the filth at Acre by Richard's command is not a fable (cf, Tceche, Knher Heinrich, VI. pp. 256, 558), but the imprisonment of Richard had doubtless higher political motives, and is suthcicntly explained by the alliance of Richard with the Welfic party in Germany, see p. 223. I, I A. Do Crusiules. 217 \ for not having fulfilled lifs promise of undertaking a Crusade, went to Acre by sea, and received Jerumlem (where he crowned himself), Nazareth, and a strip of land reaching to the coast, together with Sido7i, from Sultan Kameel {El Kdmil), on condition of a ten years' armistice. Jerusalem was lost again, and finally, 1244. 1248-1254. Sixth Crusade. Without result. Louis IX., king of France (St. Louis), went to Cyprus and passed the winter there. In order to destroy the Saracen power in its stronghold of Egypt, he went m the spring of 1249 to Damietta and captured the city. On the expedition which he undertook in November against Cairo, Louis was defeated by the Ayoubite Sultan Toorun-shdh (Almoadan), cut off from Damietta, and captured with the entire French army (April, 1250). The execution of the treaty of peace, whereby the king was to be liberated on condition of evacu- ating Darmietta and paying a heavy ransom, was delayed by the over- throw of the Ayoubites by the Mamelukes. Louis coasted along Palestine, fortified Acre and other cities of the coast, in the course of a residence of almost four years, and returned to France in 1254. 1268. Antiochia lost to the Mohammedans. 1270. Seventh Crusade. Without result. Louis IX, went to Tunis, where he and the greater part of tho army were carried off by sickness. 1291. Acre (Ptolemais) stormed by the Mamelukes ; the Christians abandoned their last possessions in Palestine {Tyre, Berytus, Sidon). The Crusades were the greatest events of the Middle Age. In spite of the excesses and cruelties of many of the Crusaders they lend to the time to which they belong an ideal, a religious character. Results of the Crusades : 1. Increased power and authority of the Church and the Papacy. 2. Increase of the personal power of princes, owing to the reversion of many feudal holdings which became vacant. 3. Rise of mdependent communities, who bought their freedom from their overlords who needed funds for the pilgrimage. 4. Devel- opment of commerce. The Italian republics at the height of their power. 5. Intellectual growth resulting from the new ideas brought back from the East ; especial advance in the knowledge of geography and natural history. 6. Perfection of the institution of knighthood (chivalry) ; the three Religious Orders of Knighthood. 1. Knights of St. John, or Hospitalers; i, e. knights of the hospital of St. John in Jerusalem, founded by merchants from Amalfi, 1048. The brotherhood was enlarged after the first Crusade {Gerhard), and converted into an order of knightliood after the manner of the Templars {Raimund Dupuis). Black mantle, lohite cross. The order was transferred to Cyprus (1291), to Rhodes (1310), whence they were called Knights of Rhodes. Rhodes lost, 1522 ; in 152G the order received a gift of Malta from the emperor Charles V., thence called Knights of Malta. Knights of the Temple or Templars (from the temple of Solomon, 218 Mtdicuval History. A. d. on whose site stood the house of the order in Jerusalem), orig- inating in a union of nine French knights in 1118 {Hugo de Payens). White mantle, red cross. In 1291 the order was transferred to Cyprus; in 1312 dissolved by Pope Clement V. at the Council of Vienne. 3. The Order of Teutonic Knights, originally brotherhood of the German hospital founded in 1128 (?) in Jerusalem, raised to an order of knighthood by Frederic of Swahia before Acre, dur- ing the third Crusade. White mantle, black cross. Seat of the order at Acre. Under the grand maLter Hermann of Salza a band of knights went to Prussia, then occupied by the heathen Wends, in 1226. Hermann of Balk, first Landmeister in Prus- sia, which was subjugated by bloody wars (1226-1283). In 1291 the seat of the grand master was tranferred to Venice, 1309 to Marienhurg, 1457 to Konigsherg. The land of the order was secularized in 1525. Those knights who remained Catho- lic maintained possession of the German estates. Residence of the grand master at Alergentheim at Franconia. The or- der was dissolved in 1809. In all three orders, knights, priests, brothers in service. § 2. GERMANY AND ITALY. 1125-1137. Lothar of Saxony, supported by his son-in-law Henry the Proud, duke of Bavaria, ! of the house of Welf, whom he later appointed duke of Saxony as well, and Berthold, duke of Zahringen. Lothar fought (until 1135) against the two powerful Hohenstaufens, Frederic, duke of Swabia, and Conrad, nephew of the last emperor, Henry V. Their father was Frederic of Biiren and Stanfen, son-in-law of the emperor Henry IV. (p. 200). 1132-1133. On his first Roman expedition Lothar was crowned hj Pope Innocent II., and accepted the allodial possessions of Matilda of Tuscany as a fief from the Pope. 1136-1137. On liis second Roman expedition Lothar attacked the Norman Roger II., who had assumed the title of king of the two Sicilies, and drove him for a short time to Sicily. On his return Lothar died at Breitenivang in upper Bavaria (Dec. 3-4, 1137). Under Lothar's reign German influence made great advances in the North and East. The Danish king Magnus recognized anew the overlordship of the Emperor ; Bohemia did feudal homage. The Wends were driven back, and in increasing numbers converted to Christianity. Holstein given to Adolf, count of Schaumburg, the margravate of Meis- sen to Conrad of Wettin, the Nordmark or A Itmark, at the mouth of the Havel and on the left bank of the Elbe, to Albert the Bear, of the house of Ballenstddt or Askania (1134), who had done Lothar im- portant service on the first Roman expedition. Albert crossed the Elbe and conquered almost the entire Mittelmark, which then received the name of Brandenburg, from its chief city. A.. D. Genudiiij and Italy. 219 1138-1254. House of Hohenstaufen (Staufer),^ so called froiii the castle of Stanfeii in Swabia. 1138-1152. Conrad III., elected by the party opposed to the Saxon house, without par- ticipation of the Saxons and Bavarians. War of the Ghibellines (Italian corruption of WaihUngen, the name of a castle of the Hohenstaufens) and the Welfs, or Guelfs (c'f. the genealogical table). Conrad put Henr/j the Proud under the ban, and gave Saxony to Albert the Bear, and Bavaria to LeopoZo? /F., margrave of Austria. 1139. During the changing fortunes of the war Henry the Proud died. The claims of his ten-year-old son Henrif (afterwards called the Lion) to Saxony were maintained by the hitter's mother and grandmother and their connection. Bavaria was claimed by Welf VI., brother of Henry the Proud. Welf ad- vanced to the relief of the city of Weinsherg, which Conrad besieged. In the 1140. Battle ^ of Weinsherg Conrad conquered, and the city was com- pelled to surrender. (" The Faitliful Wives of Weinsherg," poem by Burger.) After the death of Leopold of Austria (Oct. 18, 1141), Bavaria fell to his brother, Henry Jasomirgott,^ who married Gertrude, Henry the Proud's widow (1142). Her son, Henry the Lion, received Saxony. Albert the Bear gave up his claim to Saxony ; the mark of Bran- denhurg, which was a fief held directly from the emperor (reichsun- mittelhar), and his other possessions, which his enemies had occupied, v/ore restored to him. Conrad's Crusade (p. 215). Conrad, whose eldest son, Henry, who had already been elected king, died before him, appointed as his suc- cessor not his second son, a minor, but his nephew, Frederic of Swabia, who was unanimously elected by the princes. Conrad died Feb. 11, 1152, at Bamberg. 1152-1190. Frederic I., Barbarossa, one of the most heroic figures of the Middle Age. Diet at Merseburg. Frederic settled the disputed succession to the Danish crown. Sven became kmg of Deimiark as a vassal of the empire (1152). Frederic's main object was to make good the imperial authority, and in particular to restore the imperial rights in northern Italy, which had become narrowed by neglect. Hence war with the power- ful republican cities of Lombardy. Six expeditions to Italy. 1154-1155. Fii-st expedition. Frederic destroyed some small places which opposed him, and was crowned king of Italy in Pavia, 1 V, Baumer, Gtsch. der Hohenstnufen u. ihrer Zeit ; JaSd, Gesch. desd. B. unter Konrad III. ; Prutz, Geschichte Friedrichs I. ■^ Recent investigators deny that the cry of lilt Wtlf! Hie Waiblinyen ! was heard liere for the first lime. <* So called from his favorite oath. 220 Mediaeval History. D. o O ••^ CO 1 11- -p ^00 w 1^ ■^■^ COo fS o :^ o s 13 p^ Q .© S (J) (N ■ ©4- CO 6 -1— ci o^-i ;3 oi-^ -l|- Wo -b«^ C S^ ^H Q .Sio e 05 -g sJi ^1 ,j_ •- «+H t— I o t. S C^" . ci Pi £CQ P £~ ;§"o p _x 2 s 'S c4 m p- s 0) C3 'o tH •S >■ ^ 'C ^-o 1— I •"^ .2 1 >. -5 '£ ^ 43 C3 S "o w Is c'o >i '*-! Ol c« s C rH cu. a- 1^ _a -i-< OQ f^ 2 a O Pi _o~oi 1 ~|5 o CO s c3 Sz; ^ 'Si a '^ gl a •g (M :S a THfJS N H-E-. a> S ^J-qn -Q II « o a -bD!-> jT O) e3X5 ^^ o -2 S s Pl-t- o O b^ •^ 00 ,. 'Co <» b r-l 3 A. D. Germain/ and Italy. 221 and emperor at Rome by Hadrian IV., who had appealed to him for aid a<;aiiist the Romans. Arnold of Brescia, schohir of the schoohnan Abelard, a popidar preacher, who inveighed against the secuhir power of the clergy and possession of estates by the church, was condemned and burnt. llo3. Convention of Constance between Frederic and the Papal See. 115G. Henry the Lion received Bavaria again. Austria was sep- arated from Bavaria, and raised to a duchy, hereditary in the female as well as the male line. 1157. Diet at Wiirzburg. Nearly all the states of the West did homage to the imperial power (Holy Roman Empire). In Besan(^on the Burgundian nobles submitted again to the em- pire. The Bohemian duke Vladislav received from Fred- eric the 7'0}/al crown. 1158-1162. Second expedition to Italy. The Lombard cities, including Milan itself, submitted. At the diet on the Ron- calian Fields the rights of the emperor were defined as against the cities. Jurisdiction in the cities transferred from the consuls to an officer of the empire, the Podesta. Prohibition of the right of pri- vate war between the cities. The Milanese revolted. Quarrel be- tween the Pope and the emperor. Tedious war with Milan, wliich surrendered after a two years' siege. At the emperor's command 1162. Milan was destroyed by the inhabitants of the neighbormg cities. 1159-1177. Schism in the Church. Alexander III. elected by the majority of the cardinals, Victor IV. by the minority (who favored the emperor), and recognized by the comicll which Frederic convened at Pa via. Alliance between Alex- ander III. and the Lombard cities. 1163. Third Expedition without an army. After the death of Victor III. (April, 1164), a new anti-pope. Paschal III., was elected by the imperial party. New disturbances in Italy soon broke out. 1166-1168. Fourth Expedition. Paschal III. conducted to Rome by Frederic. 1167. Lombard LeaR:ue between the cities of Lombardy {Cremona, Bergamo, Brp^^na, Mantua, and Ferrnra) and the cities of the Veronese March (^Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Treviso), which had united in 1164. Union of Guelfs with Ghibellines. They rebuilt Milan, built Alessandria (so called after their ally, Pope Alexander III.), and occupied the passes of the Alps. The emperor, whose army was almost annihilated by a plague which broke out in Rome, with difficulty escaped to Germany. In Germany a great feud had been raging since 1166 between Henry the Lion and his enemies, the archbishops of Magdeburg and Bremen, Albert the Bear, Otto of Meissen, etc. The emperor put an end to the strife at the Diet of Bamberg (1168). Henry the Lion undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem (1172). 1174-1177. Fifth Expedition. The emperor entered Lombardy over Mont Cenis. He besieged Alessandria in vain. Henry 222 MedicBval History. A. D. the Lion deserted him and returned to Germany. The em- peror attacked the Lombards, but in spite of Ids heroic cour- age, at the 1176. Battle of Legnano, was completely defeated. Negotiations and armistice with Alexander III. and the Lombard cities. 1177. Reconciliation between the emperor and the Pope at Venice. 1183. The definitive peace with the Lombard cities was concluded at Constance. The emperor renounced all regal privileges which he had hitlierto claimed in the towns ; acknowledged the right of the confederated cities to levy armies, to fortify themselves, and to exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction., By the popular nomination the consuls acquired the rights of i imperial vicars. The extension of the confederacy for the purpose of maintaining these rights was authorized. The cities agreed to maintain all just rights of the emperor, a recognition of the overlordship of the emperor, which, how- ever, they were allowed to redeem by an annual payment. Henry the Lion humbled in Germany. After his neglect to appear at four diets, he was put under the ban of the empire and his fiefs declared forfeited (1180). He defended himself bravely and de- feated the archbishop of Cologne. Upon the approach of the em- peror Henry's vassals gradually deserted him. Henry threw himself j at the emperor's feet in Erfurt (1181), but was allowed to retain hisi allodial estates only, Braunschweig {Brunsicick) and Liinehurg. Divis- ion of the old duchy of Saxony. Part of Westphalia was given to the archbishopric of Cologne. Liiheck, 'Hamburg, and Bremen became ; in the course of time free cities, owing allegiance to the empire only. ' The archbishop of Magdeburg and Bremen, the bishops of Hcdber- stadt, Hildesheim, Liibeck, etc., the coim^s- of Holstein and Oldenburg^ etc., became immediate vassals of the empire. Eastern Saxony and the ducal title were given to Bernard of As- kania, son of Albert the Bear. Otto of Wittelsbach recei\ed Bavaria. Henry the Lion was o))liged to leave the country for three years. , He went to the court of Henry 11. of England, his father-in-law. 1184. Brilliant court festival at Mainz. 1184-1186. Sixth expedition to Italy (peaceful). The emperor gave his son Henry, who was now twenty-one, but had long 1186. been king elect of Germany, in marriage to Constance, daughter of Roger LI., aunt and heiress of William IL., the last Norman king of Naples and Sicily. 1190. Frederic's crusade and death (p. '215). His son, King Henry, whom he left behind as vicegerent, was obliged to take the field against Henry the Lion, who, upon the emperor's departure, had been sent out of the empire for another three years, but had since re- turned from England. The death of William II. of Sicily in Nov- einber, 1189, led Henry to come to an understanding with Henry the Lion. In the mean time came the news of the emperor's death. 1190-1197. Henry VI., a highly educated statesman, but stern and relentless. 1191. First expedition to Italy. Henry received the imperial crown at A. D. Germnnij and Italy. 223 Rome, after he had abandoncMl Tusciilum, which had ever hcen true to his fatlier, to the Romans. The city was d(!stroyed ; Frascati grew nj) near its site, llemy went to Napk^s to rescue the inher- itance of his wife, Constance, from Tancred of Lecce, whom the native party in Pakn-mo had elected king. Unsuccessful siege of Naples for three months. Sickness m the army compelled the emperor to return to Germany. 1192-1194. New war with Henry the Lion, who had not kept the first treaty. The war ended in a compromise, the conclusion of which was assisted by the liberation of the brother-in-law of Henry the Lion, Richard Cmur-de-Lion of England (p. 21G), and by a marriage between Agnea, daughter of the emperor's uncle, Conrad, count palatine of the Rhine, with Henry, son of Henry the Lion. 1194. Second expedition to Italy, where Tancred had died, War with his widow and his son William. The emperor sidiju- gated the kingdom of the two Sicilies, and punished with severity the participants in a conspiracy against himself. 1194. Henry threatened with exconmumication for withholding the estates of Matilda (p. 200) from the Pope. 119G. Diet at Wiirzburg. Henry's plan of making Germany (united with the Sicilies) an hereditary monarchy, on condition that all fiefs should become hereditary, even in the female line, failed in consequence of the resistance of the princes and the lesser nobility. 1197. Third expedition to Italy. Henry suppressed a second con- spiracy with cruel severity. In the midst of his great plans (conquest of the Eastern Empire, Crusade), he died suddenly m Messhia, thirty-two years old (28 Sept. 1197). Double election in Germany. 1198-1208. Philip of Swabia, youngest son of Frederic Barbarossa. 1198-1215 (1218). Otto IV. of Brunswick, son of Hemy the Lion. 1198-1215. A¥ar for the crown between the house of Hohenstaufen and of Welf. Otto IV., recognized by Pope Innocent III., was defeated by Philip and his power reduced almost to the limits of Brunswick. In the midst of preparations for a last and decisive combat Philip was assassinated at Bamberg by the count palatine Otto of Wittehhach. Otto IV. was universally recognized and croAvned at Rome by Innocent III. (1209), after having abandoned the estates of Matilda to the papal chair and made other concessions. He was soon involved in a quarrel with the Pope, however, and the latter put forward his ward Frederic, son of Henry VI., as anti-emperor (1212). Otto IV., in alliance with England, was defeated at Bouvines (near Lille) by Philip II. Augustus (1214), and returned to his own do- mains. Died at the Harzburg (May 10, 1218). 1212-1250. Frederic XL also king of the two Sicilies, a prince of remarkable gifts, but passionate, more Italian than German, having been born in Sicily and educated by his Italian 224 Mediceval History. A. d. mother. He was an energetic opponent of the spiritual supremacy, having indeed but little liking for the church ; in his hereditary estates he favored the Saracens. 1215. Frederic went to Germany, was crowned German king in Aachen, where he promised to undertake a crusade, and 1217. gave Swabia to his young son Henry, and 1220. had him elected king of Rome (the title given to the Ger- man king elect). Frederic left Germany for fifteen years. Expe- dition to Rome. After renewing the promises which he had for- merly made to Pope Innocent III. (feudal supremacy of the papal chair over his hereditary domain, which should never be united with Germany, crusade), he was crowned by Honorius III. at Rome. 1222. The emperor's son Henry, solenmly crowned king at Aachen. His chief adviser and chancellor was Engelbert, archbishop of Cologne (murdered 1225). 1225. Frederic took as his second wife, lolanthe, daughter of John of Brienne, titulary king of Jerusalem. Promise of a crusade renewed. 1226. Diet at Cremona ; quarrels with the Lombard cities. 1227. The Crusade which had been commenced was broken up by a contagious disease. The successor of Pope Honorius III., the octogenarian Gi^egory IX., placed the emperor under the ban. 1227. Battle of Boriihovede. The Danes, who under Waldemar II. had extended their power over the coasts of the Baltic, were decisively defeated. 1228-1229. Crusade of Frederic II. (p. 216). 1229. Frederic drove from his dominions the papal (key) troops, who had invaded them. 1230. Peace with the Pope at S. Germano. Removal of the ban. 1230-1240. Legislation of Frederic in his Sicilian kingdom. Regulation of feudal relations. Representation of the cities. 1234. Revolt of the young king Henry, in alliance with the lower German nobility and the Lombard cities, against his father, sup- pressed by Frederic with the aid of the princes of the empire and the imperial cities. Henry submitted, was kept in strict confinement, then sent to Italy, where he died, 1242. Reconciliation with the Welfs. Erection of a new duchy, Brunsivick-Lilneburg, for Otio the Child. Third marriage of the emperor at Worms with Isabella, sister of Henry III. of England. Diet at Mainz. Enactment of a public peace (jirst publication of a law in German as well as in Latin). 1236. Victorious campaign against the Lombards. In Germany Frederic the Warlike of Austria, a follower of the rebel Henry, deposed and put under the ban. 1237. Frederic II. m Vienna, which was proclaimed an imperial city. Afterwards Frederic the Warlike received Austria and Styria again. 1237. Diet at Speier. Election and coronation of Conrad, the sec- ond son of the emperor as German king. 1237. Brilliant victory of Frederic over the Lombards at Corte- Nov. nuova. Frederic's obstinacy in pressing his demands too A. D. Get many and Italy. 225 far, prevented ihe complete subjugation of Lombardy. Interference of the Pope, who had chiinis on Sardinia, and was offended at tlie assumption by Frederic's natural son Enzio (an Italian corruption of Heinz), the husband of Adelisa, heiress of a part of the island, of the title of k-inr/ of Sardinia. 1239-1250. War of Frederic II. with the Popes Gregory IX. and Innocent IV. 1239. Frederic accused of heresy by Gregory and excommunicated anew. Ancona conquered by Enzio. 1241. Naval victory of Enzio at Elba over the Genoese fleet which was conveying some ecclesiastics to the council at Rome. Death of Gregory. His successor, Innocent IV. (1243-1254), fled to Lyons. Germany tlireatened with a Mongol invasion (p. 240). Innocent IV. called a council at 1245. Lyons, renewed the ban against the emperor, formally de- posed liim, summoned the German princes to a new election, and urged all subjects of the emperor to revolt. In Ger- many the spiritual princes elected 1246-1247. Heinrich Raspe, landgrave of Thuringia, who, though at first victorious, was defeated by Conrad, Frederic's son, at Ulm, and died (1247) at the Wartburg. The house of the landgraves of Thuringia ending with Heinrich Raspe, the eastern part of that state was joined to the margravate of Meissen, while the western part became the landgravate Hessen. 1247-1256. William of Holland, second anti-king, attained no authority in Germany. 1248. Frederic, at first successful in Italy, was repulsed before Padua. His son Enzio was captured by the Bolognese in the 1249. Battle of Fossalta (died after an imprisonment of twenty-two years in a dungeon). Treason (?) of Peter of Vinea (Vineis), Frederic's chancellor. 1250. Frederic died in Fiorentino in the arms of his son Manfred (Dec. 19). He w^as succeeded by his son. 1250-1254. Conrad IV. (anti-king: William of Holland) fought since 1252 for his hereditary realm only, in Italy. 1256. William of Holland fell in battle mth the Frisians (twenty- seven years old). 1256-1273. Interregnum in Germany. Club-law, Fans- trecht. Richard, Earl of Comioall, younger son of King John (Lack- land) of England, elected by a part of the princes, and cro^vned at Aachen, was recognized along the Rhine only (died 1272). Alphonao X. of Castile, grandson of Philip of Hoheustaufen, son of Frederi 3 Barbarossa, elected by the other princes, never came to Germany. In the kingdom of the two Sicilies the brave Manfred, son of Frederic IL, was at first chancellor for the minor king Conradin, son of Conrad IV., afterwards (1258) king. Charles of Anjou, brother 15 226 Mediceval History. a. Eh of Loiiis IX. of France, to whom the Pope gave the crown, defeated Manfred, who was betrayed by liis barons, at Beneventum (1266), and made himself king of Naples and Sicily. Manfred fell on the field. Conradin went to Italy with Frederic of Baden, also called Fred- eric of Austria (being the son of the Babenberg heiress of Austria). He was defeated between Scurcola and Tagliacozzo on Logo di Celano (1268), and executed at Naples. 1282. Sicilian vespers, so called because the conspiracy broke out on Easter Monday at vesper time. Slaughter of all the French in Sicily. John of Procida. Peter of Aragon, king of Sicily, Charles of Anjou limited to the kingdom of Naples. § 3. FRANCE.1 The royal domam of the Capetians was at first limited to the duchy of France {Isle de France and Orleanais). Tlie great vassals, who were, in the beginning, almost independent, were gradually reduced to submission in this and the following period. 1060-1108. Philip I. Quarrel with Gregory VII. First Crusade. A long reign, in which the king accomplished notlmig. 1108-1137. Louis VI., the Fat, an able and good king, who had, moreover, the good sense to avail himself of the talents of Suger, abbot of St. Denis, whom he made minister. Perceptible growth of the royal power. Marriage of the kmg's son, Louis (VII.), with Eleanor, daughter of William of Aquitaine, heiress of Poitou, Guyenne, and Gascony. 1137-1180. Louis VIL Second Crusade (p. 215). Louis was a weak king, a favorite with the clergy, whose reign was less disastrous than might have been expected, because of the influence of Suger, who administered the kingdom during Louis' absence in the East. After his return Louis obtained a divorce from Eleanor, who married Henry of Anjou, conveying to this prince, who soon became king of England, Poitou, Guyenne and Gascony, for which Henry did homage to Louis. In this transfer lay one germ of the hundred years' war. 1180-1223. Philip II., Augustus, one of the ablest of the kings of France ; unscrupulous, cold, but of great political sagacity. (Third) Crusade with Richard Coeur- de-Lion. After Philip's return in 1190 he attacked Normandy, but made little headway during the lifetime of Richard. (Erection of the Chateau Gaillard by Kichard, on the Seine, above Rouen.) After Richard's death (1199) Philip took up the claims of Arthur, son of Richard's brother Geoffrey, who had been passed over in Nor- mandy in favor of Richard's younger brother John, but he was hin- dered from prosecuting them by his quarrel with Innocent III. m relation to the divorce which Philip had secured from his wife, Ingeborg of Denmark, in order that he might marry Agnes of Meran. Submission of Philip (1200). After the death of Arthur (1203) Philip moved upon Normandy 1 Kitchin, History of France. A. D. France. 227 anew. Rejection of the Pope's claim to arbitrate between the kings. The fall of the Chateau Gaillard was followed by the submission of Normandy (li!04). John having refused to obey the summons of Philip to appear for trial on account of the murder of Arthur, Philip declared his fiefs forfeited. Crusade against the Alhigenses, Waldenses and Cathari, rationalist sects protected by Raymond, count of Toulouse, and the viscount of Beziers and Carcassonne (1207-1244). Storm of Beziers (1207. " Slay all, God will know his own."). Conquest of the county of Toulouse by Simon of Montfort (1211-1215). Death of Simon at the siege of revolted Toulouse (1218). War in Flanders with the feudal lords, supported by John of Eng- land and Otto of Germany. Philip, assisted by the cities^ victorious in the 1214. Battle of Bouvines : Aug. 29. Unsuccessful expedition of Philip's son Louis to England (1216). 1223-1226. Louis VIII. New crusade against the comit of Tou- louse, whose lands had been declared forfeit. 1229. Establishment of the Inquisition as a regular tribunal by Pope Gregory IX., inquisitors having existed since 1203 under In- nocent III. 1226-1270. Louis IX., St. Louis. During the king's minority regency of his mother Blanche, who repressed a revolt of the barons. The war with the Albigenses ended by the extermination of the sect (1244). (Sixth) Crusade of St. Louis (p. 217). Blanche regent during his absence. After the king's re- turn, 1254, wise government. Surrender of Perigord, the Limousin and southern Saintonge to Henry of England, whereupon Henry re- nounced his claim to Normandy, A?ijou, Maine, Touraine, Poitou, northern Saintonge. Prohibition of wager of battle. Limitation of feudal jurisdiction. Establishment of right of appeal to the king from the feudal courts in all cases. The Pragmatic Sanction attrib- uted to St. Louis is probably a forgery, but Louis' attitude toward Rome was one of assertion of all regal rights. During this reign the domain of the crown received the following additions : The part of the county of Toulouse between the Rhone, the sea and the Pyrenees (1229), Chartres, Blois, Sancerre, ceded by Theobald of Champagne and Navarre (1234) ; Macon, by purchase (1239) ; Perche (1257); Aries, Forcalquier, Foix and Cahors (1262^. Second (seventh) Crusade and death of St. Louis (1270). 228 MedicEval History, A. D, j ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS FROM ECGBERHT TO HENRY IIL ANGLO-SAXON. Ecgberht. 802-837. Charles the Bald. Emperor. -ffithelwulf = (1) Judith, who 837-858. I afterwards m. I (2) ^thelbald. (3)— I i \ ^ ^thelbald. -asthelberht. -ffithelred. .Alfred. 858-860. 860-866. 866-871. 871-901. Eadward 1 son, 2 dau. ^Ifthryth = the Elder. 901-925. I .ffithelstan. Eadmund. Eadred. 925-940. 940-946. 946-955. FLANDERS. Baldwin 1 NORMANDY. I t879. Baldwin If. 1918. Rollo. Arnulf I. I t 965. William | Longsword. Baldwin (III.) I t 962. I Eadwig. 955-959. Eadgar. 959-975. Richard the Fearless. Eadward the Martyr. 975-978. 1 ^thelred II.=2 Emma. Richard 978-1016. the Good. I 2 Arnulf II. t 988. I Baldwin IV. t 1036. Godwine Earl of Mercia. Eadmund Ironsides. 1016. Eadward J Eadgar iEtheling. Margaret = Malcolm king of Scots. I I Eadward Robert Baldwin V. Harold. Eadgj^th = the Confessor, the Magnificent f 1067. 1066. 1042-1066. or the Devil. | ■William the Conqueror = Matilda. 1066-1087. Eadgar king of Scots. Robert. 'William Ruf us. Henry I. Adela 1087-1100. 1100-1135. m.Stephen Matilda — - • c. of Blois Matilda = Geoffrej' of Anjou, Stephen I Plantagenet. 1135-1154. Henry II. 1154-1189. Henr3^ Richard Coeur-de-Lion. 1189-1199. Geoffrey. Arthur, t 1203. John Lackland. 1199-1216 I Henry III. 1216-1272. A. D. England. 229 § 4. ENGLAND. 1066-1154. Norman kings.^ lOGG-1087. William I., the Conqueror, completed the subjection of the Anglo-Saxons, who were robbed of their estates and terribly ill-treated. Two nationalities and two languages existed for a long time side by side in England, English^ or Anglo-Saxon, and French. The king and the nobility were French Normans or Frenchmen. The submission of 10G6 was partial, Mercia and Northumbria re- maining aloof. 1068. Revolt in the north, incited and aided by a Danish fleet under Swegen. Returning from Normandy William bought off the Danes, and crushed the insurgents by a masterly winter campaign. Northumberland ravaged with lire and sword. 1071. Revolt of the English under Eadivin and Morkere, which ended with the defeat and death of Eadwin, and the capture of Elg in the fens where Morkere had taken refuge with the outlaw Here- ward. 1075-76. Rebellion of the Norman barons in England easily crushed. Revolt of the conqueror's son Robert in Normandy (1077-1080). Imprisonment of William's brother, Odo, bishop of Bayeiix, for trouble- some and intriguing conduct. A threatened invasion from Norway and Denmark averted, 1085. William met liis death by accident while engaged in a struggle with Philip of France about the Vexin (Sept. 9, 1087). After the revolt of 1071. the four large earldoms were abolished, and the shire became the largest political division. Sheriffs appointed by tlie king in each shire. William introduced feudalism in its continental form, piacmg Norman barons over the lands of the English nobility, v/ho gradually sank to the position of a middle class. In 1086 the power of the barons was weakened by the exaction of an oath of fealty from all under tenants to the king direct. The same year saw the completion of the great survey whose results were inscribed in the Domesday Book, an inventory of all lands " burthened with special dues to the crown." The lower local courts were pre- served, but their subordination to the king's court was strongly in- sisted on. William reformed and reorganized the English Church, assisted by Lanfranc, abbot of St. Stephen at Caen, whom he appointed arch- bishop of Canterbury. Homage to the Pope, however, William ex- pressly refused to render. He kept the appointment of bishops in his own hands. No papal letter could be received, no papal synod held in England, no English bishop appeal to Rome without the king's |Consent. 1 AuRustin Thierry. Tlistoire de la conquetede V An'jleterre. Qceen, His- tory of the Enylish Ptuple. 230 Mediceval History. A. Do 1087-1100. ^?7illiam II., the Red, second son of William I. obtained the English crown, while Robert, the eldest son, succeeded in Normandy. A revolt of the Nor- man barons in favor of Robert was suppressed by help of the English in 1090. Death of Lanfranc, 1089. Ascendency of Ranulf Flamhard. Extortions of William. Formation of the New Forest. 1093. Anselm, abbot of Bee, appointed archbishop of Canterbury. He was soon involved in a quarrel with the king on the ques- tion of investitures and on other matters. In 1097 Anselm appealed to Rome and left England. 1097. Edgar, son of Margaret (sister of Eadgar Aetheling), ob- tained the Scottish crown, thus closing the civil war in Scotland between the Celtic and English parties. William was found dead in the New Forest, Aug. 2, 1100 (murdered ?). 1100-1135. Henry I., Beauclerc, on learning of the death of William II., hastened to England and secured the crown in spite of the opposition of those barons who pressed the claim of Robert of Normandy, then returning from the Crusade. Issue of a charter, wherein the exactions and abuses of William the Red were prohibited and the " Law of Edward the Con- fessor " restored. Henry married Matilda, daughter of Malcolm of Scotland, and Margaret, sister of Eadgar Aetheling. Recall of Anselm. 1101. Invasion of Robert of Normandy, with the connivance of many of the Norman barons on both sides of the Channel, ended by treaty without a battle. Punislmient of the rebel barons. Robert of Belesme, earl of Shrewsbury, driven from England. In 1104 Henry invaded Normandy. Robert was defeated at the 1106. Battle of Tinchebrai and kept in captivity until his death (1134). Henry took poss ssion of Normandy. Quarrel with Anselm in regard to investitures, ending, after the exile and return of Anselm, in a compromise (1106). Introduction of the Cistercians in England. Suppression of the great feudatories and substitution of a class of lesser nobles. Death of Henry's son William by the sinking of the " White Ship " in the Channel (1120). Marriage of Henry's daughter Matilda to Geoffrey, son of Fulk the Black, count of Anjou (1128). Normandy and Maine definitely se- cured by Henry. Henry died 1135. 1135-1154. Stephen of Blois, son of Adela, daughter of William I., and the count of Blois, seized the crown in defiance of the rights of Matilda and her son Henry, and was elected at London principally by the citizens. Char- ter of Oxford (1136). (Second) invasion of the Scots repulsed in the 1138. Battle of the Standard, at Coioton Moor in Yorkshire. Arrest of Roger of Salisbury and the bishop of Lincoln (1139). In the same year Matilda landed A. D. England. 231 in England. Stephen defeated, and captured at the hattle of Lincoln (1141). Matilda was elected Ladji of England by the clergy. Her severe and impolitic government soon alienated her followers. Fin- ally Stephen, having been exchanged, took up the war again, which went on with varying success until Il47 when Robert of Gloucester died and Matilda left England. In 1153 Henry of Anjou landed in Eng- land to make good his claim. Without a battle an understandl^ig was reached and Henry was recognized as the heir of the crown (Treaty of Wallingford 1153). The reign of Stephen was one of the darkest periods in English history. His w^eakiiess, and the confusion of civil war had given the feudal nobles full liberty. Castles were erected in great num- bers tlu'oughout England, and each was the home of oppression and cruelty. Stephen died 1154. 1154-1399. House of Anjou (Plantagenet)^ in the di- rect line. 1154-1189. Henry II. Outside of England Henry possessed : 1. Normandy and the suzerainty over Brittany, as the heir of the Norman kings. 2. Anjou and Maine, inherited from his father. 3. Poitou, Guyenne and Gascony, acquired by marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine (1152) ; in all more than half of France. The reign of Henry is the period of full amalgamation of the Eng- lish and the Normans. The accession of Henry (at 21 years of age) was welcomed as the beginning of a better time. Banishment of the mercenaries main- tained by Stephen. Demolition of the castles. Resumption and res- toration of estates, which was attended wdth difficulty, some of the new nobles requiring to be dislodged by force. 1158. First Welsh w^ar not successful. 1162. Thomas Becket, the chancellor, made archbishop of Canter- bury. Reestablishment of the exchequer^ a bureau for assessmg and collecting the taxes. Introduction of scutagCy a commutation in money for personal service in the army permitted to the lower ten- ants. 1163. Second Welsh war. As chancellor, Becket had been the king's servant and friend ; as archbishop, he became at once his opponent, resisting his wishes even in financial matters ; an opposition which seems to have led to the abolition of danegeld (p. 205). Becket bitterly opposed the king's reform of the ecclesiastical law relating to the punishment of eccle- siastics for criminal offenses. Henry demanded that after ecclesias- tical punishment had been administered the offender should be handed over to receive the punishment of the civil law. The wishes of the king in this respect and on other points involving church and state were formulated in the 1 So called from the bit of broom (^ene^ which Geoffrey of Anjou, son of king Fulk of Jerusalem (p. 230), was wont to wear in his helm. 232 Mediceval History. A. d. 1164. Constitutions of Clarendon. The juiisdictioii of secular courts over clerical ofPenders was affirmed, appeal to Home in such cases was prohibited, the election of bishops in the presence of royal officers, and with the king's con- sent, was insisted on, as was the investiture of the bishop or abbot elect with his secular lands by the king. At first Becket accepted the constitutions ; but afterwards he withdrew his acceptance and appealed to Rome. Brought to trial and condemned on some mat- ters connected with his chancellorship, Becket fled to France. 1165. Third Welsh war. 1166. Assize of Clarendon. Reestablishment of Frank-pledge, or mutual responsibility of the inhabitants of a village. In each shire criminals were to be presented by twelve men from the shire and four from each town (grand jury) ; abolition of compurgation (proof of innocence by oath of neighbors) for wliich the ordeal or ' judgment of God was substituted. 1170. Henry under threat of interdict was reconciled with Becket, who returned to England. He soon became embroiled with the king, and was nnirdered by four knights of Henry's court, in consequence of Henry's passionate outbreak against him (December 29, 1170). Establishment of itinerant or circuit judges. Court of appeal, ^ afterwards the great and privy council. 1171. Expedition of Henry to Ireland. A bull of Adrian IV. in 1157 had given this country to Henry, but no use had been made of the authority until Dermod, king of Leinster, fled to Henry, did him homage, and sought aid in his wars. Aid was sent in 1169, and in 1171 Henry went in person. Richard of Clare (Strongbow), son-in-law of Dermod, made earl of Leinster. The southeastern part \ of Ireland submitted to Henry. 1172. Penitence of Henry at Becket's tomb. His absolution. 1173. Rebellion of Henry's eldest son Henry, and general league of French and English lords, Louis VII. and William the Lion of Scotland against the king. Defeat of Louis. Capture of William who was released only after acknowledging Heiu-y as his suzerain (1175). Death of Henry the younger, 1183. 1181. Assize of arms. Restoration of militia service. 1189. Conspiracy of Henry's sons, Richard and John, with Philip of France. Humiliation and death of Henry 11. 1189-1199. Richard I., Cceur-de-Lion. His reign was passed almost entirely away from England. Crusade (p. 215). On his return Richard v/as captured by Leopold of Austria, delivered to the emperor, and detained thirteen months in captivity, being released at last for a heavy ransom. During his absence Eleanor, his mother, was regent. Persecution of the Jews. The intrigues of Philip of France and the king's brother John resulted in war in England, which was quickly suppressed after the return of Richard (1194). For the rest of his reign Richard was in France at war with Philip. Erection of the Chateau Caillnrd on the Seine. Death of Richard before the castle of Chalus-Chahrol (1199), A. D. England. 233 During his absence England was governed by Hubert Walter, and after his resignation in consequence of a refusal of money by the great council, by Geoffrey Fitz Peter. 1199-1216. John LacJdand. John was recognized in England without opposition and secured JVormandt/, but Anjou, Maine and Touraine acknowledged the claim of Arthur son of Geoffrey. 1203. Death of Arthur while in John's power, Philip at once secured the sentence of John and the forfeiture of his fiefs. Nor- mandy, Anjou, Maine, Touraine and a part of Aquitaine were at once lost to John. Henceforward John was restricted to liis English king- dom. Tlie death of Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury (1205) was followed by a disputed election. A reference to Rome resulted in the election of Stephen Langton by command of Innocent III. (1207). John refused to receive him and the kingdom was visited with an interdict (1208). Moved by fear of deposition, John finally yielded, received Langton, and accepted his kingdom as a fief of the papacy (1213). John's exactions and misgovernment had embroiled him with the barons since 1199. Refusal of the barons to follow John to France (1213). 1214. Defeat of John at Bouvines in Flanders (p. 227). On John's return negotiations were opened with the barons, but failed, and the confederated lords occupied London. 1215. Magna Charta granted by John at Runnymede. June The provisions of this charter applied to the commons 15-23. as well as to the nobles and clergy, and directed that its benefits should reach the lower tenants.^ Princii)al provisions : 1. Ratification of Henry's charter. 2. Security for personal freedom ; no freeman should " be taken, imprisoned or damaged in person or estate, but by the judgment of his peers " or " by the law of the land" (Art. 39)."^ 3. Regulation of feudal dues and obligations. 4. Regulation of national taxation ; limitation of the aid (aux- illum) which could be collected without the consent of the great council to the three ancient and well known cases (ransom of the lord ; knighting of his eldest son ; marriage of his eldest daughter). 5. Specification of members of the great council, and of the cases for which, and manner in which it should be convened. The charter declared null and void by the Pope. Suspension of Langton. War soon broke out ; the French party among the barons, declaring the crovrn forfeited, bestowed it upon Louis, son of Philip 1 Stubbs, Early Plantn genets, 149. '- Nullus liber homo cai)iatiir vel imprisoiietnr aiit di^saisiatur aut utlacjhetur ant cxuletur aut aliquo moclo destruatur, nee super eum ibimus. nee super eum niittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terraj. 234 MedicEval History. A. d. of France, who in 1216 came to England. Death of John (October 19, 1216). 1216-1272. Henry III., of Wifichester, son of John. The death of John was fatal to the hopes of Louis. The English party which secured the coronation of the nine-year old Henry, thoug-h small at first soon outnumbered the French. The de- feat of the French fleet off Thanet determined Louis to give up the contest and return to France. Regency of William Marshall (1216- 1219). The Magna Charta was twice reissued in a modified form. After the death of William Marshall, England was governed by Peter des Roches, Pandulf, the papal legate, Hubert de Burgh, the justiciary, and archbishop Langton, who had returned and soon super- seded Pandulf as legate (1221). Second coronation (1220). Third reissue of the charter (1223). Henry's personal government began in 1227, and soon involved the country in difficulties. Heavy taxa- tion necessitated by the demands of the Pope and by the foreign policy of the king. Fall of Hubert de Burgh (1232) ; of Peter des Roches (1234). Marriage of Henry to Eleanor of Provence (1236). Struggle over the money grants in the great council, which hence- forward was called Parliament. Papal exactions of enormous sums of money. Of the French possessions of the Angevines Henry had retained only Aquitaine and Gascony. 1253. Return of Simon of Montfort, earl of Leicester (son of Simon of Montfort, who had led the crusade against the Albi- genses), to England from the government of Gascony. Simon soon took a prominent part in the parliamentary struggle which now as- sumed formidable proportions. 1258. Parliament of Oxford. The barons presented a list of griev- ances, the Provisions of Oxford, the reforms demanded in which were to be carried out under a commission of twenty-four barons. Permanent council of fifteen barons to meet three times a year. 1263. Outbreak of war between the king and the barons. Arbitra- tion of Louis IX. of France (1264). Provisions of Oxford annulled. This decision resulted in a renewal of the war. The king and his son Edivard were defeated in the 1264. Battle of Lewes. ' May 14. Treaty (Mise of Leioes) between the parties. Native coun- selors presented and a new council arranged by a parlia- ment in which four knights from each shire were added to the clergy and nobility. Council of Nine. 1265. Parliament of Simon of Montfort, the first Parliament Jan» 20. to which representatives of the boroughs were called (yet this did not become a legal custom until in the next reign). Edward released. Arms were again taken up. In the 1265. Battle of Evesham, Aug. 4. Earl Simon Avas defeated and fell on the field. Death of Henry (Nov. 16, 1272). In this reign the begging friars came to England. Revival of A. D. The North. 235 scholasticism. Fame of Oxford. Roger Bacon, author of Opm M(u/nim, "the eucyelopfedia of the thirteentli century." Mathew Paris. Revival of Welsh literature. Mabinogion. Geoffrey of Mon- mouth. Romances of Arthur. § 5. THE NORTH. Denmark. 1134^1397. Tlie extinction of the direct line of Estridsen (p. 208) was followed by a period of confusion and wars over the succession (^Erik Emurif 11^4-1137, Erik Lamb, 1137-1147) until, 1157-1182. Waldemar I., the Great, was elected to the throne. Subjugation of the Wends, who had long harassed Denmark. Capture of Ancona on the island of Riigen. Suppression of a revolt in Skaania, caused by the severity of bichop Absalon. Waldemar's son 1182-1202. Knut VI. was even more successful than his father, and refused to acknowledge the suzerainty of the emperor, Frederic Barbarossa, as Waldemar" had done. Defeat of a naval expedition of the Wends, who received aid from the emperor, by bishop Absalon (1184) ; Hither Pommerania submitted, as did a part of Mecklenburg. Knut, " King of the Slavs." Expedition to Esthonia. War with the count of Holstein and other German princes. Conquest of Liibeck and Ham- burg. Capture of Adolf of Holsiein. Quarrel with Philip Augustus of France over his treatment of Ingebord (p. 226). Knut was suc- ceeded by liis brother, 1202-1241. Waldemar II., the Conqueror, the first portion of whose reign forms one of the most bril- liant epochs of Danish history. Adolf of Holstein released on condi- tion of ceding all Holstein to Waldemar, who granted it as a fief to his nephew, Albert of Orlamund. Unsuccessful interference in Nor- way and Sweden. Conquest of Oesel and of a large part of Prussia. In return for his recognition of Frederic II. over his rivals as em- peror, Waldemar obtained a cession of all conquests in Germany, north of the Elbe and the Elde {Holstein, Lauenburg, part of Meck- lenburg). Expedition to Esthonia. The Danneborg, or national standard (1219). Waldemar's power fell more rapidly than it was acquired. In 1223 the king and his son were treacherously captured by Henry, count of Schwerin, and imprisoned in the castle of Danne- borg, in Hanover, for three years. Waldemar obtained his release by the payment of a heavy ransom, and the renunciation of all his con- quests south of the Elbe, and in the Slavic comitries. Holstein ceded to Adolf the Young (1225). This renunciation was annulled by the Pope, and AValdemar tried to regain Holstein, btit was defeated in the battle of BornhcBved (1227). The rest of his reign was passed for the most part in peace. He died in 1241. Of all his con- 236 Mediceval History. A. d, quests only Riigen, some places in Mecklenburg, Prussia, Estho- nia, remained to Denmark. Waldemar's code of laws. Waldemar was twice married : 1. Margrete of Bohemia, a well-beloved princess (Dagmar). 2. Berengaria of Portugal, by whom he had three sons who mounted the throne in succession. Waldemar committed the political blunder of dividing the kingdom among his sons so that the nominal king possessed only a small part of the monarchy ; Schleswig was conferred on Abel. This led to disputes, so that the following period was one of civil strife, wars of succession, murder, and exile of kings. Erik (1241-1250). Abel (1250-1252). In this reign the towns began to send representatives to the council {Danehof). Christopher (1252-1259). War about Schlesivig, the king claiming that it had been granted to Abel as a personal fief, while the descen- dants of Abel declared that it was an hereditary fief. Conflict with the archbishop Jacob Erlandsen. Erik Glipping (1259-1286). Oc- cupation of Schleswig. Erik Menved (1286-1319). Regency of the queen mother. Miserable condition of Denmark. Tlie larger part of the kingdom granted out to Danish and German nobles. Chris- topher II. (1320-1334). The nobles and clergy extorted from the king certain capitulations, which materially weakened the power of the crown for 340 years. Confirmation of privileges of the clergy. No ecclesiastic could be tried in a secular court, neither could the tenants of ecclesiastical foundations. No bishop could be imprisoned without the consent of the Pope. The property and persons of the clergy were free from all taxation. The nobles could not be com- pelled to follow the king beyond the limits of the kingdom ; if they were captured in war the crown was obliged to ransom them within a year, or lose the right of holding them to military service. The king could declare war only with the consent of the nobles and clergy. No person could be imprisoned without having been tried and con- demned in a local court and in the king's court, whence an appeal lay to the national Diet. Laws could be made, repealed, and amended, only upon the motion of the nobles in the annual Diet, and with the consent of the whole nation. Peasants must not be unjustly treated by the king's agents, nor compelled to carry the king's baggage be- yond their own township. Commerce should be free and not bur- dened with extraordinary dues. War with Geert, count of Holstein, who invaded the kingdom, and with the aid of discontented nobles drove Christopher from the kingdom. Election of Waldemar, duke of Schleswig ; soon after, Christopher, by great concessions, acquired the crown again. Eight years of anarchy (1332-1340). Skaania, Hal- land, Bleking attached themselves to Sweden. After the death of Geert, the youngest son of Cliristopher, 1340-1375. Waldemar III., Attadag, was made king, and devoted liimself to acquiring, by pur- chase or by force, the alienated crown lands, in which he met with success. In 1359 Waldemar regained Skaania, Halland, and, Bleking from the Swedish king, Magnus Smek, and affianced his daughter Margaret to Hakon, son of the Swedish king. Denmark \ restored to her boundaries as they had been under Waldemar /. A. D. TJte North. 237 This success was followed by a general war with Sn^eden, Mecklen- burg, the Hanseatic League, etc., which in spite of the sack of Copen- hagen ended disadvantageousl}- for the Hanse towns, 1363. In 1368, however, the Hansa, in alliance with Holstein, Mecklenburg, and Sweden, began war again, and in 1370 obtained from the Danish es- tates a treaty which secured for them the most extensive commercial privileges. In 1372 Waldemar accepted this peace of Stralsund. In 1375 Waldemar died. Passing over the claim of Albert, duke of Mecldenhurg, the son of Waldeinar's eldest daughter, the estates elected the son of his youngest daughter Olaf, (1376-1387), then six years of age. In 1380 O^o/" succeeded his father ^a^o?i as king of Norway, and both lands were well governed by his mother Margaret, the regent, who, after Olaf's death, 1387, was elected queen in both countries. In 1388, Sweden revolted against the king, Albert, and Margaret accepted an offer of the crown. In the battle of Falkoe- ping (1389), Albert was defeated and captured. In 1397, the three kingdoms were united by the Union of Calmar. Sweden. 1066-1397. After the death of Stenkil (p. 208), the country was distracted by wars between the Svea and the Gauta, which lasted, with slight inter- ruptions, for two hundred years ; whereby the people suffered greatly, the free peasants disappeared, and a nobility of warriors arose wliicli was exempt from taxation and possessed its own juris- diction. These nobles acquired supremacy in the Diet, and re- duced the power of the king to a shadow. Under Erik IX., the Saint (1150-1162), Christianity was introduced throughout the king- dom. Establishment of the archbishopric of Upsala (1163). The family of the Bonder, which began with Erik the Saint, became ex- tinct with Erik Eriksson Lcespe (1223-1250). Under this family the power of the clergy had so increased that in 1248 they were forbid- den to take the oath of allegiance to the king. At the same time celibacy was introduced. The Bonder dynasty was succeeded by that of the Folkunger, which came to the throne with Waldemar (1250- 1275), son of Birger Jarl, who continued until his death (1266) the actual ruler of Sweden, as he had been under Erik Lcespe. Founda- tion of Stockliolm (1255). Birger assigned his other sons large duchies in Sweden, thereby planting the seeds of future discord. In 1275, Waldemar was imprisoned by his brother Magnus, duke of Sodermanland, and remained a captive until his death (1302). Mag- nus (1279-1290) proved a good ruler and left a prosperous kingdom to his son Birger (1290-1319). The regent Torkel governed wisely until his fall in 1306, when war broke out between Birger and his brothers jEJnT: and Waldemar. In 1317 Birger made his brothers pris- oners and starved them to death. This caused a popular revolt which expelled Birger and placed on the throne the son of Erik, Magnus Smek (1320-1363). During the regency Norwai/ fell to Magnus, through his maternal grandfather Hakon, and Skaania, 238 Mediceval History. A. d. Halland, and Bleking, which belonged to Denmark, but had been pawned to Holstein, submitted to Magnus, who paid the mortgage. Magiuis, after he became of age (1333) made a poor ruler. In 13G0, he surrendered Skaania, Holland, Bleking to Waldemar Attadag of Denmark, and betrothed his son Hakon to Waldemar's daughter Margaret. In 1365 A Ihert of Mecklenburg was proclaimed king, and in the battle of Enkceping (1365) captured Magnus who was released in 1371 upon making renunciation of the crown of Sweden. Albert (1365-1388) was king in name only, the power bemg in the hands of the nobles. In 1388 the nobles deposed the king and offered the crown to Margaret of Norway and Denmark, by whom it was ac- cepted. At the battle of Falkceping Albert was made prisoner and, after an imprisonment of six years, renounced the crown. In 1397 Sweden joined Norway and Denmark in the Union of Calmar. Norway. 1103-1397. After the death of Magnus Barfod in Ireland (p. 209), his three sons EJsten, Sigurd, and Olaf, reigned in conjunction until the death of EJsten and Olaf left Sigurd sole ruler. Sigurd made a pilgrim- age to Jerusalem. He was followed by his son Magnus the Blind. who in 1134 was obliged to cede half the kingdom to Harold Gille. who came from Ireland and claimed to be a son of Magnus Barfod There followed a wretched period of civil war ; strife between th Birkebenerne, or national party, and the Baglerne, or clerical party, in which the former finally got the upper hand. Magnus V. (1161- 1184), Sverre (1177-1202), Hakon III, (1202-1204), Guttor7n the child (1204), Inge Baardsen (1204-1217). 1217 (1223)-1262. Hakon IV. son of Hakon III., grandson of Sverre. He crushed his rivals, weakened the power of the clergy, restored quiet to the country, and raised Norway once more to an influential position among European nations. Conquest of Iceland (1260) and submission of Greenland. Hakon died in 1262, after suffering a defeat at the hands of the Scots in an expedition which he had undertaken against Scotland. He was followed by his son Magnus Lagaboeter (1262-1280) who ceded the Isle of Man and the Hebrides to Scotland. Collection and publication of a new code of laws (1261^-1279). Erik Priest-hater (1280-1299). War with Denmark over the dowry of his mother, Ingeborg. War with the Hanse towns, wherein the king was worsted and obliged to grant the towns full privileges in Norway, and to join the league. Death of Margaret (" The Maid of Norway "), daughter of Erikf and granddaughter on her mother's side of Alexander III. of Scot- land, while on her way to claim that crown after the latter's death. Hakon V. (1299-1319). War with Sweden and Denmark. Dying without male issue, he left the crown to his daiighter's son, Magnus. king of Sweden, who ascended the throne in 1320. In 1350 Magn bestowed the crown of Norway on his son Hakon VI. (1350-1380) who in 1362 became co-regent for Sweden. In 1363 Hakon married i ^. D. ft-? &' 1, rt> s: 5 C2 S"? ?^ The North. 239 (-1^ 5 O 2 a: » T ?= 2 o p ris ^3 I'd o =0^ HP' o o t p2 <} S H CO a ??- CO CO 005 < CO • ::^n too P ^S~S H- !l w to>5^ :::_ s CoS 5 a s t^ CO -4 i^ CO- p S O to o m b2. I<1 a H- ^?1 t3«^ Tt^ ^ ^1 S o g s o^ 5' CO " a H CO CO 9" a CO '^ t: to a ^ 3-— cr 02 ^% a> CD &- o CD O P) ^ CD ii 1^* 240 Mediceval History. A. d. Margaret the heiress of Denmark. Hakon was succeeded by his minor son Olaf (1380-1387), whose mother Margaret administered the kingdom of Norway as she had done that of Denmark, which Olaf had inherited in 1376. After Olaf's death in 1387 Margaret (1387- 1412) was recognized as queen of both Norway and Denmark. The union of the two monarchies was completed by the Union of Calmar and endured until 1814. At the Union of Calmar (1397) Sweden was united with the two kingdoms. § 6. SPANISH PENINSULA. Arabic Spain was conquered from the Morabethes or Almoravides (p. 209) by the Almohades about the middle of the twelfth century. Since the defeat at Tolosa (1212) steady decline of the power of the Arabians, who since the reign of Alfonso X. of Castile were con- lined to the kingdom of Granada. 1095. County of Portugal, between the Duero and MinJio, granted as a Castilian fief to the Burgundian count Henry, whose son liberated himself from the overlordship of Castile, and called him- self King of Portugal (1140). Aragon and Catalonia (county of Barcelona) united (1137). Leon and Castile separated again (1157) ; finally definitely united (1230). About 1150. Origin of the three orders of knighthood which took their names from the cities guarded by them : 1. San J ago di Compostella (Galicia), 2. Alcantara (on the Tajo), 3. Calatrava (on the Guadiana. § 7. THE EAST. Eastern Empire. 1057-1185. Eastern emperors of the houses of the Ducas and the Comnenes. 1185-1204. Dynasty of Angelus. 1204-1261. Latin empire (p. 216). The Mongols. 1206. The Mongols elected on the Amur, Temuchin, their chief. He took the honorary title Jenghiz Khan, under which, rather than under his true name, he is known in history. The Motigols con- quered a part of China, destroyed the empire of the Chowaresmians, which reached from India to the Caspian Sea, and subjugated south- ern Russia. Temuchin's grandson Batu made plundering expeditions through Russia, defeated the Poles and fought the 1241. Battle of "Wahlstatt, against the Germans under Henry the Pious, duke of Liegnitz. The Mongols, although victorious, retired to the East, and ravaged Hungary. A Christian army under Wenzel, king of Bohemia, cut them off from Austria. k. D. The East. 241 The greater part of the Mongols went back to Asia, but Russia was inder their sway till 1480. L258. The Mongols conquered Bagdad and destroyed the Caliphate. Their immense empire separated into Khanates, {China, Khan- ate of Kaptchak on the Volga, Jagatai in Turkestan, Iran^ etc.) India. 1206-1500. The Afghan empire broke up after the death of Muhammad Ghori (p. 211), and the vicegerency of the Punjab and Hindustan became an independent sultanate under Kutah-ud-din, sultan of Delhi (1206- 1210), who was originally a slave, and founded the slave dynasty (1206-1288). He extended the Mohammedan rule as far as the Brahma-putra. Under his successors the sultanate suffered from Mon- gol invasions. Allah-ud-dm, viceroy of Oude, who had made daring expeditions into the Deccan, murdered the sultan Jeldl-ud-din, his uncle, and made himself sultan. Conquest of Guzerat. Capture of Chitor in Rajputana (1300). Conquest of portions of the Deccan. After \\\e diUdilh. oi Allah-ud-din (1316) revolts occurred which were suppressed by the Turkish governor of the Punjab, Tughlak, who mounted the throne of Delhi, and founded a new line of sultans, who transferred their residence to Tughlakabad. Tuglath was succeeded by liis son Muhammad Tughlak (1325-1351), who was obliged to pur- chase the retreat of the Mongols from the Punjab. A terrible famine induced him to remove the population of Delhi to Deoghur, and the misery of those who survived the journey of 700 miles induced him to send them back again. Large issue of copper coinage, followed by financial panic. Rebellions broke out everywhere, and the Mo- hammedan empire separated into numerous small states. Firuz-Shah (1350-1388). 1398. Invasion of Hindustan by Timiir Shah. Allah-ud-din had ex- tended his power over a large part of the south, but the Hindu revolt of 1316 had shattered it. The southern part of the peninsula was comprised in the Hindu empire of Vijayanagar (Narsinga), about 1300. In 1350, on the death of Muhammad Tughlak, the Moham- medan army in the Deccan had set up a sultan of its own, whose capital was at Kulbarga. These Bahmani sultans were soon in- volved in a series of horrible wars with the empire of Vijayanagar. The Bahmani empire endured until 1500, when it was broken up into five kingdoms. China. 1101-1398. The Khitan Tatars having established themselves firmly in Leaau- tsung, Hwy-tsung (1101-1126) conceived the idea of inviting the Neu-che Tatars to take the field against them ; they did so and ex- pelled the Khitan, but occupied the province themselves, and thence spread over Chili-li, Shen-se, Shun-se, and Ho-nan. Under Kaou- 16 242 MedicBval History. A. d. tsung (1127-1163) the Neu-che Tatars, or as they now called them- selves, the Kins, reached to the Yang-tse-Keang. The new empire of the Kins invited attack from the Mongol Tatars, who experienced at this period a wonderful development of power. In 1213 Jenghiz Khan invaded the Kin provmce of Leaou-tsung ; ninety cities were razed to the ground. After the death of Jenghiz (1227) his son Ogdai (1227-1241) continued the work of conquest. 1232. Fall of the Kin dynasty, brought about by an alliance of the Mongols with the independent kingdom of Sung, in the south. Mangu (1248-1259), son of the warrior Too-le, was succeeded by liis brother, 1259-1294. Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor. The complete fall of Sung in 1280 left Kublai lord over all China, as well as ruler of almost all the rest of Asia, excepting Hindustan and Arabia. China was never more illus- trious or powerful. Visit of Marco Polo, the Venetian, to the court of Kublai. Unsuccessful attack upon Japan (1281, p. 243). The immediate successors of Kublai were men of little note : Yuen- ching (1294-1307), Woo-tung (1307-1311). Jin-tsung (1311-1320) endeavored to blend the two races, and admitted many Chinese to official positions. After his death matters went from bad to worse, mitil Shun-te (1333-1368) was driven from the empire by Choo- yuen-chang, the son of a Chinese laborer, who, in 1368, proclaimed himself emperor under the name of 1368-1398. Hung-woo, the founder of the Ming dynasty. Subjugation of Tatary. Japan. 1156-1392. 1156. The wars of Gen and Hei, which began in this year, are very famous in Japanese annals. In the first battle (1156) the Taira, (Heishe) were victorious, under Kigomori, and obtained control of the royal palace. Exiled from Kioto, the Minamoto (Genji), under the enterprising brothers, Yoritomo and Yoshitsune, founded a power in the plain of the Koanto, with Kamakura as their capital. The death of Kiyomori (1181) was the signal for the downfall of the house of Hei. Kioto was captured by the Minamoto. The final struggle occurred in the 1185. Naval battle of Dan no ura, near Shimonoseki. The Taira were utterly defeated, many perished in the fight, and the family was exterminated throughout the islands, save a few who, escaping to Kiushiu, transmitted their name to the present day. Secure in victory, Yoritomo left the Mikado and the kuge in Kioto undisturbed, while he strengthened his power at Kamakura. Five men of his family were appointed governors of provinces, an office previously filled only by civilians. A special tax was levied througlv- out the empire for the support of standing garrisons in all the pror- A. D. The East. 24;i inces, and these troops were under military rulers of his own race, who shared the government of the province with the civil governor, and were suhor(liuate to Yoritomo himself. In 1192 Yoritomo was appointed Sei-i Tai Shogun, or generalissimo. He was henceforward known as the Shogun. With the death of Yoritomo (1199) fell the power of the Minamoto. 1200-1333. Supremacy of the family of Hojo. The founder of the Hojo ascendency was ToLimasa, father-in-law of Yoritomo, who exercised absolute control over the degenerate descendants of that able Shogun. None of the Hojo ever held the office of Shogun, but, vassals of a vassal, they ruled the Shogiui and the Mikado as Yoritomo had ruled the Mikado alone. The line of Yoritomo ended in 1219, when the Shogunate was transferred to the Fujiicara, who held it until 1251, when their vassal-masters handed it over to one of the sons of the reigning Mikado, in whose familv it remained until 1333. Since the conquest of China by the Mongol-Tatars, the victors had kept the subjugation of Japan steadily in view. Embassy after em- bassy had demanded submission and been repulsed ; the last, in 1279, was beheaded. 1281. Invasion of Japan by the Mongol Tatars. Destruction of the armada by a typhoon; defeat and massacre of the survivors upon the island of Taka. By tliis repulse Hojo Tokimune won great praise ; he was, indeed, a man of great capacity and good sense. After him, however, the Hojo grew more and more outrageous in their treatment of the Mikado until a revolt broke out, headed by Kusunoki-Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada, which ended in the 1333. Capture and destruction of Kamakura, and the exter- mination of the Hojo familv. For a time (1333-1336) the Mikado Go-Daigo (1319-1338) was monarch in fact as in name, but his weakness cost him his newly found authority. Ashikaga Takauji, one of the leaders in the revolt against the Hojo, revolted against his new master, seized Kioto, and set up a rival Mikado who appointed him Sei-i Tai Shogun. 1336-1392. War of the Chrysanthemums, between the false Mikado at Kioto and the true Mikado at Yoshino, each displaying the imperial emblem, the chrysanthemum. Peace was concluded in 1392 under the condition that the imperial throne should be occupied by mikados taken alternately from the rival houses. The northern branch died out after a few generations. During this period (since the establishment of the Shogun at Kioto) feudalism reached its full development. The country was divided among the soldiers of the Shogun, who held their estates as fiefs from the Shogun, to whom they owed service. Gradually the agricultural and other classes became attached to certain of tliese military lords, daimios, and received their lands from them as liefs. The taxes which supported the Mikado and the court were absorbed by the daimios, and the kuge' was left to abject poverty. 244 Mediaeval History. A. d. FOURTH PERIOD. FROM THE CONCLUSION OF THE CRUSADES TO THE DIS- COVERY OF AMERICA. 1270-1492. § 1. GERMANY. 1273-1347. Kings and Emperors of various houses. 1273-1291. Rudolf I., count of Hapsburg and Kyburg, landgrave in Alsace, the most powerful prince in Helvetia, was elected by the three archbishops of Mainz, Cologne and Trier and the count Palatine of the Rhine, through the influence of his cousin, the burggrave Frederic of Hohenzollern. Strict enforcement of the public peace. War with Ottocar, king of Bohemia, who had taken possession of Austria, after the extinction of the Babenberg line (1246), had reconquered Styria from the Hun- garians, and had inherited Carintkia and Carjiiola. Ottocar was put under the ban and his fiefs proclaimed forfeited. Rudolf took Vienna, and was on the point of crossing the Danube when Ottocar agreed to a treaty (Nov., 1276), whereby he abandoned Austria^ Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, but received Bohemia and Moravia again as fiefs of the empire. Ottocar however soon renewed the war. 1278. Victory of Rudolf on the Marchfeld (near Vienna). Death of Ottocar. Peace with the guardian of his son Wenzel who received Bohemia and, later, Moravia. Development of the family power of the Hapsburgs. Austria, Styria, Corinthian given as imperial fiefs to Rudolf's sons, Albert and Rudolf. Carin- thia was given to Meinhard, count of Tyrol, Rudolf's brother-in-law. Campaigns of Rudolf in Burgundy and Swabia, particularly against Eberhard of Wurtemberg. In Swabia since the fall of the Hohen- staufens the most powerful princes were the counts of Wiirtem- berg, and the margraves of Baden. The ducal title in Swabia de- scended to Rudolf's son Rudolf, and from him to his son John (Parricida), but this title designated only authority over the Haps- burg estates in Swabia. Formation of a great number of fiefs held immediately of the empire in Swabia. Through the exertions of the archbishop of Mainz, Rudolf's son Albert was not elected his succes- sor, but the choice fell on a relative of the archbishop, 1292-1298. Adolf of Nassau, whose reign was devoted to the attempt to establish a dynastic power by the acquisition of Thuringia and Meissen Cin opposition vto the brothers Frederic^ and Diezmanri). Adolf was deposed at the Diet of Mainz, by the influence of his former patron, the archbishop of Mainz, 1 The title "with the bitten cheek " appears to have been a later invention ; his contemporaries called this Frederic, son of Margaret, daughter of Frederic II., by the surname "the Cheerful." See Wegele, Fried, der Freidige, 18QB. A.. D. Germany. 245 without the approval of the archbishops of Colog^ie and Trier and the count Pahitine. He fell at Gullheim in personal con- flict with 1298-1308. Albert I., of Austria, son of Rudolf I. who had been elected king by the opposing party. Alliance with Philip the Fair, king of France, against the Pope. Albert tried in vain to recover Holland as a vacant fief of the empire. Alliance of the three ecclesiastical electors and the count Palatine against the king, who was victorious (1301), and reduced the princes to obedience (siege of the castle of Bingen). Unsuccessful wars with Bohemia, and with Frederic and Diezmann of Meissen, who defeated the im- perial armv under the burggrave of Nuremberg at Lucka, not far from Altenburg\l307). Albert was murdered by his nephew John (Parricida) between the Aar and Reuss, near the Hapshurg. His widow Elizabeth and his daughter Agnes took terrible vengeance for this murder. Through the influence of the archbishop of Trier the princes elected as king his brother 1308-1313. Henry VII., count of Liitzelnburg or Lux- emburg, a lialf-Frencliman. 1309. The Swiss Cantons received from Henry VII. doc- June 3. umentary confirmation of their immediate feudal re- lation to the empire. Origin of the Swiss Confederacy. Of the inhabitants of the cantons, those dwelling in Schcyz seem to have been, for the most part, free peasants ; while in Uri and Unter- walden the majority were in a condition of servitude, as regarded either their persons or their estates. The most extensive landowners were monasteries (e. g. the Frauenmilnster in Ziirich), and nobles re- siding out of the country, like the counts of Lenzburg and those of Hapshurg. After the extinction of the former (1172), at any rate since the thirteenth century, the counts of Hapshurg exercised, under various legal titles as landgraves or advocates, full jurisdiction and presided in the assemblies. Under the imperfectly developed admin- istration of that time, the holder of these privileges was considered the actual ruler of the country. As early as the first half of the thirteenth century the cantons had resisted the efforts of the Hapsburgers to develop their stewardship into an actual sovereignty over them ; indeed they had even attempted in part to withdraw themselves from the stewardsliip of the Haps- burgers. In 1331 Henry, regent for his father Frederic II. in Ger- many (p. 224), granted the people of Uri a charter which removed t4iem from under the protection of the Hapsburgers and replaced them under that of the empire. In 1240 Frederic II. gave the peo- ple of Schwyz a charter which promised them an immediate tenure from the empire. After the niiddle of the thirteenth century, the Hapsburgers were nevertheless still in possession of their office 246 MedicBval History. A. d. of steward or advocate (Vogt) for the cantons. Rudolf I. seems to have recognized the charter of Uri, but not that of Schivyz. Imme- diately upon his death, on Aug. 1, 1291, the cantons Uri, Schwyz, and Nidwalden (which was afterwards united with the towns of Obwalden under the name Unterwalden) concluded a perpetual league. Al- though intended only to insure the maintenance of existing condi- tions, this league is to be regarded as the beginning of the Con- federacy. By making shrewd use of the confusion that followed in Germany, but not without many changes of fortune (after the battle of Gollheim (p. 245) the cantons were obliged to recognize the su- premacy of the Hapsburgers), the confederates in 1309 attained the object for which their ancestors had striven. The Swiss narrative, to which the popular poetry has added many ornaments, and which condenses the facts of the gradual acquirement of an immediate relation to the empire into a short space of time, and exaggerates their effects, can no longer be regarded as historical in view of the results of modern investigation. ^ It is first found in chronicles which were written between two and three hundred years after the events, and is often contradicted by the documents.^ Neither the Oath on the Riitli (1307, Werner Siaujfacher, Walther Furst, Ar- nold Melchthal), nor the expulsion of the bailiffs on the 1st of January 1308, is historically authenticated. The Swiss confederacy was not formed by the exertions of three or of thirty individuals, bvit was the result of many historical events which united in powerfully assisting the energetic and enduring efforts of the inhabitants of the cantons to free themselves from all foreign su- premacy. As regards the story of Tell, it is now established that neither the shooting of the apple from the head of his son, nor the murder of the bailiff Gessler in the hollow way at Kiissnacht can be in any way re- garded as an historical event. It has been proved that among the Kiissnacht bailiffs of that time there w.-^s no Gessler. The legend of the shooting of the apple occurs five t.iues outside of the cantons, agreeing almost to the wording of the answer which the archer gives the tyrant : in Nonaay, in Iceland, in Denmark, in Holstein, and on the middle Rhine, and, "with an altered motive, a sixth time in Eng- land. Hence it is tolerably certain that we have here to do with a common Germanic tradition. Moreover, the resemblance of the Swiss version to the elder narrative of Saxo Grammaticus (twelfth century) of the shot of Toko, tho Dane, who is said to have lived in the tenth century, is so striking as to render it probable that the Swiss chroniclers had that historian before them. Whether a man of the name of Tell ever lived in Uri is a question which cannot be answered with certainty either in the affirmative or the negative.^ It is one, moreover, which has but little interest when 1 A. Huber: die Waldstdtte Uri, Schwyz, Z7wopidar ui)rising, but finding Rome on his return in French hands, fell ill and died. Philip recognized the independence of Flanders (1305, June 5). Benedict XI. dying, after nine months Philip secured the election of a Frenclmian as Clement V. Reconciliation of the church with the king. 1309. Removal of the papal residence to Avignon (1309-1376). 1307. Arrest of all Knights Templars in France. Trial of the knights on various charges of immorality and heretical doctrines and practices. By the free use of hearsay evidence and of torture, their condemnation was secured, and fifty-four were burned. Abolition of the order (1312) by the Pope. Execution of the grand master, Jacques de Molai, confiscation of the lands of the templars. Annexa- tion of Lyons, hitherto independent through the very number of her claimants, to France (1312). Death of Philip, Nov. 29, 1314. 1314-1316. Louis X. le Hutin, the Quarrelsome, through his mother heir of Navarre. His uncle, Charles of Valois, was the true ruler. Execution of Philip's minister, De Marigni. Serfs per- mitted to purchase their freedom. (Comme selon le droit de nature chacun doit naistre franc) . Louis died June 5, 1316. His brother 1316-1322. Philip V. le Long, the Tall, was appointed regent for the queen, who was with child. On the death of the queen's son, soon after birth, Philip proclaimed him- self king, and to put aside the clahns of Jeanne, daughter of Louis X., he decreed that on the basis of ancient Prankish law,^ no female could succeed to the throne of France (the Salic law). Excesses of the Pastoureaux suppressed by finx'e. Attacks upon the lepers and the Jeias. Acquisition of Douay, Orchies, Ryssel from Flanders. Philip died Jan. 3, 1322, and was succeeded by his brother, 1322-1328. Charles IV., the Fair, Died January 31, 1328, without male issue. Jeanne, daughter of Louh; X., received Navarre. In France, according to the Salic law, the 1 Lex Snlica, tit. 42, 6. De terra vero snllca in mulierem ntilla portio transit, sed hoc virilis sexus acquirit. This pphes strictly to aUudioi possessions, and pot to fiefs or to the crown. 256 Mediceval History. A. D. I O cq h3 00 S! I s =, iH r H r — «s^ II - cS § —5 '« -z feq « P i § Pm W ^ t>> aj u O- o ^ to M w « CS •4-1 o US m fl O) .s CO be s C o S M ,£1 'fl « o a> cS . h-J ,£3 1 S o ^3 ci; O g 1 1 >i -2 •o ), France. 257 328-1498 (1589). House of Valois, a younger line of the Capets, succeeded. Louis VIII., 1223-1226. I Ijoms rX., St. Louis, Charles, count of Anjou and Provence, 1220-1270. ancestor of the kings of Naples. I Philip III., le Hardi, Robert (6th son), count of Clermont, 1270-1285. ancestor of the Bourbons. I Philip IV., le Bel, Charles, count of Valois, Louis, count of Ev- 128.5-1314. ancestor of the house of reux. I Valois. I III jOuisX., Philip v., Charles IV., Isabelle | ! Hutin. le Long. le Bel. m. Ed- Philip VT., 314-1316. 1316-1322. 1322-1328. ward II. 1328-1350. I I I of England. I I daughters. daughter. 1 I I Edward III., John II., I j of England. le Bon, Jeanne, John, 1350-1364. ueen of 1316. Javarre. lived seven days. 328-1350. Philip VI., nephew of Phihp IV. Philip was the choice of the feudal barons, who had regained omewhat of their old power since the death of Philip the Fair, but lis tyranny alienated his vassals, wliile his oppressive exactions ham- lered trade and deprived him of the hearty support of the cities. Quarrel with Edward III. of England, springing out of the claim of he English sovereign to the French crown tlirough his mother, Isa- belle, daughter of Philip IV. (see the genealogy). Alliance with Scotland. Outbreak of the L339-1453. Hundred years "War between France and England. (Froissart 1337-1410 (?), chi'onicler of the war.) Naval victory of the English and their allies, the Flemish {Jacob tan Artevelde), at Sluys (1340). Contested succession in Brittany ; John de Montfort, one claimant, )btained the aid of Edward, and recognized him as king of France. ^Heroism of Marguerite, countess of Montfort.) Landing of Edward n Normandy (1346). L346. Battle of Crecy, in Picardy. A.ugust 26. Victory of the English. Use of cannon (?). Death of the blind king, John of Bohemia, the father of Charles IV.^ 1347. Capture of Calais (story of the intercession of Queen Philippa). 1 Recent investigators reject the story that the fifteen-3'ear-old Prince of Wales Ihe Black Prince), took from the helmet of the fallen king John, the devise "Ich dien." 17 ^58 Mediceval History, A. d. 1347-1349. Black Death in France. Acquisition of Montpellier from James of Arragon, and of the< Dauphine of Vienne from the last JDauphin, Humbert II. (who went into a monastery) by purchase. Vienne was given to Charles, son of John of Normandy, grandson of Philip. He took the title of Dauphin, and on his accession to the throne decreed that the Dauphine should never be united with the crown. Hence Dauphin became the title^ of the heir of the French crown. j Origin of the practice of selling offices and titles. First imposition of the gabelle, a tax in the form of control of all salt works by the gov- ernment. Death of Philip, Aug. 22, 1350 ; he was followed by his son, 1350-1364. John II., le Bon, Feud with Charles the Bad, king of Navarre ; arrest and im- prisonment of Charles (1356). 1356. Battle of Poitiers (properly Maupertuis). Sept. 19. Victory of the Black Prince with 10,000 men, over John with 50,000. Capture of John (a prisoner for four years). Meanwhile confusion reigned in France where the young Dau- phin, as regent, was unable to suppress the terrible civil con- flicts. 1357-1358. Insurrection of the bourgeoisie of Paris, led by Etienne 5 Marcel, the provost of the traders (prevot des marchands), , who entered into treasonable connection with Charles the Bady king of Navarre. Meeting of the estates; abolition of abuses. . Truce with England for two years. Murder of the marshalls ; of Champagne and Normandy in the regent's presence, by order of Marcel. The government in the hands of Marcel and a com- mittee of thirty-six. 1358. Peasant war, accompanied by horrible cruelties, known as the Jacquerie, under the lead of Guillaume Caillet, called Jacques Bonhomme, which afterwards became the nickname for the lower class in general, in France. Murder of Marcel in Paris. 1360. Peace of Bretigny (near Chartres). Edward received Poitou, Guienne, and Gascony, in full sover- eignty, but renounced his claim to the French crown, and re- nounced also all other fiefs in France. Release of John, for a ransom. 1363. Burgundy occupied by John on the death of the queen and her son by her former marriage, Philip, duke of Burgundy, pass- ing over the claim of Charles of Navarre. The duchy was given to the king's son, Philip the Bold, founder of the Burgun- dian branch line of Valois. By his marriage with the heiress of Flanders, the new duke laid the foundation of the power of the house of Burgundy in the Netherlands. Return of John to captivity. He died April 8, 1364, and was followed by liis son, 1364-1380. Charles V., le Sage, the Wise. In the war between Pedro, the Cruel, of Castile, and his brother, Henry of Trastamara, Charles favored the latter, while the for- A. D. France. 259 mer was allied with the Black Prince. Expelled by Rertrand du GuescUn, Pedro was restored by the Black Prince (Battle of Najara, 1307). In 1369 Pedro was killed in personal com- bat with liis brother. Reform of the coina|]^e in France. 1369. Charles declared war on Edward. Du Guesclin (1313-1380), constable of France (1370). Most of the Englisli possessions in France were again nnited with the crown of France. Death of the Black Prince (1376). Death of Charles, Sept. 16, 1380. He was followed by his son, 1380-1422. Charles VI., then eleven years old. Quarrels of his uncles, the dukes of Anjou, of Burgundy, of Bourbon, and of Berry. 1386. Threatened invasion of England comes to naught. Revolt in Ghent under Philip van Artevelde. Crushed by Charles (De Clisson, constable) at the battle of Roosebec (1382); slaughter of the Flemings. Death of Van Artevelde. 1392. Charles being seized with madness, the regency was assumed by the dukes of Burgundy and Berry, setting aside the duke of Orleans, the brother of the king. Civil strife between the parties of Burgundy and Orleans \Armagnacs^). 1407. The duke of Orleans nuirdered by order of John, duke of Bur- gundy. Cabochians (from one Caboche, a butcher) in Paris, overthrown by the Orleanists under the Dauphin. 1415. Henry V. of England, landing at Harlleur, captured that city Oct. 15. (Sept. 22), and in tlie Battle of Azincoiirt (Agincourt), In totally defeated a vastly superior French army. Capture of the dukes of Orleans and Bourbon. Death of the Dauphin, of the king's second son, John, and of the duke of Berry. The queen, Isa- beau, of Bavaria, took refuge with the duke of Burgundy. Massacre of the Armagnacs at Paris, 1418. Rouen captured by the English. John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, murdered at the bridge of Montereau by the followers of the Dauphin (Tanneguy Duchdtel). John's son, Philip, hereupon concluded, mth the consent of the queen, the Treaty of Troyes mth the English (1420). Henry V. married Catharine, daughter of Charles VI., and became regent and heir of France. Under John the Fearless (1371-1419) and his son, Philip the Good (1396-1467), the house of Burgundy reached the summit of its power. Philip made himself master of the inheritance of Jacqueline, daughter of William, count of Holland, although the emperor, Sigismund, had declared her lands to be vacant liefs of the empire. Death of Henry V. of England (at Vincennes, Aug. 31, 1422), and of Charles VI. of France (Oct. 21, 1422). The latter was succeeded by his son, 1422-1461. Charles VII., who, for tlie ])resent, was recognized south of the Loire only ; in the north Henry VI., infant king of England, was acknowledged 1 From Bernard, count of Armagnac, father-in-law of the duke of Orleans, who became head of the Orleanists about 1410. 260 Medieval History. A. d. lord. Duke of Bedford, regent in France, allied with the duke of Burgundy. Siege of Orleans (1428). 1429. Jeanne d'Arc (more properly, Dare), born in Domremy, on the left bank of the Meuse, convinced that she was chosen by Heaven to be the deliverer of France, succeeded in obtaining from the king permission to relieve Orleans, the accomplishment of which feat (April 29-May 8) earned for her the name Maid of Orleans {La Pucelle). The English driven back. Charles VII. crowned at Rheims. Intrigues against Jeanne at the French court. Captured by the Bur- gundians at Compiegne (1430), she was delivered to the English, and, after a mock trial, condeimied for sorcery, and burnt in Rouen (1431). 1435. The duke of Burgundy recognized Charles VII., on condition of receiving Auxerre, Macon, Peronne, Montdidier, and the towns on the Somme, and being released from feudal homage. Death of the duke of Bedford. 1436-1449. Period of inaction, utilized by Charles VII., for the in- troduction of reforms : establishment of a permanent tax to be levied by the king without the cooperation of the estates ; aboli- tion of the " free companies," and institution of regular companies, the beginning of standing armies (ordinance of Orleans, 1439). 1449-1461. Renewal of the war. After some fluctuations of fortune (Talbot in Guyenne ; his death, 1453) the English lost all their possessions in France except Calais. 1453. Fall of Constantinople. End of the Eastern Empire. Introduction of Grecian scholars and Grecian writers into Eu- rope (p. 278). Death of Charles VII., July 22, 1461. He was succeeded by his son, 1461-1483. Louis XI., who by his shrewdness and perfidy annihilated the power of the great barons and laid the foundation of absolute monarchy. Revocation of the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles VII. (issued in 1438 by the council of Bourges : declaration of the rights of the Gallican church ; limitation of the power of the papacy in France ; appeals to Rome forbidden). 1462. Acquisition of Roussillon and Cerdagne by mortgage. Re- demption of Amiens y Abbeville and >S'/. Quentin from Bur- gundy. 1464. League of the Public Weal (Ligue du bienpublique), a conspiracy of the dukes of Brittany, Bourbon, Lorraine, Alencon, Berry, and the count of Charolois. Battle of MontVhery. Louis broke up the league by the concessions of the treaty of Confians (restoration of the towns on the Somme, Normandy granted to the duke of Berry), the execution of which he evaded. Death of Philip of Bur- gundy ; accession of his son Charles the Bold {le Temeraire). Con- flict between the duke and the king. Meeting at Peronne (Oct. 1468). Storm of Liege. \475. Invasion of France by Edward IV. of England in alliance with Burgundy. Meeting at Pequigny (near Amiens^ between France. 261 : h3 ^a— i •a cp'p wOE g ^ = o N ,2. -5 -^ ^5 O _? Mi 4 83 O w w 02 t I S S 262 Medimval History. A. d. Louis and Edward. Betrothal of the Dauphin Charles to Edward's eldest daughter. Peace between France and Burgundy. War of Charles the Bold with the Swiss cantons. Defeat of the duke in the 1476. Battle of Granson, in the March 1. June 22. Battle of Murten, (Morat) and in the 1477. Battle of Nancy, where Charles was slain. Jan. 5. The duchy of Burgundy united with the crown of France, as was likewise Anjou, Provence, and Maine through the extinction of the house of Anjou (1480). Annexation of Alent^on, Perche, Guyenne, during this reign. The king's servants : Olivier le Dain, Tristan VHermite. Death of Louis XI., Aug. 30, 1483. He was succeeded by his son, 1483-1498. Charles VIII. Death of the duke of Brittany (1488). The coalition of the emperor, Spain, and England to preserve the independence of the duchy bore no fruit. In 1491 Charles married Anne, daughter of the duke of Brittany. Peace of Senlis with the emperor (1493) ; peace of Etaples with England. Cession of Roussillon and Cerdagne to Spain. 1495. Rapid conquest of the kingdom of Naples which Charles claimed by inheritance through his father from Charles, count of Maine and Provence (see the genealogy), which, however, he was soon forced to abandon in consequence of a league between the Pope, the emperor^ the duke of Milan, Venice, and Spain. § 3. ITALY. Milan : since the time of the emperor Henry VII. (1308-1313) under the Visconti as imperial viceroys; since 1395 as dukes. After the extinction of the line of the Visconti (1447) Milan became for a short time a republic. The condottieri Francesco Sforza, hus- band of a daughter of the last Visconti, who served in the pay of Milan, soon seized the power and became duke of Milan (1450). Venice : since 697 one state under a doge (dux) ; from about 1000 A. D., ruler of the Adriatic, increased in poAver and influence throughout the period of the crusades. Participation in the so-called fourth crusade (p. 216), under the doge Henry Dandolo, then ninety- four years of age. After the crusades and the war with Genoa, which lasted 125 years, Venice was mistress of the Mediterranean and thc- trade with the East, during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Acquisition of Corfu 1387, of Cyprus by gift of Catharine Cornaro, 1498. The republic at the height of its power in the first half of the fifteenth century. Constitution strictly oligarchical. 1172. Establish- ment of the Great Council, with 450-500 members, followed by that of the Small Council (Signoria), which limited the power of the doges still more. 1298. Closing of the Great Council. Golden book of the nobility (1315). Conspiracies — among others that of the doge Marino Faliero (executed in 1355) — led to the creation of the power- ful Council of Ten. Since 1454 the three terrible state inquisitors. A. D. England. 263 Genoa, since the reestablishment of the Greek empire in the East a powerful state, especially since the final victory over Pisa in Italy (Sardinia and Corsica) ; weakened by the war with Venice and by civil disturbances in the second half of the fifteenth century ; sub- jected now to Milan, now to France. In Florence, after lon<^ civil contests, democracy and tyranny having ruled the city in turn smce 1282, the family of Medici ac- quired princely rank, about 1400, and brought the city to its liighest point of power. Giovanni de* Medici, a rich banker, founder of the power of his family. His son, Cosimo (Cosnuis), the father of his country (died 1404). Under his grandson, Lorenzo (died 1402), de- velopment of the arts in Florence. Renovation of the sciences, advanced by Grecian scholars, who had fled from the Eastern Empire before the Turks. Dante Alighieri, author of the " Divine Comedy," born 1205, at Florence, where he played an important part in the political complications, banished 1302, died at Ptavenna, September 14, 1321. Francesco Petrarca, the " father of the revival of learning " (1304-1374). Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), author of the "De- camerone." The Papal States, founded by the presents of Pipin and Charles the Great (p. 184) ; in the twelfth century increased by the bequest of the countess Matilda of Tuscany (p. 200) and other acquisitions ; since InnoceiU III. completely independent of the empire. Pope Boniface VIII. (1294-1303) at variance with Philip IV. of France (p. 254). His successor, Clement V. (a Frenchman), transferred the papal residence to Avignon. Residence of the Popes at 1309-1376. Avignon. (" Babylonish captivity.") At Rome the visionary tribune Cola di Rienzi (1347, papal senator 1354). Comtat Venaissin in the tliirteenth century, Avignon in the fourteenth century, became the property of the papacy. From 1378 on there was one Pope at Rome, elected by the Italian cardinals, and one at Avignon, elected by the French cardinals, to wliich number the Council of Pisa (1409) added a thii-d, until the Council of Constance restored the unity of the church (p. 251). (Great Schism, 1378-1417). At Naples, the house of Anjou : the elder line until 1382 (death of Queen Joan I.) ; the younger (Durazzo) until 1435 (death of Joan II.). (See the genealogy, p. 2G1.) Sicily, 1282-1295 united with Aragon; 1295-1409 under a branch of the house of Aragon ; after 1409 again united with Aragon, whose king, Alphonso V. (1416-1458), conquered Naples in 1435. After liis death (1458), Naples, but not Sicily, descended to his natural son (Ferdinand I.) and his successors ( — 1501). § 4. ENGLAND. 1272-1307. Edward I., Longshanks. The great events of this reign were thf annexation of Wales to England and the introduction of financial, legal, and legislative reforms. 264 MedicBval History. A. d. Edward was returning from the (seventh) Crusade, when he heard of his accession at Capua. Devoting a year to Gascony, he reached England and was crowned in 1274. jDuring the barons' wars Wales had become practically independ- ent, and Llewelyn, prince of North Wales, refused even nominal submission to Edward until 1276-1284. Conquest of Wales. 1277. Edward led an army into Wales, and forced the prince to cede the coast district as far as Conway, and do homage for the rest. 1282. Insurrection of Llewelyn and his brother David. After hard fighting, the death of Llewelyn (Dec, 1282) and the cap- ture of David (hanged, drawn, and quartered, Sept. 1283) led to the complete submission of the country. (No "Massacre of the Bards.") 1284. Annexation of Wales to England. After this the title " Prince of Wales " was generally given to the heir of the crown. 1289. Return of the king from a three years' absence m Gascony ; punishment of the oppressive judges. 1290. Expulsion of the Jcaats from England (over 16,000). 1291. Death of the queen, Eleanor (daughter of Ferdinand III. of Castile). Erection of crosses along the route by which the body was carried from Lincolnshire to London ; those at Northamp- ton and Waltham still exist. 1292. Baliol, whom Edward had decided to be the rightful heir to the Scottish throne, did homage for the fief and became king of Scotland. After the death of Alexander III. of Scotland the crown passed to his granddaughter Margaret, the Maid of Norway, to whom Edward had betrotlied his son ; but she died on the voyage from Norway (1290), and thirteen claimants for the crown appeared. The Scottish estates being unable to decide between the two strongest claimants, Baliol and Bruce, referred the case to Edward. (See the gene- alogy.) 1293. Hostilities between English sailors from the Cinque Ports (Dover, Sandwich, Hastings, Hythe, Ptomney) ^ and French mariners resulted in a naval battle. Philip IV. of France summoned Edward to Paris to answer for the occurrence. As a step in the negotiations the fortresses of Guyenne were temporarily placed in Philip's hands, whereupon he declared Edward contumacious and his fiefs forfeited. 11^94. Rebellion of Madoc in Wales suppressed. 1294. War with Prance followed by war with Scotland, which joined France. 1296. Capture of Berwick ; massacre of the inhabitants. Defeat 1 These towns, to which PFmc^r'/sert, Rye, and Sea ford were afterwards added, possessed peculiar privileges. They vvere under the care of the Warden of the Cinque Paris ; their representatives in Parliament were known as barons. The towns were fortified under William I. A. D. England. 265 ^ o — ■ en C . ■•: s o :— 1 13 -C o w^_ 45 § S c5 S a «: o ^ ^ H So -w o • cS eS > pa o o C3 03 >^ >> s s -r- a> -=5 a 5 H go o Qo _a CO 'So 03 H — '5 "^ ^ I -«s U CO © -g5 o 5- «| W3 « is S P M ^^^ ?^ Wo fc: ^ ^ A < ^ M it § i N^ ^9 ? c^-* -ill il Hi pr* srwg- a-p- sg o'"SS- §«.-* ^0 w ^5?o ? III ^Irir la? •-^3 r 274 MedicBval History. A. d. 1461, March 27. Battle of Ferry Bridge. Defeat of the Lancas- trians. March 29. Battle of To-wton. After a most obstinate fight Ed- ward and Warwick prevailed, and the Lauca,.itrians were totally defeated (said to have lost 28,000 men). Edward was crowned (June 28), and his brothers, George and Richard, were created dukes (Clarence and Gloucester) In 1402 Margaret obtained assistance from France, and made two' attempts toi retrieve the Lancastrian cause, but both were unsuccessful. Henry retired to Wales ; Margaret to Lorraine. A final uprising of the Lancastrians was crushed ^t Hedgeley Moor and at Hexham (1464). 1464. Secret maiy^-iage of Edward with Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Richard Woodville, baron Rivers, and widow of Sir Johni Grey, a Lancastrian. This marriage and the advancement conferred on the family of the new queen much exasperated the earl of War- ivick and the other Yorkists. The dissatisfaction of Warwick was increased by the marriage of Edward's sister Margaret with the^ duke of Burgundy, and he intrigued with the duke of Clarence, giving him his daughter in marriage and promising liim the crown. Revolt of William of Rydesdale in 1469. Execution of the queen's father, Earl Rivers. Edward became reconciled with War- wick, but a victory over the insurgents at Stamford ("Loose-coati Field ") (1470) so strengthened the king that he proclaimed War-' wick and Clarence traitors, and they fled to France. Reconciliation of Warwick and Margaret. 1470. Warwick landed in England, occupied London, and pro- claimed Henry (who had been imprisoned since 1465) king. Edward fled to Burgundy, but returning with assistance was: well received, and joined by Clarence. Re-imprisonment of Henry. 1471, April 4. Battle of Barnet. The Lancastrians nnder Warwick (the king-maker) totally; defeated. May 4. Battle of Tewksbury. Defeat of Margaret, who was captured ; murder of her son Edward. Henry VI. died in the Tower May 22, the day when Edward IV. reentered London. 1475. Invasion of France by Edward, who, in connivance with the dukei of Burgundy, claimed the French crown. Subscriptions sup- posed to be voluntary (benevolences), Avithout consent of Parlia- ment, now first introduced to raise money for this invasion. The war: was ended without a battle by the Peace of Pequigny (1475).i Truce for seven years ; payment of a large amiual sum to England ; ransom of Margaret; betrothal of the dauphin to Edward's eldest! daughter, Elizabeth. 1478. Trial and condeTiination of Clarence for treason. He was exe- cuted in the Tower. (Popular report that he was drowned in a bntt of malmsey.) 1480. War with Scotland, which was ended by the Treaty of Pother-] ingay, wherein Berwick was snrrendered to the English. As Louis XI. now refused to consent to the marriage of the dauphin^ A. D. Spanish Peninsula. 275 with Edward's daugliter, as arranged at the treaty of Pequigiiy, Edward resolved on war, but died suddenly, ^V})ril 1), 1483. 1483. April-June. Edward V. Richard, duke of" Gloucester, regent for the thirteen-year-old king. The king and his brother, duke of York, confined in the Tower. Richard created protector. Execution of Lord Hastings. Gloucester advanced a claim to the crown, based on the asserted in- validity of Edward II I. 's marriage with Elizabeth Woodville. The claim being admitted by Parliament, Richard accepted the crown (June 26). 1483-1485. Richard III. The new king began his reign by a progress in the north. Murder of the t-wo princes in the Tower (Tyrell and Dighton). The Duke of Buckingham (to whose services Richard largely owed the crown), headed an insurrection in favor of Henry, earl of Richmond (great-great-grandson of John of Gaunt). Execution of Buckingham. Return of Richmond to France without landing. 1484. Confirmation of Richard's title by Parliament. The following table shows the derivation of Buckingham from Ed- ward III. : — Edward III. I |4 |6 John of Gaunt, Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, by his 3d wife. j I Anne = Edmund, Earl of Stafford. John, Earl of Somerset. I I 1 Edmund, Duke of Somerset. Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham. I "I I I I John Margaret ■ Humphrey, Lord Stafford. Margaret | I Henry, Duke of I Buckingham. Henry VII. In 1485 Richmond made another attempt, landed at Milford HaveUf and completely defeated Richard in the 1485. Battle of Bosworth Field, Aug. 22. where Richard was slain. In 1471 William Caxton, printer, established a press at West- minster ; in 1474, he published " The Game and Playe of Chesse," the first book printed in England. §5. SPANISH PENINSULA. Spain. The INIoors in Spain were, since 1238, confined to the kingdom of Granada, where agriculture, commerce, and industry flourished. 276 Mediceval History. A. d. Wars with the Christian kingdoms, occasionally in alliance with Morocco, .1492. Conquest of Granada and union of the kingdom with Castile. The kingdoms of Castile and Aragon during this period were in- volved in constant wars, ever renewed and of varying fortune, with the Moors and with one another. In both kingdoms bloody wars of succession and civil wars. Of tlie kings of Castile may be mentioned, in the thirteenth centuryj Sancho 1 V., in the fourteenth Peter the Cruel and Henry the Bastardy the first of whom was aided, in his war with Henry for the throne, byj England (victory of the Black Prince at Najara, 1367), the latteri by France. Mercenarj^ bands or free companies, under Bertrand dm GuescUn. Peter defeated and killed at Montiel in 1369. Peter III. (1276-liJS5) of Aragon acquired the crown of Sicily^ which he bequeathed to his second son, James, while his eldest son,) Alphonso III., succeeded him in Aragon. His successor, Peter IV.,. curbed the excessive power of the nobility of Aragon. In 1410, after the extinction of the royal family of Catalonia, a Castilian prince, Fer-' dinand, ascended the throne of Aragon, His grandson, Ferdinand the Catholic (1479-1516), by the marriage which he had made b( fore his elevation to the throne with Isabella, heiress of Castile, laid the foundation for the final union of the two kingdoms. Portugal. The legitimate line of Burgundy became extinct (1383), and waa succeeded by the illegitimate Burgundian line. Heroic age of Portu-; gal, which now reached its greatest power. Conquests, Ceuta, Tarn giers ; formation of a Christian kingdom of Algarbe on the northerr coast of Africa. Voyages and discoveries (p. 279), under the patron-: age of the Infant, Henry the Navigator (1394-1460 ; discovery of Porto Santo and Madeira, 1418-19 ; Cape Verde, 1445 ; Az&reSf 1447^ Cape Verde Islands, 1455). § 6. THE NORTH AND EAST. Denmark, Norway, Sweden. Each a united kingdom from about 850 on, converted to Christian- ity about lO.JJ, these three kingdoms were united by the Union oi Calmar (1397). Margaret, queen of Denmark, daughter of Walde- mar IV., married Hakon VI. of Norway, and after the death of Hakoi succeeded to the throne, at first for her minor son (f 1387). Th(| crown of Sweden was transferred to her by the estates of that king dom. The miion lasted (interrupted by Sweden) to 1524. Russia. From 862 to 1598, under the house of Rurik, converted by Vladimir the Great 988, soon divided into many principalities, which were ii theory subordinate to the Grand Prince of Kiev, but practically wer« A. D. Tlie North and East. 277 tolerably independent. During the supremacy of the Mongols in Rus- sia, wliich endured '1~)0 years, there grew \\\^ a new grand principal- ity, that of Moscow, which after the devastation of Kiev by the Mongols (1231)), and its conquest by the Lithuanians (1320, p. 109), became the national centre of Russia. After a long contest the IMongol supremacy in Russia was overthrown (1480) by Ivan III., the Great, the founder of the united monarchy. Republic of Noo- gorod subjugated (1478). Poland. Under the Piasts (840-1370, Christian about 1000) involved in war with Germany, with the heathen Prussians (later with the Teu- tonic knights), and with Russia. The last king of this house was Casimir the Great. Short union with Hungary under Louis the Great (1370-1382). Louis' younger daughter, Hediuig, married the grand duke of Lithuania, Vladislav II. Jagello, Avhereby Poland and Lithu- ania were united under the house of Jagello from 1386 to 1572. Conversion of Lithuania. Prussia. Conquered in the thirteenth century by the Teutonic order (p. 218), since 1309 residence of the grand master at Marienburg. The order attained its greatest power under Winrich von Kniprode (1351- 1382) ; beginning of a gradual decline. Defeat of the order by the Poles at Tannenberg (1410). The energy and daring of Henry of Plauen brought about the ad- vantageous jirst peace of Thorn (1411). The revolt of the Prussian nobles in the country and the cities and their alliance with Poland led to the second peace of Thorn (1460) : West Prussia and Ermelaud ceded to Poland ; the order retained East Prussia as a Polish fief. Hungary. Toward the close of the ninth century Hungary was occupied by the Finnish i tribe of Magyars (p. 193) ; until 1301 under the reign- ing house of the Arpads. Introduction of Christianity by the duke Geisa and his son St. Stephan, the first king of Hungary (crowned 1000). Extensive immigration of Germans. Ecclesiastical division of the country into ten bishoprics ; political division into seventy-two counties (Gespanschaften). Formation of a powerful aristocracy (Magnats). The Golden Bull extorted from King Andrew II. (con- temporary of the emperor Frederic II.), after his return from a cru- sade (p. 216), is the foundation of the privileges of tlte Hungarian nobility. After the extinction of the Arpads, Hungary came under the house of Anjou (1308-1382). Period of greatest power under Louis the Great (1342-1382), who in 1370, succeeded to the throne of Poland also. Under Sigismund of the house of Luxemburg (1387-1437), be- 1 Vambery, Ursprvnf] d. Maf/ym-en, endeavors to prove the Turkish origin of this people ; they were, at ail events, Turanian. — Trans. 278 Mediceval History. A. d. ginning of the decline of the kingdom. Albert of Austria (1438- 1439), and afterwards, Vladislav III. of Poland, elected king ; the latter fell at Varna (1444) in battle against the Turks, whereupon Albert's minor son, Ladislaus Postumus, succeeded. The chancellor of the kmgdom, John Hunyadi, defeated the Turks at Belgrade (1456). After his death and that of Ladislaus, Ilunyadi's son, Matthias Cor- vinus, became king (1458-1490). After his brilliant reign Hungary was united with Bohemia under Ladislaus II., of the house of Jagello, and the succession was secured to the archduke Maximilian of Aus- tria. Turks, Mongols, and the Eastern Empire. Supremacy of the Osman (Ottoman) Turks, Turcoman nomads, founded in Asia Minor by Osman I., about 1300. His successors, Urchan, Murad I., and Bajazet I., extended Turkish power during the fourteenth century to the confines of Europe (Adrianople, residence of the sovereigns in 1305). The development of the Osmanic power was temporarily checked by the Mongols under Timur Lenk (i. e. the Lame), commonly called Tamerlane or Timur the Tatar, Bajazet being defeated and cap- tured in 1402 at Angora. One of Bajazet's successors, Muhammed 11.^ destroyed the Eastern Empire, wliicli had been under the rule of the Palceologi since 1261, by the 1453. Conquest of Constantinople. Flight of Grecian scholars to Italy, where they taught in the universities, and gave the impulse to a new study of Grecian literature. China. In 1403 the rebellious prince, Yen, succeeded to the throne under the name Yung-lo (140^1425), and proved an efficient ruler, carry- ing his arms into Tatary, and annexing Cochin-China and Tonquin to China. Under Seuen-tih (1426-1436) Cochin-China revolted. Chingtung (1436-1465) fell into the hands of the Tatars in 1450, and remained a prisoner until released bv a Chinese \dctory in 1457. The quiet reigns of Ching-hwa (1465-1488) and Hung-che (1488- 1506) were unmarked by important events. Japan. Under the domination of the Ashikaga Shoguns (1336-1573), whose founder, Ashikaga-Taka-Uji, set up a rival emperor, Japan i was under two dynasties, — the southern (legitimate) at Yoshino, the northern (usurpers) at Kioto; the true sovereigns, meantime, were the Shoguns at Kioto. The period is a dark one, filled with constant wars between the dynasties, and civil wars in Kioto. It is curious to reflect that in the midst of these wretched wars Columbus was sending messengers into the interior of Cuba charged with letters to the sovereign of Japan, whereby he hoped to open communication for Spain with a monarch whose power was as limit- less as his wealth. m. MODERN HISTORY. FIRST PERIOD. FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA TO THE PEACE OF WEST- PHALIA (1492-1648). §1. INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, AND COLONIES. Tliree inventions, whose discovery belongs to the Middle Age, bnt which came into more common use at the beginning of the modern period, have played a very important part in the total change iu society which followed. 1. The magnetic needle, probably early discovered by the Chinese, applied in navigation (compass) in the east in the thirteenth century; in the west at the beginning of the fourteenth (by Flavio Gioja ?). This invention materially advanced the discoveries of the new era. 2. Gunpowder, probably introduced into Europe from Asia (Cliina, India, Arabia). According to a tradi- tion whose truth can no longer be maintained, invented by the monk, Berthold Schicarz, at Freiburg in the Breisgau, 1354 (?). It was first used in Europe about the middle of the fourteenth century. The new class of weapons thus introduced were at first in the highest degree imperfect, and of but little value ; but their improvemeut gradually brought about a complete revolution in military science and art, and thereby led to the destruction of chivalry. Standing armies took the place of the feudal levies, and aided the princes to triumph over the lower order of feudal nobility. 3. Printing (p. 253), which was more widely spread after the conquest of Mainz (14G2), had scattered the assistants of Fust to various lands. This invention would, however, have very largely failed of its effect, but for the improvement made at about the same time in the manufacture of Paper. 1492. Discovery of America by Columbus (Colon). For details and the further course of discovery see page 282, etc. 1498. Ocean route to the East Indies discovered by Vasco da G-ama. After the Canary Idands, Madeira, and the Azorefi\i!X(\. been discov- ered by daring sailors (especially Italians) in the first half of the fourteenth century, but had since been partially forgotten, the Portu- guese at the instance of the Infant, Henry the Navigator (p. 276), be- 280 Modern History. A. D. gan in 1415 to push southward along the coast of Africa in order to find the way to India. The death of Henry (14G0) interrupted the prog- ress of discovery for a considerable time, but in 1486 Bartholomaeus Diaz reached Caho torynentoso, called by John II., Caho da buena esperanza (Cape of Good Hope), and in 1498 Vasco da Gama landed on the coast of Malabar (Calicut, p. 353). (Martin BeJiaim of Nu- remberg, author of the celebrated globe still preserved in that city, which shows the state of geographical knowledge just before the dis- covery of America (1492), was in the service of the kiug of Portu- The Eastern trade (in silk, cotton, pearls, spices and other luxuries), had been carried on partly by land through central Asia, and partly across the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea, and across Arabia and through the Persian Gulf. The conquests of Islam, and especially the capture of Constantinople, had greatly diminished the number of prof- itable routes, so that the discovery of a new route became of great importance, especially to the maritime nations of western Europe who had been excluded from trade with the East, wherein the merchant republics of Italy, Pisa, Genoa, Venice, had grown rich and powerful. The Portuguese attempted the eastern route around Africa. Columbus found at the court of Spain patrons willing to try the experiment of a western route, at once (according to the data with which he reck- oned) shorter and simpler. The success of the Portuguese struck a mortal blow at the pros- perity of Alexandria and the great cities of Italy, and secured a monopoly of the Eastern trade to Portugal for one hundred years, after which it passed into the hands of the Dutch and English. The failure of Columbus had a still greater importance in history, disclosing a new world, where immigrants from the old should develop new political constitutions and new social conditions. The Portuguese power in tlie East Indies was founded by the vice- roy ^I/meiV/a (1504— 1509), and especially by Albuquerque (1509-1515; see p. 353). 1519-1522- First voyage around the world under Fer- dinand Magalhaes (Magellan), a Portuguese who had entered the Spanish service. Passage to the Pacific through the Straits of Magellan. Magalhaes was killed in 1521 on one of the Philippine Islands. §2. AMERICA. It is probable that as early as 1000 the Northmen, who had occu- pied Iceland since 874 and had thence made settlements in Greenland (985), had not only discovered but had tried to colonize the conti- nent of America (Vinland).^ 1 More than a dozen claims to the discovery or attempts at the discovery of America before Columbus have been preferred by various nationalities, a brief list of which is here appended: 1. St Brandan (565) and St. Maclovius ' Afalo) in the sixth century. 2. Sevea Spanish bishops (714 or 734) ; Isl- and of Seven Cities, also called Antillin. a name afterwards transferred to the Antilles. 3. Buddhist priests from China (458), followed by Hod-Shin (499), A. D. America. 281 986. Bjami Herjulfson saw the coast of Vinland, ':"u , ct.d not land. 1001. Leif Erlhson discovered Helluland, Markland, Vinland^ where he built some bootlis. 1002. Thorwald Erikson coasted along Kjalarnes and died at KroS' sanness. 1007-1009. Thorfinn Karhefne^ under whom a colony was established which remained several years in Vinland. Birth of the cliild Snorri. 1011. Helge and Finnhorge with Freydis, wife of Thorwald. The tragical ending of this settlement seems to have discouraged colonization ; yet traces of intercourse are observable for a long time, (1121, Bishop Erik of Greenland ; 1266, voyage of clergymen of Greenland to the Arctic regions ; 1255, Adelhard and Thorwald Helgason ; 1347, voyage of seventeen men from Greenland). The identification of the places visited and named by the Northmen is attended with great, perhaps insurmountable difhculties. The detailed exposition of Rafn (Helluland = Newfoundland or Labra- dor ; Markland = Nova Scotia ; Vinland = Mt. Hope Bay ; Kjal- arness = Cape Cod ; Krossamiess = Boston Harbor) is hardly to be accepted ; some writers place the southern limit of discovery at the southern point of Newfoundland.^ Wherever they were made, the settlements of the Northmen in America were not lasting, and the remembrance of them had almost passed away by the fourteenth century. Although Columbus had discovered Fou-sang. (See Leland, Fou-sang, for arguments in favor of this discovery.) 4. Basques; Jucm de I'Estraide (about 1000). 5. Northmen (986). 6. Ari Marson, from Limerick in Ireland (982) discovered Huitramdiin land (White Man's Land) or Irland it Mikla (Great Ireland). South Carolina ? Florida? He was succeeded by Bjami Asbrundson (999), and Gudkif Gud- Inifison (1029). 7. Arabians; ALinaghruins (in the eleventh century). 8. Madoc ap Gwynedd, a Welsh prince (1170). 9. Vadino and Guide Vi- valda (1281), Theodoro Doria and Ugolino Vivalda (1292), Venetians. 10. Wicoio and Antonio Zeno (1380-90). This "discovery " involves an older one made bv a tishernian of " Frislanda '' about 13G0. "^11. Cortereal, 1403. 12. Szkolny, a Polish pilot (1476). 13. Alonzo Sanchez de Helva (1484), the pilot who as some claim died in the house of Columbus, leaving his journal in the latter's hands. 14. Martin Behaim (1484). 15. Cousin and Pinzon from Dieppe (1487). This discovery of America has been assigned to still other races by disputants over the origin of the American Indians, among which may be mentioned: Egyptians, Tyrians, Phainicians, Canaanites, Norwegians, Chinese, Iberians, Scythians, Tatars, Je^os (the Lost Tribes), Rimians, Malays ; there is also the theory of settlement by the inhabitants of Atlantis, and of a new creation. It is pleasant, from a patriotic standpoint, to state that it has been recently asserted that Europe was originally populated from America. 1 Three "relics" of the Nortlimen have been famous in their time. 1. The Writing Rock on the Taunton Kivcr near Dighton. Mass. It was claimed that the inscription was in runes, and it has been interpreted by northern scholars to contain an account of the voyage of Thorfinn, but it seems at present that Washington's opinion of the Indian origin of the picture writing is to be ac- cepted as correct. 2. The Old Stone Mill at Newport, R. I. The northern origin of this structure can hardly be maintained against the more probable theory of its construction by Gov. Benedict Arnold in the latter half of the sev- enteenth century. 3. The " Skeleton in Armor," discovered in the early part of the present century at Fall River, Mass., is now admitted to have been that of an Indian. 282 Modern History. A. D. visited Iceland in 1477, it is not probable that he had heard of them ; it is evident, from his own writings, that he had no suspicions of the existence of a continent southwest of Iceland. ^ Christoforo Colombo (he called himself and signed himself, after he became a Spaniard, regularly Cristobal Colon), born (1435 ?, 1446 ?) at Genoa, of plebeian origin, a sailor from his earli- est youth, wished to try a western route by sea to India (by which name in his day, the whole East was meant), and especially to Zipangu, (Japan) the magic island, which the Venetian Marco Polo (travels 1271-1295) had described in the book Mirahilia Mundi. Starting from the erroneous calculations of Ptolemy and Marinus concerning tlie size of the earth and the length of the habitable region (the Eas- tern Continent), Columbus made the circumference of the earth too short by a sixth, thus locating Zipangu in about the position of the Sandwich Islands. His plans having been rejected by Portugal (after the failure of an expedition secretly despatched westward to discover land), Columbus in 1486 accepted the service of the crown of Castile (Isabella). Delayed in the execution of his project by the Arabian war and the lack of money at the court, he was about to offer his services at the court of France or England, when the cap- ture of Grenada promised the necessary means for the expedition.^ Contract with Columbus, who received nobility, the hereditary dignity of admiral and viceroy, and one tenth of the income from the newly discovered lands. 1492, Aug. 3-1493, March 15. First Voyage. Departure from Pcdos with three small vessels on the 3d of August, from the Canaries on Sept. 6. On Oct. 12, landing on GuanaJiani,^ one of the Bahama islands. Discovery of Cuba (called by Columbus Juanna) and Hayti (Espanola, St. Domingo). Ship- wreck off Hayti, foundation of the first colony {Navidad) on that island. 1493, May 3. Bull of Alexander VI. establishing the line of parti- tion, which divided that part of the world not possessed by any Christian prince between Spain and Portugal by a meridian line one hundred leagues west of the Azores. All W. of that line to fall to Spain, all E. of it, to Portugal. This compromise between the claims of the Spaniards based on the discoveries of Columbus, and those of the Portuguese based on their dis- coveries in the Atlantic, was afterwards revised so that the line was extended 270 leagues further west (1494). 1493, Sept 25-1496, June 11. Second voyage of Columbus from Cadiz, with seventeen vessels and 1500 persons. Discovery of the Lesser Antilles (inhabited by Caribs, which Colum- 1 See Peschel : Gesch. d. Zeitalters d. Entdeckungen, 2d ed., p. 84. 2 That Columbus laid his plans before Genoa is unhistorical (Peschel, 2d ed. p. 120). 8 The chief claimants for the honor of having been the first landing place of Columbus are Cat Island, Turk^s Island, Watlinq's Island, Samann. The latter claim was first advanced, and ably advocated by Capt. G. V. Fox in his " Attempt to solve the Problem of the First Landing Place of Columbus in the New World." Wash- 1882. (U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.) A. D. America. 283 bus mismidcrstood, Canihs, whence Cannihah) and the island of Jajii- aica. Voyage along the southern coast of Cuba to within a short dis- tance of the western end. Foundation of Isabella in Ilayti (Dec. 1493), of San Domingo on the same island by Bartholomew Columhus. 1497, May-Aug. Voyage of John and Sebastian Cabot from Bristol with two vessels. Discovery of land (Prima Vista, Cape Breton Island (?), Newfoundland (?) June 24, 1497 (not 1494). They explored the coast N. to 07.V° N. and S. for an uncer- tain distance, probably not so far as Florida, as has been claimed. 1497. First (alleged) voyage of Amerigo Vespucci. Discovery of the continent of South America. This voyage is doubtful, though many give it credence. 1498, May-July (?). Voyage of Sebastian Cabot; doubtful re- suits (68° N. to 35° N. ?). 1498, May 30-1500, Nov. 25. Third voyage of Columbus. Dis- covery of Trinidad (July 31), the continent of South America (Aug. 1) ; discovery of the mouth of the Orinoco. Exploration of the (pearl) coast as far as Margarita Island. Return of Colvimbus to His- paniola. Dangerous revolt of Roldan, with whom the admiral was obliged to conclude a treaty. Columbus, who was disliked by the set- tlers on account of !ns foreign birth, and his avarice, — a vice from which he cannot be absolved,^ — was accused at court. Bohadilla, sent out as judge with especial powers, sent Columbus and his brother in chains to Spain (1500). Cohnnbus was at once released upon his arri- val and treated with distinction ; he retained the dignity of admiral, but as viceroy was superseded by Ovando. 1499, May-1500, June. Voyage of Alonzo de Hojeda and Ame- rigo Vespucci. Discovery of Surinam, Paria, Venezuela, and the coast of South America from 3° N. (Brazil?) to Cape Vela. This is often called the second voyage of Vespucci, but the first voyage, which he is said to have made in 1497, when he reached the continent of South America, is doubtful. Vespucci was a learned Florentine (1451-1512) who participated in two Portuguese voyages to South America, entered the service of Castile in 1505, and filled the position of Royal Pilot from 1508 until his death, a post in which he rendered important services to science, particularly in the construction of maps. The new world was called after him, not by him, America. The originator of this name was Martin Waltzemiiller (Hylacomylus) from Freiburg in the Breisgau, professor at St. Die in Lorraine(1507). The name of America spread at first only in Germany and Switzerland, and did not come into gen- eral use until the close of the sixteenth century.^ 1 Peschel, 2d ed., p. 272. 2 Humboldt, ICxitmen critique de Phistoire et de la geogrnphie dii nouveau conlintid; Peschel, Gesch. d. Zeitalter d. Entdecknnfjen, cap. XIII., Aldiand- luiKjen zur Enl-und Viilkerkunde, 1877. Two attem))ts have been ncently made to derive America from a native word : Jules Marccu. in the Atl'intic Jf untidy (1875, March), and T. H. J-.ambert. in the Bulletin of tlie American Geographical Soc. for 1883, p. 45. Accor(lini>- to the former, America is a cor- ruption of the Indian name of a range of mountains in Nicarai^ua; the hitter derives it from a native name of the empire of th- Incas in Peru. The first dated map to bear the name "America" was that in the edition of Sulinus of "'^^ '-' Ai-ums- 284 Modem History. A. d. 1499, Dec.-1500, Sept. Voyage of Vincent Yanez Pinzon from Palos. Discovery of CapeS. Augustin (Feb. 28), of the Amazon. Pas- sage of the equator. This voyage traced the South American coast to 8° 20' S. 1500, April. Pedro Alvarez Cabral, bound for the East Indies, was accidentally(?) carried westward until he reached the coast of Brazil, in about 10° S. He called the country Terra Sanctoe Crucis, and took possession of it for Portugal. 1500. Gaspar de Cortereal, a Portuguese, discovered Newfoundland (Conception Bay), the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and the coast of Labrador. 1501. Cortereal sailed again in the hope of finding the passage to the East Indies, a hope which inspired the continuous efforts of nearly all the early explorers. He was lost upon the voyage. 1501. Second voyage of Vespucci under a Portuguese commander. 1502, May 11-1504, Nov. 7. Fourth (and last) voyage of Co- lumbus. Discovery of the Bay of Honduras , Veragua, Porto Bello. Shipwreck at Jamaica. Columbus died in Valladolid (1506) without a suspicion that he had discovered a new continent, and in the firm belief that his discoveries were parts of Asia. His son, Don Diego Columbus, viceroy and admi- j ral. A grandson and great grandson of the discoverer retained the hereditary title of admiral. De Bastidas traced in 1500-1502 the coast of Panama to Pt. \ Manzanilla. Hojeda (1502), Vespucci (3d voyage, 1503), Juan de la Cosa (1505), etc., examined more minutely the coasts already dis- covered, while in the Spanish possessions the work of settlement and conquest was being pushed forward. Cruelties inflicted on the Indi- ■ ans of the AVest Indies, whose race disappeared with frightful rapid- ity. It is probable that more was learned of the coasts of both Amer- icas in this period than has been divulged ; the rivalry of Spain and Portugal leading to a careful secrecy regarding all discoveries. The exact historical value of the D^Este map, just made public by M. Har- risse, cannot be known as yet, but seems to have clearly established the fact that the coast of North America from Florida to beyond Cape Cod was well known to the Portuguese in 1502. ^ 1504. French fishermen at the banks of Newfoundland. 1506. Jean Denys of Honfleur, and Camart of Rouen, examined (and sketched) the Gulf of St. Laivrence. 1506. Juan Diaz de Solis and Vincent Yanez Pinzon discovered Yuca- tan. In 1508 they coasted South America to 40° S. 1508. Circumnavigation of Cuba, by Ocampo. Aubert in the St. Law- rence. Importation of negroes from Africa to the Spanish possessions in the West Indies, where they were employed in the mines. 1511. Conquest of Cuba by Diego Velasquez. 1512. Discovery of Florida by Juan Ponce de Leon, governor (since 1510) of Porto Rico. 1513. Discovery of the Pacific Ocean by Vasco Nunez de Bal- boa, who crossed the isthmus from Antigua on the Gulf of Ura-i A. D. America. 285 ba (Keats' sonnet). Ralboa was put to death in 1514 ])y Jkn-ila, governor of Darien, Cartlui^ena, and Uraba (Castila del On.). 1515, Voyage of Juan Diaz de Solis in search of a passage to -the East Indies. Discovery of the Rio de la Plata, on the banks of which river Solis was killed by the natives. 1517. Alleged voyage of Sebastian Cabot and Sir Thomas Pert. It is very doubtful if this voyage was made, or if made, what part of America was reached. Bartholome de Las Casas (1474-15G6) went to the Indies in 1502 with Columbus, bishop of Chiapa (in Mexico), advocate and pro- tector of the Indians. 1517. Francis Hernandez Corc?oya rediscovered Yucatan (Cape Ca- toche) ; advanced civilization of the inhabitants {Mayas), who were under the supremacy of the Aztec empire in Mexico. 1518. Juan de Grij'alva coasted from Yucatan to Panuco, and brought back tidings of the Mexican empire of Montezuma. Name of " New Spain " given to the region which he ex- plored. 1519. Alvarez Pineda, by order of the governor of Jamaica, Garay, coasted from Cape Florida to the river of Panuco. 1519-1521- Conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortez (1485-1547), whom Velasquez, the governor of Cuba, had appointed to the command of a small force of 600 foot, sixteen cavalry, thirteen cross-bowmen, fourteen cannon, but immediately removed. Cortez sailed against the will of the governor. Capture of Tabasco (March). Landing at St. Juan de Uloa (April 21). Negotiations Avith Monte- zuma, who ordered the invaders to leave the kingdom. Cortez, elected general by the troops, dispatched one ship to carry a report to king Charles of Spain, and beached (not burned) the rest. Foun- dation of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz. In alliance with the Tlascalans. Cortez marched upon Mexico, the capital of Montezuma (Montecuh- cuma), who admitted him to the city (Nov. 8). Daring seizure of the king in his own house. Cortez was obliged to march against Narvaez whom Velasquez had sent to chastise him. He defeated Narvaez, and strengthening his army with the soldiers of liis opponent, returned to Mexico (1520, June). Revolt of the Mexicans, storm of the temple, death of Montezuma of wounds inflicted by his subjects, who were indignant at his submission to the Spaniards. The Spaniards, leaving the city (July 1), were furiously attacked on one of the causeways through the lake and suffered terrible loss (Noche triste). Reinforced, Cortez defeated the Mexicans in a pitched battle near Otompan (July 8). Occupation of Tescuco (Dec. 31). Conquest of Iztapalapan (1521). After having built a fleet of thirteen vessels which were transported by land and launched in the lake of Mexico, Cortez laid siege to the capital. After a long investment, accom- panied with an almost daily storm (May-Aug. 13, 1521) the city was taken. Capture of the king Guatefinozin, who was tortured and 286 Modern History. A. d. liiially executed. Submission of the country. Cortez, at first gov- i eriior of New Spain with unlimited power, was afterwards restricted to the chief command of the military forces. Prosecuting the search for a western passage he discovered California (1526). Cortez re- turned to Spain in 1540, and died at Seville in 1547. 1520. Nov. 7-Nov. 28. Passage of the Straits of Magellan by Magalhaes, see p. 280. 1520. Voyage undertaken for slaves at the suggestion of Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon, exploration of the east coast of North America to 32° or 34° N. Cabo de Sta Helena^ "Chicora." 1622. Discovery of the Bermudas. 1524. Alleged voyage of Giovanni de Verrazzano in the service of the king of France. The letter of Verrazzano which gives the only existing account of the voyage ascribes to the writer the discovery of the east coast of North America from 34° (39°) N. to 50° N. It has been thought that many places mentioned can be identified. The truth of the whole story has been disputed, but present opinion seems to be in favor of its acceptance (?). 1524. Geographical congress of Badajos, to settle the boundary be- tween Spain and Portugal in the eastern hemisphere, wliich should correspond to the line of Alexander VI. in the western ; after a stormy session the council separated without reaching an agreement. 1525-1527. Exploration of the coast of Peru by Francisco Pizarro (1478 (?)-1541), as a preliminary to the conquest of that king- dom, of wliich he had heard on Balboa's expedition (p. 284), in accordance with an agreement made by Pizarro, Diego de Almagro, and Hernando de Luque. Repulse of Pizarro and Almagro. 1525. Voyage of Estevan Gomez, a Spaniard, along the east coast of North America, 34° N. to 44° N. 1526. Voyage of Sebastian Cabot in the service of Spain. Ex- ploration of the Rio de la Plata, Parana, Paraguay, Uruguay. The English had taken but little part in the discoveries since the time of Cabot, although traces enough of intercourse re- main to show that the New World was not entirely neglected. 1527. Voyage of John Rut, who coasted north to 53° N. and returned by way of Neiofoundland, Cape Breton, and the coast of Maine (Norumbega). 1528. Unsuccessful expedition of Pamphilo de Narvaez to Florida, under a grant of all the country between Cape Florida and the River of Palms. After visiting Apalache (June 5) Nar- vaez sailed westward and was lost in a storm (Nov.). Of the survivors, four, one of whom was Cabeca de Vaca, made their way by land to the Spanish possessions in Mexico (1536). 1528. Settlement of Germans at Caro, between St. Martha and Maracapana ; presented to the family of Welser by Charles V. 1531-1532. Conquest of Peru by Pizarro. The undertaking was favored by a civil war wliich was raging A. D. America. 287 at the time in the empire of the lueas. Foundation of St. Michael on the Piuro in Peru. Capture of the Inca, Atahuallpa, before his army (Nov. 16), who, after the extortion of an immense ransom, was put to death (1533). March of Alvarado from Puerto Viego to Quito. Occupation of Lima, the capital of the Incas (1534). Feuds between the Si)anish leaders. Almagro defeated (1538) and executed by Pizzaro. The latter was afterwards killed, with his brother. The Spanish crown assumed the administration of the country (1548). 1534. First voyage of Jacques Cartier, a French sailor, from St. Malo. Discovery of the west coast of Newfoundland ( May 10), Prince Edward's Island, Miramichi Bay, Anticosti, coast to 50° N. 1535. May-1536. July. Second voyage of Cartier; discovery of the Bay of St. Lawrence, River of St. Lawrence (Hochelaga), as far as the site of Montreal. Information received about the great lakes. Foundation of the modern city of Lima. Unsuccessful invasion of Chili by Almagro. 1537. Discovery of Lower California by Cortez. 1538. The west coast of South America explored to 40° S. by Valdivia. 1539. May-1543, Sept. Expedition of Ferdinando de Soto, gover- nor of Cuba, for the conquest of Florida, with nine vessels and over 900 men. After toilsome marches m Florida, with no result but disappointment, De Soto led liis men westward to the Mississippi, where he died (at the juncture of this stream and the Guacoya) and was buried in the stream. The remains of the expedition (311 men) reached Panuco Sept. 10, 1543. According to Dr. Kohl, De Soto reached 30° 40' N. in Georgia, and explored the Mississippi to the Ohio (38° N.) 1539-1540. Alonzo de Camargo coasted from the Straits of Magellan to Peru, completing the exploration of the coast of South America. 1540. Expedition of Alarcon in search of the passage to the Indies (Straits of Anian). Exploration of the coast of California to 36° N. Voyage up the Rio Colorado. Lower California, pre- viously held to be an island, was thus shown to be a peninsula. Early maps so represent it ; afterwards the conviction that it was an island spread anew and late into the next century the best maps of America contained this error. 1540-1542. Expedition of Francisco Vasquez Coronado, sent out by the Spanish viceroy, Mendoza, in search of the seven cities of Cibola, concerning whose wealth the Spaniards had derived extravagant ideas from the reports of the Indians. Coronado reached Zuni May 11. Discovery of the Moqui cano?i of the Colorado. Reports of a city, Quivira. Coronado wintered at Zuiii among the Pueblo Indians. In 1541 he marched north- east to 40° N. and returned to Mexico (bisons). 1540. Expedition of Cartier to the St. Lawrence, \vith five ships. Roherval {Jean Fran<,:ois de la Roche, lord of Roherval), ap- pointed governor of Canada and Hochelaga and all countries 288 Modern History. A. D. north of 40° N. (New France), failed to take part in this voyage. Cartier founded the fortress of Charleshurg and explored the St. Lawrence. 1541. Gonzalo Pizarro, governor of Quito, crossed the Andes and ex- plored the river Napo for 200 leagues : his subordinate, Fran- cisco Orellana sailed down the Napo to the Amazon, and down that river to the sea (Aug. 6). Orellana returned in 1543 to conquer the country, but died in the search for the Napo. 1542. Roberval reached Newfoundland, where he met Cartier, who, against the will of the governor, returned to France. Rober- val built a fort not far above the island of Orleans, but the en- terprise was soon abandoned. Rodriguez de Cahrillo, sent in search of the passage to the In- dies, discovered Cape Mendocino in 42° N. on the west of North America, and explored as far as 44° N. 1545. Mines of Potosi claimed for Spain. 1547. Pedro de Gasca, president of Peru. Organization and pacifica- tion of the country. 1547. Bishopric of Paraguay established. 1548. First act of the English Parliament relating to America (2 Edw. VI. : regulation of the fisheries at Newfoundland). 1555-1560. First attempt of the admiral de Coligny to found a Protestant settlement m America. The chevalier Nicolaus Durand de Villegagnon led two ships to Brazil, and founded a colony at the Bay of Rio de Janeiro. Geneva sent fourteen missionaries to the colony. Villegagnon now joined the Cath- olic church, and his defection ruined the colony ; many set- tlers returned to France (1557), some of the rest were mur- dered by the Portuguese (1558), and in 1560 the colony was entirely broken up by the Portuguese government. Aiidre Thevet, who accompanied Villegagnon, on his return to France coasted along the east coast of North America to the Bacallaos (Newfoundland), and on his return described his voyage in a gossipy, untrustworthy book. 1558. Last Spanish expedition to Carolana ; no settlement made. 1560-1561. Expedition of Pedro de Urana in search of the empire of the Ormaguas, and of the scoundrel Lope de Aguirre in search of El Dorado in South America. 1562. Second attempt of admiral de Coligny to establish a Huguenot colony in America. Expedition of Jean Rihault. Erection of Charles Fort near Port Royal in South Carolina. The settlement was soon abandoned. 1563. First slave voyage made by the English to America. John Hawkins with three ships brought 300 negroes to the West Indies. 1564. Third attempt of Coligny to establish a Huguenot Colony in America. Rene Laudonniere, sent to carry aid to Ribault's colony, finding the settlers gone built Fort Carolina on the St. John's river in Florida (June). Arrival of Ribault (1565, Aug. 28). A. D. America. 289 15G5, Sept. 20. Storm of Fort Carolina by the Spaniards under Menendez de Aviles ; massaero of the garrison ("I do this not as to Freuehiuen, but as to Lutherans "). Ribault, having put to sea, was wrecked, captured, and slain with many of his company. Construction of tiiree Spanish forts (Castle of St. Augustine). 1568. Expedition of Dominique de Gourges to avenge the mas- April, sacre of the French at Fort Carolina. Capture and destruc- tion of the Spanish forts, massacre of the garrison (" I do this not as to Spaniards, nor as to mariners, but as to traitors, rob- bers and murderers"). 1572. First voyage of Francis Drake to South America. Attack upon Nombre de Dios, Carthagena, etc. 1576, First voyage of Martin Frobisher in search of a northwest June- Aug. passage. Discovery of Frobisher^ s Strait and Meta In- cognita on the north coast of North America (60°). Supposed discovery of gold. 1577, May-Sept. Second voyage of Frobisher. 1578, May-Sept. Third voyage of Frobisher. 1577, Dec. 13-1580, Nov. 3. Voyage of Francis Drake around the world. Touching the west coast of North America he dis- covered " Drake's Port," and claimed the country between 38° N. and 42° N. for England under the name of New Albion. 1578. Unsuccessful voyage of discovery of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, un- der a patent from queen Elizabeth. 1583. Second voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Landing at Neio- foundland he took formal possession of the island for England in right of the discovery of the Cabots. On the return voyage Sir Humphrey Gilbert was lost in a storm. 1584. Sir Walter Raleigh having secured a transfer to himself of the patent granted to Sir Humphrey Gilbert, his half-brother, dis- patched Amidas and Barlow to explore the coast of North America north of the Spanish settlements. They landed on July 13. the island of Wocokon and took possession of the country for the queen. Exploration of Roanoke. On their return the explorers gave glowing accounts of the country, which received the name of Virginia. 1585. Colony of 180 persons under Sir Richard Grenville sent to Roanoke Island ; suffering from destitution they were re- moved in 1586 by Drake. Grenville arriving with supplies inmiedi- ately after their departure left fifteen sailors to hold possession ; they had, however, all disappeared before the arrival (1587) of 117 new colonists. " Borough of Raleigh in Virginia," governor, John White. Virginia Dare, first English child born in America. This colony met an unknown fate. White returned to Virginia in 1590, but could not find the colony. In 1589 Raleigh sold his patent. 1585. First voyage of John Davis to the north. Exploration of Davis Straits to 66° 40^ Discovery of Gilbert Sound and Cumberland Straits. 19 290 Modern History. A, d. 1586. Naval expedition of Sir Francis Drake to the Spanish West Indies. Sack of St. Domingo and Carthagena. Rescue of the colony of Virginia. 1587. Third voyage of John Davis (the second was to Labrador in 1586). He reached 72° 12^ N. and discovered the Cumber- land Islands, London Coast, Lumley^s Inlet (Frobisher's Strait ^ ) . 1592. Alleged discovery of the strait of Juan de la Fuca on the west coast of North America in 48° N. by Apostolos Valerianae, a Greek, who had been in the service of Spain under the nam > of Juan de la Fuca. Peschel {Gesch. d. Erdkunde, I. 273) regards the story as apocryphal. 1595. Expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh to Guiana. Capture of the city of St. James. Search for El Dorado. Voyage up the Orinoco for 400 miles. 1595. Expedition of Drake and Hawkins to the West Indies. Death of Hawkins. Drake died 1596. 1598. The Marquis de la Roche obtained from Henry IV. of France a commission to conquer Canada. He left forty convicts on tlie Isle of Sable, made some explorations in Acadia, and re- turned to France. After his death his patent was granted to Chauvin, who made two successful voyages to Tadoussac, and left some people there (1600). 1602. Voyage of Bartholemew Gosnold from Falmouth. Taking due westerly course he first saw land in 42° N. Discovery of a cape which Gosnold named Cape Cod (May 15). Discovery of Buzzard's Bay (called Gosnold^ s Hope). Erection of a fort and storehouse on Cuttyhunk (called by Gosnold Elizabeth Island, a name now applied to the whole chain of islands of which this is the most westerly). Return of the whole party to England. 1603. Voyage of Martin Pring from Bristol along the coast of Maine from the Penobscot River to the Bay of Massachusetts. 1603. Voyage of Samuel Champlain, a Frenchman, from Brouage, up the St. Lawrence. 1604. Foundation of Port Royal (the present Annapolis) in Nova Scotia by the French. In 1603 Pierre du Gast, Sieur de Monts, obtained from Henry IV. of France a grant of all lands in North America from 40° N. to 46° N. (from Pennsylvania to New Brunswick), under the name of Acadia. (This name was afterwards restricted to the present New Brunswick, and the French possessions in N. America were designated generally as New France.) In 1604 De Monts associated himself with M. Poutrincourt and sailed for America with two vessels. Foundation of Port Royal by Poutrincourt. Discovery of the St. John River by Champlain, De Monts' pilot. De Monts built a fort at St. Croix, but in the following year joined Poutrincourt at Port Royal. 1 See Peschel, Gesch. d. Erdkunde, I. 299, for a discussion of the errors oi the early Arctic navigators. A. T). Am-rica. 291 1605. Voyaposed what it regarded as the Dutch invasion in 1620-21, and th'> remonstrances of the English grew stronger after the foundation of New Amsterdam (1627,1632). The settlement of Connecticut from New England (1632-1638) was opposed by the Dutch in vain, and the entire region was wrested from them. (Protest of Kieft, governor of New Netherlands against the foundation of New Haven.) The Dutch drove a flourishing trade with the Five Nations of the Iroquois in central New York, whom they supplied with firearms. C. Swedish Settlements. 1638. Foundation of Fort Christina on the Delaware by a colony of Swedes and Finns. The colony was called New Sv^reden, and was followed by other settlements. The Dutch considered this an invasion of their rights, but the disputes that followed led to no result until 1655, when New Sweden was annexed to New Netherlands. A. D. America. 299 D. New Prance and the Arctic Region. It must be remembered that France claimed, by right of the dis- coveries of Verrazaiio, the whole of North America north of Spanish Florida and Mexico, although settlements had been made only in Nova Scotia and on the St. Lawrence, nothing having come of the projected settlement between Spanish Florida and English Virginia. It w^as with the French in the north that the English settlers had to deal ; it was to Canada that they applied the name of New France, as that of Acadia was restricted to Nova Scotia. From the north the French afterwards made the great discoveries in the west which gave them new claims to the larger part of America. 1606. An attempted settlement on Cape Cod repulsed by the Indians. 1608. Foundation of Quebec (July 3) by a colony sent out by De 3£onts, under Champlain. 1609. Champlain, joining a war party of the Algonquins against the Iroquois, discovered Lake Champlain. 1610. Discovery of Hudson's Bay by Henry Hudson, who was searchmg for the northwest passage, in the service of an English company. On the return the crew mutinied and Hudson was put to sea in a small boat, and not heard of again. 1610. English colony sent to Newfoundland 46° N. to 52° N. (Con- ception Bay). 1612. Voyage of Thomas Button in search of the Northwest Passage. Discovery of New South Wales and New North Wales, Button's Bay. 1613. Madame de Guercheville, having secured the surrender of De Monts' patent, and the issue of a new patent from the crown for all New France between Florida and the St. Lawrence (except Port Royal), sent Saussage with two Jesuits, who took possession of Nova Scotia and founded a colony (St. Saviour) on Mt. Desert, which was immediately broken up by ArgaVs expedition from Virginia. All the French settlements hi Acadia were also destroyed. 1615. Expedition of Champlain to Lake Huron. 1616. Voyage of Bylot and Baffin in search of the Northwest Pas- sage. Discovery of Wolstenholme's Sound, Lancaster Sound, Baffin's Bay (78° N.). 1621. Grant of Acadia under the name of Nova Scotia, to Sir William Alexander hy t\\Q crown of Scotland. An attempt at settlement was unsuccessful and the French continued in pos- session. Grant of a part of Newfoundland to Sir George Cal- vert (Lord Baltimore) who resided there until 1631. 1627. Transfer of the colony of Quebec to the company of a hun- dred associates under Cardinal Uichelieu. 1629. Conquest of Quebec by Lonis and Thomas Kerik, mider a commission from Charles I. for the conquest of New France. An attack of David Kertk in 1628 had been repulsed by Champlain. 300 Modern History. A. d. 1630. St. Estienne of La Tour, a Huguenot, bought from Sir William I Alexander his patent for Nova Scotia, on condition that the ;| colony should remain subject to Scotland. 1631. Voyages of Fox and James in search of a Northwest Passage. Fox explored the west coast of Hudson Bay from 65° 30' to 65° 10' in vain, but discovered Fox's Channel and reached Cape Peregrine. James discovered James Bay, where he passed a terrible winter. 1632. Treaty of St. Germain between France and England. Ces- sion of New France, Acadia, and Canada to France. 1635. Seizure of the trading post established at Penobscot by the Plymouth colonists by the French. Plymouth sent a vessel against the French, but failed to recover the place. Death of Champlain. 1641. Maisonneuve appointed governor of Montreal ; in 1642 he brought over several families and took possession of the island. § 3. GERMANY TO THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. THE KEFORMA- TION. 1493-1519. Maximilian I., who first took the title of " Roman Emperor elect." 1495. Diet at Worms. Perpetual public peace. Imperial Cham- ber (Reichskammergericht), first at Frankfort, then at Speier, after 1689 at Wetzlar. At the diet of Cologne (1512), establishment of ten circles for the better maintenance of the public peace (Land- friedenskreise): Circle of : 1. Austria ; 2. Bavaria ; 3. Sivabia; 4. Fran- conia ; 5. the Upper Rhine (Lorraine, Hesse, etc.) ; 6. the Lower Rhine, or the Electorates (Mainz, Trier, Cologne) ; 7. Burgundy (1556, ceded to the Spanish line of Hapsburg) ; 8. Westphalia ; 9. Lower Saxony (Brunswick, Liineburg, Lauenburg, Holstein, Meck- lenburg, etc.) ; 10. Upper Saxony (Saxony, Brandenburg, Pomer- ania, etc.). In all comprising 240 estates of the empire, exclusive of the imperial knights. Bohemia and the neighboring states, Moravia, Silesia, Lusatia, with Prussia and Switzerland, which was already completely independent, in fact, were not included in the circles. Establishment of the Aulic Council, a court more under the control of the emperor than the Imperial Chamber, and to which a large part of the work belonging to the latter was gradually diverted. Maximilian was obliged to invest Louis XII. of France with Milan. 1508. League of Cambray between Maximilian, Louis XIL, Pope Julius IL, and Ferdinand the Catholic, against Venice. Maxi- milian took possession of a part of the territory of the republic, but besieged Padua in vain (1509). The Pope withdrew from the league, and concluded with Venice and Ferdinand the Holy League (1511) against France, in which they were finally (1513) joined by Maximilian (p. 319). The following genealogical table shows the claim of the house of Hapsburg to Spain, and its division into a, Spanish and German line. \ A.. t>. Germany. — Reformation. 301 Maxitnilian /., emperor, f 1519. Mary, of Buri^iindv, t 1482. ' d. of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy. Philip the Fair, Ferdinand, ~ king of Araguii, t 151G. Isabella, archduke of Austria, t 150G. SPANISH. Charles I. (V.), t 1558. m. Isabella of Portugal. queen of Castile, + 1504. Joanna the Insane, queen of Aragon and Castile, t 1555. GERMAN. Ferdinand I., f 1564. m. Anna of Hungary Philip II., king of Spain, t 1598. Maximilian II., emperor, f 1576. Maximilian's son Philip married Joanna, daughter of Ferdinand (king of Aragon and Naples) and Isabella (queen of Castile), hence heiress of the three kingdoms and the American Colonies. Philip him- self inherited from his mother, Mary, the heiress of Burgundy, the Bur- gundian Lands ; from his father, Maximilian, all the possessions of the Hapsburgs (Western Austria on the upper Rhine, Austria, Carinthia, Carniola, Tyrol, etc.). All these lands descended to Charles, the eldest son of Philip and Joanna, the ancestor of the elder, Spanish, line of the Hapsburg house. His younger brother, Ferdinand, ancestor of the 3'ounger, German, line of the house of Hapsburg, married Anna, sister of Louis II., last king of Bohemia and Hungary (whose Avife was Mary, Ferdinand's sister). ^ 1517. Beginning of the Reformation. Luther. Martin Luther was born 1483 at Eisleben, son of a miner, became master of arts and instructor 1505 ; monk in the Augustine monastery at Erfurt; 1507 priest; 1508 professor at Wittenberg; 1511 sent to Rome on business connected with his order; 1512 doctor of theology. On Oct. 31, 1517, he nailed upon the door of the court church at Wittenberg his ninety-five theses against the misuse of absolution or indulgences (especially by the Dominican monk Tetzel). 1518. Beginning of tlie reformation in Switzerland by Z-wingli at Ziirich. Zwingli fell in battle at Kappel 1531. Summoned to Augsburg by Cardinal de Vio of Gaeta (Cajetanus), Luther could not be induced to abjure (1518), but appealed to the Pope. 2 Mediation of the papal chamberlain v. Miltitz. After the discussion at Leipzig 1519 (Bodenstein, called Carlstadt, against Eck), the latter secured a papal bull against forty-one articles in Luther's writings. 1 ITiese fortunate marriages of the house of Austria were celebrated in the following couplet : Bella f/ernnt alii, tufelix Austria, nube ! Quce dat Mars aliis, dat tibi rerpia Venus. 2 De Papa male informato ad Pajmm melius in/ormandum. 302 Modern History. A. d. Luther burnt (1520) the papal bull and the canon law ; whereupon he was excommunicated. In tlie mean time the German electors, in spite of the claims of Francis I. of France, had chosen the grandson of Maximilian I. in Spain, Charles L, as emperor. 1519-1556. Charles V. He came to Germany for the first time in 1520, for the pur- pose of holding a grand diet at Worms (1521). There Luther defended his doctrines before the emperor, under a safe-conduct. The ban of the empire being pronounced against him, he was carried to the Wartburg by Frederic the Wise, of Saxony, and there protected. The edict of Worms prohibited all new doctrines. Luther's transla- tion of the Bible. Hearing of Carlstadt's misdoings he returned to Wittenberg, and introduced public worship, with the liturgy in Ger- man and communion in both kinds, in electoral Saxony and in Hesse (1522). The spread of the Reformation in Germany was favored by the fact that the emperor, after the diet of Worms, had left Germany and was occupied with the war with Francis I. Franz von Slck'mgen and Ulrich von Hutten advocated the Reforma- tion. Sickingen stood at the head of an association of nobles directed against the spiritual principalities. He laid siege to Trier (1522) in vain, was besieged in Landstuhl, and fell in battle. Hutten fled the country and died on the island of Ufnau in the Lake of Zurich (1523). 1524-1525. The Peasants' War, in Swabia and Franconia, ac- companied with terrible outrages. The Twelve Articles. The peasants defeated at Konigshof en on the Tauber and cruelly punished. Anabaptists in Thuringia. Thomas Miinzer captured at Franken- hausen and executed. Reformation in Prussia. Grandmaster Albert of Brandenburg duke of Prussia under Polish overlordship. Luther's marriage with Catharine of Bora, formerly a nun. Cate- chism. Ferdinand of Austria, the emperor's younger brother, edu- cated in Spain, to whom Charles had intrusted since 1522 the gov- ernment of the Hapsburg lands in Germany, formed an alliance in 1524, at the instigation of the papal legate Campeggio, with the two dukes of Bavaria and the bishop of Southern Germany, in order to oppose the religious changes. To counteract this move the league of Torgau was formed (1526) among the Protestants (John of Saxony, Philip of Hesse, Liineburg, Magdeburg, Prussia, etc.). They pro- cured an enactment at the diet of Speier, favorable to the new doctrine (1526). 1521-1526. First war of Charles V. with Francis I. Charles advanced claims to Milan and the duchy of Burgundy. Francis claimed Spanish Navarre and Naples. The French (under Lautrec) were driven from Milan, which was given to Francesco Sforza (1522). The French Connetahle, Charles of Bourhon, transferred his allegiance to Charles V. Unfortunate invasion of Italy by the French 1523-24, under Bonnivert. The chevalier Bayard (" sans peur et sans reproche ") fell during the retreat. Imperial forces invaded southern France. Francis I. crossed Mt. Cenis, and recaptured Milan. A. D. Germany. — Reformation. 303 1525. Battle of Pavia. Francis defeated and captured. 1520. Peace of Madrid. Francis renounced all claim to Milan, Genoa, and Naples, as well as the overlordship of Flanders and Artois, assented to the cession of the duchy of Burgundy, and gave his sons as hostages 1527-1529. Second war between Charles V. and Francis I., wlio had declared that the conditions of the peace of Madrid were extorted by force, and hence void. Alliance at Cognac between Frmi- cis, the Pope, Venice and Francesco Sforza against the emperor. The imperial army, unpaid and mutinous, took Rome by storm under tho constable of Bourbon, who fell in the assault (by the hand of Ben- veniito Cellini?); the Pope besieged in the Castle of St. Angelo (1527). The French general, Lautrec, invaded Naples, but the revolt of Genoa (Doi'ia), whose independence Charles V. promised to recognize, and the plague, of which Lautrec himself died, compelled the French to raise the siege of the capital and to retire to France. 1529. Peace of Canibray (Paix des Dames). So called from the fact that it was negotiated by Margaret of Austria, Charles's aunt, and Louise of Savoy, duchess of Angouleme, mother of Francis. Francis paid two million crowns and renounced his claims upon Italy, Flanders and Artois ; Charles promised not to press his claims upon Burgundy /or the present, and released the French princes. 1529. Second diet at Speier, where, in consequence of the victorious position of the emperor, Ferdinand and the Catholic party took a more decided position. The strict execution of the decree of Worms (p. 302) was resolved upon. The evangelical estates protested against this resolution, whence they were called Protestants. 1526-1532. War -with the Turks. Louis TL, king of Hungary, having fallen in the battle of Mohacs (1526), one party chose Ferdinand, Charles's brother, the other .John Zapolya. The latter was assisted by the Sultan Soliman (Suleiman), who besieged Vienna in vain (1529). 1530. Charles crowned emperor in Bologna by the Pope. This was the last coronation of a German emperor by the Pope. 1530. Brilliant Diet at Augsburg, the emperor presiding in per- son. Presentation of the Confession of Augsburg (Confes- sio Augustana) by Melanchthon (true name Schwarzerd, 1497-1560), the learned friend of Luther. The enactment of the diet connnanded the abolition of all innovations. 1531. Schnalkaldic league, agreed upon in 1530, between the ma- Feb. 6. jority of Protestant princes and imperial cities. Charles caused his brother, Ferdinand, to be elected king of Rome, and crowned at Aachen. The elector of Saxony protested against this proceeding in the name of the Evangelicals. In consequence of the new danger which threatened from the Turks, 1532. Religious Peace of Nuremberg. The Augsburg edict was revoked, and free exercise of their religion permitted the Protestants until the meeting of a new council to be called within a year. 304 Modern History. A. d. Soliman invaded and ravaged Hungary. Heroic defence of Giinz. A great imperial army was sent to the aid of Hungary, and Soliman retired. 1534-1535. A^iabaptists in Miinster (Johann Bockelsohn, from Ley- den). 1534. Philip, landgrave of Hessen, restored the Lutheran duke, Ulricli of Wiirtemherg, who had been driven out (1519) by the Swabian league of cities. The emperor had invested Fer- dinand with the duchy, but the latter was obliged to agree to a compact, whereby he was to renounce Wiirtemherg, but should be recognized as king of Rome by the evangelical party. 1535. Charles's expedition against Tunis (CJiaireddin Barharossa, the pirate). Tunis conquered ; liberation of all Christian slaves. 1536-1538. Third war, between Charles V. and Francis I., about Milan • Francis I. having renewed his claims upon that duchy after the death of Francesco Sforza XL, without issue. Charles in- vaded Provence anew, but fruitlessly. Francis made an inroad into Savoy and Piedmont, and accepted the alliance of Soliman, who pressed Hungary hard, and sent his fleet to ravage the coast of Italy. The war was ended by the 1538. Truce of Nice, which was concluded on the basis of posses- June 18. sion, at the time of its formation, for ten years. July. Meeting between Charles and Francis at Aigues Mortes. 1539-1540. Charles V. crossed France, for the purpose of suppress- ing a disturbance in Ghent, and was received by Francis with special distinction. Ghent punished by deprivation of its privi- 1540. The Order of Jesuits, founded by Jgnatius Loyola (1534), approved by Pope Paul III., successfully opposed the spread of the Reformation. 1541. Reformation introduced into Geneva by Calvin (Jean Cau- vin, from Noyon in Picardy; born 1509; Catholic pastor in his eighteenth year, resigned his office ; studied law at Orleans and Bourges ; came forward as a reformer at Paris in 1532, finding pro- tection from Margaret of Navarre, sister of Francis I. Exiled from France, Calvin went to Basel, published the Institutio christiance relig- ionis 1535 ; 1536-1538 in Geneva ; 1538-1541 in Strasburg, after- wards head of the state in Geneva, f 1564). From Geneva the Reformation spread to France and Scotland (John Knox). 1541. Charles's unsuccessful expedition against Algiers. 1542. Henry, duke of Brunswick- Wolfenblittel, driven from the country by the Schmalkaldic League. 1542-1544. Fourth war between Charles V. and Francis I., occa- sioned by the investiture of Ciiarles's son, Philip, with Milan. The fact that two secret agents, whom Francis had sent to Soliman, were captured in Milan, and when they resisted, put to death, served as a pretext. i A. D. Germany. — Reformation. 305 Francis in alliance with Soliman and the duke of Cleve. The allied Turkish and French fleets bombarded and plundered Nice. Charles, in alliance with Henry VIII. of England, conquered the duke of Cleve, and advanced as far as Soissons. Soliman invaded Hungary and Austria. 1544. Peace of Crespy ; Francis' second son, the duke of Orleans, Sept. 18. was to marry a princess of the imperial family and receive Milan. He died in 1545, however ; Milan continued in the possession of the emperor, who gave it, nominally, to his son Philip, as a tief. Francis gave up his claims to Naples, and the overlordship of Flanders and Artois; Charles renounced his claims to Burgundy. 1545-1563. Council of Trent, not attended by the Protestants. Reforms in the church. Establishment of a number of dog- mas of the Catholic church. 1546, Feb. 18. Death of Luther at Eisleben. Charles V., who, since the peace of Crespy, was unliindered by foreign complications, sought to crush the independence of the estates of the empire in Germany, and to restore the unity of the church, to which he was urged by the Pope, who concluded an alli- ance with him, and promised money and troops. 1546-1547. Schmalkaldic War. The leaders of the league of Schmalkalden, John Frederic^ elector of Saxony, and Philip, landgrave of Hesse, placed under the ban. Duke Maurice of Saxony concluded a secret alliance with the emperor. Irresolute conduct of the war by the allies in upper Ger- many. The elector and the landgrave could not be induced by gen- eral Schartlin of Augsburg to make a decisive attack, and filially re- tired, each to his own land. John Frederic of Saxony reconquered his electorate, which Maurice had occupied. Charles V. first reduced the members of the league in southern Germany (Augsburg, Nurem- berg, Ulm, duke of Wiirtemberg, etc.) to subjection, then went to Saxony, forced the passage of the Elbe, and defeated in the 1547. Battle of Mtihlberg, on the Lochau Heath, near Torgau the 24 April, elector of Saxony, captured him, and besieged his capital, Wittenberg. Treaty mediated by Joachim II. of Branden- burg. The electoral dignity and lands given to the Albertine line (duke Maurice^. The Ernestine line retained Weimar, Jena, Eisenach, Gotha, etc. The elector was kept in captivity. Philip of Hesse surrendered, and was detained in captivity, although ]\Iaurice and Joachim II. of Brandenburg had pledged themselves for his liberation. Interim of Augsburg (1548), not generally accepted by the Protestants. The city of Magdeburg, the centre of the opposition, placed under the ban. Maurice of Saxony, intrusted with the exe- cution of the decree, armed himself in secret against Charles V., and 1552. Surprised the emperor, after the conclusion of the treaty of Friedevmlde (1551) with Henry II. of France, and forced him to liberate his father-in-law, Philip of Hesse, and to conclude tlie 1552. Convention of Passau. Free exercise of religion for the 20 306 Modern History. A. D. Aug. 2. adherents of the confession of Augsburg until the next diet. Maurice defeated Albert, margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach at Sievershausen (1553), but was mortally wounded. 1555. Religious Peace of Augsburg. Sept. 25. The territorial princes and the free cities, who, at this date, acknowledged the confession of Augsburg, received freedom of wor- ship, the right to introduce the reformation within their territories {jus reformandi), and equal rights with the Catholic estates. No agreement reached as regarded the Ecclesiastical Reservation {Reser- vatum ecclesiasticum) that the spiritual estates (bishops and abbots) who became Protestant should lose their offices and incomes. This peace secured no privileges for the reformed religion (Genevan). 1552-1556. War between Charles V. and Henry II., who, as the ally of Maurice, had seized Metz, Toul, and Verdun. Charles besieged Metz, which was successfully defended by Francis of Guise. The truce of Vaucelles left France, provisionally, in possession of the cities which had been occupied. 1556- Abdication of Charles V. in Brussels (Oct. 25, 1555, and Jan. 15, 1556). The crown of Spain with the colonies, Naples, Milan, Franche- Comte, and the Netherlands, went to his son Philip; the imperial office and the Hapsburg lands to his brother Ferdinand I. (p. 302, 303). Charles lived in the monastery of St. Just as a private individual, but not as a monk, and died there in 1558. 1556-1564. Ferdinand I., husband of Anna, sister of Louis II., king of Bohemia and Hungary, after whose death he was elected king of these countries by their estates. Constant warfare over the latter country, which he was obliged to abandon, in great part, to the Turks. His sou, 1564-1576. Maximilian II., was of a mild disposition and favorably inclined to the Protes- tants, whom he left undisturbed in the free exercise of their religion. War with Zapolya, prince of Transylvania, and the Turks. Sultan Soliman II. died in camp before Sigeth, which was defended by the heroic Zriny. By the truce with Selim II. (1566) each party retained its possessions. The imperial knight, Grumbach, who had broken the public peace by a feud with the bishop of Wiirzburg, had plundered the city of Wiirzburg (1563), and had been protected by John Fred- eric, duke of Saxony, was placed under the ban, and after the cap- ture of Gotha, cruelly executed (1567). The duke was kept in strict confinement in Austria until his death. Reaction against Protestantism. Anti-Reformation. 1576-1612. Rudolf II., son of the Emperor Maximilian II., a learned man, an astrologer and astronomer {Kepler, f 1630, A. D. Germany. 307 I l?9 .5g • • p OOP S_ ^i 3m o O g H-,to ,!£^3 c •*! c 2 3 ^ CO iM g ^ ^ c. p 1 P P 8. P s ct 5'-^ 9 o H2 > 3 3 3 a^ -■j 3 " 5 < r- (t> 2 ^ Jl -3 « p' I C- P 3 T (Lm. S-3 ^«H c/j cr — 55 3 ""Z! td S-2 .^Ci Cf3 P Q, ^ O 3- fc O "> r w ^i.p ^ !r; n f w tained favorable terms at the peace of Bergerac (or Poitiers,] Sept. 17, 1577), as the king was unwilling to let the League become! too powerful. In spite of the renewal of the treaty of peace, not onej of its articles was executed. This caused the Seventh Civil War (La guerre des amoureux) (1580), which was ended in the same year by the treaty of Fleix (near St. Foy), Nov. 26, in which the conditions granted the Huguenots in former treaties were confirmed. The death of Francis, duke of AlenQon (smce the accession of Henry III., duke of Anjou'), the younger brother of the king, in 1584 rendered the extinction of the house of Valois certain. As it was the intention of the League to exclude from the throne Henry of Navarre, who belonged to the reformed religion, and to give the crown to the latter's uncle, the Cardinal of Bourbon, and as the League meantime induced the king to revoke the concessions granted to the Huguenots, there broke out the 1585-1589. Eighth Civil War called the War of the Three Henrys {Henry III. of Valois, Henry of Navarre, Henry of Guise). The Catholic party triumphed in spite of the victory of Coutras (Oct. 20, 1587), gained by Henry of Navarre. Formation of the League of Sixteen at Paris, which purposed the deposition of the weak king. Guise entered Paris, was received with ac- clamation (" King of Paris ") ; the timid resistance of the king was broken by a popular insurrection (day of the Barricades, May 12, A. D. France, 323 I a I 5 §■ g g " ^ si I 2o 3 g'i' .? § 2 p <= = 9n -I >? W^ ^5 2 SW2o on II- !2 8§ S ?sa -B 20 P^-H o § « So :* w ^? • w O !25 ' Sta- Ss.- -2. vr III n n f ■50 o £.0 o o^' 2 ^- - n> - • 324 Modern History. A. d 1588). Henry III. fled to Blois, where he summoned the estatesjl of the kingdom (^tats-Generaux, States General). Finding no sup- 'I port among them against the League, he caused Henry, duke of Guise, and his brother, Louis the Cardinal, to be murdered (Dec. 23, 1588). At this news, a revolt of the Catholic party broke out, headed by I the brother of the murdered men, the duke of Mayenne. Henry lit. I fled to Henry of Navarre in the Huguenot camp, where he was mur- dered before Paris, at St. Cloud, by the monk Jacques Clement (July 31, t Aug. 2). Death of Catharine de' Medici (Jan. 5, 1589). j Michael Montaigne, 1533-1592. 1589-1792. (1830.) House of Bourbon descended from St. Louis IX.'s younger son Robert, count of Clermont, husband of Beatrice of Bourbon. 1589-1610. Henry IV. The Catholic party refused to recognize Henry and made the old cardinal of Bourbon king under the name of Charles X. (f 1590). Some wished the duke of Mayenne to be his successor, while others joined themselves to Philip II. of Spain, who laid claim to the throne of France on behalf of his daughter by his third marriage with Eliz- abeth of Valois, sister of Henry III. Victory of Henry IV. over the duke of Mayenne at Arques (1589) and at the 1590. Battle of Ivry. March 14. Henry besieged Paris, which was relieved by M-ayenne and the duke of Parma. Henry abjured the reformed religion at St. Denis (1593) and was crowned at Chartres (1594). Bi'issac having thereupon surrendered Paris to him, the power of the League was broken. Not, however, until Henry, after public penance, by his ambassadors at Rome, had been freed from the papal ban, was he generally recognized (by Mayenne too). The civil wars of religion were ended by the 1598. Edict of Nantes, April 15. which gave the Huguenots equal political rights with the Catholics, but by no means secured them entire freedom of religious worship. The edict granted the exercise of the reformed religion to nobles having the right of criminal jurisdiction {seigneurs hauts Jus- ticiers), and to the citizens of a certain number of cities and towns, but prohibited it in all episcopal and archiepiscopal cities, at the court of the king, and in Paris, as well as within a circle of twenty miles around the capital. Public offices were opened to the Huguenots and mixed chambers were established in four Parliaments (Paris, Toulouse, Grenoble, Bordeaux). The Huguenots obtained some forti- fied towns, and were recognized, to a certain extent, as an armed po- litical party. The Edict of Nantes was registered by the Parliament only after a long delay. Treaty of Vervins (May 2, 1598) with Spain ; restoration of all conquests to France. Adoption of measures looking to the improvement of the finances A. D. France. 325 and the general prosperity, which had gone to decay, especially by Rosny, afterwards duke of Sully (1500-1041). Fantastic j)lan of the king's (?) to establish a universal Christian republic in Europe, comprising six hereditary monarchies (France, England, Spain, Den- mark, Sweden, Lombardy), five elective monarchies (the Empire, Papacy, Hungary, Poland, Bohemia), and four republics (Switzer- land, Italy, Venice, Belgium), which probably would have turned out to be a league against the too great power of the house of Haps- burg. Question of Cleves-Julich succession. Ileiu-y IV. supported the claims of Brandenburg. In the midst of great preparations for war, Henry was assassinated at Paris, 1010 (May 14), by the fanatic (Francois) Ravaillac. He was succeeded by his minor son, 1610-1643. Louis XIIL, nine years old. Regency of liis mother, Mary de* Medici (1610-1017). Sully removed from office ; the Italian Concini {Marechal d'Ancre) was placed in control of affairs. Louis XIIL, declared of age in 1614, was in fact all his life under the guidance of others. Summons of the States-General, 1014, being the last before the Revolution of 1789. Arrest and murder of Concini ; the queen mother banished to Blois (1017). The king under the in- fluence of liis favorite, the duke of Luynes. By the mediation of Armand-Jean du Plessis (born 1585, in Poitou, 1607 bishop of Lucon, 1622 cardinal), duke of Richelieu, a treaty was concluded between Luynes and the queen mother (1619). New civil war. Contest of the crown with the nobility and the Huguenots. After the death of Luynes (1621) Mary de' Medici and her favorite, Richelieu, obtained control of affairs. The influence of the latter soon became supreme, and the queen-dowager quarreled with him. 1624-1642. Administration of Richelieu, whose influence over the king was henceforward unbroken. Numerous con- spiracies against Richelieu instigated by Gaston of Orleans, the king's brother. 1625. Revolt of the Huguenots under the dukes of Rohan and Sou- bise. 1627-1628. Siege of La Rochelle, under the personal supervision of Richelieu. In spite of the dispatch of tlu-ee fleets from jSngland to tlie aid of the Huguenots, the city surrendered Oct. 28, 1628, after a heroic resistance of fourteen months. Defeat of the duke of Rohan, and complete subjugation of the Huguenots, who hereafter were no longer an armed political party, but only a toler- ated sect. War in Italy with Spain ; subjugation of Savoy, Riche- lieu at the head of the army. Treaty of Cherasco (April 6, 1631). France renoimced all conquests in Italy, but by a secret treaty with Victor Amadeus, duke of Savoy, Pignerol was surrendered to France (negotiators of these treaties, Richelieu's confidant. Father Joseph and the Pope's agent, Mazarin). A final attempt of Mary Medici to overthrow the cardinal igno- miniously failed (Nov. 11, 1630, the "Day of Dupes "). Mary died at Cologne, 1642. 326 Modern History. A. D. Conspiracy of Gaston and the duke of Montmorency. 1632, Oct. 30. Defeat of the allies and execution of Montmorency. Foundation of the French Academy (1635). 1631-48. Participation of France in the Thirty Years' War. See p. 314. 1641. Conspiracy of Henri d^Effiat, marquis of Cinq-Mars (" Mon- sieur le Grand "). Secret treaty with Spain. The plot was exposed by Richelieu. 1642. Dec. 4. Death of Richelieu. The effect of Richelieu's administration had been to break the power of the nobles and make the crown independent of the parlia- ments. He restored French influence in Italy, in the Netherlands, in Germany (311), and established it in Sweden. Richelieu laid the foundation of the power of Louis XIV. Louis XIII. died May 14, 1643. § 6. ITALY. The duchy of Milan, since 1556 (p. 306) an appanage of the Spanish crown, was held, nominally , as a fief of the empire. Venice. The discovery of the new route to the Indies struck at the root of the commercial prosperity of Venice, and her power was steadily de- clining during this period. The danger which threatened the repub- lic from the League of Cambray (1508), between the Pope, the emperor Maximilian, Louis XII., and Ferdinand the Catholic, passed away as the Pope, Julius II. withdrew from the League in 1510, made his peace with the Venetians and induced Ferdinand the Catholic ta join the Holy League, which had for its object the expulsion of the French from Italy. On the other hand the Turkish power confined Venice to the coasts of the Mediterranean. In 1570 the Turks at- tacked Cyprus, of which Venice had acquired possession in 1489 (p. 262). The victory of Lepanto, gained by Don John of Austria (p. 330), retarded the progress of the Turks but little. In 1573 Venice was forced to deliver Cyprus to them, and at the close of this period retained of all her possessions in Grecian waters, Candia^ Paros, and the Ionian Islands only. Genoa. Genoa freed herself in 1529 from French supremacy, under the doge, Andrea Doria, who gave the republic a new constitution. Unsuccessful conspiracy of Fiesco (Jan. 2, 1547). Gianettino Doria, the nephew of the doge, was murdered, and Andrea Doria was com- pelled to fly. The conspirators had got possession of nearly the whole city, when Fiesco was accidentally drowned. Return of the doge, restoration of the constitution. A. B. Italy, 327 Savoy. The dukes of Savoy, who also possessed Piedmont, were the most powerful of the uative dynasties of northern Italy. Nevertheless, during- this period, Bern deprived them of the Waadtland, and they got into straits during the war between France and the empire. After the peace of Cateau-Cambresis (1559), Emmanuel Philibert was reinstated in his duchy. Florence. In the year in which Charles VIII. of France invaded Italy (1494), Peter de' Medici, son of Lorenzo, who had concluded a treaty with the king, was driven from the city. The Dominican monk Savonarola (born 1452, prior of San Marco, 1490) was leader of the democratic party in Florence ; asceticism for a short time fashionable in Flor- ence. Savonarola excommunicated, and executed (May 23, 1498). In 1512 the Medici were restored in consequence of the victory of the Holy League (pp. 300 and 318). In 1527 the Medici were a second time expelled, and the republic for a wliile restored. In 1530, how- e\er, Cliarles V. appointed Alexander r/e' Medici hereditary ruler ni Florence, and he soon assumed the ducal title. After his murder by his cousin, Lorenzino, Cosimo {Cosimm)de^ Medidhec^rae (\\\\ie (1537). He incorporated the republic of Siena with his territory, and in 1509 was created grand duke of Tuscany by Pope Pius V. Under Cosi- mo IL, Galileo Galilei (15G4-1642) taught in Florence, who, in 1633, was forced to abjm'e the Copernican System by the Incpusition at Rome (" It does move though " i). The Papacy. The following popes of this period deserve mention : the debauched and criminal Alexander VI. (1492-1503), of the family of Borgia. His daughter was Lucrezia Borgia ; his second son Ccesar Borgia, ruler of the Romagna; the warlike Julius II. (1503-1513); the schol- arly Leo X. (1513-1521) of the family of Medici, a patron of art ; the fanatical Paul IV. (Caraffa, 1555-1559), upon whose advice Paul III. had established the Inquisition in 1542 ; Gregory XIII. (1572-1585), who revised the calendar by striking out leap year at the close of each century, excepting every fourth century ; the wise and severe Sixtus V. (1585-1590), who suppressed the banditti in the Papal States and adorned Rome. (Reerection of obelisks, completion of the dome of St. Peter's 2). Naples. Naples throughout this period was an appanage of Spain (since 1504, see p 318). Insurrection of the fisherman, Tommaso Anielloy called Masaniello (1647), soon suppressed (f July 16). Most flourishing period of Italian art. Painters : Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) ; Raphael Santi (erroneously called Sanzio, 1483- 1 Tliis saying, if i. England and Scotland. — Henry VIIL 335 the groat seal and o^ave it to Sir Thomas More (1529). Sentence and pardon of Wolsey, who, however, died in disgrace (1530). At the suggestion of Cranmer the question was referred to tlie univer- sities of England and Europe, and a number deciding in the king's favor Henry married Anne Boleyn. Henry also broke with the Church of Rome. Confiscation of the annates, followed by the res- ignation of Sir Thomas More (1532). The Pope excommunicated Henry and annulled his divorce from Catharine, which Cranmer, now arelibishop of Canterbury, had ])ro- nounced. After the birth of Elizabeth parliament confirmed the divorce, recognized Elizabeth as heir to the throne (1534), and se- cured the succession to other children of Anne in case of the death of the princess. 1534. Act of Supremacy, appointing the king and his succes- sors "Protector and only Supreme Head of the Church and Clergy of England" (1531). Refusal to take the oath of supremacy was made high treason, under which vote Sir Thomas More was condemned and beheaded (1535). Thomas Cromwell, a former servant of Wolsey, and his suc- cessor in the favor of the king, now vicegerent in matters relating to the church in England, issued a commission for the inspection of monasteries which resulted in the suppression, first of the smaller (153G), and afterwards (1539) of the larger monasteries, and the confiscation of their property. Abbots now ceased to sit in parlia- ment. 1536. Execution of Anne Boleyn on a charge of adultery. Princess Elizabeth proclaimed illegitimate by parliament. The crown was secured to any subsequent issue of the king, or should that fail, was left to his disposal. 1536. Publication of TyndaWs translation of the Bible, by Coverdale, under authority from the king. 1536. Suppression of the Catholic rebellion of Robert Aske, aided by Reginald Pole, son of Margaret, covmtess of Salisbury, daughter of George, duke of Clarence. 1539. Statute of the Six Articles, defining heresy; denial of any of these positions constituted heresy : 1. Transubstantiation ; 2. Communion in one kind for laymen ; 3. Celibacy of the priesthood ; 4. Inviolability of vows of chastity ; 5. Necessity of private masses ; 6. Necessity of auricular confession. 1540. Execution of Cromwell, on a charge of treason. Cromwell had fallen under Henry's displeasure by his advocacy of the king's marriage with Ajine of Cleves, with whom the king was ill pleased. 1542. Ireland made a kingdom. 1542. War with Scotland. James V. defeated at the Nov. 25. Battle of Solway Moss. James V. died shortly afterward. Henry proposed a marriage between liis son, Edward, and James's infant daughter, Mary, 336 Modern History. A. d. but the Scottish court preferred an alliance with France, whereupon Henry concluded an alliance with the emperor. 1544. Parliament recognized Mary and Elizabeth as heirs to the crown, in the event of the death of Edward without issue. 1545. Invasion of France. Coin debased ; property of guilds con- fiscated. 1547. Execution of the Earl of Surrey, on charge of high treason. Henry VIII. died Jan. 28, 1547, leaving a will, wherein the crown was left to the heirs of his sister, Mary, duchess of Suffolk, in the event of failure of issue by all of his cliildren. 1547-1553. Edward VI., ten years of age ; his uncle, earl of Hertford, was appointed lord protector and duke of Somerset, and assumed the government. Repeal of the six articles (1547). Introduction of reformed doc- trines. 1549. Execution of lord Seymour, brother of the duke of Somerset, who wished to marry the princess Elizabeth. Establishment of uniformity of service by act of parliament ; introduction of Edward VI. 's first prayer-book (second, 1553). Fall of the protector, Somerset, who was superseded by lord Warwick, afterwards duke of Northumberland (1550). Exe- cution of Somerset (1552). 1551. Forty-two articles of religion published by Cranmer. 1553. Edward assigned the crown to Lady Jane Grey, daughter of his cousin, Frances Grey, eldest daughter of Mary, daughter of Henry VIL, to the exclusion of Mary and Elizabeth, daughters of Henry VIII. Lady Jane was married to the son of the duke of Northumberland. Death of Edward VI , July 6, 1553. 1553-1558. Mary the Catholic. The proclamation of Lady Jane Grey as queen by Northumber- land meeting with no response, Northumberland, Lady Jane, and others were arrested. Execution of Northumberland (Aug. 22, 1553). Restoration of Catholic bishops. Gardiner, bishop of Winchester, author of the Six Articles, lord chancellor. 1553. Marriage treaty between Mary and Philip of Spain, son of Charles V., afterwards Philip II. Pliilip was to have the title of king of England, but no hand in the government, and in case of Mary's death could not succeed her. This transaction (" The Spanish marriage ") being unpopular an insurrection broke out, headed by Sir Thomas Careio, the duke of Suffolk, and Sir Thomas^ Wyatt. The sup- pression of the rebellion was followed by the execution of Lady Jane Grey (Feb. 12, 1554), and her husband. Lady Jane was an ac- complished scholar {Roger Ascham) and had no desire for the crown. Imprisonment of Elizabeth who was soon released on the intercession of the emperor. 1554. July 25. Marriage of Mary and Philip. 1555. Cruel persecution of the Protestants {Bonner, bishop of Lou- A. D. England and Scotland, 837 I J ii i" c> o > >C.S 3. iir c 3 3* • P 3. 3 tei9w a £.'< = •2>£.— S5§^ -*p p <^ i r» ra • 3«- =3 ISO n o P-P 5.3 1^3 2 §.5 P 3 a. "2 53 •g rt j3 g. 1 s'.^ ■??| f- --^3 _tP m • 3 -o a ^3 o5i as 3' 09 a f^ e-i C4 C4 w _2._o ^o_ 05 n of Gnim Lancaster, n Beaufor n, t 1444. CO 1— ( O !2: r- — r- H ^ 5c o *■ §;^ * "o H 5 ^ t?d 3 &• W a 51 5 5 5 ?d mund York, ;hard, !hnrd. o "* "*a. ^ uke ( 1402. 1415. 14G0. w M. ox 22 =3. S^- ,-3S- 338 Modern History, a. d. don). Oct. 16, Ridley and Latimer; March 21, 1556, Cranmer burnt at the stake. About 300 are said to have been burnt during this per- secution. Cardinal Pole, archbishop of Canterbury and papal legate (1556). 1557. England drawn into the Spanish war with France. Defeat of the French at the battle of St. Quentin (Aug. 10, 1557). 1558. Jan. 7. Loss of Calais, which was captured by the duke of Guise. Death of Mary, Nov. 17, 1558. 1558-1603. Elizabeth. Sir William Cecil (baron Burleigh, 1571), secretary of state. Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord privy seal. Repeal of the Catholic legisla- tion of Mary ; reenactment of the laws of Henry VIII. relating to the church ; act of supremacy, act of uniformity. Revision of the prayer- book. 1559. Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis with France. Calais to be April 2. ceded to England in eight years. On the accession of Francis II. king of France, Mary, his wife, as- sumed the title of Queen of England and Scotland. Conformity exacted in Scotland. Treaty of Berwick (Jan. 1560), between Eliza- beth and the Scottish reformers. 1560. Treaty of Edinburgh between England, France, and Scotland. July 6. French interference in Scotland withdrawn. Adoption of a Confession of Faith by the Scotch estates. 1561. Return of Mary to Scotland after the death of Francis II., where she was at once involved in conflict with the Calvinists. (John Knox, b. 1505, the friend of Calvin at Geneva, d. 1572.) 1563. Adoption of the Thirty-Nine Articles, in place of the forty- two published by Cranmer. Completion of the establishment of the Anglican Church {Church of England, Episcopal Church) ; Protestant dogmas, with retention of the Catholic hierarchy and, par- tially, of the cult. Numerous dissenters or non-conformists (Presbyte- rians, Puritans, Brownists, Separatists, etc.). Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559). 1564. Peace of Troyes with France. English claims to Calais re- nounced for 220,000 crowns. In Scotland Mary married her cousin Darnley, who caused her fa- vorite Rizzio to be nuirdered (1566) and was himself murdered (Feb, 10, 1567) by Bothwell (earl of Hepburn), apparently with the knowl- edge of the queen.i Marriage of Mary and Bothwell May 15, 1567. The nobles under Murray, Mary's natural brother, revolted, defeated Mary at Carbury Hill near Edinburgh, and imprisoned her at Loch- leven Castle. Abdication of Mary in favor of her son, James VI,, July 24, 1567. Murray, regent. In May, 1568, Mary escaped from captivity ; defeated at Langside, May 13, she took refuge in England, where, after some delay, she was placed in confinement (1568). 1 Gaedeke, Maria Stuart, 1879. The cause of Mary and Bothwell has beea recently defended by John Watts De Peyster. A. D. England and Scotland. — Elizabeth. 339 1575. Elizabeth declined the <]rovernmeiit of the Netherlaiid prov- inces of Holland and Zealand, offered her by the confederates. 1577. Alliance of Elizabeth and the Netherlands. 1583-84. Plots ag-ainst the qneen. (Arden, Parry) ; Spanish ])lot of Throgmorton ; execution of the earl of Arundel for correspond- ing with Mary. Bond of Association. 1585. Troops sent to the aid of the Dutch republic under the earl of Leicester. Victory of Zutphen (Sept. 22, 1586), death of Sir Philip Sidney. 158G. Expedition of Sir Francis Drake to the West Indies, sack of St. Domingo and Carthagena ; rescue of the Virginia colony (p. 290). 1586. Conspiracy of Savage, Ballard, Babington, etc., discovered by the secretary of state, Walsingham ; execution of the conspirators. The government involved Mary, queen of Scots, in the plot. She was tried at Fotheringay Castle, Oct. 1586, and convicted on the presentation of letters which she alleged to be forged. She was convicted Oct. 25 and executed Feb. 8, 1587. 1588. War with Spain. Construction of an English fleet of war. The Spanish fleet, called the invincible armada (132 vessels, 3,165 cannon), was defeated in the Channel by the English fleet {Howard, Drake, Hawkins), July 21-29, and destroyed by a storm off the Hebrides. 1597. Rebellion of the Irish under Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone ; the failure of the earl of Essex to cope with the insurrection led to his recall, and his successor lord Monntjoy quickly subju- gated the country (1601). Capture of Tyrone, flight of the earl of Desmond. A rebellion of Essex in Loudon was followed by his execution (1601). 1600. Charter of the East India Company. Death of Elizabeth, March 24, 1603. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 ; Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586; Edmund Spenser, 1553-1599 ; William Tyndale, 1485 ?-1536 ; Ben Jonson, 1574-1637. 1603-1649 (1714). The House of Stuart. Personal Union of England and Scotland. 1603-1625. James I., as king of Scotland, James VI., son of Mary Stuart. The Scotch had brought him up in the Protestant faith. He was learned but pedantic, weak, lazy, and incapable of governing a large king- dom. Divine right of kingship, divine right of the bishops (" no bishop, no king "). In tliis century the after-efl^eets of the Reformation made themselves felt in England as on the continent, and in l)oth places resulted in war. In England, however, owing to the peculiar circumstances of the Reformation these effects were peculiarly condi- tioned ; the religious questions were confused and overshadowed by political and constitutional questions. 1603. James I. was proclaimed king March 24 ; he entered London 840 Modern History. A. D. on the 7tli of May, and was crowned July 25. Presentation of the millenary petition immediately after James's arrival in London, signed by 1,000 (800) ministers, asking for the reform of abuses. The Main and the Bye. The " Main " was a plot to dethrone James in favor of Arabella Stuart (see geneal. table, p. 337), con- cocted by lord Cohliam, Grey and others. Sir Walter Raleigh was also implicated and imprisoned until 1616 ("History of the World"). The " Bye " or the " Surprising treason " was a plot to imprison the king. Alliance with France, negotiated by Romy (Sully). 1604. Jan. Hampton Court Conference between the bishops and the Puritans, where James presided. The Puritans failed to obtain any relaxation of the rules and orders of the church. The king issued a proclamation enforcing the act of uniformity (p. 338), and one banishing Jesuits and seminary priests {Goodwin and Fortescue). 1604, March 19-1611, Feb. 9. First Parliament of James I. The king's scheme of a real union of England and Scotland unfavorably received. Appointment of a commission to investigate the matter. 1604. Convocation (ecclesiastical court and legislature at first established [Edward I.] as an instrument for ecclesiastical tax- ation ; afterwards convened by archbishops for the settlement of church questions ; since Henry VIII. convened only by writ from the king, and sitting and enacting [canons] only by permission of the king) adopted some new canons which bore so hardly upon the Puri- tans that tliree hundred clergymen left their livings rather than con- form. Peace with Spain. James proclaimed " King of Great Britain, France and Ireland " (Oct. 24). Punishment of many recusants (under the recusancy laws of Elizabeth, whereby refusing to go to church, saying mass or assisting at mass was severely punished). 1605. Nov. 5. Gunpowder Plot, originating in 1604 with Robert Catesby, after the edict banish- ing the priests. Other conspirators : Winter, Wright, Percy. Prep- arations for blowing up the houses of Parliament ^vith tliirty-six barrels of gunpowder. Disclosure of the plot through an anonymous letter to Lord Monteagle from one of the conspirators, his brother-in-law, Tresham. Arrest of Guy (Guido) Fa"wkes, in the vaults on Nov. 4, the day before the meeting of parliament. Trial and execution of the conspirators. Parliament met Nov. 9. 1606. Penal laws against papists. Plague in London. Episco- pacy restored in Scotland. James urged the union anew but in vain. Impositions. The grant of customs duties made at the begin- ning of every reign (tonnage and poundage, established by Edward III.) proving insufficient to meet James' expenditure, he had recourse to impositions without parliamentary grant, which Mary and Elizabeth had used to a small extent. Trial of Bates for refusing to pay an imposition on currants. Tk€ court of exchequer decided in favor of the king. A. D. England and Scotland. — James I. 341 1G07. Settlement of Jamestown (p. 291). 1008. Establishment of new impositions. ICIO. The Great Contract ; in return for the surrender of some feudal privileges the king was to receive a yearly income of £200,000. The agreement was frustrated by a dispute over the impositions. Dissolution of parliament (Feb. 9, 1611). 1611. Plantation of Ulster, which was forfeited to the crown by the rebellion of Tyrone. Creation of baronets, an hereditary knighthood ; sale of the patents. 1611. Completion of the translation of the Bible, which was authorized by the king and had occupied forty-seven minis- ters since 1604. Imprisonment of Arabella Stuart. 1613. Robert Carr, the king's favorite (viscount Rochester in 1611), created duke of Somerset, and lord treasurer, on the death of the earl of Salisbury (^Robert Cecil). Death of Henry, prince of Wales (Nov. 1612). First English factory at Surat. 1613. Marriage of the princess Elizabeth (" queen of Bohemia ") to the elector Palatine. Death of Sir Thomas Overbury, who was imprisoned in the Tower by the malice of Somerset. Mar- riage of Somerset and the countess of Essex. 1614. Apr. 5-June 7. Second Parliament of James I. Tliree hundred new members, among whom were John Pym (Somer- setshire), Thomas Wentworth (Yorkshire), John Eliot (St. Ger- mains). The whole session was spent in quarrelling ^\dth the king over the impositions, and parliament was dissolved without making an enactment, whence it is called the addled parliament. 1615. iienewal of the negotiation for the marriage of James's son to a Spanish princess (opened in 1611). Imposition of a benevo- lence, which was resisted by Oliver St. John and condemned by the chief justice. Sir Edward Coke, who was afterwards dismissed from office. Death of Arabella Stuart. Mission of Sir Thomas Roe to the Great Mogul. 1616. Condemnation of the duke and duchess of Somerset for the poisoning of Overbury. Rise of George Villiers in the king's favor ; viscount Villiers, earl, marquis, duke of Buckingham. 1617. Sir Walter Raleigh, released from the Tower, allowed to sail for the Orinoco, where he hoped to discover a gold mine. Failing in this he attacked the Spanish towns on the Orinoco. 1618. Proclamation allowing sports ou Sunday after church in Scot- land (Articles of Perth). Francis Bacon, lord Verulam, \'is- count of St. Albans, lord chancellor. In this year Sir Wal- ter Raleigh, returning from his expedition, was executed under the old sentence, as reparation to Spain. 1619. Commercial treaty with the Dutch respecting the East Indies. 1620. Settlement of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, in New England (p. 294). 1621. Jan. 30-1622, Feb. 8. Third Parliament of James I. The parliament granted a supply for tiie prosecution of the war in 342 ' Modern Hutory. A. D. the palatinate (p. 310), in which James was half-hearted, and then took up the subject of grievances. Impeachment of Mompesson and Mitchell^ who had bought monopolies of inn-licensing and the manu- facture of gold and silver thread ; they were degraded, fined, and ban- ished. Impeachment of Francis Bacon, the chancellor, for bribery. Bacon admitted that he had received presents from parties in suits, i but denied that they had affected his judgment. He was fined £40,- 000 (which was remitted) and declared incapable of holding office in the future. " Petition of the commons against popery and the Spanish marriage. The angry rebuke of the king for meddling in aft'airs of state (" bring stools for these ambassadors ") drew from the parliament 1621, Dec. 18. The Great Protestation : " That the liberties, fran- chises, privileges, and jurisdictions of parliament are the ancient and u.ndoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England, and that the arduous and urgent affairs concerning the king, state, and defense of the realm . . . are proper subjects and matter of council and debate in parliament." The king tore the page containing the protestation from the journal of the commons. 1622, Feb. 8. Dissolution of parliament. Imprisonment of Southampton, Coke, Pym, Selden. Earl of Buckingham made duke of Buckingham. 1623, Charles, prince of Wales, and the duke of Buckingham, went to Spain and negotiated a marriage treaty, the provis- ions of which were so favorable to the Catholics as to excite great dissatisfaction in England ; finally, being miable to secure any help from Spain in regard to the palatinate, Charles and Buckingham returned in anger. Massacre of English residents on the island of Amhoyjia by the Dutch. 1624, Feb. 12-1625, Mar. 27. Fourth Parliament of James I. The Spanish marriage was bro^:(-i) off, but even the anger of Buckingham could not drive the parli:;nient into a declaration of war with Spain. Supplies voted for dnf uise. Mansfeld raised 1,200 men in England who reached Holl.-v.id but nearly all perished there from lack of proper provisions. Marriage treaty with France for the marriage of Prince Charles vnih. Henrietta Maria, sister of Louis XIII. 1625, March 27, death of James I. at Theobalds. 1625-1649. Charles I. 1625, May 11. Marriage of Charles I. and Henrietta Maria. Ships sent to Louis XIII. secretly engaged not to fight against the Huguenots. 1625. First Parliament of Charles I. (Assembled June 18 ; adjourned to Oxford July 11 ; dissolved Aug. 12.) Grant of tonnage and poundage for one year only, and of £140,000 for the war with Spain. Proceedings against Montague {'' appello Ccesarem" 1624). Unsuccessful expedition of Wimbledon against Cadiz. A. D. ErKfland and Scotland. — Charles I. 343 1G26, Feb. G-June 15. Second Parliament of Charles I. Chillies hud hoped t'oi- a more i)li;il)le i);u'liMnieiit, ?is he liad appointed several of the leaders of the tirst parliament sheriffs, and so kept them out of the seeond. But this i)arliament, under the lead of Sir John Eliot, was more intraetable than the last. Lord Bristol, to whom no writ had been sent by order of the king-, received one on the interference of the lords, but was requested not to appear. He took his seat and brought charges against Buckingham, on which that lord was im- peached (May). Imprisonment of Sir John Eliot and Sir Dud- ley Digges, who were set at liberty upon the refusal of parlia- ment to proceed to business without them. War declared against France (1626-1G30). lG27o Inglorious expedition of Buckingham to the relief of Roclielle {IsleofRhe). Exaction of a forced loan to raise money for the French war, and for the subsidy which Charles had agreed to supply to Chris- tian IV. of Denmark. Five persons, who were imprisoned for refusing to contribute, sued out a writ of habeas corpus, but, having been committed by the king's order, though without distinct charge, they were remanded to prison. 1C28, March 17-1629, March 10. Third Parliament of Charles I. May. Passage of the Petition of Right : 1. Prohibition of henevo- lences, and all forms of taxation ivithout consent of parliaynent. 2. Soldiers should not be billeted in private houses. 3. No com- mission should be given to militar}^ officers to execute martial law in time of peacj. 4. No ons should be imprisoned unless upon a specified charge. Assent of the king (June 7). Grant of five subsidies. Suppression of the royalistic sermons of Main- waring. Charles having, after the first year of his reign, continued to levy tonnage and poundage, the commons drew up a remonstrance against that practice. June 2G. Prorogation of parliament. Seizure of goods of merchants who refused to pay tonnage and poundage. Aug. 23. Assassination of Buckingham by Felton. 1629, Jan. New session of parliament. Oliver Cromwell spoke, for the first time, in this parliament. The commons at once took up the question of tonnage and poundage ; claim of privi- lege in the case of Rolfe, one of the merchants, whose goods had been seized, and who was a member of parliament. Adjournment of the house of commons. March 2. Meeting of parliament. Turbulent scene in the house of commons ; the speaker held in the chair while the resolutions of Eliot were read : Whoever introduced innovations in relig- ion, or opinions disagreeing with those of the true church ; whoever advised the levy of tonnage and poundage without grant of parliament ; whoever voluntarily paid such duties, was an enemy of the kingdom. 344 Modern History. a. d. March 5. Arrest of members ; imprisonment of Eliot (f Nov. 1632). March 10. Dissolution of parliament. For eleven years Charles governed without a parliament, raising money by illegal levies of taxes, sale of monopolies, and many other ways. Charles' advisers : William Laud (b, 1573, president of St. John's college, 1611-1621; dean of Gloucester, 1616; in Scotland as James I.'s chaplain, 1617; bishop of St. David's, 1621; chaplain to Buckingham, 1622 ; bishop of Bath and Wells, dean of the chapel royal, 1626 ; privy councillor, 1627; bishop of London, 1628 ; chancellor of Oxford, 1630 ; in Scotland with Charles I., 1633 ; archbishop of Canterbury, 1633 ; commissioner of the treasury, 1634 ; impeached, 1641 ; at- tainted (by bill) and executed, 1645), Thomas Wentworth (b. 1593; V parliament, 1614, 1621-1625 ; sheriff, 1625 ; imprisoned for refus- ing to comply with the forced loan ; in parliament, 1628 ; baron Went- worth, lord president of the council of the north, viscoimt Wentworth, 1628 ; privy councillor, 1629 ; lord deputy of Ireland, 1633 ; went to Ireland, 1633 ; earl of Strafford, and lord lieutenant of Ireland, 1639 ; impeached, 1640 ; attainted (by bill) and executed. May, 1641), Weston, lord treasurer. 1630, April. Peace with France. 1629. First charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony (p. 295). 1630, Nov. Peace with Spain. 1632. Predominant influence of Wentworth. 1633. June. Charles crowned at Edinburgh with ceremonies distaste- ful to the Scots. Government of Laud and Wentworth. Energetic enforcement of conformity. The declaration of sports (p. 341) reissued. Inrailment of the communion table. William Prynne, author of Histrio-Mastix, an attack on players, which was thought to reflect on the queen, pilloried and deprived of his ears. Wentworth, governor of Ireland. " Thor- ough." 1634. First writ for ship-money, a war tax levied only on seaboard towns, issued at the suggestion of Noy, attorney-general, and extended over the whole kingdom. 1635. Second writ for ship-money. 1637. Prynne, Bastwick, Burton, pilloried. June 23. An attempt to read the English liturgy in Edinburgh, in compliance with the order of Charles, produced a popular tumult at St. Giles. June. Trial of John Hampden, for refusing to pay his allotment of ship-money (twenty shillings). The court of exchequer de- cided against him, which created a strong popular excitement. Shortly after, Hampden, Pym, Cromwell, were prevented from sailing for America by a royal prohibition of emigration. 1638J Feb. 28. Signing of the Solemn League and Covenant (based on that of 1580), at Greyfriar's church in Edinburgii, for the defense of the reformed religion and resistance to inno- vations. 1638, Nov. 21. General assembly at Glasgoiv; abolition of episcopacy, the new liturgy, and the canons ; the kirk declared independent of the state. A.. D. England and Scotland. — Charles I. 345 1G39. The first bishops' war. The Scots seized Edinburgh castle, and raised an army. Charles marched to meet them near Berwick, but an agreement was reached without a battle. 1639, June 18. Pacification of Dunse (or Berwick). The armies were to be disbanded, and ditt'erences referred to a new general assembly and parliament. The general assembly at Edin- burgh confirmed the acts of the assembly of Glasgow, and the parlia- ment proved intractable. The king's necessities were now so great that he took the advice of Wentworth, now made earl of Strafford, and summoned 1640, April 13 -May 5. d^he fourth Parliament of Charles I. (" The Short Parliament ") at Westminster. As no supplies could be obtained without a redress of grievances, the parliament was soon dissolved. Popular tumults; attack on Laud's palace ; assault upon the court of high commission (created 1559, by Elizabeth, to try offenses against the ecclesiastical supremacy of the crown). 1640. Second bishops' war. Defeat of the royal troops at Newhurn on the Tyne (Aug. 28). The king summoned a council of peers at York (Sept.). Treaty of Ripon (Oct. 26) . A permanent treaty was set in prospect ; meanwhile the Scottish army was to be paid £850 a day by Charles. Acting upon the advice of the peers, Charles now summoned 1640, Nov. 3. The Fifth and last Parliament. The Long Parliament (Nov. 3, 1640-March 16, 1660). First Session. Nov. 3, 1640-Sept. 8, 1641. The fact that the Scotch army was not to be disbanded until paid, gave the commons an extraordinary power over the king, which they were not slow to use. Lenthall, speaker. Nov. 11. Impeachment of the earl of Strafford, followed by the im- peachment of Laud. Both were committed to the Tower. 1641, Feb. 15. The triennial act passed, enacting that parliament should assemble every three years even witliout being sum- moned by the king. March 22. Commencement of the trial of Strafford. The result of the impeachment being uncertain, it was dropped and a bill of attainder introduced, which passed both houses (commons, Apr. 21, lords, Apr. 29). Bill to prevent clergymen from holding civil ol^ce introduced but thrown out by the lords (June). Introduction of a bill for the abolition of bishops (''root and branch bill "). May 10. Charles with great reluctance signed the bill of attainder against Strafford, and also the bill to prevent the dissolu- tion or proroguing of the present parliament without its own consent. (" Aci for the perpetual Parliaments^ 346 Modern History. a. Do 1641, May 12. Execution of Strafford. July. Abolition of the Star Chamber and the High Commis- sion. Aug. Treaty of pacifioation with Scotland. The Scotch and Eng- lish armies were paid with the proceeds of a poll-tax. Charles went to Scotland. First interview of Edward Hyde, lord Clar- endon (1609-1674 ; " History of the Kebellion and Civil Wars in England)," with the king. Sept. 8. Parliament adjourned, but each house appointed a commit- tee to sit during the recess ; Pym chairman of the commons' committee. Attempt of the king to conciliate the 'moderates" in parlia- ment by giving offices of state to their leaders (Lucius Gary, lord Falkland). Oct. In Scotland the marquis of Montrose formed a plot for the seizure of the duke of Argyle, the leader of the Presbyterians, in which the king was thought to have a share. The discovery of the plot (" the incident ") threw Charles into the hands of Argyle, and an agreement was concluded whereby Charles gave the state offices to Argyle and his party, and the latter agreed not to interfere in the religious affairs in England. Oct. 20. Parliament assembled. Early in Nov. came news of the Irish massacre in Ulster ; the lowest estimate of the number of Protestants slain was 30,000. Great indignation in England. Yet the parliament was unwilling to trust Charles with an army. 1641, Dec. 1. The grand remonstrance, which had passed the house of commons in November, after a long and exciting de- bate, by a majority of eleven, presented to the king. It was a summary of all the grievances of his reign. On Dec. 14 the remonstrance was ordered to be printed. Several of the bishops having de claved their inability to attend parliament on account of the coi l-.ictof the mob, and protested against the action of parliam > it in their absence, they were committed to the Tower fo • breach of privilege (Dec. 30). The petition of the comm_;)j.> for a guard under the earl of Essex rejected by the king. 1642, Jan. 3. Impeachment of lord Kimbolton, and of Pym, Hampden, Haselrig, Holies, Strode, members of the com- mons, for treasonable correspondence with the Scots in the recent war. As the commons declined to order their arrest Charles resolved to take matters into his own hands. Jan. 4, Attempt to seize the five members. Charles visited the house of commons in person, with five hundred troops, but finding that the five members were absent he withdrew quietly. The accused members, meanwhile, were in London. The commons immediately followed them, and formed themselves into a committee which sat at the Guild- hall, under the protection of the citizens. Jan. 10. Charles left London. The five members returned to par- liament on the following day. Jan. 12, rising at Kingston. A. D. England and Scotland. 347 The freeholders of Buckingliaimhire sent a remonstrance to the king. The commons made sure of several places and hastened to lay before the kiuf^ a bill excluding thp bishops from the house of Lords, which he sig'ned, and a bill securing to the parliament the command of the militia, which he re- fused to sign. Charles at York (March), where he was joined m April by thirty-two peers and sixty-five members of the lower house. The king also obtained the great seal. At- tempt on Hull. Henceforward the parliament at Westminster passed ordina^ices which were not submitted to the king. By an ordinance passed in May they assumed control of the militia. June 2. Submission of nineteen propositions by parliament to the king, demanding that the king should give liis assent to the militia bill ; that all fortified places should be entrusted to officers appointed by parliament ; that the liturgy and church government should be reformed in accordance with the \\T.shes of parliament ; that parliament should appoint and dismiss all royal ministers, appoint guardians for the king's cliildren, and have the power of excluding from the upper house at will all peers created after that date. The propositions were indig- nantly rejected. July. Appointment of a committee of public safety by parliament. Essex appointed captain-general of an army of 20,000 foot and 4000 cavalry. Siege of Portsmouth. Aug. 22, Charles raised the royal standard at Nottingham. 1642-1646. The civil war ; the Great Rebellion. Oct. 23. Drawn battle of EdgeMlL (Prince Rupert, son of the elector palatine and Elizabeth of England.) The king marched upon London, but being confronted at Brentford by Essex and Nov. 12. the trained bands of London under Skippon, he retired without fighting. " Affair of Brentford," Dec. The associated counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridge, Hertfordshire, and Huntingdonshire raised a force which was en- trusted to Oliver Cromwell (born April 2o, 1599 in Hunting- don), who made them a model band, " the Ironsides." 1643, Feb.-Apr. Fruitless negotiations at Oxford, followed by a re- newal of the war. In Feb, the queen landed in Yorkshire, bringing assistance from Holland. Apr. 27. Capture of Reading by Essex. May. Royalist rising in Cornwall ; defeat of the parliament at Strat- ton Hill (May 16). Defeat of Waller at Lansdowne Hill, and at Round way Down (July), June 18. Hampden wounded in a skirmish with Rupert at Chal- grovefeld, f June 24. July 1, Westminster assembly (continued until 1649), for the settlement of religious and theological matters. July 25. Capture of Bristol (the second city in the kuigdom) by Rupert. Discouragement of the supporters of the parliament. Sept. Essex relieved Gloucester, which was gallantly defended by Massey. 348 Modern History, A. D. 1643, Sept. 20. First battle of Newbury. Death of lord Falkland. Sept. 25. Signature of the Solemn League and Covenant hy twenty-five peers and 288 members of the commons. Parlia- ment thus agreed to make the religions of England, Ireland, and Scotland as nearly uniform as possible, and to reform re- ligion " according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches." All civil and military officers and all beneficed clergymen were compelled to sign the covenant (nearly 2000 clergymen were thus deprived of their livings). Thus the assistance of the Scots was secured. Sept. Charles concluded peace with the Irish insurgents, and took the fatal step of enlisting a force from their numbers for the war in England. Dec. 8. Death of Pym. 1644. Jan. A Scotch army crossed the Tweed. Parliament con- vened at Oxford by the king. Jan. 25. Battle of Nantwich. Defeat of the Irish by Sir Thomas Fairfax. Feb. 15. Joint committee of the two kingdoms. March. Trial of Laud. York besieged by Fairfax and the Scots. Siege of Oxford by Essex and Waller. Siege of Latham House {countess of Derby) raised by Rupert (May). July 2. Battle of Marston Moor. Prince Ruj)ert, who defeated the Scots, was in turn totally de- feated by Cromwell at the head of his picked troops (Ironsides). Hitherto the king had held the west and north of England, while the parliament was supreme in the east. This victory gave the north to parliament. Surrender of York July 16, of Newcastle Oct 20. This success was partially offset in the south by the de- feat of Waller at the June 29. Battle of Copredy Bridge, and by the Sept. Surrender of Essex's infantry in Cornwall to Charles. Es- sex escaped to London by sea. 1644, Aug.-1645, Sept. Campaign of Montrose in Scotland. Montrose entered Scotland in disguise, Aug. 1644. Victory of Tippamuir Sept. 1 ; sack of Aberdeen (Bridge of Dee) Sept. 13 ; capture of Perth ; Montrose retired to Athole (Oct. 4) ; Fyrie castle (Oct. 14) ; Montrose retired to Badenach (Nov. 6) ; harrying of Arcjyleshire (Dec-Jan. 18) ; march from Loch Ness to Inverlochy at Ben Nevis (Jan. 31-Feb. 1). Battle of Inverlochy, Feb. 2. Surren- der of Elgin, Feb. 19. Montrose at Aberdeen (March 9) ; Stone- haven (March 21). Victory of Auldearn (May 4) ; victory of Alford (July 2) ; of Kilsyth (Aug. 15) ; court at Bothwell (Sept. 3) ; Kelso (Sept. 10) ; Leslie crossed the Tweed (Sept. 6). De- feat of Montrose at Philiphaugh (Sept. 13). 1644, Oct. 27. Second battle of Newbury fought between the king and Essex, Waller, and Manchester. Dec. Promulgation of a directory instead of a liturgy. Christmas made a fast. 1645. Jan. Attainder and execution (Jan. 10) of Laud. A. D. England and Scotland. 349 1645, Jaii.-Fob. Truce known as the treaty of Uxbridge ; the pro- posals of the parliament rejected by the king. Dissensions within the parliament, liise of the sect of indepen- dents (advocates of religious liberty) who formed a growing opposi- tion to the Presbyterians. Crom-well fast becoming the leading man m England since the victory of Marstou Moor. Quarrel with Man- chester. April 3. The Self-denying Ordinance passed by both houses (the commons had passed a similar bill Dec. 1644) preventing mem- bers of either house from holding military command. Estab- lishment of Presbyterianism, with some reservations m favor of the independents. Fairfax superseded Essex as captain-general. Cromwell, [i lieutenant-general (suspension of the self-denying ordinance P in liis case). Introduction of reform in the army after the plans of Crom- well ; the new model. June 14. Battle of Naseby. Complete defeat of the king, followed by the general ruin of his cause. Capture of his private letters. Surrender of Lei- cester (June 18), Bridgewater (July 23), Bristol (Sept. 11), Carlisle, Winchester, Basing House (Oct.), Latham House (Dec). March 26. Defeat and capture of lord Ashley at Stow-on-the-Wold ; last battle of the civil war. 1646, May 5. Charles surrendered himself to the Scots. July 24. Parliamentary propositions submitted to Charles at Newcastle. Parliament to have control of the militia for twenty years ; Charles to take the covenant and support the Presbyterian establishment. Charles rejected the propositions, preferring to await the result of the impending breach between pajiia- nient, representing Presbyterianism, and the army, comprising the independents. The independent opposition, the " tolera- tion " party in parliament, grew constantly in strength. 1647, Jan. 30. The Scots surrendered Charles to the parliament on payment of the expenses of their army (£400,000). Charles was brought to Holmhy House in Northamptonshire. Contention between parliament and the army. The commons voted the disbandment of all soldiers not needed for garrison purposes or in Ireland. Fairfax appointed commander-in- chief. The self-denying ordinance re-enacted. The new model, however, refused to disband until its claims for arrears were satisfied. May 12. Charles accepted a modified form of the parliamentary propositions. It was too late. June 4. Charles seized at Holmby House by col. Joyce and carried to the army. On the same day Cromwell, having heard of the intention of the Presbyterians to seize him in parliament, fled I to the army at Triptow Heath. Here the army had taken an 350 Modern History. A. d. had adopted a new organization ; appointment to a council of adjudicators. 1647, June 10. The army at St. Albans. " Humble representation " addressed to parliament. June 16. The army demanded the exclusion from parliament of eleven members who were peculiarly obnoxious to it (Holies). July 26. The house of commons mobbed by London apprentices on account of a change in the commanders of the London militia which the army had requested. The two speakers, fourteen lords, and one hundred commons fled to the army. July 24. Proposals presented to the king by the army. Belief and worship should be free to all ; parliament to control the mili- tary and naval forces for ten years, and to appoint officers of state ; triennial parliament ; reformation of the house of commons, etc., rejected by the king, who was invited to Lon- don by that part of the parliament still sitting at Westmin- ster. Aug. 6. The army entered London and restored the members which had taken refuge with it. Charles removed to Hampton Court. Sept. 7. Parliament again offered Charles a modified form of the nineteen propositions ; on its rejection a new draft was pre- pared, but before its presentation Nov. 11. Charles escaped to the Isle of Wight, where he was detained by the governor of Carisbrooke Castle. Dec. 24. " The four bills " presented to the king by parliament : 1. Parliament to command the army for twenty years ; 2. All declarations and proclamations against the parliament to be recalled ; 3. All peers created since the great seal was sent to Charles to be incapable of sitting in the house ; 4. The two houses should adjourn at pleasure. Charles, who was only playing with the parliament in the hope of securing aid from Scotland, rejected the four bills (Dec. 28), after he had already signed Dec. 26. A secret treaty with the Scots (" The Engagement"). Charles agreed to abolish Episcopacy and restore Presbyte- rianism ; the Scots, who looked with horror on the rising tide of toleration in England, agreed to restore him by force of arms. 1648. Jan. 15. Parliament renounced allegiance to the king, and voted to have no more communication with him. 1648. Second Civil War. At once a war between Scotland and England, a war between the Royalists and the Roundheads, and a war between the Presbyterians and the Independents. Committee of safety renewed, sitting at Derby House. March. A meeting of army officers at Windsor resolved that the king must be brought to trial. April 24. Call of the house. 306 members. The Presbyterians having returned to their seats, now regained control, and mani- A. D. The North and East. 351 fested a desire to conic to an a-hire, Maine, and Plymouth, but before he received his commission Charles died, and .James II. appointed Joseph Dudley president of New England. He took office in 1686. 1686. Issue of a quo warranto writ against Connecticut and Carolina. New York deprived of an assembly and other liberties. Appointment of Sir Edmund Andros as president of New England. He arrived at Boston Dec. 20. Randolph was now deputy postmaster in New England. Andros assumed the government of Rhode Island. Establishment of an Epis- copal society in Boston, for the use of which Andros forcibly seized the Old South Church. 1687. Quo icarranto against Maryland. Oct. Sir Edmund Andros assumed the government of Connecticut and attempted to secure the charter, but it was carried off from the hall of assembly and hidden in the famous Charter Oak. 1688. Tyranny of Andros in Massachusetts. New York and New- Jersey placed under his government. Erection of King's Chapel, as an Episcopal church, in Boston. 1689. On the receipt of news of the revolution m England, and the landing of William of Orange, Sir Edmund Andros was seized in Boston (April 18) and thrown into prison. Restora- tion of the old government. " Council of safety of the people and conservation of the peace." Assembly of representatives at Boston. Provisional resumption of the charter ; proclama- tion of William and Mary. Reestablishment of the former governments in Rhode Island and Connecticut. New York, Virginia and Maryland proclaimed William and Maiy. 1689-1697. " King William's War " with the French, a part of the universal war against Louis XIV. The French were assisted by the Canadian Indians and those of Maine, while the Iroquois took the war path against the French. 1690. Surprise and destruction of Schenectady (Feb. 8), of Salmon Falls (March 18), and of Casco (May 17), by tliree bands of French and Indians. April, Seizure of Port Royal by Sir William Phips, who afterwards made a futile attack upon Quebec, by vote of a congress of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Comiecticut, and New York. The failure imposed so large a debt on the colonies that Massa- chusetts was obliged to issue paper money for the first time. 1692. New charter for Massachusetts. Sir William Phips ap- 862 Modern History. a. d. pointed governor. Under this charter were inchided the colony of Ph/mouth, the provinces of Maine, Nova Scotia and all land north to the St. Lawrence ; also the Elizabeth Islands, Nantasket, and Martha's Vineyard. The new charter gave the appoint- ment of the governor to the crown, and vested in him the right of calling, proroguing, and dissolvhig the general court, of appointing military officers and oiiicers of justice (with the consent of the council), of vetoing acts of the legislature and appointments of civil officers made by the legislature. The electoral franchise was extended to all freeholders with a yearly income of forty shillings, and all inhabitants having personal property to the amount of £40. Religious liberty was secured to all except Papists. 1692, Feb. Commencement of the Salem witchcraft frenzy. Be- fore October twenty persons were executed. Construction of Fort William Henry at Pemaquid in Maine by Sir William Phips. Rhode Island and Connecticut were allowed to retain their charters. Charter of the " College of William and Mary " in Vir- ginia. Sir Edmund Andros appointed governor of Virginia and Mary^ land. 1693. Government of Pennsylvania taken from Penn by the crown. An English expedition against Canada was planned but failed of execution. 1694. Penn reinstated. Fletcher, governor of New York (and now of Pennsylvania), having been entrusted with the command of the militia of Connecticut, went to Hartford Oct. 26 to assert his authority, but was repulsed by the assembly, and by Wadsworth, senior captain of the militia. French expedition of Frontenac against the Iroquois. 1696. Capture of the fort at Pemaquid by the French under Iberville. An expedition of count Frontenac against the Iroquois resulted in little more than tlio destruction of their harvests. 1697. The Peace of Ryswick (p. 371) prevented the exe- cution of a French attack upon Newfomidland. Restoration of conquests by both combatants. Third expedition of Frontenac against the Iroquois, with little effect. 1699. The French settled in Louisiana. The French claimed control of the fisheries on the north coast, and of the territory from the Kennebec eastward. Foundation of a Scotch settlement at Darien in the hope of acqumng great wealth by the command of commercial transit (Paterson). The first expedition (1,200 men, besides women and cliildren) perished from starvation, or returned to Scot- land ; the second was broken up by the Spaniards who con. sidered the settlement a breach of the treaty of Ryswick. 1700. Iberville took possession of the Mississippi for France. 1701. William Penn gave a new charter to Pennsylvania. A. D. America, 303 1701. Foniiclatioii of Yale College at New Harm in Connecticut. 1702. Joseph Dudleij, ^ovonior of Massachusetts. Quarrel with the general c»*irt over ths proposed salaries to be paid the governor, lieutenant-governor, etc. An expedition projected by governor Moore of Carolina against 8t. Augustine resulted in failure. The debt thus in- curred was discharged by an issue of paper money. 1702-1713. " Queen Anne's War " with the French. 1703. Pennsylvania province separated from the territories, or lower counties {Delaware) ; separate assemblies. 1704. Deerjield in Massachusetts destroyed by French and In- dians. This was avenged by an expedition under colonel Church which ravaged the French settlements on the east coast of New England. Establishment of the Church of England in Carolina. The complaints of dissenters against some details of ecclesiastical administration led to the issue of a quo warranto against the colon}' , l)ut nothing came of the matter. 1706. Invasion of Carolina by the French and Spanish in assertion of the Spanish claims to that country as a part of Florida. They were repulsed and defeated on land and sea with great loss by William Rhett. 1707. New England sent an expedition against Port Royal, which returned without effecting its capture, 1708. Surprise of Haverhill by French and Indians. 1709. An expedition was planned against Canada and Acadia to which the colonies were to contribute 2,700 men. The project w^as abandoned by the English government after the men had been raised, and Comiecticut, New York, and New Jersey were obliged to issue paper money to cancel their debts, 1710. Capture of Port Royal by a fleet from England. Change of the name of the city to Annapolis. 1711. An exi^edition against Canada numbering 68 sail and 6,463 sol- diers, largely raised by the colonies, met with disaster and was abandoned. 1712. A massacre of colonists in Carolina by the Tusearoras and other tribes was followed by the dispatch of Barnwell against the IndiaiLS. After a difficult march he succeeded in almost anni- hilating the Tusearoras, many of whom fled to the Iroquois. 1713- Treaty of Utrecht, between Great Britain and France (j). 393). Cession of Hudson Bay and Straits, of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and St. Christopher (in the West Indies) to England. French settlements and discoveries. In the earlier part of the century the French had established a claim to Canada and Acadia, extendmg to the Kennebec in Maine, although the English claimed as far as the Penobscot. From this 1G4 Modern Histt D. vantage ground they extended their discoveries south and west. Jes- uit missionaries labored among the Hurons in the country between lakes Erie, Ontario, and Huron, planted the missions of St. Mary (1G68) and Michillimachinac, died with their flocks when the undying enmity of the Iroquois annihilated the Hurons (Brebceuf, Lallemont), or sought torture and death at the hands of the Five Nations {Isaac Jogues, 1640-1654). 1656. Acadia and Nova Scotia granted to St. Etienne and others by Cromwell.^ 1656-1658. French colony in western New York, soon broken up. 1659. Francois de Laval, bishop of New France. 1662. The hundred associates of Quebec reconsigned their rights to the king, who soon after granted New France to the French West India Company. 1665. Courcelles, governor of New France. The colony was more than doubled by the transportation of many emigrants from France. 1666. Expedition of Tracy and Courcelles against the Mohawks. 1666. Allouez founded the mission of St. Esprit on the southern shore of lake Superior. 1668. The peace of Breda ended the war between England and France which had broken out in 1666. England restored Aca- dia to France, and obtained from France Antigua, Montser- rat, and St. Christopher. This was followed by a peace between tlie French and the Five Nations. In this year Foundation of Sault Ste. Marie, at the entrance of lake Superior by Dahlon and Marquette. 1672. Tour of Allouez and Dahlon in Wisconsin and Illinois. 1673. Discovery of the Mississippi by Marquette and Joliet (June 17) who descended the stream for an uncertain distance. Count Frontenac, governor of Canada, completed a fort at On- tario called after himself. Construction of a fort at Michilli- machinac. 1678. Robert Cavalier de La Salle began his career of discovery in the great west. Launching in the Niagara, the Griffin, a ves- sel of forty-five tons, the first ever seen on the great lakes, he sailed Aug. 7, 1679. He passed through lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan, and landed at the extreme southern end of the latter lake in October. He built a fort on the St. Joseph and crossed the portage to the Illinois. Not heaving from the Griffin he returned on foot to Canada. Obtaining fresh sup- plies he retraced his route to the Illinois only to find the fort which he had there erected deserted. Again he returned to Canada ; again he obtained aid, and again undertook his enter- prise. 1680. Discovery of the Mississippi by Hennepin, a priest in the com- pany of La Salle. He ascended the river to 46° N., but the claim wliich he later advanced that he had explored the Mis- sissippi to the sea is probably false. 1 The southern boundary of Acadia in the grant of Henry IV., 1630, was 40° N. ; the southwestern limit of Nora Scotia in the grant of James I.^ 1621, was tlie river St. Croix. Holmes, Annals, I. 307, note 4. A.. D, America. oGo 1682. La Salle, reaehinp^ the Mississippi by way of the St. Joaeph and the Illinois, (U^sceiukMl the ««i-eat river to the sea and took possession of its valley for Louis XIV., April 9, under the name of Louisiana. 1684. Expedition of De la Barre against the Iroquois, which failed of success. La Salle having announced his discovery in France was sent out at the head of foiu" vessels and a number of settlers to estab- lish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi. Contention be- tween La Salle and the commander of the vessels, who was jealous of the discoverer, resulted in disaster. The sfjuadron missed the mouth of the Mississippi and landed at Matagora Bay (St. Louis), four hundred miles to the west. Here La Salle built a fort, but privation and disease soon greatly re- ducing the numbers of the colony he undertook to go on foot to Canada for relief. On this expedition 1687, La Salle was shot by one of his own men. The settlement of Mar. 19. St. Louis soon perished. 1687. Expedition of De Denonville against the Senecas. At this time there were about 11,000 persons in New France. 1689-1697. War of William and Mary, see p. 361. Expeditions of Fronteuac against the Iroquois (1693, 1696, 1697). 1695. Foundation of Kaskaskia in Illinois. 1699. The French and the English both attempted to found a col- ony in Louisiana. The French colony was sent out by Louis XIV. under Lemoine d'' Iberville, who entered the Mississippi March 2, and also founded a colony at Biloxi. The English attempt was made by Coxe, a claimant of the old grant of Carolana, who entered the Mississippi, but, finding himself an- ticipated, retired {Detour aux Anglais). 1700. An expedition from Biloxi ascended to the falls o£ St. An- thony, in search of gold. Iberville returning from France took possession of Louisiana anew for the crown. Erection of a fort. Foundation of Cahokia in lUmois. Fort at Detroit (1701). 3.702-13. Queen Anne's war, see p. 363. Iberville brought new settlers from France and transferred the colony of Biloxi to Mobile in Alabama. Iberville f 1706. 1705, Foundation of Vincennes in Indiana. 1712. Grant to Sieur Antoine Crozat of the whole commerce of fif- teen years of all the " king's lands in North America lying be- tween New France on the north, Carolina on the east, and New Mexico on the west, down to the gulf of Florida ; by the name of Louisiana." §2. FRANCE. X643-1715. Louis XIV. (five years old), under the guardianship of his mother, Anne, daughter of Philip III., king of Spain, called by the French Anne of Austria, i. e. 366 Modern History. A. D> of Hapsburg. The government, even after Louis' arrival at ma- jority, was conducted by cardinal Mazarin. 1648-1653. Disturbances of the Fronde (cardinal Retz, prince of Conde ; resistance of the parliament of Paris), the last at- tempt of the French nobility to oppose the court by armed resist- ance. Conde, at first loyal, afterwards engaged against the court, fought a battle with the royal troope under {Henri de la Tour d'Au- vsrgrie, vicomte de) Turenne, in the Faubourg Saint Antoine, and took refuge in Spain. The first conspiracy, the old Fronde, ended in 1649, with the second treaty of Ruel ; the second conspiracy, the neio Fronde, which involved treasonable correspondence with S])ain, failed in 1650. A union of the two was crushed in 1653. {Gasion of Orleans j and his daughter, "Mademoiselle.") 1648. Acquisitions of France in the Peace of Westphalia, p. 316. The war with Spain, which sprang up during the Thirty Years' War (victory of Conde at Rocroy, May 18, 1643 ; alliance v*^ith Eng- land, 1657 ; Cromwell sent 8,000 men of his army to the assistance of Turenne) was continued till the 1659. Peace of the Pyrenees: 1. France received a part of Roussillon, Conflans, Verdagne^ and several towns in Artois and Flanders, Hainault and Luxembourg. 2. The duke of Lorraine, the ally of Spain, was partially reinstated (France received Bar, Clermont, etc., and right of passage for troops) ; the prince of Conde entirely r^nstated. 3. Marriage between Louis XIV. and the infant Maria Theresa, eldest daughter of Philip IV. of Spain, who, however, renounced her claims upon her inheritance for herself and her issue by Louis forever, both for herself before mar- riage and for herself and her husband after marriage, in considera- tion of the payment of a dowry of 500,000 crowns by Spain. 1661. Death of Mazarin, Personal government of Louis XIV. (1661-1715), absolute, arbitrary, without etats generaux, without regard to the remonstrances of the parliament of Paris {IJetat, c'est moi). Colbert, controller general of the finances, from 1662-1683. Reform of the finances ; mercantile system. Con- struction of a fleet of war. Louvois, minister of v^av, 1666-1691. Quarrel for precedence in rank with Spain. Negotiations with the Pope concerning the privileges of French ambassadors at Rome. The ambition of Louis for fame, and his desire for increase of terri- tory were the causes of the following wars, in which these generals took part : Turenne, Conde, Luxembourg, Catinat, Villars, Vendomc, Vauban (inventor of the modern system of military defense). 1667-1668. First war of conquest (war of devolution) on account of the Spanish Netherlands. Cause : After the death of his father-in-law, Philip IV. of Spain, Louis laid claim to the Spanish possessions in the Belgian provinces {Brabant, Flanders, etc.), on the ground that, being the personal estates A. D. France, 3G7 of the royal family of Spain, their descent ought to be regulated by the local " droit de devolution,^' a principle in private law, whereby in the event of a dissolution of a marriage by deatli, the survivor enjoyed the usufruct onl}' of the property, the ownership being vested in the children, whence it followed that daughters of a first marriage inher- ited before sons of a second marriage.^ The renunciation of her heritage which his wife had made was, Louis claimed, invalid, since the stipulated dowry had never been paid. 1GG7. Turenne conquered a part of Flanders and Hainault. By the exertions of Jan de Witt, pensioner of Holland, and Sir 1CG8. William Temple, England, Holland, and S/veden, concluded the Jan. 23. Triple Alliance, which induced Louis, after Conde had, with great rapidity, occupied the defenseless free county of Burgundy {Franche Comte) to sign the 1668. Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. May 2. Louis restored Franche-Comte (the fortresses having been dismantled) to Spain, in return for which he received twelve fortified towns on the border of the Spanish Netherlands, among others, Lille, Tournay, and Oudenarde. The question of the succession was not settled, but deferred. 1672-1678. Second war of conquest (against Holland). The course of Holland in these transactions had inflamed the hatred of Louis against her, a hatred made still stronger by the refuge given by the provinces to political writers who annoyed him with their abus- ive publications. To gain his purpose, the destruction or the humilia- tion of Holland, Loms secured the disruption of the Triple Alliance by a 1670. Private treaty with Charles II. of England (p. 380), and be- 1G72. tween France and Sweden. Subsidy treaties with Cologne and Munster ; 20,000 Germans fought for Louis in the following war. 1G72. Passage of the Rhine. Rapid and easy conquest of southern Holland by Turenne, Conde, and the king, at the head of 100,000 men. The brothers De Witt, tlie leaders of the aristocratic republican party in Holland, were killed during a popular outbreak (Aug. 27), and William III. of Orange was placed at the head of the state. The opening of the sluices saved the province of Holland, and the city of Amsterdam. Alliance of Holland with Frederic William, elector of Brandenburg (IGIO-IGBS), afterwards joined by the emperor and by Spain. 1G73. Frederic William concluded the separate peace of Vossem (not far from Louvaine), in wliich he retained his possessions in Cleves, except Wesel and Rees. 1G71. Declaration of war by the empire. 1 "Secundam antiqnas Meklin. constitutiones et fere per universain Braban- tiam superstes altero coiijiigo niortuo usufructuarius reclditur suorum bonarum, eorum proprietate statini ad liberos proximos vel qui luTredes futuri sunt devo- 'lUta." Comra. to the customs of Mechhu. Hanke, Franz. Gesck. 111., 226. 368 Modern History, a. d. Peace between England and Holland. Louis XIV. conquered Franche-Comte in person ; Conde fought against Orange (drawn battle at Senef) in the Netherlands. Brilliant campaign of Turenne on the upper Rhine (first ravaging of the palat- inate) against Montecuculi, the imperial general, and the elector of Brandeiiburg. The latter, recalled by the inroad of the Swedish allies of Louis XIV. into his lands, defeated the Swedes in the 1675. Battle of Fehrbellin. In the same year Turenne fell at j June 18. Sasbach, in Baden (July 27). The French retreated across the llliine. 1676. Naval successes in the Mediterranean against the Dutch and Spanish. Death of De Ruyter. 1677. Marriage of William of Orange with Mary, eldest daughter of the duke of York. 1678. Surprise and capture of Ghent and Ypres by the French. Negotiations with each combatant, which had been for some time in progress, resulted in the 1678-1679. Peace of Nimwegen. Holland and France (Aug. 10, 1678) ; Spain and France (Sept. 17, 1678) ; the Emperor, with France and Sweden (Feb. 6, 1679) ; Holland with Sweden (Oct. 12, 1679). At FontaineUeau, France and Denmark (Sept. 2, 1679). At Lund, Denmark and Sweden (Sept. 26, 1679). 1. Holland received its whole territory back, upon condition of preserving neutrality. 2. Spain ceded to France, Franche-Comte, and on the northeast frontier, Valenciennes, Camhray, and the Cam- bresis, Aire, Poperingen, St. Omer, Ypres, Conde, Bouchain, Maubeuge, and other towns ; France ceded to Spain, Charleroi, Binche, Oude- narde, Ath, Courtray, Limburg, Ghent, Waes, etc. ; and in Cata- lonia, Puycerda. 3. The Emperor ceded to France Freiburg in the Breisgau ; France gave up the right of garrison in Philippsburg ; the duke of Lorraine was to be restored to his duchy, but on such con- ditions that he refused to accept them. Louis XIV. forced the elector of Brandenburg to conclude the 1679. Peace of St. Germain-en-Laye, whereby he surrendered to Sweden nearly all of his conquests in Pommerania, in return for which he received only the reversion of the principality of East Friesland, which became Prussian in 1744, and a small indemnifica- tion (exclamation of the elector : Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, Virg. ^n. IV. 625). Louis " the Great " at the height of his power. His boundless am- bition stimulated by the weakness of the empire led him to establish the 1680-1683. Chambers of Reunion at Metz, Breisach, Be- san(;oii, and Tournay. These were French courts of claims with power to investigate and decide what dependencies had at any time belonged to the territories and towns which had been ceded to France by the last four treaties of peace. The king executed with his troops the decisions of his tri- .. D. France, 3G9 tunals, thus adding to violence in time of peace, the scoff of a legal orniality. Saarhriick, Luxembourg, Denxponts {Zweibrucke7i), and uauy other towns were thus annexed to France. 681, Oct. Capture of Strasburg by treachery. l683. Invasion of the Spmiish Netherlands, occupation of Luxembourg, and seizure of Trier (1G84). Lorraine permanently occupied )y France. To the weakness of the empire, the wars with the Turks, md the general confusion of European relations since the peace of N^imwegen, it is to be attributed that these outrageous aggressions nrere met by nothing more than empty protests, and that 1084. A truce for twenty years was concluded at Regensburg between Louis and the emperor and the empire, whereby he retained Bverything he had obtained by reunion up to Aug. 1, 1681, including Strasburg. Louis' mistresses : Louise de la Valliere ; Madame de Montespan ; Madame de Main tenon (Francoise d'Aubigne),SinsiTTow bigot whose inliuence over the king was boundless. Maria Theresa died 1683. Louis privately married to Madame de Maintenon. War upon heresy. The dragonnades in Languedoc. Wholesale conversions. 1685, Oct. 18. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The exercise of the reformed religion in France was forbid- den, children were to be educated in the Catholic faith, emigration was prohibited. In spite of this more than 50,000 families, including military leaders (Schomberg), men of letters, and the best part of the artificers of France, made their way to foreign countries. Their loss was a blow to the industry of the country, which hastened the approach of the revolution. The exiles found welcome in Holland, England (Spitaljields), Brandenburg. The Protestants of Alsace re- tained the freedom of worship which had been secured to them. 1689-1697. Third War. (War concerning the succession of the palatinate.) Cause : After the extinction of the male line of the electors palatine in the person of the elector Charles (f 1685), whose sister was tlie wife of Louis XIV. 's brother, the duke of Orleans, the king laid claim to the allodial lands of the family, a claim which he soon extended to the greater portion of the country. Another ground for Frederic V. (king of Bohemia), t 1632. i i ' ^1 ^ Sophia m. Charles Louis, Ernest Augustus, t 1680. of Hanover. George I. Charles, Charlotte' Elizabeth, •f England. f 1685. m. Philip, duke of without Orleans, brother of male issue. Louis XIV. 24 370 Modern History. A. d. war was found in the quarrel over the election of the archbishop of Cologne, which Louis was resolved to secure for Von Fiirstenburg, bishop of Strasburg, in place of prince Clement of Bavaria (1688). Meantime the unfavorable impression produced throughout Protes- tant Europe by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes had contributed to the success of the plans of William of Orange, and 1686. The League of Augsburg, directed against France, was signed July 9. by the Emperor, the kings of Sweden and Spain, the electors of Bavaria, of Saxony, and the palatinate. In 1688 occurred the revolution in England which placed William of Orange on the throne of that country, and added a powerful kingdom to the new foes of Louis. The exiled James IL took refuge with the French monarch (court at St. Germain, p. 385). 1688. Invasion and frightful devastation of the Palatinate, by Oct. order of Louvois, executed by Melac {Heidelberg, Mannheim, Speier, Worms, and the whole country as far as the borders of i Alsace ravaged and burnt). The military successes of the French on \ the Rhine were unimportant, especially after 1693, when prince Louis of Bavaria assumed the chief command against them. 1689. The Grand Alliance, between the powers who had joined the League of Augsburg and England and Holland (Savoy had I joined the league in 1687). The principal scene of war was in the ■ Netherlands. 1690. June 30. Battle of Fleurus, defeat of the prince of Waldeck by Louis' general. Marshal Luxembourg. The French expedition to Ireland in aid of James had but a temporary success. 1690, July 1. Victory of William III. over the adherents of James ; IL at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (p. 387). French successes in Piedmont ; Catinat reduced Savoy ; de- feat of Victor Amadeus at Staffarda. 1692, May. Defeat of the French fleet under Tourville by the Eng- lish and Dutch at Cape La Hogue. The mastery of the sea passed from the French to the English. Death of Louvois. 1692, July 24. Battle of Steenkirke (Steenkerken) in Hainault. Victory of Luxembourg over William III. Fall of Namur (June) . 1693, July 29. Battle of Neerwinden. Victory of Luxembourg over William III., who in spite of his many defeats still kept the field. In Italy Marshal Catinat defeated the duke of Savoy at Mar- saglia. Rise of prince Eugene (" Eugenio von Savoye,^' " the little abbe," son of Maurice of Savoy-Carignan, count of Soissons and Olympia Mancini, niece of Mazarin, b. 1663 at Paris ; refused a commission by Louis XIV., he entered the Austrian service in 1683 ; died April 21, 1736). On June 30, the English fleet was defeated at Lagos Bay by Tourville. Failure of the English attack upon Brest (1694), not by the treachery of Marlborough. Death of Luxem- bourg (Jan. 1696) ; he was succeeded by the incapable Villeroy. A. D. Franco. 371 1695, Sept. Recapture of Namur by William III. lODO, May 30. Separate Peace with Savoy at Turin. All con- quests were restored to the duke {Fignerol and Camle), and his daughter married Louis' grandson, the duke of Burgundy. Savoy promised to remain neutral. 1697, Peace of Ryswick, a village near the Hague. Treaty Sept. 30. beiween France, England, Spain, and Holland. 1. Confirmation of the sejjarate peace with Savoy. 2. Restoration of eon(piests between France and England and Holland ; 'William III. acknowledged as king of England, and Anne, as his successor, Louis promising not to help his enemies. 3. It was agreed that the chief fortresses in the Spanish Netherlands should be garrisoned witli Dutch troops as a barrier between France and Holland. 4. France restored to Spain all places whicli had been " reunited " since the peace of Nimwegen, with the exception of eighty-two places, and all conquests. 5. Holland restored Pondicherii in India to the French East India Company and received commercial privileges in return. 1G97, Oct. 30. Treaty between France and the emperor (and em- pire.) 1. France ceded all the "reunions " except Alsace, which hencefor- ward was lost to the empire. 2. Strasburg was ceded to France. 3. France ceded Freiburg and Breisach to the emperor, and Phillips- burg to the empire. 4. The duchy of Zweihriicken was restored to the king of Sweden, as count palatine of the Rhine. 5. Lorraine was re- stored to duke Leopold (excepting Saarlouis) . 6. The claims of car- dmal FUrstenourg to the archbishopric of Cologne were disavowed. 7. The Rhine was made free. Brilliant period of French literature in the age of Louis XIV. Corneille (1606-1684); Racine (1639-1699); Moiiere (Jean Bantiste Poquelin, 1622-1673) ; La Fontaine (1621-1695) ; Boilean (1G36- 1711); Bosmet (1627-1704); Flechier (f 1710); Fenelon {Fran(,:ois de Salignac de Lamothe, 1651-1715). Louis' court at Versailles (after 1680) was the pattern for all the other courts of Europe. Buildings, luxury, mistresses (La Valliere, Montespan, Fontanqe). After the death of his wife. Mar 'a Theresa of Spain (1683), Louis made a secret marriage with Franroise d'' Auhigne^ widow of the poet Scarron (1610-1660), whom he made Marquise de Maintenon. § 3. GEE MANY. 1658-1705. Leopold I., son of Ferdinand ITT. After 1663 permanent diet at Regensburg, consisting of the representatives of the eight electors, the sixty-nine ecclesiastical, the ninety-six secular princes, and the imperial cities. [A miracle of te- dious legislation, often degenerating into a squabble for precedence. " A bladeless knife without a handle."] Corpus Catholicorum and Cor- pus Evangelicorum; [the corporate organizations of the Catholic and the evangelical estates, the latter being the most important. This or- 372 3Toclern History. A. D. ganization of the Protestant estates had existed, in fact, since the latter half of the sixteenth century, but it was legally recognized in the Peace of Westphalia, where it was decreed that in the diet matters relating to religion and the church should not be decided by a majority, but should be settled by conference and agreement between the Cath- olic and Protestant estates, as organized corporations.] 1661-16G4. First war with the Turks ; caused by a dispute con- cerning the election of a prince in Transylvania. The Turkish successes at last enabled the emperor to obtain help from the empire and from the French. Victory of the imperial gen- eral Montecuculi over the Turks at St. Gotthard on the Raah (1C04). A truce for twenty years, favorable to the Turks, was, nevertheless concluded. War of the empire against Louis XIV. (see p. 367). 1666. Settlement of the contested succession of Cleve-Jiilich : Cleve, Mark, Ravenstein, and half of Ravensherg given to Bi an- denburg j afterwards, the whole of Ravensherg instead of Ra- venstein. 1682-1699. Second war with the Turks. Conspiracy of Hun- garian magnates detected and punished. Count Tdkoly ap- pealed to the Turks for aid. Invasion of Hungary by the Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha and 1683. Siege of Vienna. Heroic defense conducted by Riidiger von StaJiremberg. Suc- cessful relief by a united German and Polish army under Charles of Lorraine and John Sobieski, king of Poland. Henceforward active participation of the German princes in the war, assisted by Venice. After the victory of Charles of Lorraine over the Turks at Mohacs (pron. Mohatch) Aug. 12, 1687, the diet at Pressburg conferred the hereditary succession to the throne of Hungary upon the male line of Austria. The war continued with varying fortune until Prince Eugene, by the 1697. Victory of Zenta, brought about the 1699, Jan. 26. Peace of Carlowitz : 1. The Porte received the Banat Temesvar ; Austria, the rest of Hungary and Transylvania. 2. Venice received Morea (the Peloponnesus, p. 416). Toward the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, several German princes obtained an elevation in rank. 1692. 1. Hmover became the ninth electorate. 1697. 2. The elector of Saxony (Augustus II.), after the death of John Sobieski, became king of Poland, and adopted the Cath- olic faith. 3. Frederic III., elector of Brandenburg (1688-1713), son of the Great Elector, assumed, with the consent of the emperor, the 1701. title of king in Prussia (Frederic I.) and crowned himself at Jan. 18. Konigsberg. L. D. The North and East. 373 § 4. THE NORTH AND EAST. S^veden. Sweden, whose possessions almost surrounded the Baltic Sea, vas the first power of the North after the Thirty-Years' War. L654-1718 (1751). Dynasty of the counts palatine of Zweibrucken (p. 352). 1651^1660. Charles X., Gustavus, undertook a war with Poland, because John Cadmir (of the house of Vasa) refused to ae- inowledge liiua. He invaded Livonia and Poland, captured Warsaw ind drove John Casiniir into Silesia. Frederic William, elector of Bran- ienburg, who had come with an army to the defense of East Prussia, w^as obliged, by the treaty of Konigsberg (1656) to receive liis duchy in fee from Sweden, as he had heretofore held it from Poland. He received also the bishopric of Ermeland. Uprising in Poland against the Swedes. Charles Gustavus and the elector Frederic William, who bad become a still closer ally by the treaty of Marienhurg, gained the 1656. Tlu'ee days' battle of Warsa^v over the Poles. In order to further secure for himself the aid of the elector of Brandenburg, Charles Gustavus granted him, in the treaty of Labiau (1656) the sov- ereignty/ over East Prussia and Ermeland. Nevertheless, Russia, Den- mark and the emperor, declared war upon Sweden, and they were soon jomed by the elector of Brandenburg, who receiv-ed from Poland in the treaty of Wehlau (1657) recognition of his sovereignty over East Prussia, but not over Ermeland, for which he received compensation elsewhere. The Swedes were soon driven out of Poland, retaining a hold on Polish Prussia only. Charles Gustavus attacked Denmark which he soon conquered (crossing of the frozen Belt, Jan. 1658), and compelled to make important cessions in the peace of Roeskild (1658). In the same year Charles Gustavus invaded Denmark a sec- ond time, purposing the annihilation of the monarchy. Courageous defense of Copenhagen. The Danes received assistance from all sides. Raise of the siege. Sudden death of Charles Gustavus (1660). Under his mhior son 1660-1697. Charles XI., the 1660. Peace of Oliva (monastery near Danzig) was con- cluded with Poland. John Casimir abandoned his claims upon the throne of Sweden, as well as upon Livonia and Esthonia. Restoration of the duke of Cur- land. The sovereignty of Prussia ratified by Sweden and Poland. This was followed immediately by the Peace of Copenhagen wdth Denmark, wliicli surrendered forever the southern part of the Scandinavian peninsula, wliich had been ceded already by the peace of Roeskild, but retained Drontheim and Bornhobn. Peace between Sweden and Russia at Kardis (1661) ; reciprocal surrender of conquests. 374 Modern History. A. d. Wai- between Siveden, as the ally of France, and Brandenburg ; battle of Fehrbellin, p. 308; peace of St. Germain-en-Laye, p. 368. Denmark. Immediately after the peace (1660) the third estate (burghers), im- patient of the rule of the nobility, and the clergy, conferred upon the king, Frederic III. (1648-1670), an absolutely uncontrolled authority. Lex Regia. In the same way the Swedish estates, weary of the over-great power of the royal council, conferred almost unlimited power upon king Charles XI., who was now of age. Poland. In Poland, on the contrary, the royal power had become a mere shadow at this period, and the state was, in fact, a republic of nobles. The diet, composed of the senate (bishops, woiwods, castellanes), and the elected representatives from the country (representatives of the nobility) exercised every function of government. The liberum veto, that is, the right of each individual member of the diet to defeat a resolution by his protest, and thus to break up the diet, led to bribery, violence, and, in the end, to absolute anarch^^ After the abdication of John Casimir (1668), there followed a bloody contest for the throne ; then John Sobieski (1674-1696), the liberator of Vienna (p. 372), and finally Augustus II. of Saxony (1697-1733), under whom the war with the Turks was ended by the Peace of Carlo witz (p. 372). Russia. Under the house of Romanow Russia developed in strength and influence. The son of the founder of the dynasty, Alexis, reconquered Little (White) Russia from Poland, and began to introduce European civilization into Russia. After the death of his eldest son, Feodor (1682), his brothers, Ivan and Peter (son of the Czar's second wife, Natalia Narischkin), proclaimed Czars under the guardianship of their elder sister, Sophia, by the Strelitzes, the noble body-guard of the emperor. Peter in Preobaschensk, under the guidance of Lefort, a Swiss. Playing soldiers : origin of the later guard. His half-sister, Sophia, endeavored to exclude him from the throne, but was sent to a cloister by Peter (1689). 1689-1725. Peter I., the Great, reigned as sole monarch, his weak minded brother, Ivan, con- tinuing until his death (1696) without the least authority. Peter began his reforms with the assistance of Gordon, a Scot, and Lefort. Conquest of Azojf (1696). After cruelly punishing a revolt of the Strelitzes, Peter undertook his first journey (1697-1698), for his instruction, through Germany to Holland, where he worked as a ship's carpenter in Saardam (Zaandam), and afterwards to England (en- gagement of foreign artisans, artists, and military officers). Peter intended to visit Italy, but was recalled by a new revolt of the A. D. England. 375 Strelitzes (1698). Bloody punisliment ; dissolution of the Strelitzes, who were replaced by an army after the European pattern (1099). 1099. Peace with the Turks at Carlowitz. Acquisition of Azojf. § 5. ENGLAND. 1649-1660. England a republic; the Commonwealth. The government was actuully in the hands of the army of inde- pendents under Oliver Cromwell (b. at Huntingdon, April 25, 1599; where he met prince Charles, 1603 ; admitted to Sidney- Sussex College, 1010 ; death of his father, 1017 ; mar- ried Elizabeth Bourchier, 1020 ; M. P. for Huntingdon, 1028 ; his first speech, Feb. 1029 ; removed to St. Ives, 1031 ; re- moved to Ely, 1030 ; affair of Bedford-Level, 1038 ; M, P. for Cambridge, 1040 ; removed to London ; resided at the Cock- pit [Westminster], 1050 ; at Whitehall, 1054 ; died Sept. 3, 1058. Children : Oliver, Richard, b. 1020 ; abdicated May 25, 1059 ; died, 1712 ; Henry, b. 1028 ; Bridget, married Ireton, 1040 [Fleetwood, 1051] ; Elizabeth, married Mr. Claypole ; died, 1058 ; Frances, married Richard Rich, grandson of War- wick, 1057; il/ar?/, married lord iviwconfter^'), but theoretically the legislative department was in the hands of the Rump par- liament, consisting of some fifty members of the commons (in- dependents), while the executive was entrusted to a council of state numbering forty-one meinbers (three judges, three mili- tary commanders, five peers, thirty members of the commons^. Abolition of the title and office of king, and of the house of lords. Charles II. proclaimed in Edmburgh (Feb. 5). New great seal. Rising in Ireland in favor of Charles II., under the marquis of Ormond. Expedition of Cromwell to Ireland (Aug. 15). 1049, Sept. 12. Storm of Drogheda ; massacre of the garrison, followed by the storm and massacre of Wexford. Cromwell returned to London, May, 1050, leaving Ireton in Ireland. The " rebellion " was not thoroughly put do^vn until 1652, when three out of four provinces were confiscated. 1650. Montrose landed in Scotland, was defeated at Corbiesdale (April 27), betrayed, captured, and executed at Edinburgh May 21. June 24. Charles II. landed in Scotland, and after takuig the cov- enant, was proclaimed king. Cromwell appointed captain-general in place of Fairfax. He led 16,000 men to Scotland, and totally defeated the Scots under Leslie at the Sept. 3. Battle of Dunbar. Surrender of Edinburgh and Glasgow. 1651, Jan. 1. Charles II. was crOwned at Scone and marched into England (July) at the head of the Scotch army while Crom- well took Perth (Aug. 2). The latter followed the king, and at the Sept. 3. Battle of Worcester totally defeated the royalists. Charles in disguise escaped to France. 376 Modern History. a. d. 1651, Oct. 9, First navigation act, forbidding the importation of goods into England except in English vessels (but goods might be conveyed to England in vessels belonging to the country producing the goods). This measure was aimed at the Dutch, and resulted in the 1652, July 8-1654, April 5. Dutch War. Naval actions in the Chamiel ; English commanders, Blake, Monk ; Dutch, Van Tromp, De Ruyter. English victory in the Downs before the declaration of war. May. Defeat of Van Tromp and De Ruyter, Sept. 28 ; defeat of Blake, Nov. ; de- feat of Van Tromp off Portland, Feb. 18, 1653 ; off the North Foreland, June 2, 3„ Death of Ireton (Nov. 1651). Between the army and the Rump there had been growing contention since the death of Charles I. A new parliament was desirable, but the members of the Rump wished to retam their seats in any new parliament. The negotiations for ransom of confiscated royalist estates led to bribery of members. 1652, Feb. Act of indemnity and oblivion. Aug. First act of settlement for Ireland. 1653, April 20. Cromwell turned out the Rump and dissolved the council of state. Establishment of a new council and nom- ination of July 4. A ne\Ar parliament (" Barebone's parliament," also called the " Little parliament "), consisting of about 140 members. July 31. Victory of Monk off the Texel ; death of Van Tromp. Sept. Second act of settlement for Ireland. Dec. 12. The Cromwellians in parliament resigned their powers to Cromwell ; an act subsequently approved by the majority. 1653, Dec.-1659, May. Protectorate. 1653, Dec. 16-1658, Sept. 3. Cromwell Lord Protector of the commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. " The instrument of government," a written constitution. The executive power was vested in the lord protector, who was pro- vided with a council of twenty-one, which filled its own vacancies. A standing army of 30,000 men established ; parliament was to be triennial, and to consist of 460 members, and when once summoned could not be dissolved inside of five months. Between sessions the protector and council could issue ordinances with the force of laws, but parliament alone could grant supplies and levy taxes. 1654, April 5. Peace with the Dutch. Sept. 3. New parliament. As the course of the assembly did not suit the protector, he ordered an exclusion of members (Sept. 12). After votmg that the office of protector should be elec- tive instead of hereditary the 1655, Jan. 22. Parliament was dissolved. April. Blake chastised the deys of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli. March-May. Rising of Penruddock at Salisbury suppressed. Execu- tion of Penruddock. England divided into twelve military districts, each under a A. D. England. 377 major-general, with a force supported by a tax of ten per cent, on royalist estates. May. Perm and Venables, sent to make reprisals in the Spanish West Indies, captured Jamaica. 1655, Oct. Pacification of Pinerolo concluded with France. The duke of Savoy to stop the persecution of the Vaudois. Charles to be expelled from France. Nov. Anglican clergymen forbidden to teach or preach. Priests ordered out of the kingdom. Censorship of the press. 1656-1G59. War with Spain. Sept. 9. Capture of Spanish treasure ships off Cadiz. 1656, Sept. 17-1658, Feb. 4. Cromwell's third parliament. Another exclusion of members. Oct. Reduction of the power of the major-generals. 1657, Jan. Plot against the protector (" Killing no Murder "). Pun- ishment of Naijler. March-May. Humble petition and advice altering the constitu- tion, adopted by parliament. Establishment of a second house ; the council of state reduced in power ; the protector deprived of the right of excluding members ; fixed supply for the army and navy ; toleration of all Christians except Episcopalians and Roman Catholics. The title of king was offered to Cromwell but rejected by him (May 8). April 20. Victory of Blake off Santa Cruz. Death of Blake, Aug. 17. June 26. Second inauguration of Cromwell. 1658, Jan. 20. New session of parliament, mcludiug " the other house." Feb. 4. Dissolution of Cromwell's last parliament. May. Siege of Dunkirk by the English and French. A Spanish force advancing to the relief of the town was defeated in the June 4. Battle of the Dunes, which was followed by the surrender of Dunkirk (June 17). In the peace of the Pyrenees (1659, p. 366), England received this town. Sept. 3. Death of Oliver Cromwell. 1658, Sept. 3-1659, May 25. Richard Cromwell lord pro- tector. 1659, Jan. 27. A new parliament met, and was soon involved in a dispute with the army, which induced Richard to April 22. Dissolve the parliament (*' Humble representation and advice of the officers"). May 7. The Rump parliament reassembled under Lenthall as speaker. May 25. Richard Cromwell resigned the protectorate. Aug. Insurrection of Booth crushed at Winnington Bridge {Lam- bert). Oct. 13. Expulsion of the Rump by the army {Lambert). Appoint- ment of a military committee of safety. This assertion of authority did not meet with approval even within the army. Dec. 26. Restoration of the Rump. Monk, who was in Scotland, led his army to London and assumed control of affairs (Feb. 3, 1660). Monk captain-general. 378 Modern History. A. D. 1660, Feb. 21. Restoration of meiiibers excluded iii 1648. Re-estab- lishment of the Long Parliament. March 16. Final dissolution of the Long Parliament. ^ 1660, Apr. 14. Declaration of Breda. Charles proclaimed am- nesty to all not especially excepted by parliament, promised liberty of religious belief, and the settlement of confiscated estates in the hands of the possessors. 1660, Apr. 25-Dec. 29. Convention Parliament ; chosen without restrictions and numbering- 556 men^bers. The parliament re- ceived the declaration of Breda favorably and returned a loyal answer to the king (May 1). May 8. Charles proclaimed king ; on May 29 he entered London. 1660-1685. Charles II., extravagant, dissipated, careless of the duties of his position. Charles's restoration was hailed by an outburst of loyalty which en- abled him to neglect many of the promises of the declaration of Breda. The king's brother, James, duke of York, appointed lord high admiral and warden of the Cinque ports ; Monk captain-general ; Sir Edward Hyde (earl of Clarendon) chancellor and prime minister. Abolition of the feudal rights of knight service, loorship, and purvey' ance in consideration of a yearly income for the king of £1,200,000. Restoration of the bishops to their sees and to parliament. Act of in- demnity for all political offenses conniiitted between Jan. 1, 1637, and June 24, 1660 ; the regicides were excepted from this act. All acts of the long parliament to which Charles I. had assented were declared in force. The army was disbanded (Oct.), excepting some 5,000 men. Declaration for the settlenient of Ireland. 1680, Dec. 29. Dissolution of the Convention parliament. 1661, Jan. Rising of the fifth monarchy men in London (Vernier). Bodies of Cromioell, Ireton, Bradshaw, disinterred and treated with indignity. Royalist parliament in Scotland. Abolition of the Covenant. Repeal of all enactments of preceding parliaments for the last twenty-eight years. Apr.-July. Savoy Conference of Episcopalians and Presbyterians. Apr. 23. Coronation of Charles 11. 1661, May 8-1679, Jan. 24. New parliament. " Cavalier " or " pen- sion " parliament. Solemn league and covenant burnt. 1661, May 27. Execution of Argyle in Scotland. 1 Recapitulation of the historj' of the Long Parliament : — 1640, Nov. 3. First assembled. 1648, Dec. 6, 7. Pride's Pm-ge. The Rump. 1653, April 20. The Kump turned out by Cromwell. 1659, May 7. The Rump restored. 1659, Oct*^ 13. The Rump exiielled by the army. 1659, Dec. 26. The Rump restored. 1660, Feb. 21. Members excluded by Pride's Purge, restored. 1660, March 16. The parliament dissolved. k. D. England. 379 !^ov. 20. Corporation act : all magistrates and municipal officers obliged to take the sacrament according to the Church of" Eng- land, to abjure the covenant, and to take an oath declaring it illegal to bear arms against the king. James Sharpe, created archbishop of 8t. Andrews, attempted to introduce episcopacy in Scotland. LC62, May 20. Marriage of Charles II. with Catherine of Braganza, daughter of John IV. of Portugal. A.ug. 24. The act of uniformity (adopted May 19), went into oper- ation. All clergymen, fellows, and schoolmasters were required to assent to everything in the book of common praj'^er. Nearly 2,000 (?) non-conformists lost their livings (dissenters). Declaration of indul;r^nce promised. 1G02, June II. Execution of Sir Henry Vane. Nov. Sale of Dunkirk to France for £400,000. Act of settlement for Ireland. 1GG3. An insurrection of fifth monarchy men in the north was fol- lowed by the passage of the 1604, May. Conventicle act, forbidding the meeting of more than five persons for religious worship, except in the household, or in accordance with the established church. Repeal of the triemiial act (1641). Aug. Capture of New Amsterdam in America. 1665, Feb. 22-1667, July 21. War with Holland. 1666, April. The plague in London. June 3. Naval victory of Lowestoft over the Dutch. Oct. The five mile act : all who had not subscribed to the act of uniformity were ordered to take the oath of non-resistance, to swear never to undertake any alteration in church or state ; and those who refused were prohibited from coming within five miles of any incorporated town, or of any place where they had been settled as ministers. 1666, Jan. 16-1667, July 21. War with France. June 1-4. Naval victory of Alhermarle (Monk) over the Dutch {De Ruyter, DeWitt) off the North Foreland. Sept. 2. Great Fire of London ; lasting over a week and burning a region of 450 acres. The Monument. St. PauVs rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren. Nov. 28. Battle of Peyitlayid Hills in Scotland. Defeat of the Cov- enanters, who had revolted under their persecutions, by Dalziel. 1667, June. The Dutch fleet burnt Sheerness, entered the Medway, and sailed to within twenty miles of London. July 21. Treaties of Breda between England, Holland, France, Denmark. England received from France, Antigua, Alont- serrat, English St. Christopher^s ; France received Acadia. England and Holland adopted t\\e status quooi May 20, 1667; England retaining New Amsterdam, and Holland, Surinam. It was agreed that goods brought down the Rhine might be trans- ported to England in Dutch vessels. Aug. Fall of Clarendon, on whom the most unpopular acts of tue # 380 Modern History. A. d. government were fathered ; he was deprived of the great seal, impeached, and banished for life (died at Rouen, 1674). The chief officers of state, whose councils determined the course of government, began in this reign to be looked upon as a distmct (uncon- stitutional) council, although they did not, for some time to come, stand and fall together. Accession of a new ministry called the " Cabal " ^ (Clifford, Arling- ton, Buckingham, Ashley, Lauderdale). 1668, Jan. 13. The triple alliance between England, Holland, and Sweden negotiated by Sir William Temple and Johi Be Witt as a check upon the aggressions of Louis XIV. (p. 367). 1670, May 22. Secret treaty of Dover between Charles II. and Louis XIV. negotiated by Charles's sister, Henrietta, duchess of Orleans. Charles agreed that he and the duke of York would openly join the Church of Rome as soon as expedient, that he would support Louis in his wars with Spain and Holland. Louis promised Charles £200,000 a year while the war lasted, and the assistance of 6,000 men in case of an insurrection. Louise la Querouaille, Charles's mistress, created duchess of Portsmouth. The duke of York at once professed his be- lief in Rome. 1670. Second Conventicle act, more stringent than the first. 1672. Charles being in want of money closed the exchequer, thus seiz- ing £1,200,000 which had been advanced to the govermnent by bankers. A general panic followed. 1672, March. Declaration of indulgence ; under the pretense of lightening the burden on non-conformists, the proclamation really aimed at securing toleration for papists. Parliament compelled the king to withdraw the indulgence in 1673. 1672, March 17-1674, Feb. 9. War with Holland. Invasion of Holland by Louis XIV. Revolution in the Nether- lands. Murder of John and Cornelius De Witt. William of Orange stadtholder. May 28. English naval victory at Southwold Bay. Nov. Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper), lord chancellor. 1673, March. Test act. All persons holding office under government were compelled to take the oaths of allegiance and of supremacy, to abjure tfan- substantiation, and to take the sacrament according to the estab- lished church. The duke of York, Shaftesbury, lord Clifford, resigned office, being superseded by prince Rupert, Sir Thomas Osborne (earl of Danby, viscount Latimer, marquis of Carmarthen, duke of Leeds), and Sir Heneage Finch (earl of Nottingham). Buck- ingham out of office. Nov. 21. Marriage of the duke of York with Mary d'Este, princess of Modena. 1674, Feb. 9. Treaty of Westminster. End of the Dutch-Eng- lish war. 1 This word did not originate from the initials of the ministers, although the coincidence of their happening to spell the word gave a zest to its application. A. D. England. 381 1677, Nov. 4. Marriao:e of Mary, dang^hter of the duke of York, with William of Oranp;e (afterwards William III.). Ti'eaty with Holland ; secret treaty with France. Abolition of the writ fJe hrrrrtiro comburendo. Aug. 10. Peace of Nimeguen. 1678, Sept. The Popish Plot. This famous scare began with the information given by Titus Oates, concerning an alleged plot for the nnirder of Charles and the establishment of Roman Catholicism in England, devised by Don John of Austria, and the father confessor of Louis XIV., Pere la Chaise. Death of Sir Edmonshury Godfrey. Upon the meeting of parliament five Catholic lords (Powj^s, Bellasis, Stafford, Petre, Arundel) were sent to the Tower. Conviction and execution of Coleman^ confessor of the duchess of York. Bedloe swore to the plot, moved by the favors showered on Oates. Passage of the papists disabling act (repealed 1828) excluding Roman Catholics from parliament. Dec. Impeachment of Danby, on a charge of criminal correspond- ence with France. 1679, Jan. 24. Dissolution of the " Pensioned " Parliament. Danby dismissed from the office of lord high treasurer. The duke of York left the kingdom after procuring from Charles a statement that he had never had any other than his present wife (this to dispose of the claims of the duke of Momuouth, natural son of Charles and Lucij Walters). 1679, March 6-1679, May 27. Third Parliament of Charles II. The impeachment of Danby was resumed ; and he was com- mitted to the Tower, where he lay until 1685. Adoption of the council of thirty, in accordance with the scheme of government sketched by Sir William Temple. Being found cumber- some in practice it was soon superseded by a new cabinet council, com- posed of Sir William Temple ; Savile, viscount Halifax ; Capel, earl of Essex ; Spencer, earl of Sunderland ; Shaftesbury, president, afterwards in opposition. Introduction of a bill to prevent the duke of York from succeeding to the crown, he being a Roman Catholic. (" Exclusion bill " passed to a second reading in the commons, 207 to 128.) 1679, May. The habeas corpus act signed by the king : judges were obliged, on application, to issue to any prisoner a writ of • habeas corpus, directing the jailer to produce the body of the prisoner, and show cause for his imprisonment ; prisoners should be indicted in the first term of their commitment, and tried not later than the second ; no person once set free by order of the court could be again imprisoned for the sam.e offense. May 27. Prorogation of parliament (dissolved in July). May-June. Covenanters in Scotland cruelly persecuted by Lauder- dale. Murder of archbishop Sharpe, May 3, 1679. Defeat of Claverhouse by the Covenanters, under Balfour, at Drumclogy June 1. June 22. Battle of Bothwell-Brigg ; defeat of the Covenanters by the duke of Monmouth. Cruelties of the duke of York in Scotland. 382 Modern History. A. D. Oct. 7. The fourth parliament of Charles II., prorogued immediately upon its meeting without the advice of the council : Sir W. Temple, Essex, and Halifax resigned, and were succeeded by Sidney Godolphin, earl of Godolphin, and Laurence Hyde, earl of Rochester (son of Clarendon). " Meal tub plot," an alleged papist conspiracy against the king, disclosed by Dangerjield. (Papers in a tub of meal.) Meeting of parliament demanded by the opposition (^Shaftesbury^ . Petitions sent up, asking that parliament be called. The court party retorted by sending addresses expressive of their abhor- rence at this interference with the king. Hence Petitioners (the opposition) and Ahhorrers (the government), afterwards Whigs and Tories. ( Whig, name of a Scotch, Tory, of an Irish faction.) 1680, Oct. 21-1681, Jan. 18. Fourth parliament of Charles II. The exclusion bill, passed by the commons, was thrown out in the lords by the influence of Halifax. 1681, March 21-28. Fifth parliament of Charles II., at Oxford. A new exclusion bill being introduced, parliament was dis- solved, March 28. July-Aug. Execution of Plunkett, archbishop of Armagh, for high treason (July 1); of College (Aug. 31). Nov. Shaftesbury, accused of high treason, committed to the Tower. The bill being ignored by the grand jury he escaped to Hoi-, land (died 1683). Continued persecution of the Covenanters, Conventiclers, and Came- ronians (so called after a popular preacher, f July 20, 1680), in Scot- land. Passage of a test act against the Presbyterians, which, however, also caused the resignation of some eighty Episcopal clergymen. Trial and condemnation of the earl of Argyle (Dec); his flight. 1682, William of Orange in England. The duke of York, accom- panied by John Churchill (b. 1650, served under Turenne in France ; general under James II. ; married Sarah Jennings * baron Churchill, 1685 ; earl of Marlborough, 1689 ; duke of Marlborough, 1702 ; died, June 16, 1722^, shipwrecked on the' voyage to Scotland. Monmouth made a progress in the north- west counties, and was arrested and held to bail. Dec. Death of the earl of Nottingham (Finch) ; Sir Francis North made lord keeper. Sunderland, secretary of state (Jan. 1683). 1683, June. Judgment given against the city of London on a quo warranto; forfeiture of the charter, which was ransomed. This process was successfully repeated with other corporations. Confederacy of Monmouth, Essex, Russell, Gray, Howard, Sidney f Hampden, for securing a change in the proceedings of the gov- ernment. This was supplemented by a plot of a different set of persons for the assassination of the king, known as the Rye House plot, from the place where the king was to be shot. Both plots were revealed. Suicide of Essex, execution of Russell and Sidney ; Monmouth was pardoned, and retired to Holland, Sept. Jeffries, lord chief justice of the king's bench. Tlie duke of A. D. • England. 383 York was reinstated in office. Danhy liberated ; Oates fined (1G84). 1685, Feb. 6. Death of Charles II., who accepted Roman Catholi- cism on his death-bed. 1G85-1688. James II., a cruel, revengeful, deceitful despot. He was twice married : 1. Anne Hyde, daughter of lord Clarendon (daughters, Mary, mar- ried William of Orange ; Anne, married George of Denmark). 2. Mary (VEste (son, James Edivard). Halifax, president of the council ; Sunderland, secretary of state ; Godolphin, chamberlain of the queen, Clarendon, lord privy seal, Rochester, treasurer. 1685, May 19-1687, July 2. Parliament of James II. Trial and condemnation of Richard Baxter. Danhy and the popish lords discharged. May. Trial of Oates and Dangerfield, who were sentenced to be whipped. {Dangerfield died from the punishment.) 1685. Expedition of Monmouth and Argyle. May. Argyle lauded in Scotland, where he was coldly received ; June 17 he was captured, and executed June 30. June 11. Landing of Monmouth in Dorsetshire. He proclaimed himself king, as James II. Gathering a force of some 60,000 men he was defeated in the July 6. Battle of Sedgemoor (the last battle in England). July 15. Execution of Monmouth on Tower Hill. " Kirke's Lambs" quartered on the people in the western counties. Jeffries sent on a circuit in the west to try the rebels and those who had aided them. " The Bloody Assize " (Lady Alice Lisle). Jeffries made lord chancellor. Halifax dismissed from the presidency of the council and super- seded by the earl of Sunderland (who became a Roman Catholic). Parliament met N'ov. 9, but as they would not repeal the last act they were prorogued Nov. 27. Arrival of many refugees from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 1686, June. Sir Edward Hales, a papist, appointed to office by James under a dispensation. In a suit brought to test the legality of the act judgment was procured in the king's favor, by the appointment of judges favorable to the court. Catholic worship allowed. Protestant clergymen forbidden to preach doctrinal sermons. Compton, bishop of London, refused to remove the rector of St. Giles who had disobeyed this order. He was therefore tried before a 1686, eJidy. New court of ecclesiastical commission and sus- pended. Camp of 13,000 men at Hounslow Heath. Rochester dis- missed from office. 1687. Clarendon superseded by Tyrconnel (Richard Talbot) as lord lieutenant of Ireland. Tlie fellows of Magdalen College having refused to accept Farmer, a papist, whom the king had ap- 384 Modern History. § A. d. pointed president, were expelled from their college. This was only a part of the attempt made by the king to secure the universities. April. First declaration of liberty of conscience published by the king in England and Scotland, granting liberty of con- science to all denominations. July. Parliament dissolved. Father Petre, the king's confessor and chief adviser, admitted to the privy council. 1688, April 25. Second declaration for liberty of conscience ordered to be read in all churches. Sancroft, archbishop of Canterbury, and bishops Ken, Lake, Lloyd, Turner, Trelmvney, White, were committed to the Tower for having petitioned the king not to insist on their reading an illegal order. June 10. Birth of a prince. June 29, 30. Trial of the bishops for having published a false, malicious, and seditious libel. The bishops were acquitted, a verdict which was received with wild enthusiasm throughout the country. On the same day an invitation was dispatched to William of Orange to save England from a Catholic tyranny ; it was signed by the " Seveti eminent persons " or " seven patriots,''^ the earl of Dev- onshire, earl of SJirev:shury, earl of Danhy, Compton (bishop of London), Henry Sidney, lord Lumley, admiral Russell. James declared his intention to call a parliament. Last meet- ing of the ecclesiastical commission. Sept. 30. Declaration of William to the people of England, ac- cepting the invitation for the purpose of securing the religious and civil rights of Englishmen. Doubts thrown on the birth of the prince. William's army was under Schomherg, his fleet was under admiral Herbert. James's land force was led by Feversham, while Dartmouth commanded the fleet. The declaration frightened James ; he endeavored to retrace his steps and dismissed Sunderland from the council. William sailed from Helvoetsluys Oct. 19, with 14,000 men, but was driven back by a gale. Starting again Nov. 1, 1688, Nov. 5. William landed at Torbay. Risings occurred in various parts of the kingdom, and W^illiam was joined by the duke of Grafton and lord Churchill (Nov. 22). Princess Anne fled from London in company with lady Churchill. James is- sued writs for a new parliament and sent commissioners to treat with William. Dec. 10. Queen and prince sent to France. Dec. 11. Flight of James, who tore up the unissued writs for par- liament and took with him the great seal, wliich he threw into the Thames. 1688, Dec. 11-1689, Feb. 13. Interregnum. Riots in London. Flight of Sunderland and Father Petre j cap- ture of Jefries (f in the Tower April 18, 1089). I). England. 385 ec. 12. Provisional government under the presidency of Halifax^ establislied by the peers in London. . 17. James, who had been stopped at Sheerness, was brought back to London, ec. 18 James retired to Rochester, ec. 19. William entered London, ec. 22. James escaped to France, where he received a pension from Louis XIV. 689, Jan. 22-1690, Jan. 27. Convention parliament, summoned by the advice of the peers. On Jan. 28 the commons declared : " That king James II. having ideavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking le original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Bsuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental ws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdi- ited the government, and that the throne is vacant." Also : " That hath been found by experience to be mconsistent with the safety ad welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish rince." The lords objected to the use of the word " abdicated," nd to the declaration of the " vacancy " of the throne, but an greement being reached in a conference of the two houses, the rown was offered to Mary and the regency to William ; this being efused, 689, Feb. 13. Parliament offered the crown to "William and Mary jointly, accompanying the offer by the presentation of the Declaration of rights, asserting the " true, ancient, and indubitable ights of the people of this realm." 1. That the making or suspend- Qg law without consent of parliament is illegal. 2. That the exercise f the dispensing power is illegal. 3. That the ecclesiastical commis- ion court and other such like courts are illegal. 4. That levying aoney without consent of parliament is illegal. 5. That it is lawful o petition the sovereign. 6. That the maintenance of a standing .rmy without the consent of parliament is illegal. 7. That it is law- ul to keep arms. 8. That elections of members of parliament must )e free. 9. That there must be freedom of debate in parliament. .0. That excessive bail should never be demanded. 11. That juries hould be impaneled and returned in every trial. 12. That grants of jstates as forfeited before conviction of the offender are illegal. 13. Chat parliament should be held frequently. " William and Mary «rere declared king and queen of England for life, the chief adminis- ;ration resting with William ; the crown was next settled on William's jhildren by Mary ; in default of such issue, on the princess Amie of Denmark and her children ; and in default of these, on the children )f William by any other wife." The crown was accepted by William ind Mary, who were on the same day proclaimed king and queen of jrreat Britain, Ireland, and France. 1689-1702. William III. and Mary (until 1694). Privy councillors : earl of T^nhij (marquis of Carmarthen), presi- ient ; Nottingham, Shreioshury, secretaries of state ; marquis of Halifax, privy seal ; Schomberg (duke of Schomberg) master-general I 386 Modern History. i of ordnance ; Bentinck (earl of Portland), privy purse and grooi of the stole. Burnet, bishop of Salisbury, author of " History of m;j own Times." Feb. 22, Convention parliament transformed by act into a regulaFJ parliament. Settlement of the coronation oath. J March 1. Oaths of allegiance and supremacy taken by the* houses, the clergy, etc. A few peers, some members of the' lower house refused them. Six bishops and about 400 clergy- j men were finally (1691) deprived of their holdings for refus- ! ing to take the oaths, and became known as non-jarors. March 14. Landing of James at Kinsale in Ireland ; joined by Tyr- \ connel ; entered Dublin March 24. Irish parliament, May 7. ' Meeting of the estates of Scotland. Reversal of RusseWs attainders (later of Sidney^ s). First mutiny act to punish defection in the army ; this act,t which was necessitated by the declaration of rights, was made for a year only, and was henceforward passed annually. April 11. Coronation of William and Mary. William and Maryi were offered and accepted the crown of Scotland. April 20-July 30. Siege of Londonderry by James ( Walker) ; '. raised by Kirke. i 1689, May 7-1697, Sept. 20. War with France (p. 361). May 24. Toleration act exempting dissenters (who had taken the i oaths of allegiance and supremacy) from penalties for non-at- tendance on the services of the established church. Titus Oates pardoned and pensioned. ; July. Episcopacy abolished in Scotland. \ Graham of Claverhouse, now viscount Dundee, enlisted High-ij landers and raised the standard for James. At the i July 17. Battle of Killiecrankie | he defeated general Mackay, but fell on the field. July 30. Battle of Newtown Butler in Ireland ; defeat of the Catho-); lies. Schomherg in Ireland. i In voting supplies parliament assumed as a right the practice ' which had grown up during the reign of Charles II. of requiring j estimates and accounts of supplies needed and used, and intro- j duced the system of passing appropriations for specified objects from which they could not be diverted. ■ 1689. Dec. 16. Bill of Rights, a parliamentary enactment of the declaration of rights, repeat- ing the provisions of that paper, settling the succession as de- tailed (p. 385), and enacting that no papist could wear the crow^n. 1690, Feb. 6. Dissolution of parliament. 1690, March 20-1695, May 3. Second parliament of William III. Tories in the majority. Act of recognition, affirming the legality of the acts of the convention parliament. Settlement of the civil list. William was offended at not receiving so large an income as had been granted either to Charles ; II. or James II. I A. D. England. 387 • i690, May 20. Act of Grace, .cfiving: indemnity to all snpi)ortcrs of James II., exeoi)t those who were in treasonable eorres- pondence with him. Kesi<]cnation of Shrewsbury and Halifax. I May 23. Prorogation of parliament. Appointment of a conncil of nine to advise Mary dnring- the king's absence (four Whigs, five Tories). 1 June 14. William went to Ireland. With 30,000 men he met James at the head of 27,000, and at the July 1. Battle of the Boyne totally defeated him. Death of Schomberg. James fled to France. Capture of Dublin, Waterford, etc. June 30. Battle of Beachy Head ; defeat of the English fleet under lord Torrington by the French. Torrington was tried by court martial and acquitted, but dismissed the service. Aug. First siege of Limerick by William repulsed (Sarsjield). Marlborough in Ireland. Capture of Cork and Kinsale. 1691. William went to Holland. Congress at the Hague. Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury. July 12. Battle of Aughrim, in Ireland. Defeat of the French general St. Ruth and the Irish Sarsjieldj by Ginkell (death of St. Ruth). Death of Tyrconnel. Aug.-Oct. Second siege of Limerick ; the town surrendered Oct. 3, under the conditions known as the Oct. 3. Treaty, or pacification, of Limerick. Free transportation of all Irish officers and soldiers desiring it to France. {The Irish Brigade.) All Irish Catholics to have that religious lib- ' erty which they had under Charles II. ; to carry arms, exer- cise their professions, and receive full amnesty. The English parliament confirmed the treaty, but the Irish par- liament w^hich met 1695 (consisting entirely of Protestants) refused to ratify it. Enactment of severe laws agamst the Catholics. 1692, Jan. 10. Marlborough detected in correspondence with James, and disgraced. 1692, Feb. 13. Massacre of Glencoe. Indemnity and pardon having been offered to all Highland clans who took the oath of allegiance before Dec. 31, 1091, that condition was fulfilled by all except the MacDonalds of Glencoe. The chief, Mac /an, however, took the oath on Jan. 6. This fact was suppressed by the foe of the MacDonalds, Dalrymple, secretary of Scotland, and William III. signed an order for the extirpation of the clan. It was faithfully exe- cuted by captain Campbell ; Mac Ian, and some forty others were slain. May 19. English victory of La Hogue ; Russell and Tourville. Aug. 3. Defeat of AVilliam at Steinkirk. The "Junto" ministry of Whigs ; Somers, lord keeper; Russell, Shrewsbury, Thomas Wharton, secretaries of state ; Montague, cliaii- cellor of the exche(pier. Sunderland returned to })arliament. X693, Jan. Beginning of the national debt. £1,000,000 borrowed on annuities at 10 per cent. \ 388 Modern History. a. d. 1693, July 19. Defeat of William at Neerwinden (Landen). 1694, July 27. Charter of the Governor and company of the Bank of England, a company of merchants who in return for certain privileges loaned the government £1,200,000. Bill for preventing officers of the crown from sitting in the commons (Place Bill). Unsuccessful attack on Brest. (Treachery of Marlborough f) Dec. 22. The triennial bill signed by the king. Dec. 28. Death of queen Mary. Bribery in the parliament ; expulsion of the speaker of the | commons. Sir John Trevor. j Expiration of the licensing act, which was not renewed ; \ hence abolition of the censorship of the press. ! 1695, Miserable end of the Darien settlement. J July 2-Sept. 2. William recaptured Namur. m Oct. 11. Dissolution of parliament. b 1695, Nov. 22-1698, July 5. Third parliament of William III. \ (first triennial parliament). Whigs in majority. Recoinage act. Isaac Neioton master of the mint. 1696, Trials for treason act ; two witnesses required to prove an overt act of treason. Plot for the assassination of William, execution of conspirators. . One of these, Fenwick, was condemned by bill of attainder, being the last person so condemned. Formation of a loyal association. Suspension of the habeas corpus act. Sunderland, lord chamberlain ; Somers, lord chancellor. 1697, Sept. 20. Peace of Ryswick (p. 371). Dec. Sunderland retired. William acknowledged by Louis XIV. 1698, Jan. Peter the Great of Russia in England. 1698. Spanish succession, see p. 390. 1698, Dec. 6-1700, Apr. 11. Fourth parliament of William III. 1699^ Feb. Disbanding act, reducing the army to 7,000 men, exclusion of the foreign (Dutch) troops ; annoyance of William. Act for the resumption of forfeited Irish estates, aimed at Wil- liam's Dutch favorites ; the bill was fastened to a bill of supply. Act for preventing the growth of papacy ; all persons refusing to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy forfeited their estates for life. Catholic school-teachers and priests were liable to imprisonment for life (repealed 1778). 1700, April. Somers dismissed from office. Bombardment of Copen- hagen by Rooke. July. Death of the duke of Gloucester, the last of Anne's children. 1701, Feb. 6-June 24. Fifth parliament of William III. Tories in the majority. Robert Harley, speaker. Portland, Somers, Ox- ford (Russell), Halifax, impeached (April-June). Earl of Marlborough commander-in-chief of the English forces. June 12, 1701. Act of settlement. The crown was settled on Sophia, princess of Hanover, grand- daup-hter of James I., and her issue. I A.. D. India. 389 The sovereigns of Great Britain should be Protestant and not leave the kingdom without consent of parliament ; the country should not be involved in war for the defence of the foreign possessions of the sovereigns ; no foreigner should receive a grant from the crown, or hold ofhce, civil or military ; ministers sliould be responsible for the acts of their sovereigns ; judges should hold ofhce for life unless guilty of misconduct. 17U1, Sept. 7. The grand alliance, p. 391. Sept. 16. Death of James 11. James Edward proclaimed king of Great Britain and Ireland bv Louis XIV. 1701, Dec. 30-1702, July 2. Sixth parliament of ^A^illiam III. Attainder of the pretended prince of Wales. Oath of abjura/- tion. 1702, March 8. Death of William III. Chief authors of this period : Sir Thomas Broione (1605-1682) ; John Bum/an (1628-1688); Daniel Defoe (1661-1731); John Dri/den (1631-1700) ; Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon (1608-1674) ; John Locke (1632-1704); John Milton (1608-1674); Isaac Newton (1643- 1727). § 6. INDIA. 1658-1707. Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor. The first yeai*s of Aurangzeb's reign were occupied in subdu- ing and putting to death his brothers. When freed from their ri- valry he took up the conquest of the Deccan. Bidar, Ahmednagar, Ellichpur, he had (y)nquered while his father reigned. For twenty- five Years his generals warred unsuccessfully against Bijiipur and Gol- conda, but when Aurangzeb placed himself at the head of his troops those kingdoms quickly fell. Bijdpur and Golconda were annexed to the Mughal empire m 1688. It was not with the Muhammedan powers alone that Aui-angzeb had to contend ; a new power, the Hin- du kingdom of the Mahrattas, had arisen in the Deccan. It was founded by a union of Hindu tribes of the Deccan under Sivaji (1627-1680), son of a Mahratta soldier of fortune who had fought under the Deccan kingdoms against the Mughals. Sivaji, by alter- nately levymg tribute on the Deccan kingdoms and assisting them against the Mughals, raised the Mahratta confederacy to be the ruling power in the Deccan. In 1664 he assumed the title of Raja. He carried on a war with Aurangzeb, who captured and killed liis son Samhhajt (1680-1689), and inqjrisoned his grandson Sahu, until his own death, 1707. Aurangzeb, however, was far from subdumg the confederacy, which had driven him almost to despair at the time of his death ; the emperor was not more successful in Assam (1662), nor against the revolted Rajput states in the west (1677-1681) where he ravaged Jaipur, Jodhfmr, and Uddipur without subduing them. Aurangzeb's total revenue amounted to eighty million pounds. 1661. Bombay ceded to England as i)art of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, but it was not delivered until 1665. In 1668 it was granted to the East India Conipany. 1670. Foundation of the Danish East India Company. 1681. Bengal separated from Madras. 390 Modern History. A. d. 1686. Foundation of Calcutta. 1687. Seat of western presidency transferred to Bombay. § 7. CHINA. 1 1661-1721. Kang-he I conquered Thibet and Formosa and carried on war with Russia (1684-1689). His reign was renowned for wise administration and for the cultivation of science and literature. French and English set- tled at Canton. B. The eighteenth century to the French Revolution. § 1. WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION.i 1701-1714. The family relations which led to the war will be made clear by the following genealogical table. Philip III., king of Spain, f 1621. Anna, m. Philip IV. Maria Anna. Louis XIII. I m. Ferdinand III. IiOuis XIV. = Maria Theresa. Charles II. Margaret Theresa ^ Leopold I. I t 1700. I Louis the dauphin. Maria Antoinette, m. I Max. Emmanuel of I Bavaria. Philip of Anjou, I as king of Spain, Philip V. Joseph Ferdinand. electoral prince of Bavaria. Leopold I. had, besides his dauohter Maria Antoinette, two sons: by his second marriage, Joseph I., emperor from 1705-1711; by his third marriage, Charles VI., emperor from 1711-1740. Charles II., king of Spain, was childless ; the extinction of the Spanish house of Hapsburg in the near future was certain ; hence the question of the Spanish succession formed the chief occupation of all the European cabinets since the Peace of Ryswick. The question had two aspects: a. The legal, according to which there were three claim- ants: 1. Louis XIV., at once as son of the elder daughter of Philip III. and husband of the elder daughter of Philip IV. The solemn renun- ciations of both princesses were declared null and void by the parlia- ment of Paris. 2. Leopold I., the representative of the German line of Hapsburg, as son of the younger daughter of Philip III., and husband of the younger daughter of Philip IV. Both princesses had expressly reserved their right of inheritance. 3. The electoral prince of Ba- 1 Sehlosaer: Geschichte des 18 Jahrhunderts ; V. Noorden: Europdische Gisch. im 18 Jahrhundert, vols. I. and II. A. D. War of the Spanish Succession. 391 varia, as great-grandson of Philip IV., and grandson of the younger si.-itt^r of tlie present possessor, Charles II. b. The political usi^imt with. regard to the balance of power in Europe ; in consideration of which the naval powers, England and Holland, would not permit the crown of the great Spanish monarchy to be united with the French, or to be worn by the ruler of the Austrian lands. On this account Leopold I. claimed the Spanish inheritance for his second son Charles only, while Louis XIV. 's claim was urged in the name of his second grand- son, Philip ofAnJou. 1698. First treaty of partition. Oct. 11. Spain, Indies, and the Netherlands to the electoral prince of Bavaria; Naples and Sicily, seaports in Tuscan}-, and the prov- ince of Guipuzcoa, to the dauphin ; the duchy of Milan, to arch- duke Charles. The negotiations of the powers in regard to the succession, and the conclusion of a treaty of partition without the participation of Charles 11., provoked that monarch. In order to preserve the unity of the monarchy he made the prmce elector of Bavaria, then seven years old, sole heir of the whole inheri- tance ; a settlement to which the naval powers agreed. 1699 (Feb. 6). Sudden death of the prince elector. New intrigues of France (Harcourt ambassador. Cardinal Portocarrero) and Austria at Madrid, while both parties were negotiating a new treaty of partition with the naval powers. 1700. Second treaty of partition. Mar. 13. Spaiti and the Indies to archduke Charles ; Naples and Sicily and the duchy of Lorraine to the dauphin ; Milan to the duke of Lorraine in exchange. Finally Charles II., although originally more inclined to the Aus- trian succession, signed a new will, making Louis' grandson, Philip of Anjou, heir. Immediately afterwards 1700. Charles 11. died. Nov. 1. Louis XIV. soon decided to follow the will rather than the treaty with England. The duke of Anjou was proclaimed as Philip v., and started for his new kingdom. (" II n^y a plus de Pyrenees.^') Death of James II., 1701 ; Louis recognized his son as king of England. 1701. Grand Alliance of the naval powers with the emperor Sept. 7. Leopold I., for the purpose, at first, of securing the Spanish possessions in the Netherlands and in Italy for the Austrian house, while France allied herself vnth the dukes of Savoy and Man- tua, the electors of Bavaria and Cologne. The other estates of the empire, especially Prussia, joined the emperor. Portugal afterwards joined the gi-ancl alliance, and in 1703 Savoy did likewise, deserting France. Three men were at the head of the grand alliance aganist France : Eugene, prince of Savoy, imperial general ; Marlborough, English general, formerly John Churchill; A. Heinsius, after the death of William III., 1702, pensionary of Holland. Spain, the real object of the war, had but little importance in the 392 Modern History. A. d. campaigns, the chief seat of war being Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Pliilip of Anjou was recognized in Spain as king Philip V. His strongest support was in Castile. 1701. Commencement of the war by Eugene's invasion of Italy. Victory over Catinat at Carpi, over Villeroi at Chiari ; the lat- ter was captured at Cremona (1702). Eugene and Vendome fought a drawn battle at Luzzara (1702), after which the French had the advantage in Italy until 1706. 1702. March 8. Death of William III. Anne, queen of England. 1703. The Bavarians invaded Tyrol, but were repulsed. Eugene went to Germany, along the Rhine. Marlborough invaded the Spanish Netherlands. The archduke Charles landed in Portugal, and invaded Catalonia. The English captured Gibraltar (1704). 1703. Victory of the French under Villars at Hochstddt over the Ba- varians. 1704. Battle of Hochstadt and Blindheim (Blenheim), Aug. 13. (between Ulm and Donau worth), Bavarians and French (Tallard) defeated by Eugene and Marlborough. 1705. Leopold I. died. His son, Joseph I., emperor. 1706. Charles conquered Madrid but held it for a short time only. 1706, May 23. Victory of Marlborough at Ramillies over Villeroi. Submission of Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Ostend, etc. Sept. 7. Victory of Eugene at Turin, over Marsin and the duke of Orleans with help of the Prus- sians under Leopold of Dessau. Submission of all Lombardy. Charles III. proclaimed at Milan. The French permanently excluded from Italy. 1708, July 11. Victory of Marlborough and Eugene at Oudenarde over Ve7id67)ie and the duke of Burgundy. Siege and surrender of Lille. Severe winter in France. Negotiations for peace. Demands of the allies : surrender of the Spanish monarchy to Charles of Austria, and of the border fortresses of the Netherlands to the Hollanders ; restoration of all matters re- lating to the empire and the emperor to the state prescribed in the peace of Westphalia, i. e. the cession of Strasburg, Brisach, etc. Eng- land insisted on the recognition of Anne and the Protestant succes- sion (p, 388) and the banishment of the Pretender. These terms Louis was willing to accept, but when the demand was added that he should drive his grandson from Spain with French weapons, it was too much. The negotiations were broken off, Louis made a successful appeal to the people of France, and the war was continued. 1709. The French were again humbled by the victory of Sept, 11. Eugene and Marlborough at Malplaquet over Villars. The bloodiest battle of the war. The allies lost 20,000 men. New approaches on the part of Louis. Capture of Douai, Mons, etc. (1710), In Spain Philip, by the aid of Vendome, had the advantage of Charles. The Spanish people favored A. D, War of the Spanish Sacccssiun. 393 Philip. Renewal of the negotiations at Gertruydenhurg. Louis oft'ei-ed to pay subsidized troops against his grandson. The al- lies demanded that he should send his armies against Philip. Renewal of the war. Vietories of Vendome over the English (Briliuega, 1710) and the imperialists (Valla-vieiosa, in Spain). 1710. Aug. Fall of the Whig ministry in England, and accession of the enemies of INlarlhorough. 1711. Death of the Emperor Joseph, whereby Charles became heir of all the Austrian possessions, so that the monarchy of Charles V. would have been restored had the Spanish inheritance also devolved upon him. These events completely altered all the political relations, in favor of Louis XIV. Marlborough removed from command, the Grand Alliance dis- solved, preliminaries of peace between England and France. Death of the dauphm, of Adelaide of Savoy, her husband and their son, the duke of Brittany. 1712. Victory of the French commander ViUars at Denain over lord Albermarle. Recapture of Do^ai, Le Qaesnoif, and Bouchain. Openmg of the congress at Utrecht. Each of the allies pre- sented his demands separately. Dissensions between the allies caused the conclusion of separate treaties of peace, which are compre- hended under the name of the 1713. Peace of Utrecht. April 11. 1. England: Recognition of the Protestant succession in England ; confirmation of the permanent separation of the crowns of France and Spain. France ceded to England Newfoundland, Nova Scotia (Acadia), and Hudson Bay territory ; Spain ceded to England Gibraltar, the island of Minorca, and the Asiento, or contract for sup- plying the Spanish colonies with African slaves. 2. Holland : Surrender of the Spanish Netherlands to the republic of Holland, in order that they should be delivered to the Austrians, after the conclusion of a Barrier Treaty, in regard to the fortresses along the French border from Fumes to Namur, which were to be garrisoned by the Dutch. Lille restored to France. Demolition of the fortifications of Dunkirk. 3. Savoy received the island of Sicily as a kingdom, and an ad- vantageous change of boundary in Upper Italy, renounced its claims upon Spain, reserving, however, its right of inheritance in case the house of Bourbon should become extinct (p. 397). 4. Prussia received recognition of the royal title, and possession of Neuchatel and the upper quarter of Gueldres. Prussia's claim upon the principality of Orange on the Rhone, was transferred to France. 5. Portugal obtained a correction of boundaries in South America. Philip V. (founder of the Spanish branch of the Bourbons) was recognized as king of Spain and the colonies. Reservations in the peace: 1. for the emperor, the possession of the appanages of the Sjjanish monarchy, the Netherlands, Milan, Naples, Sardinia, but not Sicily ; 2. for the empire the status quo of the peac^ of Ryswick, only. 394 Modern History. A. d. The emperor and the empire continued the war. Unsuccessful campaign of Eugene, who was wretchedly supported (1713). Lan- dau and Freiburg taken by V'dlars. After these losses the emperor concluded peace with France, in his own name at Rastadt^ in that of the empire at Baden (in Switzerland). 1714. Peace of Rastadt and Baden. March -Sept. Austria took possession of the Spanish Netherlands, after the Barriere for Holland had been agreed upon, and retained Naples^ Sardinia, and Milan, which she had already occupied. For the empire : ratification of the peace of Ryswick ; the electors of Bavaria and Cologne who had been placed under the ban of the empire, were rein- stated in their lands and dignities. Landau was left in the hands of France. No peace between Spain and the emperor, who did not recognize the Bourbons in Spain. § 2. THE NORTHERN WAR. 1700-1721. 1689-1725. Peter I. the Great, Czar of Russia (p. 374). 1697-1718. Charles XII., king of Sweden. In character the two monarchs formed a strong contrast : both were of unusual ability and power, but Peter, though passionate and of irregular life, was, in his political actions, governed by reason and calm reflection. Charles, in liis private life passionless and of rigid mor- ality, was under the control of passion and senseless obstinacy in all public relations. The steady purpose of Peter, who civilized his sub- jects by force, made Russia one of the great powers of Europe, Charles' blind obstinacy caused the decline of Sweden's power. The causes of the northern war w u-e : 1, the firm determination of Peter to make Russia a naval pow r, and to get possession of the harbors of the Baltic ; 2, the attempt of Augus^lus II., elector of Sax- ony and king of Poland, to unite Livonia with Poland {Patkul) ; 3, the quarrel between Frederic IV., kino- of Denmark, and the duke of Hol- %tein-Gottorp,t\\e. early friend and brother-in-law of Charles XII. The youthfulness of Charles, who had assumed the care of gov- ernment at the age of fifteen, led all three monarchs to think it an easy task to regain possession of those lands which Sweden had taken from them. Secret alliance of Russia, Denmark, and Saxony against Sweden. The war opened with an invasion of Schleswig by the Danes, while the Saxons attacked Livonia. Unexpected landing of Charles XII. in Zealand ; he threatened Copenhagen and extorted from the Danes the 1700 (Aug.). Peace of Travendal. 1. Indemnification of the duke of Holstein. 2. Denmark promised to abstain from hostilities against Sweden for the fiiture. Meantime the Saxons vtrere besieging Riga (in Livonia) in vain, A. D. Tlte Northern War. 395 while Peter was besieging Narva (in Ingermannland) with like result. Landing- of Charles Xll. with 8,000 luen and brilliant 1700. Victory of Narva, Nov. 30. % over the Russians. Charles's hatred of Augustus led him to neglect his more dangerous opponent, the Czar, and to seek revenge upon the king of Poland. Meeting and closer alliance of Augustus and Peter. Charles crossed the Diina and 1701. defeated the Saxons at Riga. Charles invaded Lithuania. The rep'ihlic of Poland was drawn into the war ; alliance of the party of the Sapiehas with the Swedes. The city of Warsaw sur- rendered at the first summons. Victory of Charles XII. over the Poles and Saxons at Klissow (1702) and at Pultusk (1703). Charles rejected all overtures of peace, caused Augustus to be deposed by that party among the Poles which had joined him and his adherent, the Woiwod 1704-1709. Stanislaus Lesczinski to be elected king. Meanwhile Peter had founded his capital, St. Petersburg, in the marshes of the Neva (1703), and captured Narva (1704). Continuance of the war in Poland and Lithuania. Victory of Charles at Putiitz (1704 Schulenburg's masterly retreat) and of his general Rhenskjold at Fraustadt (1706). Charles invaded Saxony and compelled Augustus to sign the 1706. Peace of Altranstadt (near Leipzig). 1. Augustus II. abdicated the Polish crown, recognized Stanislaits Lesczinski as king of Poland, and sent him a written expression of good will. 2. Augustus abjured his alliance with the Czar, and delivered the plenipotentiary of the latter, Patkul, to Charles who had him executed \vitli cruelty. 3. Saxony furnished provisions and pay for the Swedish army during the winter. In Sept., 1707, Charles took the field against Peter, who had well employed the interval in making conquests and establishing his power on the Baltic, and in forming a trained and veteran army. The ap- proach to Moscow cut off by devastation of the coiuitry. Charles allowed himself to be mislecl by the Cossack hetnian Mazeppa, who had deserted Peter, crossed the Dnieper (1708) into the Ukraine. Futile siege of Pultowa. Peter hastened to raise the siege and by force of numbers completely defeated the Swedes, who were exhausted by long marches and lack of food, in the 1709, July 8. Battle of Pultowa, which established Peter's new creations on a firm basis, and destroyed at one blow the ascendency of Sweden. The Swedish army was completely broken up, and a large part of it captured. Charles took refuge with the Turks. 1709-1714. Charles XII. in Turkey, endeavoring to induce the Porte to declare war against Peter, He was successful in 1711. Peter, allied with the prifices of the Moldau, crossed the Dniester, was surrounded on the Pruth, and was obliged to buy the 1711. Peace of the Pruth from the Turks by bribery, upon tho advi^'j of hi.^ \vi.:e Catherine. 396 Modern History. A. D. 1. Azoj^ given back to the Porte. 2. The king of Sweden allowed to return to his realm unmolested. Charles XII., indignant at this peace, refused to depart, and for three years more misused the patience and hospitality of the Turks at Bender, Bessarabia, now belonging to Russia, and in Demotika. Senseless defense of his camp against a whole army, when the at- tempt was made to force his departure (1713). Meantime his enemies were making good use of the time. Augustus II. drove king Stanis- laus from Poland ; the Danes tried to reconquer the southern prov- inces of Sweden, but were repulsed. Peter the Great occupied all of Livonia, Esthonia, Ingermannland, Carelia, Finland. The Convention of the Hague (1710), in order to keep the war away from the German boundaries, had established the neutrality of all the German provinces of Sweden, as well as of Schleswig and Jutland. Charles XII., how- ever, having from his retreat in Turkey protested against this treaty, the Danes took Schleswig away from the duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and conquered the Swedish duchies of Bremen and Verden (1712), which they afterwards (1715) sold to Hanover upon condition that that state shoidd take part in the war against Sweden. The Swedish general Stenhock defeated the Danes and burnt Altona, but was cap- tured by the Russians at Tonningen (1713). The Danes and Poles invaded Pommerania, the Prussians occupied Stettin. 1714. Charles XII. at last returned to his kingdom. Adventurous journey through Hungary and Germany. The king reached Stralsund. Alliance between Prussia, Saxony, Denmark, Hanover, Russia, against Sweden. Stralsund and with it all Pomerania lost (1715), Wismar soon captured also (1716). 1716. Peter I. made a journey to Denmark, Holland, France. Charles XII. negotiated with Peter I. through Baron von Gorz, who, in spite of the hatred borne him by the Swedish nobles, was placed in control of the internal administration of Sweden. Three expeditions of the Swedes to Norway ; on the third, 1718. Charles XII. was shot in front of Friedrichshall, prob- Dec. 11. ably by an assassin. After limits had been set on the royal power in the interests of the royal council, Charles's nephew was passed over, and his youngest sister, 1719. Ulrica Eleanora, raised to the throne. She soon placed the control of the government in the hands of her husband, 1720-1751. Frederic of Hesse-Cassel. Execution of the Baron von Gorz, Charles's intimate. The north- ern war was ended by a series of treaties concluded at Stockholm and Friedrichshurg. 1. With Hanover (1719), which retained Bremen and Verden, and paid Sweden one million thalers. 2. With Prussia (1720), which received Stettin, western Pomerania as far as the Peene, the islands of Wollin and tlsedom, and paid two million thalers. 3. With Den- A. D. Germany, 397 mark, which restored all its conquests. In return Sweden i)aid 000,(X)0 I'ix dollars, <;:ive up its freedom from custom duties in tlie Sound and abandoned the duke of Holstein-Gottorf), whom Denmark deprived of his share of Schleswig. 4. With Poland the truce of 1719 was continued. 1721. Aug. 30. Peace of Nystadt between Sweden and Russia. 1. Sweden ceded to Russia, Livonia, Esthonia, Ingermannland, part of Carelia, and a number of islands, among others Oesel, Dago. 2. Russia restored Finland and paid two million rix dollars. § 3. GERMANY. 1705-1711. Joseph I., son of Leopold. He was succeeded by his brother 1711-1740. Charles VI., AVar of the Spanish Succession, p. 390. 1713-1740. Frederic William I., son of Frederic I., king of Prus- sia, by wise economy, a military severity, and the establish- ment of a formidable army, laid the foundation of the future power of Prussia. Maintenance of a standing army of 83,000 men, with a population of two and a half million inhabitants. Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau (" the old Dessauan"). 1714-1718. War of Turks with Venice, and after 1716 with the emperor. Easy conquest of Morea by the Turks ; the Vene- tians, however, kept Corfu. In Hungary the war was brilliantly con- ducted by prince Eugene. Victory of Peterwardeiu (171G). Victory, siege, and capture of Belgrade (1717). 1718. July 21. Peace of Passarowitz (Posharewatz). 1. Austria received the Banat of Temesvar, a part of Servia, with Belgrade and Little Wallachia. 2. Venice retained her con- quests in Dalmatia, but ceded Morea to the Porte. The seizure of Sardinia (1717) and Sicily (1718) by Spain, where Elizabeth of Parma, the second wife of Philip V., and her favorite the minister and cardinal Alberoni, were planning to regain the Spanish appanages lost by the Peace of Utrecht, brought about the 1718. Quadruple alliance for the maintenance of the Peace of Aug. 2. Utrecht, between France, England, tlie emperor, and (since 1719) the Republic of Holland. After a short war and the fall of Alberoni, who went to Rome (t 1752), the agreements of the quadruple alliance were executed in 1720. 1. Spain evacuated Sicily and Sardinia, and made a renuncia- tion of the appanages forever, in return for wliich the em- peror recognized the Spanish Bourbons. 2. Savoy was obliged to exchange Sicily (p. 393) for Sardinia. After this time the dukes of Savoy called themselves kings of Sardinia. The emperor Charles VI. was without male offspring. His prin- cipal endeavor throughout his whole reign was to secure the various 398 Modern History. A. D..| lands which were united under the sceptre of Austria against division after his death. Hence he established an order of succession under the name of the i Pragmatic Sanction, ' which decreed that: 1. The lands belonging to the Austrian empire: shoidd be indivisible ; 2. That in case male heirs should fail, they should devolve upon Charles's daughters, the eldest of whom was Maria Theresa, and their heirs according to the law of primogeni- ture ; 3. In case of the extinction of this line the daughters of Joseph 1. and their descendants were to inherit. To secure the assent of the various powers to this pragmatic sanc- tion was the object of numerous diplomatic negotiations. A special j alliance between AustriasjiOi Spain (1725), in regard to this measure, produced the alliance of Herrenhausen, in the same year, between England, France, and Prussia in opposition. Prussia soon withdrew from the alliance and joined Austria by the Treaty of Wusterhausen. The alliance between Austria and Spain was also of short duration. 1733-1735. War of the Polish Succession, after the death of Augustus II. Cause : The majority of the Polish nobles, under the influence of France, elected Stanislaus Lesczinski, who had become the father- in-law of Louis XV., king, a second time, Russia and Austria in- duced a minority to choose Augustus III., elector of Saxony (son of Augustus II.), and supported the election by the presence of troops in Poland. France, Spain, and Sardinia took up arms for Stanislaus. The seat of war was at first in Italy, where Milan, Naples, and Sicily were conquered, and the Austrians lost everything except Milan, and afterwards on the upper Rhine, where the old prince Eugene fought unsuccessfully, and Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine, the future husband of Maria Theresa, alone upheld the honor of the imperial arms. Lorraine occupied by the French. Kehl captured- Preliminaries of peace (1735), and, after long negotiations, 1738. Nov. 18. Peace of Vienna. 1. Stanislaus Lesczinski made a renunciation of the Polish throne, receiving as compensation the duchies of Lorraine and Bar, which at his death should devolve upon France. Stanislaus died 1760. 2. The duke of Lorraine, Francis Stephen, received an indemnifica- tion in Tuscany, whose ducal throne had become vacant by the ex- tinction of the family of Medici, 1737 (p. 416). 3. Austria ceded Naples and Sicily, the island of Elba and the Stati degli Presidi to Spain as a secundogeniture for Don Carlos, so that these lands could never be united with the crown of Spain, receiving in exchange Parma and Piacenza, which Don Carlos had inherited in 1731 upon the death of the last Farnese, his great-uncle. 4. France guaranteed the Pragmatic Sanction. 1736-1739. Unsuccessful war with the Turks in alliance with Russia (p. 411). By the Peace of Belgrade Orsowa, Belgrade, Servia, and Little Wallachia were restored to the Turks. May. Death of Frederic William I. of Prussia (IViO). A. D. Germany. 31) 'J 8 -.lll._ M n.ff 'If = i 1!- c ^ ►. ^ ,-» ria -2 -•■? 2^ — M V ^ ^•iB- -3 ^ccp. o"" M ' ^p ^'k 2 SG 3. » 2^ - II I 2i 5 g- & & o W 5 O ■r #: 3 ■a o 400 Modern History. A. D. 1740-1786. Frederic II. the Great (twenty-eight years old). Born in 1712, received a French education under Madame de RocouUes and Duhati de Jandun ; musical (Quanz). After the frus- tration of the projected marriage with a daughter of George II. of England, estrangement between the king and the crown prince. Frederic attempted flight, was captured, and sentenced to Kustrin as a deserter (execution of Katte) where he found employment in the Chamber of War and of Domain. Marriage with a princess of Bruns- wick-Bevern (1733). Correspondence with Voltaire. Residence at Rheinsherg and Ruppin until 1740. From his accession to his death he was himself the ruler. 1740, Oct. With the death of Charles VI. the male line of the Hapsburgs was extinct.^ 1740-1780. Maria Theresa, queen of Bohemia and Hungary, archduchess of Austria, etc., married Francis Stephen of the house of Lorraine, grand duke of Tuscany (co-regent). 1740-1748. War of the Austrian Succession. Cause : The following claimants for the Austrian inheritance appeared: 1. Charles Albert, elector of Bavaria, who had never rec- ognized the Pragmatic Sanction, a descendant of Anna, the eldest daughter of Ferdinand I. He based his claim upon the marriage con- tract of Anna, and will of Ferdinand I., whereby the Austrian inheri- tance was (he claimed) secured to the descendants of Anna, in case the male descendants of her brother should become extinct. (The original will, however, read, in case the legitimate descendants of her brother became extinct.) 2. Philip V., king of Spain, relying on a treaty between Charles V. and his brother Ferdinand on occasion of the cession of the German lands, and upon a reservation made by Philip III. in his renunciation of the German lands. 3. Augustus III. of Saxony, the husband of the eldest daughter of Joseph I. The claims advf.nced by Frederic II. to a part of Silesia, and his de- sire to annex the ivhole of Silesia to his kingdom, the rejection of the offer which he made at Vienna to take the field in favor of Austria if his claims were recognized, brought about, before the commencement of hostilities by the other claimants, the 1740-1742. First Silesian ^War.^ Legal claims of Prussia to a portion q/" Silesia : ^ 1. The princi- pality of Jagerndorf was purchased in 1524 by a younger branch of the electoral line of HohenzoUern, and the future acquisition of Ratihor and 1 See the genealogical table, p. 399. 2 A supplement to the Prussian view of the relations of Frederic and the courts of Vienna and Paris will be found in the papers by the Due de Broglie la the Revue des Deux Mondes, published separately as Frederic II. and Maria Theresa. 3 Eichhorn, Deutsche Staats-und Rechtsgeschichte, iv. § 583. A. D. Germany, 401 Oppeln secured at the same time, by an hereditary alliance. In 1623 duke John George was placed under the ban by the emperor Ferdi- nand II. (p. 300), as an adherent of Frederic V., the elector palatine, and in spite of the Peace of Westphalia (p. 31G, B.) neither lie nor his heirs had been reuistated. 2. The elector Joachim II. had made an hereditary alliance in 1537 with the duke of Lier/nitz, Brieg and Wohlau, which Ferdinand I. had forbidden as kinj;()f Bohemia and feu- dal superior of the duke. After the extinction of the ducal house (1675) Austria took possession of the inheritance. In 1686 Frederic WilUamf the Great Elector, renounced the ISilesian duchies, in return for the cession of the circle of Schwiehus. Tlie latter, however, was secured to Austria by a secret agreement with the prince elector^ and was restored by him, as elector Frederic III., in 1696. 1710. Occupation of Silesia by Frederic's troops. Capture of Glo^ gau. 1741, April 10. Victory of Mollwitz (Schwerin). 1741. Secret alliance of Nymplienburg ^ against Austria concluded May. by France, Bavaria, and Spain, afterwards joined by Saxony, and lastly by Prussia. The allied French (Belle-Isle) and Bavarian army invaded Austria and Bohemia. Prague taken in alliance with the Saxons. Charles Albert caused himself to be proclaimed archduke in Linz, while Frederic II. received homage in Silesia. Charles Albert was elected emperor in Frankfort as 1742-1745. Charles VII. Meantime Maria Theresa had gone to Hungary. Diet at Presburg ; enthusiasm of the Hungarian nobility ; ^ two armies raised; alliance concluded with England. An Austrian army conquered Ba- varia where Maria Theresa received the homage of Munich; a second besieged the French in Prague. 1742. The victory of Frederic at Czaslau and Chotusitz, and Maria May 17. Theresa's desire to rid herself of a dangerous enemy led to the separate 1742, June and July. Peace of Breslau and Berlin between Aus- tria and Prussia : 1. Frederic withdrew from the alliance against Maria Theresa. 2. Austria ceded to Prussia upper and lower Silesia and the count// of Glatz, retaining only the principality of Teschen and the southwestern part of the principalities of Neisse, Troppau, and Jdgerndorf, the Oppa forming the boundary. 3. Prussia assumed the debt upon Silesia held by English and Dutch creditors, to the amount of 1,700,000 rix dollars. Austria prosecuted the war against the allies with success, driving 1 J. G. Droysen, Abhnndhingen (zur neueren Geschiclite) 1876, claimed that the document which was published as the Traite de Nymplienbourg was a fort^erv; Schlosser and L. v. Kanke consider it j:^enuine. lie that as it may it is certain that new engaccements (accordinji,'- to Flassan, Tlist. de la dipt., a formal Traitc dhdlidncedfi'ensire) were entered into at Nymphenburt; by Bti- vnria and France, and also that a treaty was concluded between France and Sixdn. 2 The truth of the well-known tale of the exclamation Moriamur prorege nos- tra Maria Theresa is, however, disputed, on j,^ood grounds, 26 402 Modern History. A. d. them entirely out of Bohemia, in 1742, and Bavaria (1743) ; the prag- matic army (English, Hanoverians, Hessians), under king George II., defeated the French in the 1743. Battle of Dettingen. The emperor Charles VII. was a ref- June 27. ugee in Frankfort. These Austrian successes and the treaties with Sardinia and] Saxony in 1743 made the king of Prussia anxious about his new ac quisitions. He concluded a second alliance with Charles VII. andl France, and began the 1744-1745. Second Silesian War, by forcing his way through Saxony with 80,000 men (" impe- rial reinforcements "), and invading Bohemia. He took Prague, but, deserted by the French, was soon driven back into Saxony, 1744. 1744. East Friesland, upon the extinction of the reigning house, fell! to Prussia (p. 368). 1745. Alliance between Austria, Saxony, England, and Holland i Jan. against Prussia, The French and Bavarians took Munich. . Charles VII. died (1745, Jan.). His son Maximilian Joseph concluded the 1745, April. Separate Peace of Fiissen, with Austria. 1. Aus- tria restored all conquests to Bavaria. 2. The elector of Bavaria surrendered his pretensions to Austria and promised Francis Stephen, the husband of Maria Theresa, his vote at the imperial elec- tion. The French under marshal Maurice of Saxony, son of Augustus II. and the countess Aurora of Konigsmark, defeated the pragmatic army in the 1745, May 11. Battle of Fontenoy (Irish Brigade), and began the conquest of the Austrian Netherlands. Frederic the Great defeated the Austrians and Saxons under Charles of Lorraine in the 1745, June 4. Battle of Hohenfriedberg, in Silesia, and the Austrians alone in the Sept. 30. Battle of Soor, in northeastern Bohemia. By the election of the husband of Maria Theresa as emperor, the 1745-1806- House of Lorraine-Tuscany (p. 399) ac- ceded to the imperial throne in the person of the emperor, 1745-1765. Francis I. After a victory of the Prussian general, Leopold of Dessau, over the Saxons at Kesseldorf, Dec. 15, the 1745. Dec. 25. Peace of Dresden was concluded between Prussia and Austria (Saxony). 1. Ratification of the Peace of Breslau and Berlin in regard to the possession of Silesia. 2. Frederic II. recognized Francis I. as em- peror. 3. Saxony paid Prussia one million rix dollars. After the flower of the English army liad been recalled to England, where thov were needed in the contest with the pretenders (p. *^38), Marshal Saxe obtained at Kaucoax (1746) a second victory A. D. Geimany, 403 over the allies of Austria and completed the conquest of the Austrian Netherlands. At tlie same time, the naval war between France and England, and the war in Italy between Spain, France, and Austria, were carried on with varying fortune. Sardinia had concluded pe;:''*> ■" i^h >ushia as early as 174:3. At last the empress of Russia, Elizabeth (p. 411), ioined the combatants as the ally of Austria and sent an aimy to the lllune. Congress, and hnally, 1748, Oct. Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. 1. Reciprocal restoration of all conquests. 2. Cession of Parma, Piacenza, and Gtiaatalla to the Spanish Infant, Don Philip, making the second secundogeniture of the Spanish Bourbons in Italy. The following guaranties were given : that Silesia should belong to Prussia ; that the pragmatic sanction should be sustained in Austiia; that the house of Hanover should retain the succession in its German states and in Great Britain. Change in the relations of European states induced by the rise of Prussia to the rank of a great power. Envy between Prussia and Austria ; the latter seeing a disgrace in the loss of Silesia to a smaller power, and intriguing for the recovery of the lost province. Tims began the 1756-1763. Third Silesian, or Seven Years' War. Cause : Before the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle Mai'ia Theresa had concluded a defensive alliance with Frederic's personal enemy, Elizabeth, empress of Russia (May, 1746). Secret articles of this treaty provided for the reunion of Silesia with Austria under certain specified conditions. In Sept. 1750, George II. of England, moved by anxiety for his principality of Hanover, signed the main treaty, the secret articles being excepted. Saxony (minister, count Briihl) signed the treaty unconditionally. Prince Kaunitz (until 1753 Aus- trian ambassador in France, then chancellor of the empire in Vienna) succeeded in promoting a reconciliation between the cabinets of Ver- sailles and Vienna, and securing the Marquise de Pompadour in favor of an Austrian alliance. Formation of a party inimical to the Prus- sian alliance at the French court. Maria Theresa and Kaunitz induced England to conclude a new subsidy treaty with Russia in 1755. In June of the same year, how- ever, hostilities broke out between England and France in North America without any declaration of war. Conflict at Newfoundland. Dreading a French attack upon Hanover, George II. concluded, in January, 1756, a treaty of neutrality with Frederic at Westminster, which caused a rupture between England and Russia. Kaunitz made skillful use of the indignation at Versailles over the treaty of West- minster. In May, 1756, conclusion of a defensive alliance between France and Austria. In June, 1756, war broke out between France and England, in Europe. Frederic, well informed concerning the alliances of the powers, and knowins: that Russia and France were not in condition to take the of- 404 Modern History. A. D. fensive against him in 1756, decided to take his enemies by surprise.^ 1756. Frederic invaded Saxony with 67,000 men. Capture of Dresden (Aug.). Oct. 1. Victory over the Austrians at Lohositz. Surrender of 18,000 Saxons, who were compelled to serve m the Prussian army (Oct. 16). 1757. War declared upon Frederic in the name of the empire. He was threatened with the ban. Hanover^ Hesse, Brunswick, and Gotlia, however, continued in alliance with Prussia. Treaty between Austria and Russia (Jan.) concerning the partition of the Prussian monarchy. Offensive treaty between Austria and France (May), also looking to the division of Prussia. Sweden joined the alliance against Frederic upon receiving the province of Pommerania, but her part in the war was unimportant. Alliance between Prussia and England (Jan. 1757) extended into a subsidy treaty (April, 1758). 1757. The Prussians invaded Bohemia in four columns. May 6. Victory of Frederic at Prague over the Austrians. Death of Schwerin. Frederic besieged Prague and attacked Daun, who was coming to the relief. June 18. Defeat of Frederic at Kollin. Evacuation of Bohemia. The French reached the Weser. June 26. Victory of the French at Hastenbeck over Frederic's allies (duke of Cumberland, second son of George II.). Aug. 30. Victory of the Russians (Apraxin) over the Prussians (Lehwald), whom they outnumbered, in the battle of Gross- jagerndorf. The Russians withdrew from Prussia and did not utilize their victory. Sept. 8. Treaty of the Monastery of Zeven (duke of Cumberland and Richelieu), according to which the French occupied Han-|, over. The treaty was, however, rejected by the English gov- ernment. Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, brother of the ruling duke, re- ceived the command against the French. A second French army under Soubise joined the imperial army with the purpose of liberatingi Saxony. Nov. 5. Victory of Frederic at Rossbach over the French and the imperial army (Seydlitz). Frederic led his victorious army to Silesia, where the Austrians had defeated and captured the duke of Brunswick-Bevern in the Nov. 22. Battle of Breslau. Dec. 5. Victory of Frederic at Leuthen over the Austrians (Charles of Lorraine and Dawi)„ 1758. Frederic in Moravia ; unsuccessful siege of Olmiitz. Advance of the Russians under Fermor, to join the Austrians. In the west, Ferdinand of Brunswick drove the French back across the Rliine, and defeated them in the 1 Cf. A. Schafer, Gesch. des Siebenjahngen Krieges, 2 vols. 1867-1874 Dunckerj in v. Sybels, Bist.-ZeUs. 18U8, ai'id X«. v. Banke, Der Ursprun^ des siebenjdhrigen Krieges, 1871. A. D. Germany. 405 1758. June 23. Battle of Crefeld. After the conquest of Prus- sia as far as the Mark the Russians advanced. Bloody Aug. 25. Victory of Frederic (Seydlitz) at Zorndorf (not far from Kiistrin) over the Russians. Austrians advanced upon Lusatia. The king hastened to the aid of his brother Henry and was defeated in the Oct. 14. Battle of Hochkirch (near Bautzen) by Daun. Never- theless he maintained himself m Saxony and Silesia. 1759. Ferdinand of Brunswick defeated by the French (duke of Broglie) April 13. In the skirmish of Bergen near Frankfort-on-the-Main. Broglie was joined by a second French army under ContadeSj but they were both defeated by Ferdinand in the Aug. 1. Battle of Minden. The Russians advanced anew and defeated general Wedell July 23. (appointed dictator by the king) at Kay. The king was unable to prevent their union with the Austrians under Laudon. Severe Aug. 12. Defeat of Frederic at Kunersdorf (Frankfort- ou-the-Oder) by the Austrians and Russians, who were at first defeated. Dresden captured by the imperial army. jSTov. 20. The Prussian general Fink surrounded by Daun at Maxen and captured with 13,000 men. 1760. Fouque defeated and captured in the June 23. Battle of Landshut, by the Austrians. Futile siege of Dresden. Aug. 15. Victory of Frederic at Pfaffendorf (Liegnitz) over the Austrians under Laudon. The king prevented the union of the Austrians and Russians. Oct. Berlin surprised and burnt by the RussiaiLs ( Tottleben), who retreated upon the approach of the king. Bloody Nov. 3. Victory of Frederic at Torgau {Ziethen) over the Aus- trians under Daun. 1761. Frederic encamped at Bunzelwitz (near Schweidnitz), op- posite the united Austrians (Laudon) and Russiafis (Buturlin), who did not venture on a decisive battle. Separation of the united armies. Schweidnitz captured by the Aus- trians, Kolherg by the Russians. Frederic, who was deprived of the English subsidies by the accession of George III. (1760), was in great distress. The 1762. Jan. 5. Death of Elizabeth of Russia was the salvation of Prussia. Her successor Peter III., an admirer of Frederic, concluded March 16. The truce of Stargard with Prussia, and soon after the May 5. Peace of St. Petersburg : Russia restored her conquests ; both parties renounced all hostile alliances. This peace caused the May 22. Peace of Hamburg with Sweden : status quo ante helium. The alliance between Russia and Prussia was soon broken off 406 Modern History. a. d. by the deposition of Peter III. (July 9). His successor, Catharine II,, recalled her troops from Frederic's army ; nevertheless their inactiv- ity upon the field contributed to the 1762. Victory of Frederic at Burkersdorf (Reichenbach) over July 21. the Austrians (Daun). After Prince Henry in the Oct. 29. Battle of Freiberg had defeated the Austrians and the imperial forces, and the preliminaries of the peace at Fontame- bleau (p. 439) between England and France had made it certain that the French armies would be withdrawn from Germany, Austria and Prussia concluded the 1763. Peace of Hubert (u)sburg. Feb. 15. 1. Ratification of the peace of Breslau and Berlin, and that of Dresden, i. e. Prussia retained Silesia. 2. Prussia promised her vote for the archduke Joseph at the election of the king of Rome. Saxony (restoration to the status quo) and the empire were included in the peace. Frederic's endeavors to heal the wounds inflicted by the war upon his kingdom. Distribution of the magazine stores. Remission of taxes for several provinces. Establishment of district banks, of the Bank (1765) and the Maritime ComjMny (1772) at Berlin. Afterwards, however, introduction of an oppressive financial administration ; tobacco and coffee were made government monopolies. Drainage of the marshes along the Oder, Werthe, and Netze. Canal of Plaueu, Finow, and Broinberg. Reform of the jurisdiction. Codification of the common law by grand chancellor von Carmer, a part of which was published in 1784. 1765-1790. Joseph II., emperor, for the Austrian lands co-regent only, with his mother Maria Theresa, until 1780, and without much mfluence. 1778-1779- "War of the Bavarian Succession.^ Cause: Extinction of the electoral house of Bavaria with Maximilian Joseph (1777). Charles Theodore, elector palatine, the legal heir of the Bavarian lands, as head of the house of Wittelshach, and in consequence of various treaties, was persuaded by Joseph II. to recognize certain old claims of Austria to lower Bavaria, and a part of the upper Palatinate. Treaty of Vienna (1778, Jan.). Occupation of lower Bavaria by Austrian troops. Charles Theodore was childless ; his heir presumptive was Charles Augustus Christian, duke of the pala- tinate of Zweibrucken (Deux-ponts). Frederic II. opened secret ne- gotiations with this wavering and irresolute prince through count Eustachius von Gorz and encouraged him, under promise of assistance, to make a formal declaration of his rights against the Austrian claims. Saxony and Mecklenburg, also incited by Frederic, protested as heirs presumptive of a part of the Bavarian inheritance. As direct nego- tiations between Austria and Prussia were without result, Joseph and Frederic joined their armies, which were already drawn up face to face on the boundary of Bohemia and Silesia. Saxony allied with Prussia. No battle in this short war. Frederic 1 Cf. Manso, Gesch. d. preuss. Siaais seii dem Hubertsb. Fricden. A. D. Germany. 407 and prince Henry invaded Bohemia (July, 1778). Impossibility of forcing Joseph from his strong position along the upper Kibe, or of getting around it. The armies maintained their positions of obser- vation so long that want began to make itself felt. In the autumn prince Henry retired to Saxony, Frederic to Silesia. Unimportant skirmishes along the frontier. A personal correspondence between Maria Theresa and Frederic, commenced by the former, led in the following sprmg, with the help of Russian and French mediation, to a truce and a congress, and soon after to the 1779, May. Peace of Teschen. 1. The treaty of Vienna with Charles Theodore was abro- gated. Austria retained only the district of the Inn, m Bavaria, i. e. the part of lower Bavaria between the Inn, Salza, and Danube. 2. Austria agreed to the future union of the margravates of A nsbach and Baireuth, with the Prussian monarchy. 3. Saxony obtained some liitherto disputed rights of sovereignty and nine million rix dollars; Mecklenburg the privilegium de non appellando. 1780-1790. Joseph II. Period of his reign alone and of his attempts at reform.^ The peaceable and prudent government of Maria Theresa (f 1780), with its carefully matured scheme of reform, was succeeded by the essentially revolutionary reign of Joseph II., whereby the ancient forms were shaken to their foundations, and their substance, reluctant and stiff from lack of change, forcibly subjected to experiments made in sympathy with the eulighteimient of the century. Joseph II. is the best representative of the contradictions of the eighteenth century, of its philantliropy and its devotion to right, and again of its severity and lack of consideration, where there was question of executing some favorite theory. Filled with dislike of the clergy and the nobility, and entertaining the ideal of a strong, centralized, united state, Joseph pursued his reforms with the purpose of breaking the power of the privileged classes mentioned above, of destroying all provincial inde- pendence, and of establishing unity in the administration (central- ization). Despite of all his failures, despite of the fact that, with the exception of the abolition of serfdom and the edict of tolerance^ not one of his reforms outlived him, Joseph's reign regenerated the Austrian monarchy, lending it mobility and vitality. Edict of tolerance (1781). Within eight years 700 monasteries were closed and 3G,000 members of orders released. There still re- mained, however, 1,324 monasteries with 27,000 monks and nuns. For those which remained a new organization was prescribed. The connection of the ecclesiastical order with Rome was weakened, schools were established with the property of the churches, innova- tions in the form of worship were introduced, nor did the interior organization of the church escape alteration. Futile journey of Pope Pius VI. to Vienna (1782) undertaken to prevent these changes. Reform of the jurisdiction. The feudal burdens were reduced to fixed norms, and attempts were made to completely abolish personal servitude among the peasants. 1 Hausser , Deutsche Geschichte vom Tode Friedvichs d. Grossen. 4:08 Modern History. A. D. Disputes between Joseph and the Dutch ; the emperor arbitrarily annulled the barrier treaties (p. 393) (1781). He demanded that the Schelde, which had been closed by the Treaty of Westphalia to the Spanish Netherlands, in favor of the Dutch, should be opened. Finally, after four years of quarrelingj French mediation brought about the Peace of Versailles (1785). Joseph withdrew liis demands in consideration of ten million florins. Joseph attempted to improve the legal system of the empire. His encroachments in the empire. Violent proceedings in the case of the bishop of Passau (1783). The endeavors of Frederic the Great to conclude a union of German j)rinces (1783), which should resist the encroachments of the emperor, and to strengthen Prussia in her political isolation by a " combination within the empire," were at first but coldly supported by his own min- isters and the German princes. Frederic's plan was not taken into favor until news was received of 1785- Joseph II.'s plan of an exchange of territory, according to which Charles Theodore was to cede the whole of Bavaria to Austria, and accept in exchange the Austrian Netherlands (Belgium), excepting Luxemburg and Namur, as the kingdom of Burgundy. France maintained an attitude of indifference. Russia supported the project and endeavored by persuasion and tlireats to induce the heir of Bavaria, the count palatine of Ziveibriicken (Deux- ponts) to consent to the scheme. The latter sought help from Fred- eric the Great, who, a year before his death (f 1786, Aug. 17), suc- ceeded in forming the 1785, July. League of the German Princes between Prussia, the electorate of Saxony, and Hanover, which was afterward joined by Brunswick, Mainz, Hesse-Cassel, Baden, Meck- lenburg, Anhalt, and the Thuringian lands. Opposition to Joseph's reforms in the Austrian Netherlands and in Hungary. The removal of the crown of Hungary to Vienna pro- duced so great a disturbance that the emperor yielded and permitted its return. The revocation of the constitution of Brabant caused a revolt in the Belgian provinces (1789). War with the Turks (p. 414). Death of Joseph II. (1790). 1790-1792. Leopold II., emperor. Joseph's brother and successor. He suppressed the Belgian insur- rection, but restored the old constitution and the old privileges. A conference at Reichenbach prevented a war with Prussia, which (Jan. 31, 1790) had concluded a treaty with the Turks, in order to procure more favorable conditions for the latter from Austria and Russia (p. 414). I A-. D. Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Poland. 409 § 4. DENMARK, SWEDEN, RUSSIA, POLAND. Denmark (and Nor-way). Since the close of the northern war, Denmark held complete posses- sion of Schleswig and enjoyed under Frederic IV., Christian VI., Frederic V., Christian VII. {count Bernstorff, minister), a long interval of peace at home and abroad. Under the weak Christian VII. revo- lutionary attempts at reform after the manner of Joseph II. by the German Struensee (born in Halle, physician in Altona, traveling companion of the king, instructor of the crown prince, favorite of the queen, Caroline Matilda, first minister, count, who was overthrown in 1772 by a conspiracy (queen dowager Juliana Maria) and be- headed along with his friend Brandt. The disputes with the line of Holstein-Gottorp were brought to an end in 1773 by the cession of Oldenburg to the younger line in exchange for their share of Holstein, which was in consequence entirely incorporated with the Danish monarchy. Sweden. Until 1751 Sweden was under the rule of Frederic of Hesse-Cassel (p. 397). Decline of the royal power in the midst of the dissensions of two parties of. the nobility, Hiite, " hats ; " (French) and Mutzen " caps ; " (Russian), Unsuccessful war with Russia (1741-1743), ended by the disgraceful 1743. Peace of Abo. 1. The Cymen made the boundary between Sweden and Russia, whereby the position of St. Petersburg was made more secure, i*. The succession to the crown of Sweden was guaranteed to AdolJ Frederic of Holstein-Gottorp. 1751-1818- The house of Holstein-Gottorp in Sweden. Under Adolf Frederic (1751-1771) the royal power underwent such reductions at the hands of the royal council that Sweden was rather an aristocracy than a monarchy. Inglorious participation in the Seven Years' War. Adolf Frederic's son, Gustavus III. (1771- 1792), crushed the power of the royal council of nobles by a blood- less revolution (1772), and reduced it in the new constitution from a co-regent to a simple cou7icil ; the estates, however, retained the right of veto against an offensive war. 1788-1790. War with Russia. Drawn battle at the island of Hogland (1788). Gustavus invaded Russian Finland, where the officers of his army refused him further obedience. He found support among the people (Stockholm and Dalecai-lia). The estates granted him (against the will of the nobles) the right to declare even an offensive war. In spite of brilliant deeds of arms Gustavus con- cluded the war by a peace (at Werelce) which was without advantage to Sweden. 1792, March. Gustavus III. murdered by James of Ankarstrom. 410 Modem History. A. D, . RUSSIA AND POLAND. Alexis, t 1676. , I 1 \~~ I I Feodor III. Ivan till 1689. Sophia. Peter the Great. t 1682. I t 1725, m. Catharine I, I I t 1727. Catharine, Anna, I duchess of f 1740. 1 Mecklenburg- Schwerin. Alexis, Anna, Elizabeth, t 1718. duchess of f 1762. Holstein- \ Anna, | Gottorp. duchess of Peter II., Brunswick. t 1730. I Peter III., Ivan IV. t 1762. till 1741, ni. Catharine II., t 1764. t 1796. The son of Peter the Great (p. 374 and 394), Alexis, who favored the Russian reaction, was condennied to execution by his father, and died in prison (?) 1718. Peter was succeeded, in consequence of a law which he had issued in 1722 (afterwards repealed by Paul I.) which allowed the reigning sovereign to appoint his own successor, by his wife 1725-1727. Catharine I., who was governed by prince Menschikoff, the favorite of Peter I., who had risen from the lowest rank to be the first minister of state. After the sudden death of the empress there followed, under her will, 1727-1730. Peter II., twelve years old, grandson of Peter I. He was for four months under the influence of Menschikoff, who at the end of that time was overthrown by the family of Dol- goruky and sent to Siberia, where he died two years later. Upon Peter II. 's early death, 1730-1740. Anna Ivanovna, younger daughter of the elder brother of Peter the Great, was proclaimed empress. She was ruled by Mllnnich, Ostermann, and her favorite Biro7i (properly Biihren). The latter soon obtained complete control, and took un- bridled vengeance on his enemies, particvilarly the Dolgoruky. In 1737 he was appointed duke of Curland, at the desire of the em- press, by Augustus III., king of Poland (1733-1763). Russia's in- fluence in Poland established by the war of the Polish succession (p. 398). In the war against the Turks, brilliantly conducted, in combination with Austria (p. 398), by the general Miinnich (173C- 1739), ^so^was the only acquisition. The empress Anna was suc- ceeded by her grand-nephew, the minor A. D. Denmarh, Siveden, Russia, Poland. 411 1740-1741. Ivan IV. (or VI.), whose mother, Anna of Brims- tvick; conducted the < 1 Kosciuszko never made use of the well-known expression " Finis Pi canice,'' as he himself openly and with indignation declared. Portugal. — Italy. 415 the banishment of the Jesuits from Spain (1767), which was exe- ;d by the minister Aranda. Portugal. ince 1640 Portugal was again independent of Spain, had again 3hod a certain degree of power under the first kings of the house feraganza, but was then impoverished by a miserable administra- , and brought into complete dependence upon England by a com- cial treaty with that power. In the reign of Joseph I. Emmanuel 50-1777), his minister Carvalho, marquis of Pombal, endeav- i to introduce revolutionary reforms, in the spirit of the century, he same direction as the later attempts of Joseph II. (p. 408). er the terrible 55. Nov. 1. Earthquake of Lisbon, in which 30,000 people lost their lives, Pombal caused the led portion of the capital to be splendidly rebuilt. An unsuccess- attempt to assassinate the king (1758) formed a pretext for han- ng the Jesuits from Portugal (1759), and a welcome chance for the lister to rid himself of his enemies. The death of the king was owed by the fall of Pombal and the undoing of his reforms. The er of the Jesuits was dissolved in 1773, see p. 416. Pombal sen- ced to death, but pardoned. § 6. ITALY. Savoy. Che dukes of Savoy and Piedmont, kings since the peace of reclit, since 1718 kings of Sardinia (p. 397), understood how to rease their territory, in the eighteenth century as well as before, skillful use of political relations. During the tvar of the Austrian cession they acquired a considerable extent of land from Milan 400). ♦ Genoa. The republic of Genoa was constantly obliged to defend her free- 31 and independence against powerful neighbors, who coveted her ritory (Savoy, France, Austria}. In 1730 the inhabitants of the md of Corsica, which had been under the supremacy of Genoa, '^olted. After a long and fluctuating contest, during which a Ger- i,n adventurer, Baron Neuhof of Westphalia, appeared for a time King Theodore I. of Corsica (1736), the Genoese called in the (istance of the French, who after great exertions and bloody bat- s (particularly against Paoli), succeeded in subjugating the island, lich the Genoese ceded to them in 1768. Venice. The republic of Venice, by consequence of its obstinate persis=- ice in the old aristocratic forms, politically iinmired, sank into an '•emediable decliue. Its last laurels were gained in the seventeenth 416 Modern History. '^' I'll century in the glorions wars against the Turks. The latter surprise* ' \ Candia and conquered a part of the island (1645-1G47). The Vene , tian fleet under Grimani and Riva repeatedly defeated the mucl \ stronger Turkish fleet. Brilliant victory of the admiral AIocenigiK 1G51, and Morosini, 1655. Marcello annihilated the Turkish flecy by the Dardanelles (1G56), Mocenigo defeated the Turks at CAiosii but was liiniself defeated in a second combat. New naval victorie-'l over the Turks in 1661 and 1662. The Venetians received aid fror i Germany and France, but were obliged, after courageous fighting, t ^ leave the island of Candia under Turkish supremacy. After an alliii ance between the republic of Venice, the emperor and John Sohiesk\l of Poland (1684), renewal of the war against the Turks. The Vene tians under Morosini, supported by German mercenaries, began thi conquest of the Peloponnesus {Morea) in 1685. Count Konigsmar landed at Patras (1687) and completed the subjugation of the penin sula. Morosini captured Athens; a Venetian bomb blew up the Pai theuon on the Acropolis. Morosini, who had been elected dog* landed in Negroponte (Euboea), but the plague in the army (KonigSj mark f ) frustrated the expedition. In the peace of Carlowitz, 169 (see p. 372), Morea was given to the Venetians, who repopulatet the peninsula with Greek colonists, but soon earned the hatred ( their new subjects by the rigor of their administration. \ Tuscany. Tuscany declined in power after the seventeenth century, as th influence of the clergy steadily increased. In 1737 the family of thf Medici became extinct ; the later members of this house, sunken i dissipation, were sadly unworthy of their great ancestors. After 173'I the rulers of Lorraine were dukes of Tuscany (see p. 398) ; Leopold II., upon his accession in Austria (1790) gave Tuscany to his secoi* son Ferdinand Joseph. Tuscany was sm, Austrian secundogeniture frd^ 1765-1859. Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla were secundogenitures for Hi Spanish Bourhons from 1731-1735, and again 1748-1859. Modena, since 1597, was ruled by an illegitimate branch of th; house of Este. Papal States. In the Papal States, prosperity, industry, and intellectual life ste; ily declined. After the sixteenth century the papal chair was occi) pied by Italians only, who were for the most part members of th great families of the nobility. Among the Popes of the eighteent century Clemens XIV. (Ganganelli) must be mentioned, who in 177' yielded to the demands of the Catholic courts and dissolved the orde of the Jesuits, whose general, Ricci, would not entertain the idea o reform {sint ut sunt, aut non sint), by the bull Dominus ac redempto noster. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. After 1738 this kingdom was a secundogeniture of the Spanish Boui bons, and was given to Ferdinand, third son of Charles III., when th ao ! A. D. America: British Colonies. 417 latter ascended the Spanish throne in 1759. Naples and Sicily were governed by this branch of the Bourbon family solely in the interest of their house, and not in that of the people, for whose intellectual and material welfare little or nothing was done. § 7. AMERICA: BRITISH COLONIES. 1713. Treaty with the eastern Indians at Portsmouth. Rectification of the boundary between Massachusetts and Connecticut by the cession of over 100,000 acres of land by the former to the latter. 1715. An Indian war in Carolina undertaken by the Yamassees and allied tribes. The Indians were defeated and driven across the Spanish border by governor Craven. 1718. Captain Woods Rogers, appointed governor of New Providence, suppressed the buccaneers m the West Indies ; extirpation of the pirates on the coast of Carolina by the governor of that colony. 1719-1729. Overthrow of proprietary government in Carolina. In 1719 the people of Carolina, havmg for some time chafed under the arbitrary government of the proprietors, formed an association for the overthrow of the proprietary government. The assembly prov- ing unruly was dissolved by governor Johnson, but refused to obey the proclamation ; they elected a new governor and council, and op- posed the armed demonstration of governor Johnson with an armed defiance. A threatened attack by the Spaniards only served to show more clearly the determined spirit of the colonists. (The Spanish expedition never reached Carolina, being repulsed from New Provi- dence, and overwhelmed by a storm). The late events being reported by the agent for the colony in England, the royal council declared the charter of the proprietors forfeited, and forthwith established a pro- visional royal government ; governor Nicholsoyi (1721). In 1729 an agreement with the proprietors was reached and confirmed by act of parliament. Seven of the proprietors sold their titles and interest m the colony ; the eighth retained his property but not his proprietary power. The crown assumed the right of nominating governors and councils. The province was divided into North and South Carolina. 1720. WilUam Burnet, governor of New York. Prohibition of trade between the Indians and the French. 1722. In New York, governor Burnet contmued his efforts to ob- struct the French in their policy of hemming in the English sea-coast colonies on the west. Erection of a trading-house at Oswego ; negotiations with the Six Nations at Albany. (The Tuscaroras had been admitted to the Iroquois confederacy as a sixth nation). 1724. Indian hostilities in New England. War ^vith the Abinakis, who were incensed by the rapid extension of the English settle- ments, and further provoked by the advice of Rasles, a French Jesuit at Norridgewoek. Futile attempt of the English to seize Rasles was answered by the destruction of Berwick, whereupon war was declared, Norridgewoek burnt and Rasles killed. 418 Modern History. A. dJ 1725. The Yamassees, though living under the protection of the Span- iards in Florida, continued their assaults on the English colony] in Carolina. Expedition of Palmer to St. Augustine, upoi which he chastised the Indians. 1726. The general court of Massachusetts having become involvec in a controversy with governor Shute, the latter obtained froi the crown an explanatory charter which gave him power suppress debate, and limited the time for which the house of representatives might adjourn, to two days. Treaty of peace between Massachusetts and the eastern In- dians, which was long kept. In New York, a treaty with the Senecas, Cayugas, and Onor dagas added their lands to those of the Mohawks and Oneidas^ which were already under English protection. 1728. Burnet governor of Massachusetts. He was at once involved in a wrangle with the legislature over the question of a fixed salary for the governor, which the court refused to grant, " be- cause it is the undoubted right of all Englishmen, by Magna Charter, to raise and dispose of money for the public service, of their own free accord, without compulsion." The boundary between Virginia and North Carolina was sur- veyed and settled, running through the Dismal Swamp. 1729. Division of Carolina into North and South Carolina (p. 417). 1731. Settlement of the disputed boundary between New York and Connecticut. 1733. Settlement of Georgia, the last of the old thir- teen colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylva- nia, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia). It being thought desirable that the government should secure for England the western part of Carolina m order to prevent the French or the Spaniards from Louisiana or Florida from laying hold of it, a charter for the lands between the Savannah and Alatamaha rivers ex- tending to the Pacific, under the name of Georgia, was granted to James Oglethorpe and associates, not as proprietors but as trustees (twenty-one in number), for twenty-one years for the crown, at the expiration of which time the colony was to revert to the crown, which should then determine on the manner of its future goverment. Lib- erty of conscience and freedom of worship were secured to all inhab- itants of the colony except papists. James Oglethorpe, the moving spirit in this projected colony, desired to establish within its limits a chance for reformation for English prisoners, and a home for poor and oppressed Protestants of all nations. Oglethorpe brought the first colonists in 1733, and settled at Savannah ; conciliation of the Indians by just purchase of lands and b}^ kindness. Oglethorpe re- fused to allow the importation either of rum or of slaves into Georgia. Many Scotch Presbyterians as well as Moravians from Austria came to the new colony. One of the first enactments of the trustees de- clared that male issue only could inherit land in the colony. A. D. America: British Colonies. 419 1734. In New York arrest of Zeiiger, printer of the Weekly Jour- nal, for libel on the governor (Cosby). Trial and acquittal 1735. 1738. Foundation of a college at Princeton, in New Jersey. 1739-1748. Great Britain at war with Spain. 1740. Unsuccessful expedition of Oglethorpe to Florida at the head of 1,200 men from Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia. 8iege of St. Augustine. Settlement of the boundary dispute between Massachusetts and New Hampshire in favor of the latter colony. I Expedition of Vernon with 27,000 men against Carthagena, broken up by disease. 1741. The colonies participated in an attack on Cuba. 1742. Expedition of 3,000 Spaniards to Georgia repulsed by Ogle- thorpe by stratagem. In this year Oglethorpe went to England and never returned to America. 1744-1748. War between Great Britain and Prance, known in the American colonies as King George's War, in reality a part of the war of the Austrian Succession (p. 400). The strongest French fortification in America outside of Quebec .was Louisburg on Cape Breton Island, a part, as the English claimed, of Acadia ; the French, however, had refused to surrender it with that province, asserting that only Nova Scotia was comprised under that name. 1745. Apr. 30-June 16. Siege and capture of Louisburg by 4,000 colonial troops under William Pepperell, aided by a few English vessels. 1746. Projected conquest of Canada, by a united effort of all the colonies prevented by the arrival of a large French fleet at Nova Scotia under DAnville, which spread consternation throughout the English colonies, but which, by the death of DAnville, the suffering of the troops through pestilence and the loss of vessels by storm, was prevented from accomplisliing anything. 1747. Nov. 17. An attempt of the English commander, Knowles, to press men for his vessels in Boston, caused an uprising of the people; the governor withdrew to Castle William, and the dis- turbance was only quieted by the release of most of the men seized. 1748. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle between England, France, and Spain. In the reciprocal surrender of conquests. Cape Breton was restored to the French (p. 404). Formation of the Ohio Company under a charter from the English crown, which gave great offense to the French. 1750. In spite of the confirmation of the cession of Acadia to Eng- land by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, hostilities sprang up be- tween the French and English there, owing to disputes over the boundaries. 420 Modern History. A. D. | ■ji 1751. Governor Clinton, of New York, in association with South i Carolina, Massachusetts and Connecticut, concluded a peace i with the Six Nations. \ 1752. The trustees of Georgia finding that the colony did not flourish J under their care, gave up their charter, and the crown assumed J control, and placed Georgia on the same footing with other ] royal colonies. \ The English parliament adopted the reformed or Gregorian ; calendar for England and the colonies (p. 438). 1753. The growth of the British colonies extending more and more westward caused the disputes between England and France to grow to a head. The French claimed the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence, and all the region between from the Appalachians to the Spanish settlements in the west, and were intent on securing this re- gion by a line of forts directly back of the English colonies. Accord- ing to the English all French settlements within the territory of the colony of Plymouth (p. 293) were illegal ; they also claimed the whole region occupied by the Iroquois. The settlement of G-eorgia 1 and the foundation of the Ohio Company were attempts to counter- j act the progress of the French, and these moves in their turn were a cause of uneasiness to the French, who seized traders within the limits of the Ohio Company. As the lands of the company were within the territory of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie, governor of that colony, dis- patched George Washington to the forts on the Alleghany and the Ohio to remonstrate with the French (Oct. 31-Dec. 12). The com- ', mander of the Ohio forts promised to lay the remonstrance before the governor of Canada. 1754. Virginia immediately sent a force to the Ohio, two companies ■ of which were under Washington. In the advance upon Fort j Du Quesne, at the juncture of the Alleghany and Monongahela, he i captured a small French party, buc was besieged in Fort Necessityj \ which he had erected, and forced to capitulate under condition of free I withdrawal (July 4). | June 19. Conference of colonial delegates at Albany with the Six j Nations. By the advice of Benjamin Franklin the conference ) also drew up a plan of a union of all the colonies under a president appointed by the crown, with a grand council of delegates elected by the colonial assemblies, with a right of legislation subject to the veto of the president and the approval of the crown. Connecticut, object- ing to the veto power, refused to sign the proposal, which was after- wards rejected both by the colonies and the crown. 1755-1763. War between England and France, called in the American colonies *' The Old French and In- dian War ; " being a part of the Seven Years' War, in Europe, which was fought in Asia and Africa as well War was not declared until the following year, but it is reckoned from 1755 (p. 404 and 438). 1755. While a conference of the colonial governors with generaj Braddock, who was sent from Errland to take chief command, A. D. America: British Colonies. 421 decided on three expeditions: 1. against Fort Du Quesne; 2. against the foit at Niagara ; 3. against the French fort at Crown Point in New York; a band of li,OUO Massachusetts troops under Winsloiv and Monckton cii^tunid forts Beausejourund ( taspereaax in the disputed dis- trict ill Nova JScotia (June 1(>-17), and dispersed among the British colonies about 7,000 of the inhabitants who refused to take the oath of alk'giance to Enghind (" Evangeline "). Meantime general Braddock took the offensive at the head of the British regulars against Fort du Quesne, and fell into an ambuscade, in conse(pience of neglecting the advice of the provincial officers (Washington), and suffered a complete defeat and great loss in the 1755, Jidy 9. Battle of Fort du Quesne or "Braddock's defeat." Death of Braddock-. Attack on Crown Point : Construction of Fort Edward on the east of the lliidson (Aug.). Sept. 8. Battle of Lake George; defeat of the French under Dies- kau (f ), by the provincial troops under Johnson. Construction of Fort Wdliam Henry at the south end of Lake George by the English, Fortification of T'iconderoga, between Lake George and Lake Champlain, by the French. The expedition to Niagara was subjected to so many delays that it was for the time abandoned. 1756, Great Britain declared war on France. Earl of Loudoun com- mander-in-chief of forces in America. Aug. Forts Oswego and George captured by the marquis of Mont- calm, commander-in-chief of the French armies in Canada^ and destroyed. This disaster occasioned the abandonment of the projected enter- prises against Niagara, Crown Point, Fort du Quesne and Eastern Canada. Fortifications of Georgia and Carolina (Fort Loudoun on the Tennessee river). The French constructed a system of forts in the region of the Illinois. 1757, August 9. Capture of Fort William Henry by Montcalm, massacre of the garrison, whose retreat to Fort Edward was guaranteed, by the Indians in Montcalm's army. In Massachusetts, controversy between the governor. Lord Lou- doun and the general court over the quartering of troops. In Pennsylvania, controversy between the governor and the as- semljly over a scheme of taxation ; the governor refusing his assent to the bill, the assembly demanded the assent as their right. 1758, July 8. Repulse of Abercrombie before Ticonderoga. Expedition against Louisburg (May 28-July 26). Cap- ture of the fortress (Amherst and Wolfe, July 26). Aug. 27. Capture of Fort Frontenac by Bradstreet. Nov. 25. Capture of Fort du Quesne by General Forbes. The fort was named Ft. Pitt (Pittsburg). 1759, July 25. Capture of Fort Niagara by Sir William Johnson. July 26. Capture of Ticonderoga by Major-General Amherst. Expedition of Major-Cieneral Wolfe from Louisburg against Que- bec. Repulsed at tiic Montnwrencij ; Wolfe conducted his force by 422 Modern History. A. d. night to the elevated plateau behind Quebec called the Plains of A/jrnham, where in the 1759, Sept. 13. Battle of the Plains of Abraham the French under Montcalm were completely defeated. Death of Wolfe and Montcalm. Surrender of Quebec (Sept. 18). 17G0, Sept. 8. Montreal and all Canada surrendered to the Eng- lish. 1761. The writs of assistance in Massachusetts. The English government (Board of Trade reestablished 1695) having for some time adhered to a course of commercial restrictions and duties upon the colonies (all molasses charged with duty except that imported from the British West Indies, 1733 ; erection of rolling mills prohib- •ited, 1750 ; the slave trade favored in spite of the opposition of the colonial legislatures of Virginia and Carolina, etc.) had roused a spirit of resistance throughout the colonies based on the perception that such duties were a form of taxation without representation. Hence so much evasion was practised that finally the custom house officials in Boston applied to the superior covirt of judicature {Thomas Hutch- inson, chief justice) for the issue of writs of assistance such as were granted by the exchequer in England. The case was argued for the colonists by Thacher^ and especially by James Otis, (1725-1783), who urged the dangerous character of the writ as being servable by any officer against any person for any length of time, and accused the acts of trade as infringements of the charter. The court deferred its decision ; it would seem that the writs were ultimately granted, but that the officers did not venture to use them. 1762. Expedition against Martinique, by the royal and provincial troops ; surrender of this island, of Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and of all the other French West Indies. War between England and Spain (p. 439). July. Storm of Havana, which was surrendered to the English. 1763. Feb. 10. Peace of Paris, between Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal. (Preliminary articles 1762, Nov. 3, at FontainehleoAi, p. 439). 1. France ceded to England, Nova Scotia, or Acadia, Canada, Cape Breton, and all other islands in the gulf and river of St. Law- rence, reserving the right to fish and dry fish on a part of Newfound- land, and of fishing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence three leagues from the shore, and at a distance of fifteen leagues from Cape Breton ; also the river and harbor of Mobile and everything on the left of the mid- dle of the Mississippi, the Iberville, and lakes Mawenas and Ponchar- train, except New Orleans, the navigation of the Mississippi to be free for both England and France ; also Grenada, St. Vincent, Do- minique, Tobago. In all ceded districts certain civil and religious riglits were secured to the French inhabitants. England ceded to France the islands of St. Peter and Miquelon in the Gulf of St. Lawrence for fishing stations, not to be fortified, and Guadaloupe, Marigalante, Desirade, Martinique, Belleisle, St. Lucia, in the West Indies. ' I A. D. America : British Cohmies. 423 2. Spain ceded to England Florida, and all otlier possessions east of the Mississii»i)i ; Spain also n^ave up lier claims to the Netcfoaud- land fisheries ; England restored Havana to Spain and destroyed all English fortresses in Spanish America ; right to cut and transport dye wood reserved. 3. France ceded to Spain the whole of Louisiana and New Or- leans hij a previous treat if of Nov. 3, 1702. The English acipiisitions were divided into the four governments of Quebec, East Florida, West Florida and Grenada. The number of inhabitants m the old thirteen colonies at this time was about two millions. 1763. The conspiracy of Pontiac. Pontiac was the chief of the Ottawas, a firm friend of the French ; relying on the vain hope of assistance from whom, he resolved to wrest from the English the border fortresses. To this end he formed an alliance of almost all the tribes of the Algonquin race, with the Wijandots and Senecas. The other nations of the Iroquois were with great difficulty kept quiet by the influence of Sir William Johnson. Pontiac had planned to open the attack by the treacher- ous seizure of the fort at Detroit on May 7. Foiled in this by the coolness of Gladwyn, the English commander, who had been previ- ously informed of the plot, the enraged chief opened the siege of the fort (May 9) and war broke out along the whole line from the Mississippi to Canada. In a short time Fort Pitt, Niagara, and De- troit, of all the border fortresses, alone remained in the hands of the English. In July Boquet forced his way, under severe fighting, to Fort Pitt, which he relieved. Pontiac maintained before Detroit the longest siege which the Indians ever executed, but on September 3, the garrison was relieved by a schooner from Niagara, and with the approach of winter the Indians withdrew. The western tribes were not subdued before 17G5, but the danger was over. Pontiac did not long outlive his failure. 1763, Paxton boys in Pennsylvania ; massacre of converted Indians. The peace gave to Great Britain time to enforce more vigorously that system of repression and taxation which the ministers thought the fitting method of dealing with the too independent colonists, while it gave the colonists time to reflect upon and to resent such a pro- cedure. 1763-1 7G5. George Grenviile, prime minister. 1764, March. Parliament voted that they had a right to tax the American colonies, though the colonies were not represented. Passage of the sugar act ("it is just and necessary that a reve- nue be raised in America ") and of an act for increasing the effi- ciency of the revenue service. Publication at Boston of " The Rights of the British Colonies as- serted and proved," by James Otis. Adoption of a resolution not to use British manufactures. 1765, March. Passage of the Stamp Act; prescribing the use of stamped paper for legal documents, pamphlets, and news- papers throughout the colonies. (Speech of Colonel Barre.) 424 Modern History. A. d. The news was received in America with the greatest indigna- tion. Resolutions of the house of burgesses in Virginia de- 1765. May .30. nying the right of taxation, introduced by Patrick Henry (1736-1797). Oct. 7. Meeting of a congress of twenty eight delegates from Mas- sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina (Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia were not represented, but were in sympathy with the colonies) at New York in accordance with the proposition of Massa- chusetts. The assembly drew up petitions and memorials to the king and parliament, and adopted a " Declaration of rights and liberties " (Oct. 19). The arrival of stamp officers led to riots in various cities, as in Bos- ton, where the officer (Andrew Oliver) was burnt in effigy, his house and that of lieutenant-governor Hutchinson sacked, in New York, etc. Non-importation and non-consumption agreements. 1765-1766. Rockingham prime minister. 1766. March. Repeal of the Stamp Act, which had brought in no revenue (^Pitt, Burke) ; examination of Benjamin Franklin (b. Jan. 17, 1706 ; d. Apr. 17, 1790) ; agent of Pennsylvania, before the commons. The repeal was accompanied by a de- claratory act, asserting that ^^ parliament has power to hind the colonies in all cases ivhatsoever " (March, 1766). 1766-1770. Duke of Grafton prime minister {Earl of Chatham privy seal). 1767. Duty imposed on glass, paper, painters^ colors, and tea introduced into the colonies (this measure followed the defeat of the mm- istry on the land tax in England, which cost the revenue a large sum). Out of the revenue thus collected Jixed salaries were to be paid royal officials. New York having refused to make provision for troops quar- tered upon the colony, the legislative power of the assembly was suspended by parliament until compliance. ^ Creation of a custom house and board of commissioners for America. 1768. Petition of Massachusetts to the king ; circular letter to the other colonies. The British ministry demanded that the court rescind the circular letter ; the court refused to do so (92 to 17), whereupon governor Bernard dissolved the assembly. Similar proceedings occurred in other colonies. June. The seizure of John Hancock's sloop Liberty, for a false en- try by the custom house officials in Boston, caused a riot, and the officials fled to Castle William. Oct. Arrival of British troops at Boston. The selectmen refused to provide quarters for the men. First settlement made in Tennessee. 1769. Parliament adopted a resolution looking to the trial of acts of treason committed in the colonies in England. Resolutions of the house of burgesses in Virginia denouncing this position. The governor dissolved the assembly. Similar resolutions were adopted in other colonies. A. D. America : British Colonics. 425 Tlio gfonoral court of Massachusetts, rcfusin<]^ to do ])usiness while a guard was statioued at the state-house, was adjourued to Cambrid(). Black Hole at Calcutta, (p. 44.*^) 1757-1761, Oct. T). Coalition ministry of the duke of Newcastle, tirst lord of the treasury, and tiu' elder Pitt (William Pitt, h. 1708; member of the connnons 1735; vice-treasurer for Ireland 1740; privy councillor and paymaster-general, secretary of state 17r)(); retired 17()1; in opposition 17()l-17t)0 ; privy seal 17t)t)- 17(38; earl of Chatham July 29, 17GG ; died May 11, 1778), secretary of state. 1759, Sept. 13. Battle of Quebec, death of Wolfe. 1759, Nov. 20. Naval battle of Quiberon Bay ; defeat of the French by Sir Edivard Hawke. 17G0, Oct. 25. Death of George II. 1760-1820. George III., first part of his reign, to 1783. 17G1, Aug. 15. Bourbon family compact, between France and Spain with the assumption of the accession of Naples and Parma, for reciprocal guarantee of all posses- sions and an offensive and defensive alliance. Pitt, insisting that war ought to be declared upon Spain, resigned (Oct. 5). Lord Bute, the true adviser of the king; " the king's friends; " the " power behind the throne." 1761, Oct. 5-1762, May 29. Ministry of the duke of Newcas- tle. Egremont and Bute, secretaries of state ; Georye Grenville leader in the commons. 1761, Nov. 3-1768, Mar. 10. First Parliament of George UL (XII.). 1762, Jan. War declared against Spain. 1762, I\Iay 29-1763, Apr. 1. Ministry of lord Bute ; Grenville^ secretary of state. 1763, Feb. 10. Peace of Paris between Great Britain, France, and Spain. 1. France ceded to England: in North America, Canada, and Cape Breton Island ; the Mississippi was recognized as the boundary between Louisiana and the British colonies; in the West Indies Granada; in Africa the French possessions on the Senegal. England restored to France Goree in Africa, and all coiupiests in India. 2. Spain ceded to England Florida, as indemnitication for which France had already ceded Louisiana to Spain ; Spain received from England all con- quests in Cid)a including Havana. In conse(pience of this peace and her acquisitions in India (p. 448) Great Britain reached the summit of her extent ;uid power; the North American colonies had gradually developed into states under gover- nors, with liberal constitutions, modeled after that of (treat Britain. 1763, April 1-1765, July. Ministry of George Grenvilie; Hali/a.v and Egremont, secretaries of states; /w created lord Holland. No. 45 of the North. Briton containing insulting remarks concerning the king by John Wilkes, general warrants for the a]>prehension of the authors, printers, and publishers, were issued. Wilkes was ar- rested and expelled from the connnons. General warrants declared illegal by the chief justice. Wilkes outlawed. 440 Modern History. A. d. 1765, Feb. Stamp act (p. 425). 1765, July-1766, July. Ministry of the marquis of Rockingham ; general Conway secretary of state and leader of the commons. 1766, March. Repeal of stamp act (p. 423). 1766, April 22. General warrants declared illegal by resolution of the commons (a declaratory bill to this effect was thrown out by the lords). Aug. 1767, Dec. Ministry of Chatham; Grafton. 1767, Dec-1770, Jan. Ministry of the duke of Grafton ; Toims- hend chancellor of the exchequer ; general Conway, lord Shel- burne, secretaries of state. Pitt (earl of Chatham) lord privy seal. Lord Hillsborough first colonial secretary. 1768, May 10-1774, June 22. Second Parliament of George III. (XIII.). Wilkes member for Middlesex. 1769, Feb. Wilkes expelled the house for an alleged libel on lord Weymouth. He was thrice elected and thrice rejected ; at the last election his opponent, colonel Luttrell, who received a small minority, was declared elected. 1769-1772. Letters of Junius, containing bitter attacks upon the duke of Grafton, lord Mansfield (^Murraij), and other mem- bers of the government, appeared in the " Daily Advertiser." The author is still unknown, though the letters are attributed by many with great confidence to Sir Philip Francis. 1770, Jan.-1782, March 20. Ministry of lord North (first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer). 1770, May. Remonstrance of the lord mayor and aldermen of London with the king. 1771. Abortive attempt of the commons to prevent the publication of speeches. Complaint of colonel Onslow; arrest of the printers ; commitment of Crosby, lord mayor, and Oliver, alder- man of London, for granting bail. 1774. Boston Port Bill (p. 425). 1774, Nov. 29-1780, July 8. Third Parliament of George III. (XIV.). Wilkes, lord mayor, and member for Middlesex ; motion to expunge the resolution rejecting him. (On the sixth motion. May 3, 1782, he was successful, and the resolutions were ex- punged " as subversive of the rights of electors.") 1775-1783- 'War of independence of the British col- onies in North America, see p. 426. 1778-1783. War between Great Britain and France. 1778. Repeal of penal laws against papists in England. 1779-1783. War between Great Britain and Spain. 1779-1782. Gibraltar besieged by the French and Spanish in vain ; bravely defended by Elliott. 1780. No popery riots, caused by the intended relief of papists in Scotland. Protestant associations ; lord George Gordon, president. June 2. Presentation of a no popery petition ; riot in London lasting five days. Executions. A. D. Great Britain. 441 The armed neutrality (p. 412) ionnecl to resist England's assunii)ti<^)ii oi tlit- li^ht ot" search. 1780, Oct. :U-17S4, Mar.' 24. Fourth Parliament of George III. (XV.). 1780, Dec. 30-1783. War botwocMi Great Britain and Holland. 1781, Oct. 11). Surrender of Cornwallis (p. 4IU). In this year the English lost Pensacola, Tohuf/o, St. Eustachim, iJemerara, Essequibo, St. Christopher, Nevis, MonsemU, Minorca (1782). 1782, Feb. Motion of general Conwa/j " that the honse will consider as enemies to the king and conntry all who shall advise, or by any means attempt, the further prosecution of offensive war, for the purpose of reducing the revolted colonies to obedience by force." March 15. Motion of Sir J. Rous " that the house could no longer repose confidence in the present ministers," lost by nine votes. On a threat of renewal of the nu)tion lord North resigned. 1782, March 20-July 1. Ministry of the marquis of Rocking- ham (t July 1, 1782) ; lord Shelburne, and Charles James Fox (h 1749, son of Henry Fox, lord Holland; entered the commons 1708 ; lord of the admiralty 1770, of the treasury 1773; 1774 in opposition ; 1782 in the cabinet ; 1784 in opposition to Pitt; died Sept. 13, 180C), secretaries of state ; lord Thurloic, lord chancellor; Edmund Burke (b 1729? in Dublin, entered par- liament 1765, paymaster of the forces 1782, in opposition with Fox 1784, until the French revolution; died July 9, 1797), paymaster of the forces ; Richard Brinsley Sheridan (b. 1751 at Dublin, entered parliament 1780, died July 7, 1816), under-secretary of state. April 12. Battle of Martinique, naval victory of Rodney and Hood over De Grasse. Reduction of the pension list ; establishment of the legislative independence of Ireland ; exclusion of contractors and rev- enue officers from parliament. 1782, July 1-1783, Feb. 24. Ministry of lord Shelburne following the death of Rockingham. William Pitt (b. 1759, entered parliament 1781 ; chancellor of exchequer 1782 ; prime min- ister 1783 ; retired 1801 : returned to office 1804 ; died Jan. 23, 1806), twenty-three years old, chancellor of the exchequer ; Fox, Burke, Sheridayi, resigned. Nov. 30. Secret treaty of Paris with America (p. 431). 1783, Jan. 20-Sept. 3. Peace of Versailles and Paris (p. 432). 1. Recognition of the independence of the thirteen United States (the Americans retained the Western territory ; the navigation of the Mississippi was in common). 2. England surrendered to France in the West Indies Tobago ; in Africa tlie region of Senegal. 3. Spain retained Minorca in Europe, and Florida in America. 1783, April 2-Dec. 13. Coalition ministry of the duke of Port- land ; Cavendish, chancellor of exchequer ; lord North and Fox, secretaries of state ; Burke, paymaster. 442 Modern History. A. d. 1757-1784. "War of the English in India, see p. 443. In the epoch of the Seven Years' War, the English East India Company (at once sovereigns and merchants) began the foundation of an extensive empire in place of the existing factories. The vic- tories of lord Clive gave the English the upper hand of the French, and secured for them Bengal. War with the Mahrattds, who were allied with the sultan of My- sore, Hyder Ali (f 1782, his son, Tippu Saih), with the Nizam of Golkonda and the French. From the war this company came out vic- torious and with greatly increased strength. Under the ministry of the younger Pitt (1783-1801) the company was subordinated by the East India Bill (1784) in political and military affairs to a royal commission {board of control). 1768-1779. Voyages of James Cook (b. 1728; under Wolfe at Quebec, 1759; d. 1779). 1. Aug. 26, 1768, to June 11, 1771 : discovery of CooFs strait and of the strait between Australia and New Guinea. 2. July 13, 1772, to July 30, 1775: touching at New Zealand, Cook discovered many islands in the Pacific, penetrated to 71° S. latitude and rounded Cape Horn. 3. July 12, 1776, investigation of Behring's strait ; on the re- turn Cook was killed by the natives on Hawaii, one of the Sandwich islands, Feb. 14, 1779. § 9. THE EAST. India. Decline of the Mughal empire of Delhi. Bahadur Shah (1707-1712), Jahandar Shah (1712-1713), son and grandson of Aurangzeh, both under the control of the general Zul-fikar Khan. Successful revolt of Farruklisiyyar (1713-1719) ; oppression, revolt, and punishment of the Sikhs in the Punjab. 1715. Rajputana practically independent of the empire. The Sayyid chiefs, Husdin AH and Ahdidld, placed two boy em- perors on the throne, who were followed, after four months, bv 1719-1748. Muhammad Shah. 1720-1748. Independence of the Deccan established under the Nizam ul Mulk, or governor. 1732-1743. Practical independence of Oudh. 1739. Invasion of India by Nadir Shah, of Persia ; sack of Delhi. 1748. Death of Muhammad Shah; from this time the emperors were but puppets, with a shadow only of power. 1748-1754. Ahmad Shah. 1748-1761. Five invasions of India by Ahmad Shah Durani, Afghan ruler of Kandahar: 1748 ; 1751-1752 ; 1761 (sack of Delhi) ; 1759 ; 1761. 1754-1759. Alamgir II. ; capture of Delhi by the Mahrattds (1759). 1759-1808. Shah Alam II. 1761. Battle of Panipat ; defeat of the Mahrattds by the Afghans A. D. The E((st: India. 443 under Ahmad Shah Durani. The Mahratta power was following fast in the footsteps of the Mn eS CD .2'S o-^.^S g. — ^3 ao.2— rc^"^ wo ^_ B N O .S 1^ >^ <^ ■r' O & -r.« X (B lU 00 .S 2 o.d a S's:: a-; w " . a^o2 ^ a o S t-5 a (u o > A. i>. Napoleonic Wars. 4G7 Cliarl'='s the Great, who, as Charlemag^ne, was transformed into a Frenchman ami prototype of Napoleon), Kstablislnnent of a bril- liant conrt. Grand dignitaries of the empire ; eighteen marshals. New nobility. An absolute monarchy of the purest type. (Aboli- tion of the tribunate, 1807.) 1805. Napoleon king of Italy. His stepson Eugene Beauhamais, son of Josephine, viceroy of Naples. The Ligurian Republic incorporated with France. 1805- Third coalition against France, between England, Russia, Austria, and Sweden (Gustavus IV.), for the purpose of restoring the balance of power in Europe. Spain allied with France. The camp at Boulogne broken up. The French armies under Da- vout, Soult, Lannes, Ney, advanced toward the Rhine. The main force of the Austrians in Italy under archduke Charles opposed to Massena ; in Germany, under archduke Ferdinand and Mack. Napo- leon commanded in person in Germany ; relying on the support of most of the south German states, he advanced to meet the Austrians who had invaded Bavaria. On the upper Danube he concentrated his forces (200,000 men), reinforced by Bernadotte, who on his way from Hanover had inarched through the neutral territory of Ansbach in Prussia, and by troops from Bavaria, \Arurtemberg, Baden, Hesse, Nassau. After the Austrians (80,000 men) had been de- feated in several engagements, and the main army was surrounded by the French, 1805. Mack surrendered in Ulm with the whole Austrian army Oct. 17. (30,000 men), prisoners of war. On the sea England opened the war brilliantly with the 1805- Victory of Nelson at Trafalgar Oct. 21. over the French and Spanish fleet. Death of Nelson ("England expects every man to do his duty"). This vic- tory broke the naval power of France. The French marched npon Vienna, which was taken by Murat without resistance. Archduke Charles, who had driven back Massena, returned to Germany ; a Russian army under Kutusoff, a second un- der the emperor Alexander, came to the assistance of Austria. In the 1805. Battle of Austerlitz (the battle of the three em- Dec. 2. perors), Napoleon defeated the united forces of Austria and Russia. Truce with Austria. Retreat of the Russians. Dec. 15. Treaty concluded by Prussia, which was on the point of joining the coalition, with Napoleon at Schonhrunn (Haug- witz). Prussia ceded to France the remaining part of Cleve (Wesel) on the left bank of the Rhine, Ansbach, imCi Neuchdtel, and was promised Hanover in exchange. Dec. 26. Peace of Pressburg, between France and Austria. 1. France received Piedmont, Parma, and Piacenza. 2. Austria ceded to the kingdom of Italy all that she had received of Venetian 468 Modern History. A. d. territory at the peace of Campo Formio (p. 459) ; also Venetian Istria and Dalmatia, and recognized Napoleon as king of Italy. 3. Austria ceded to Bavaria : Tyrol, Vorarlberg, the bishoprics Brixen and Trient, Burgau, Eichstadt, Passau, Lindau, besides which Bavaria received the free city of Augsburg. 4. Austria ceded to Wurtem- berg and Baden what remained of the western Austrian lands. 5. Bavaria and "Wtirtemberg were recognized as kingdoms. 6. Austria received as indemnification : Salsburg, Berchfesgaden, and the estates of the Teutonic order which were secularized. The elec- tor of Salzburg received Wurzburg from Bavaria as indemnification. Russia remained hostile. j^^cU^-o^^SOo. The Bourbons in Naples were dethroned by a proclamation Dec. issued by Napoleon from Schonbrunn (La dynastie de Naples a cesse de i^egner). 1806. Joseph, Napoleon's elder brother, king of Naples. The court of Naples withdrew to Palermo. Sicily was beyond Napoleon's reach, as the English controlled the sea. Joachim Murat, brother-in-law of Napoleon, created grand duke of Berg ; Marshal Berthier, prince of Neuchdtel ; Louis Bonaparte, Napoleon's third brother, king of Holland (the former Batavian Re- public). 1806. Establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine. July 12. Napoleon, protector. Prince Primate, formerly electoral arch- chancellor ; the kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg ; the grand dukes of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Berg, duke of Nassau, etc. After- wr.rds all the German princes joined the confederation except Aus- tria, Prussia, Brunswick, and the electorate of Hesse. Many princes holding immediately of the empire mediatized. The free city of Nuremberg assigned to Bavaria, Frankfort to the prince primas (grand duke of Frankfort). Emperor Francis, who had already assumed the title of emperor of his hereditary Austrian estates (1804), 1806> Aug. 6. Abdicated the crown of the Holy Roman empire. End of the old German empire. 1806-1835. Francis I., emperor of Austria. 1806-1807- (Fourth) War with Prussia and Russia. Grounds of the Prussian declaration of war : Erection of the con- federacy of the Rhine, annexation of Wesel, seizure of Essen and Verden, garrisoning of half of Germany with French troops ; Napo- leon's otter to England to take away from Prussia the territory of ' Hanover which hacl just been forced upon her ; the Prussians were, moreover, embittered against the French by the high-handed execu- tion of Palm, a bookseller of Nuremberg, who had published some ; strictures upon Napoleon. Dangerous situation of Prussia at the outbreak of war. The com- | plete separation of the military and civil orders had brought it about ^. D. Napoleonic Wars. 469 that the safety of the state rested on a half-trained army composed in part of foreip^ners, on a snperannuated •ii'cncral, and on snbordinate commanders who, full of arrogant pride in the ancient military fame of Prussia, reg^arded the French with contempt. No allies except Saxony ami distant Ixussia. Dissension between Prussia an«l England. AVant of decision in the cabinet and in the conduct of the war. 1806. Concentration of the Prussian army in Thuringia under the old dulce of Brunswick. Defeat of the Prussian advance at Saalfeld (Oct. 10), prince Louia Ferdinand f . In the 1806. Oct. 14. Double battle of Jena and Auersfadt the main army was completely defeated. Dissolution of the army. The reserve undtu- the prince of Wiirtemberg was de- feated and scattered at Halle (Oct. 17). Napoleon in Berlin (Oct. 27). The prince of Hohenlohe with 12,000 men was forced to surrender at Prenzlau (Oct. 28). Bliicher after a brave defence in Liibeck was obliged to surrender his whole corps at Ratkau as prisoners of war (Nov. 7). Incredibly hasty surrender of the fortresses : Erfurt, Spandau, Stettin, Kiistrin, Magde- burg, Hameln ; only Kolberg {Gneisenau, Sc/iill, Nettelheck) and Grau- denz ( Courbiere) defended themselves resolutely. The duke of Bruns- wick (t Nov. 10, at Ottemen) and the neutral elector of Hesse were driven out of the country. Coarse behavior of Napoleon toward the royal family (queen Louisa). Robbery of thenmseums and picture galleries. From his headquarters in Berlin Napoleon proclaimed (Nov. 21) the senseless (paper) blockade of Great Britain and the closure of the continent to British trade, a policy summed up in the title, " Continental System " (" Berlin decree "). The troops of France, Bavaria, and Wiirtemberg invaded Silesia. The Poles summoned to revolt. Separate peace and alliance of Napoleon ^vith the elector of Saxony (Dec. 11), who joined the confederacy of the Rhine as king of Saxony. Occupation of Hanover and the Hanseatic cities. 1807. Fall of Breslau, followed by that of the most of the Silesian fortresses. After several bloody engagements in the neigli- borhood of Pultusk, Prussians and Russians fought agamst the French, without decisive result, in the murderous 1807, Feb. 7, 8. Battle of Eylau, where the Prussians repulsed the right wing of the French under Davout. Winter quarters. Frederic William III. went to Memel. May 24. Danzig captured after a brave defense (Kalckreuth). After several engagements Napoleon was victorious in the June 14. Battle of Friedland, over the Russians. Konigsberg and the country as far as the Niemen occupied by Napoleon. Truce with Russia (June 21), with Prussia (June 25). Meeting of Napoleon, Alexander, and Frederit William on the Niemen. 1807. Peace of Tilsit. July 7. A. Between France and Russia, July 9. B. Between France and Prussia, 470 Modern History. A. D. A. 1. Russia recognized the duchy of Warsaw, which was formed out of South Prussia, parts of West Prussia, and New East Prussia, under the king of Saxony. 2. Danzig restored to the con- dition of a free city. 3. A part of New East Prussia (^Bialystock) ceded to Russia. 4. Russia recognized Joseph Bonaparte as king of Naples, Louis Bonaparte as king of Holland, Jerome Bonaparte as king of Westphalia, a new kingdom yet to be created ; Russia, more- over, recognized the Confederation of the Rhine, and accepted the mediation of Napoleon in concluding peace with the Turks, while Napoleon accepted the like good offices from Alexander in regard to England. In a secret article, Alexander agreed to an alliance with I'rance against England, in case the latter refused to accept the prof- fered peace. B. 1. Prussia ceded ; (a) to Napoleon for free disposal, all lands between the Rhine and Elbe • (b) to Saxony, the circle of Cottbus ; (c) all lands taken from Poland since 1772 for the creation of a duchy of IVarsaio, also the city and territory of Danzig. 2. Prussia recognized the sovereignty of the three brothers of Napoleon. 3. All Prussian haibors and lands were closed to British ships and British trade until the conclusion of a peace with England. 4. Prussia was to maintain a standing army of not more than 42,000 men. In regard to the res- toration and evacuation of the Prussian provinces and fortresses, it was settled by the treaty of Konigsberg (July 12), that Prussia should first pay all arrears of war indemnities. These indemnifications, fixed at nineteen million francs by the Prus- sian calculations, were set at 120 millions by the French, which sum was raised to 140 millions in 1808. After 120 millions had been paid the fortresses were evacuated, excepting Stettin, Kiistrin, and | Glogau. Until this occurred the Prussian state, reduced as it was from 89,120 to 46,032 square miles, was obliged to support 150,000 French troops. 1807, Aug. Foundation of the kingdom of Westphalia (capital, Cassel) by a decree of Napoleon, who reserved for himself half of the domains. High-handed proceeding of the English against Denmark, which i had been summoned to join the continental system. An English fleet bombarded (1807, Sept.) Copenhagen, and carried off the Danish i fleet. Alliance of Denmark with France. Russia declared war upon i England. Stralsund and Riigen occupied by the French. Portugal, which refused to join the continental system, occupied I by a French army under Junot (duke of Abrantes) Nov. 1807. The royal family fled to Brazil. Milan decree, Dec. 17, 1807. Spain invaded by 100,000 Frenchmen under the pretext of guard- ing the coasts against the English. Charles IV. (1788-1808) abdi-- cated in favor of his son Ferdinand (March, 1808), in consequence of an outbreak which had occurred against his favorite, the prince of the peace, Godoy. Father and son, with Godoy, were enticed by Na- poleon to Bayonne and compelled to renounce the throne (May). Napoleon's brother Joseph became king of Spain, Murat taking the ' throne of Naples instead of Joseph. General uprising of the Spaniards. A. D. Napoleonic Wars. 471 1808-1814. War between Napoleon and Great Brit- ain in Spain and Portugal. (•• Peninsular War.") The English landed in Poitugal and forced Juiiot to surrender Cintra, after which he was obliged to evacuate the country (Sir Arthur Wellesley). The French were soon driven back to the Ebro. Napoleon, secured against Austria by a closer alliance with the em- peror Alexander, since the assembly of princes at Erfurt, where four kings, thirty-four princes, and other (iernian rulers who had done him homage, hastened in person to Spain with 250,000 men, advanced to Madrid, and with Soult drove the English from 8paiu (battle of Corunna Jan. 16, 1809. Death of !Sir John Moore). After the de- parture of Napoleon hostilities continued in Spain. Guerrilla war- fare. The English returned. Heroic defense of Sara(/ossa (Palafox), which surrendered in Feb. 1809. The English general. Sir Arthur Wellesley (b. 1769; officer in East India 1797-1805 ; M. P. 1806; vis- count Wellington, 1809 ; duke of Wellington, 1814 ; prime minister, 1827-1830 ; d. 1852, Sept. 18), after his victory over Joseph at Tala- vera, July 28, 1809, was created viscount Wellington, and made commander-in-chief of all English troops in the Spanish peninsula. Souit, duke of Dalmatia, at first victorious against the Spanish and Portiiguese, was obliged to evacuate Oporto again. In Prussia, meanwhile, the state was reorganized after the dis- missal of Bet/mes and Zastroiv, by Charles, baron of and in Stein (b. 1757 at Nassau ; since 1780, in Prussian civil service ; 1796 over- president of the chamber of Westphalia ; 1804 minister of finance, d. 1831), and Hardenberg. Regulations for the cities, liberation of industry, abolition of hereditary serfdom, reformation of the admmis- tration of the public finances. Reorcjanization of the army on the basis of universal military service, by Gneisenau, Grolman, Boyen, Clauseivitz, Scharnhorst (b. 1756, in Hanover, son of a peasant, offi- cer in the service of Hanover, 1801 lieutenant-colonel in Prussia, taken prisoner at Ratkau with Bliicher, major-general at Eylau; d. 1813). Foundation of the university at Berlin (1810), by Humboldt, Al- tenstein, Niebuhr, Schleiermacher. Fichte's addresses to the German nation. Tugendbund. Gymnastics, Jahn. E. M. Arndt. Preparations for the liberation of Germany and Europe from the French yoke. Futile attempt of Austria to accomplish this liberation alone, by mak- ing use of Napoleon's entanglement in the Spanish war. 1808, July-Nov. English expedition to Walchere}i (p. 537). 1809. (Fifth) War with Austria. Archduke Charles, commander of the Austrian army of Ba- varia, and archduke John, coiinnander of the Austrian forces which were sent to Italy, summoned the German people to take part in the struggle against the French supremacy. Tyrol alone heeded the summons, and took up arms (Andreas Hofer, Speckbacher). Napoleon engaged archduke Charles in liavaria, with German Apr. 19-23. troops, drove him over the Danube to Bohemia, after five days' fighting at Abensherf/, Landshut, Eckmiihl and /le- May 11. gensburg, and captured Vienna for the second time. Na- poleon crossed the island of Lobau, to the left bank of the Dan- ube, where in the bloody 472 Modern History. A. D. 1809, May 21-22. Battle at Aspern and Essling (on the Marchfeld), he was, for the first time, defeated by archduke Charles, and (Lannes f) forced to recross the Dan- ube {Massena), where he united with the viceroy Eugene, who had pursued archduke John from northern Italy to Hungary and defeated him at Raah. With 180,000 men Napoleon crossed the Danube anew, defeated archduke Charles in the murderous 1809, July b-6. Battle of Wagram, and pursued him toward Moravia. Truce of Znaim. Oct. 14. Peace of Vienna between France and Austria, signed in the palace at Schon- brunn. 1. Austria ceded a territory of 32,000 square miles, containing 3^ million inhabitants, viz. : a. Salzburg and Berchtesgaden, the Inn- viertel, and half of the Hausriickviertel to Bavaria ; b. West Galicia to the duchy of Warsa^w ; c. one district in East Galicia (Tarnopol) to Russia ; d. the lands beyond the Save, the circle of Villach, Istria, Hungarian Dalmatia, and Ragusa to the emperor Napoleon, who created from these cessions and the Ionian Islands, which Russia had surrendered to him in 1807, the new state of the Illyrian provinces un- der Marmont, duke of Ragusa, as governor. 2. Austria joined the continental system, and broke oif all connection with England. The Tyrolese, left to themselves, continued the war with heroic cour- age, but were in the end subdued. Hofer captured and shot by the French at Mantua (1810). Southern Tyrol amiexed to the king- dom of Italy. Bold attempt of Schill, a Prussian major, to precipitate the war of ! liberation. With 600 hussars he left Berlin in the spring of 1809, , and summoned the people of Germany to take up arms. The news I of Napoleon's victories on the Danube frustrated the scheme. Schill i fell fighting bravely at Stralsund (May 31). Eleven of his officers \ were court-martialed and shot in Wesel, the captured soldiers were condemned to hard labor by order of Napoleon, carried to France, and I after a half year's imprisonment in the bagno, or prison for galley- slaves, enrolled among the French coast guards. 1809. Bold expedition of the duke of Brunswick across northern Ger- i: many. He succeeded in transporting himself and the " Black Ij Legion " to England. ' Gustavus IV., of S-weden, a bitter opponent of the Revolution ii and of Napoleon, but ignorant of the true interests of his country, had ! i been since 1808 mvolved in war with Russia, which had conquered Finland. He fell at last by a military revolution, the victun of his obstinacy. The capital, Stockholm, being threatened by the passage of the Russians under Barclay de Tolly over the frozen gulf of Both- nia, by the capture of Tornea and that of the islands of Aland, a mu- tiny broke out in the Swedish army. The king was arrested on MarcH 13, 1809, by generals Klingspor and A dl€7^kreuz, obliged to abdicate, and I dismissed from the kingdom with his family. The crown was given to the uncle of the king, Charles XIII. (1809-1818), passing over his A. D. Napoleonic Wars. 473 son. In the peace of Friedrichsham with Bmmi, Sept. 17, 1809, Sweden surrendcri'd to Russia the primipjility of Finland as far as the river Tornch, toj^clhcr with tht- ishuuls of Ahmd. Hy the media- tion of Russia Sweden foiuliuU'd the peace of Paris with France, Jan. G, 1810, whtieby Sweden joined the continental system and obtained the restoration of Swedish Pomerania. After the sudden death of prinee Christiati August of Holstein-Augustenhurg, whom Charles XIII. had adopted and appointed heir to the throne, the French marshal Bernadotte (prince of Pontecorvo) was elected crown prince of Sweden. Rome had been occupied by the French in 1808. Pope Pius VII. steadfastly refusing to enter into an offensive and defensive alliance with France, and to close his seaports against England, Napoleon, after the infliction of unheard-of violence for a year, proclaimed from Schcmbrunn, May, 1809, that the papal states and the city of Rome were incorporated wdth France. Pius VII. excommunicated Napoleon in June, whereupon he was arrested and taken over Mt. Cenis to Grenoble and thence to Savona. As he still refused to yield to Napoleon's de- mands, Pius VII. was placed on prisoner's allowance, and lived for three years almost entirely upon alms (1812 taken to Fontaineldeau.) In Turkey, after the deposition of Selim HI., war broke out again with Russia (1809-1812). After the bloody battle at Rustchuck, the Russians retired across the Danube, and the Turkish army which pursued them was captured (1811). 1812, May 28. Peace of Bucharest : the Pruth was made the boundary between Russia and Turkey.. 1810, April. Napoleon, divorced from Josephine, married Maria Louisa, daughter of Francis I. of Austria. Abdication and flight (July) of Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland, who had refused to ruin his country by joining the continental system. Annexation of Holland, as the " alluvial deposit of French rivers,^' to the French empire. Annexation of the canton of Wallvi, and soon after of Oldenburg, a large part of the kingdom of Westphalia, the grand duchy of Berg, East Friesland, the Hanseatic cities, so that the French empire, which now comprised 130 departments, extended on the east as far as the Trave. In Spain strenuous exertions against Napoleon ; French, Italian, and Polish troops, along with those of the confederacy of the Rhine, overran the peninsula. Conquest of Andalusia by Victor and Mortier. Unsuccessful siege of Cadiz, whither the Central Junto had fled from Seville. A special session of the Cortes called at Cadiz assumed the sovereignty and drew up a constitution (completed 1812). In Portugal struggle between Wellington and Massena. Siege and capture of Ciudad Rodrigo by the latter (July 10, 1810). Retreat of Wellington to the lines of Torres Vedras (Oct. 9). Winter quarters. 1811, March ; masterly retreat of Massena. Siege of Almeida and Badajoz by the English. Defeat and retreat of Massena " from Portugal. Soult, hastening to the relief of Badajoz, was de- feated in the bloody 1811, May IG. Battle of Albuera. The English returned to Portugal. 1812, capture of Ciudad Rodrigo (Jan. 19) and Badajoz (April G). 474 Modtrn History. a. d. 1812, July 22. Battle of Salamanca ; victory of Wellington. Cap- ture of Madrid. Loss of southern Spain to the French. 1811, March. Birth of a son to Napoleon, who received the pomp- ous title of king- of Rome. Napoleon I. at the summit of his power. In the naval warfare and in the colonies France, like Holland, had met nothing but losseSo Cayenne, Martinique, Senegal, St. Domingo, were lost in 1809. Gua- deloupe, Isle Bourbon, and Isle de France in 1810 ; Java (with Batavia) 1811. 1812-1814. War between England and the United States of North America in consequence of commercial dissensions concluded by the treaty of Ghent, Dec. 24, 1814 (p. 551). 1812. (Sixth) War with Russia. Cause : Napoleon's claim to rule the continent of Europe. The refusal of Russia to carry out strictly the absurd continental system, which Napoleon himself evaded by salable licenses, and which had ruined Russian commerce, roused the anger of the tyrant. The ad- dition of west Galicia to the duchy of Warsaw by the peace of Vienna, had caused Alexander anxiety lest the restoration of Poland should be contemplated ; the deposition of the duke of Oldenburg, his near relative, ott'ended him deeply. Alliance of Napoleon with Austria, which furnished 30,000 men for the Russian expedition, and Prussia, from which he obtained 20,000 men. Denmark, favored by its position, succeeded in main- taining neutrality during the war with Russia. Sweden (Berna- dotte), which had been forced by the violent reproaches of Napoleon concerning disregard of the continental system to declare war upon England (1810), seized the opportunity of Mie Russian war, to shake off her dependence upon France, and open for herself the prospect of obtaining Norivay, as a recompense for Finland. Occupation of Swedish Pomerania and Riigen by the French, Jan. 1812. Treaty of St. Petersburg between Sweden and Russia, April : Russia promised Sweden the annexation of Norway, with indemnification for Denmark ; Sweden promised Russia to make a diversion in northern Germany in union with a Russian auxiliary force. England concluded peace with Russia and Sweden at Orebro (June). The French army of invasion included Frenchmen, Italians, Swiss, Dutch, Poles, and contingents from all the German princes of the con- federacy of the Rhine , in fact, the smaller part only of the army was. French. The total number, according to Thiers, was 420,000 men, but reinforcements afterwards swelled it to 553,000. The Aus- trians, under Schwarzenberg, on the right wing, and Prussians, under 'York, on the left wing, formed separate armies, the latter being under the command of Macdonald. 1812, June. Passage of the Niemen by the great army ; occupation of Wilna. Poland was not restored. The Russians under Barclay de Tolly retreated. The main army reached Smolensk without a battle, though suffering from skirmishes and lack of provisions, winle the Prussians besieged Riga, and the Austrians penetrated VoUuj- 4. D. Napoleonic Wars. 475 nia. Storm and destruction of Smolensk (Au»j^. 17, 18). The Russian general Kittnsojf, obtaining tlie eouiuiand in eiiief, fought the bloody 1812. Sept. 7. Battle at Borodino and Moshaisk on the Moskvird, in which both parties suMcred (.'uornious losses (French, 32,000 ; Russian, 47,000), but the Russians were forced to withdraw. Retreat in admirable order through Sept. 14. Moscow. Occupation of the city, which the inhabitants had abandoned, by the French, whose main army had already shrunk to 1)5,000 nien.^ Napoleon in the Kremlin. Sept. 16-19. Burning of Moscow {Rostopschin). Sack of the city in the midst of ashes and ruins. Napoleon protiered a truce, which the Russians rejected by an answer whose delivery was purposely delayed. vVfter remaining five weeks in Moscow, Napoleon commenced his Oct. 19. Retreat from Moscow, at first in a southwesterly direction, afterwards towards Smo- lensk. The march was disturbed by the Russian main army under Kutusojf, and by countless swarms of Cossacks. Des- perate contest of separate corps of the army at Jaroslavez, Oct. 24, and VJazma, Nov. 3. Nov. C. Commencement of the cold -weather. Terrible suffer- ing from hunger and frost. Continuous engagements, espe- cially at Krasnoy (Ney, " the bravest of the brave "), and Borissoff. Nov. 26-28. Terrible passage of the Berezina. Ney and Oudinot, with 8,500 men, forced a passage against 25,000. From this point, the disorganization of the remain- ing fragments of the army was complete, and the retreat be- came a wild flight. Dee. 3, Bulletin (No. 29), of Malodeczno. Napoleon left the army and hastened to Paris where he arrived Dec. 18. The army continued its retreat pursued by the Rus- sians until Dec. 13, w^hen the remaining troops (100,000), crossed the Niemen. The Russians made 100,000 prisoners according to their reports. In any case this expedition cost the lives of at least 300,000 able-bodied young men on the side of the French and their allies. Dee. 30. York concluded a treaty of neutrality with the Russian general Diebitch, in the mill of Poscherun near Tauroggen. 1813 and 1814. The Great War of Liberation of the allies against Napoleon. 1813, Feb. 3. Appeal of Frederic William XII. issued from Breslau, directing the formation of volunteer corps, whereupon all the young men capable of service flew to arms. Feb. 28. Alliance of Kalish between Russia and Prussia : 1. Offensive and defensive alliance, enumeration of the auxil* ^ Uf V ToU, DenkwurdifjkeiUn. 476 Modern History. A. D. iary armies to be famished by either side. 2. Restoration of the Prussian monarchy according to old political relations. 3. Invitation extended to Austria and England to join the alli- ance. 1813, March 3. Treaty between England and Sweden : England paid one million rix dollars in subsidies and promised not to op- pose the union of Norway with Sweden. Sweden furnished the allies an army of 30,000 men under command of the crown prince Bernadotte (the inactive and suspicious conduct of this general afterwards entirely disabled the northern army). March 17. Appeal of Frederic "William III. " To my people," and " to my army." Establishment of the Landwehr and the Landsturm. Iron Cross. March. Outbreak in Hamburg. Tettenhorn occupied the city. The dukes of Mecklenburg withdrew from the confederacy of the Rhine. Great preparations on both sides. The Elbe was the boundary be- tween the combatants ; Danzig, Stettin, Kustrin, Glogau, Modlin, and Zamosc, being, however, in the hands of the French. March 27. Occupation of Dresden by Russians and Prussians under Wittgenstein and Blucher, after the withdrawal of marshal Da- vout. Flight of the king of Saxony. The French army and the contingents of the confederacy of the Rhine concentrated in Franconia, Thuringia, and on the Elbe. Napoleon, after the end of April, was at the heaa of 180,000 men in Germany. He was unexpectedly attacked by the armies of the allies, numbering 85,000 men, and forced to fight the May 2. Battle of Gross-Gorschen or Liitzen. Victory remained with the French, in spite of their losses. The allies withdrew through Dresden to Lusatia. Scharnhorst, severely wounded, died in Prague. Napoleon in Dresden, in close alliance with the king of Saxony, who had returned from Prague. 1813, May 18. Landing of the crown prince Bernadotte with Swedish troops, in Pommerania. May 20 and 21. Battles of Bautzen and Wurschen. Napoleon attacked the allies at Bautzen, forced them to retreat across the Spree, and completed the victory at Wurschen, with great loss to himself. Duroc f . The allies retreated to Si- lesia. May 30. Hamburg occupied by Davout, after the withdrawal of the Russians, and terribly maltreated. The combatants, exhausted, waited for reinforcements and strove to secure the alliance of Austria. June 4-July 26. Armistice of Poischwitz, afterwards prolonged until Aug. 10 (16). June lo. England concluded a subsidy treaty with Prussia and Russia at Reichenbach. July 5 (28)- Aug. 11. Congress at Prague. Austria played the part of mediator. After futile negotiations (Metternich, CaVf ! I A. D. Napoleonic Wars. 477 laincourty William von Humboldt), the confess was dissolved and 1813i Aug. 12. Austria declared war upon France. The allies, su})})()rte(l by English subsidies, placed three main armies in the fiehl : 1. The great Bohemian army under Schwarzenberg {Kleisf, Wittf/eNsteiii), with which were the three mon- arclis, Alexander, Francis, Frederic William. 2. The Silesian army under Bliicher (York, Sacken, Laugeroti). 3. The Northern army under the crown prince of Swe- den, Bernadotte {BUlow, Tauenzlen^ Winzingerode). Napoleon opened hostilities with an attack upon Bliicher who re- tired behind the Katzbach. Meanwhile Schwarzenherg advanced against Dresden from Bohemia. Napoleon hastened thither, leaving Macdonald to oppose Bliicher. Before an action occurred at either of these points, Oudlnot and Reynier, whose attack upon Berlin was to be supported by Davout from Hamburg, were defeated by Billow in the Aug. 23, Battle of Grosbeeren, while the crown prince of Saxony looked on inactive. This victory saved Berlin from capture and sack. Directly afterwards Macdonald^s army was defeated in the Aug. 26 Battle of the Katzbach near Wahlstatt by Bliicher, a part being captured. Bliicher created Prince of Wahlstatt. Meanwhile the attack of the Bohemian army upon Dresden failed. Napoleon won his last great victory on German soil in the Aug. 26 and 27, Battle of Dresden. Moreau, on the side of the allies, was severely wounded by a camion-ball. f Sept. 2, Aug. 27. Victorious engagement at Hagelberg. (Landwehr of the electoral mark.) Vandamme, in the attempt to intercept the retreat of the Bohemian army, was defeated in the Aug. 30. Battle at Kulm and Nollendorf near Teplitz, by Ostermann and Kleist, and captured with 10,000 men. Ney, who was to occupy Berlin, was defeated in the Sept. 6. Battle of Dennewitz by Billow and Tauenzeln. Austria having already arranged the preliminaries of an alliance with Russia and Prussia, dur- ing the armistice, a formal Sept. 9. Alliance was concluded at Teplitz : 1. Finn union and nuitual guarantee for tlieir respective terri- tories. 2. Eacli party to assist the others with at least 60,000 men. 3. No separate peace or armistice to be concluded. Secret 478 Modern History. A. d. articles provided for the restoration of the Austrian and Prus- sian monarchies to the condition of 1805. 1813, Sept. 17. Napoleon repulsed by Schwarzenherg at Nollendorf. York forced a passage across the Elbe for the army of Silesia by the j Oct. 3. Battle of Wartenburg, against Bertrand. The northern army also crossed the Elbe. Oct. 8. Treaty of Ried between Austria and Bavaria, which with- drew from the confederacy of the Rhine and joined the alli- ance against Napoleon, In return the king of Bavaria was secured in all the possessions which he held at the date of the treaty. As the three main armies of the allies were attempting to unite in Napoleon's rear, the latter left Dresden in order to escape being cut off from France, and concentrated his troops at Leipzig. 1813, Oct. 16, 18, 19. Battle of Leipzig. ("Battle of the Nations"). Oct. 16. On the first day : 1. Indecisive battle between Napoleon and the army of Bo- hemia under Sch-warzenberg at "Wachau (south of Leipzig). 2. Victory of Bliicher at Mockeru, north of Leipzig, over Marmont. Oct. 17. On the next day the main armies desisted from fighting. Napoleon sent offers of peace to Francis I. which were rejected on account of the extravagance of his demands. Toward even- ing union of the four armies of the allies : the grand army, the northern army, with which the army of Silesia had already united by an extraordinary march of Bliicher, and finally the Russian reserve (100,000) under Bemiigsen. The armies of the allies, forming a large half circle, largely outnumbered the French. (300,000 men against 130,000). Oct. 18. On the third day general attack of the allies, ending, after nine hours' fighting, in a complete victory. (Struggle for Probstheide). In the evening the French army was driven back to the gates of Leipzig. The corps of Saxony and Wiir- temherg went over to the allies. Oct. 19. Storm of Leipzig and capture of the king of Saxony. After I suffering a loss of more than 30,000 men, the defeated army of Napoleon commenced the retreat. The destruction of the bridge over the Elster before the whole army had crossed caused the drown- ing of many troops in the Elster, among them prince Poniaiowski, nephew of the last king of Poland. On the retreat engagement on the Unstrut between Napoleon and I York's advanced guard, and at Hanau (Oct. 30, 31) with an Aus- tro-Bavarian army under Wrede. The French were victorious. Immediate consequences of the battle of Leipzig : flight of king Jerome from Cassel ; end of the kingdom of Westphalia, and of the grand duchies of Frankfort and Berg. Restoration of the old rulers in Cassel, Brunswick, Hanouer, Oldenburg. The central administra- \ i A. D. Napoleonic Wars. 479 tive bureau for Germany under baron von Stein, which had been created at the beoinnino- of the war for the government of those dis- tricts whicli shoiUd be occupied by the trooj)s of the allies, found its sphere of action limited almost entirely to ISaxouy. 1813, Nov. Napoleon crossed the 7i///;i6 at 3/«///z. Wiirtemberg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Baden, and the reniainhig members of the confederacy of the Kiiine joined the allies. The cities occupied by the French fell into the hands of the allies one after another. Dres- den (Nov. 11), Stettin (Nov. 21), Liiheck (Dec. 5), Zamosc, Modlin, Torgau (Dec. 20), Danzif/ (Dee. 30), Wittenberg (Jan. 12, 1814, by Tauenzien), Kustrin (March 7). 4jtiogau, Magdeburg, Hamburg {Da- vout), Erfurt, Wiirzburg, Wesel, Mainz, maintained themselves until the peace. Uprising in Holland (Nov. 15), expulsion of the French officials. A part of the northern armg vnider Biilow entered Holland, while the crown prince of Sweden, with the main body of the northern army separated completely from the allies, invaded Holstein, in a short winter campaign forced Denmark to conclude the 1814, Jan. 14. Peace of Kiel : 1. Denmark renounced the posses- sion of Norway in favor of Sweden, which guaranteed to the Norwegians the possession of their liberties and rights. 2. Sweden ceded to Denmark western Pomerania and Ruge7i. At the same time peace between Denmark and England, the latter restoring all conquests except Heligoland ; afterwards peace with Russia and Prus- sia. Meantime the French, after they had already (in 1812) lost the southern part of the country, and Madrid itself for a time, were driven almost entirely out of Spain in 1813. After the French power had been weakened by the departure of Soult with a large number of troops for Germany (Feb. 1813), Well- ington repulsed Soult's successor, Jourdan, and king Joseph, and defeated them in the 1813, June 21. Battle of Vittoria. Joseph fled to France. ISiege of Pampeluna by the Spaniards. Soult returning ^\ath reinforcements to the relief of Pampeluna was defeated in the Pyrenees (July 28, 29), and withdrew behind the Bidassoa. At the same time marshal Suchet was driven out of Val- encia into Barcelona. After the conquest of Pampeluna (Oct. 31) by the Spaniards, Wellington crossed the Bidassoa, defeated Soult on French soil, and compelled him to retreat to Bayonne. Napoleon en- deavored to secure peace with Spain by a treaty with the imprisoned king, Ferdinand (whom he liberated from his confinement at Valen- fay), and thus to protect France against invasion from the side of the Pyrenees, but the attempt was a failure. The Cortes did not ratify the treaty, on the ground that the king had not been a free agent, and that they were unwilling to conclude a peace which did not in- clude the English. 1813. The allies on Nov. 8 laid before Napoleon a proposal which secured to France the Alps and Rhine for boundaries, but as Dec. 1. Napoleon did not earnestly entertain it. they adopted the resolution to prosecute the war vigorous! v and to pass the 480 Modern History, A. d. Rhine. Napoleon obtained from the senate a new levy of 300,000 men ; the corps legislatif, in which words of blame were at last heard, was prorogued si7ie die. Passage of the allies across the Rhine. 1813, Dec. 21-25. The main army under Schwarzenherg, Wrede, etc., crossed the upper Rhine and traversed Switzerland (Basle), whose treaty of neutrality with Napoleon was disregarded. 1814, Jan. 1. Blucher with the army of Silesia crossed the middle Rhine, at Alannkeim, Caub, and Cohlentz. The total strength of the allies oh their entrance into French terri- tory was not quite 200,000 men. The main army advanced through Burgundy; Blucher through Lorraine toward Champagne. To pre- vent their juncture, Napoleon attacked Blucher at Brienne, and drove Jan. 29. him back ; Blucher, however, united with a part of the main army (crown prince of Wurtemberg) and defeated the em- peror in the Feb. 1. Battle of La Rothifere, and drove him across the Aube. The impossibility of pro- visioning the united armies, led to their separation. The grand army was to advance upon Paris by way of the Seine, while the army of Silesia followed the Marne toward the same goal. No sooner did Napoleon hear of this separation than, with aston- ishing boldness, leaving a very small body of troops behind to engage the army under Schioarzenberg, he hurled himself suddenly upon the separate divisions of the army of Silesia, defeated them mfour battles Feb. 10-15. at Champauhert (Sacken), Montmirail (York driven across the Marne), Chateau - Thierry, and Vauchamps, and forced Blucher back to Etoges. Then, turning like a flash upon the main army, he defeated it in the Feb. 17. Engagement at Nangis ("Wittgenstein and Wrede), and in the Feb. 18. Engagement at Montereau (crown prince of Wurtem- berg). Napoleon thus obliged the main army to retreat to Troyes, after which the two armies were for a short time again united on the Aube. Meanwliile ambassadors of the allies had met the envoy of Na- poleon, Caulaincourt, in a Feb. 5-March 19. Congress at Ch^tillon (on the Seine), where Napoleon was offered the possession of France with the bound- aries of 1792, but the negotiations came to naught by reason of his haughty and dubious conduct. March 1. Closer union between the allied powers at Chaumont. The deposition of Napoleon resolved upon. The two armies separated again. The main army under Schwarzenberg defeated Oudinot and Macdonald in the Feb. 25. Battle of Bar-sur-Aube, Blucher reached Meaux, was forced to retire across the Marne and Oise, and joined the army of the north under Billow and Wirizing erode. The united armies defeated Napoleon in the A. D. Napoleonic Wars. 481 1814, March 9, 10. Battle of Laon. Napoleon now turned against the main army", which defeated him in the March 20, 21. Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube. Meanwhile, Wellington had been driving back Soult with equal success. Occupation of Bordeaux (March 12), where the royal ban- ner of the Bourbons was tirst raised. Napoleon formed the desperate plan of throwing himself in the rear of the allies in Lorraine, summoning the garrisons of the for- tresses to his aid, and calling the entire population to arms. The allies, however, with equal boldness, advanced upon Paris, and de- feated the marshals Marmont and Mortier in the March 25. Battle of La Pfere-Champenoise. Marmont and Mortier threw themselves into the capital. The regent, Maria Louisa, fled to Blois. After a brave defense and after the March 30. Storm of Montmartre they capitulated under condition of free departure, and left Paris to its fate. March 31. Entrance of the allies into Paris, where the senate, through the influence of Talleyrand, de-. clared that Napoleon and his family had forfeited the throne. Napoleon, hastening to the relief of his capital, came a few hours too late. His marshals having refused to follow him in a foolhardy assault upon Paris, he abdicated the throne in favor of his son (April 6) at Fontainehleau, and, when this reservation was rejected, unconditionally (April 11). Napoleon made a futile attempt to poi- son himself. 1 He received from the allies the island of Elba as a sovereign prin- cipality, and an annual income of two million francs to be paid by France. His wife received the duchies of Parma, Piacenza, and Guas- tella \vith sovereign power ; both retained the imperial title. 1814. Wellington defeated Soult in the April 10. Battle of Toulouse. May 4. Arrival of Napoleon at Elba. Return of the Bourbons. Louis XVI. 's brother, the count oj Provence, first appointed his younger brother, the count of Artois as viceregent (lieutenant du royaume), and then returned to France, as 1814-1824. Louis XVIII. where he promulgated a constitution which was an imitation of the English constitution, but with many limitations. (Charte octro- yce : chamber of peers and chamber of deputies without the initiative.) He concluded with the allies the May 30. (First) Peace of Paris. 1. France retained, in the main, the boundaries of 1792, which embraced 3,280 square miles more than those of 1790 : Avignon, the 1 According to Thiers, Histoire du Consulat et de V Empire, vol. xviii., the truth of this attemi)ted suicide is very doubtful. Of. V. Helfert, Nap. L Fahrt von Fontaintoleau nach Elba, 1874. 31 482 Modern History. A. D, \ Venaissin, parts of Savoy, of the German empire, and of Belgium. 2. France recoguif ed the independence of the Stales of the Netherlands, according to their future enhirgement, as well as of all German and Italian states and of Switzerland. 3. England restored the French colonies excepting I'obago, Sta. Lucia, and Isle de France. England retained Malta. 4. The allies remitted all sums which they might have claimed for supplies, advances, etc. 5. France promised Eng- land to abolish the slave trade. After the peace of Paris Pius VII. returned to Rome, the king of ! Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel, to Turin, the king of Spain, Ferdinand VII., to Madrid. In Spain the rejection of the ultra-liberal constitu- tion proposed by the cortes of 1812, w^as followed by the immediate out- break of a cruel contest of arbitrary power against the liberal party. Visit of Alexander mwd Frederic William III. in London (June 7-22, 1814), accompanied by their victorious generals (Blucher) ; enthusiastic reception by the English nation. For the purpose of restoring and regulating the European relations, and particularly those of Germany, after the overthrow of the military supremacy of the Frerich empire, the 1814, Sept.-1815, June. Congress of Vienna was assembled. The emperors of A ustria and Russia, the kings •of Prussia, Denmark, Bavaria, and Wiirtembery, and a great number of German princes were present in person. Chief negotiators : Austria, Metternich ; Prussia, Hardenherg and W. V. Humboldt ; Russia, NesselrodeawdRasoumoffsky ; Great Brit- ain, Wellington and Castlereagh ; France, Talleyrand and Dalberg. (Baron vom Stein, prince of Ligne.) The five powers, which had concluded the peace of Paris, and w^hich,! to avoid quarrels about rank, were henceforward named in the orden of the French alphabet, Autriche, France, Grande- Bretagne, Prusse, Russie, formed a closer union at the congress of Vienna (hence after- ■ wards called the Pentarchy of the Great Powers). For special ■ eases this union was joined by Spain, Portugal, Sweden. These eightm powers, after long negotiations and after the disputes over the SaxowK and the Polish questions had for a moment threatened to lead to warii* (Russia and Prussia against Austria, France, and England), and after I ^ Napoleon's return from Elba (p. 483), signed the m Act of the Congress of Vienna. 1 1 Principal articles : I"' 1. Restoration of the Austrian and Prussian monarchies : a | Austria received besides her ancient domain of Milan, Venice mi which had been conferred upon her by the treaty of Canipcji Formio (these were new called the Lombardo- Venetian king^ dom), the Illyrian provinces (the kingdoms of Illyria and i>aZ!H matia), Salzburg, Tyrol (from Bavaria), and Galicia. b. Frusj^ sia received a part of the grand duchy of Warsaw (Posen with Danzig ; Swedish hither PomeraJiia with Riigen in re. turn for Lauenburg, which was ceded to Denmark ; its oLI possessions in Westphalia, somewhat enlarged, as well as New III A. D. Ndpoleonic Wars. 483 chCilel and the grand durJui of Ike. In/rrr Rhine, and the p^-oatcr part of Sa.coni/ as an iudeumiticatioii tor the loss of some former possessions, as Anshach and lUilrtinth ceded to Bavaria, Ea^t Friesland to Hanover, the J^olis/i possessions to Russia. 2. Formation of a kin«:c(hnn of the Netherlands, comprising the former republic of Holland and Austrian Heltji-ium, under the former hereditary statthalter as King Willitim I. 3. Creation of a German confederacy to take the place of the old empire, comprisin«j;' ;i!) (at its dissolution in 18()<) only 34) sover- eifj^n states, including- the four free cities ; all other princes who were formerly sovereign were mediatized. Act of confederation signed June 8, 1815, supplemented by the final act of Vienna, Alay lo, 1820. 4. Russia received the greater part of tlu^ grand duchy of Warsaiv as the kingdom of Poland. Cracow became a free state un- der the protection of Russia, Austria, and Prussia. 6. England retained Malta, Helignland, a portion of the French and Hutch colonies, and the protectorate over the Republic of the Seven loniati Islands (the latter by treaty of 1815, Nov. 5, wliicli was made an integral part of the peace of Vienna. See p. 482. These islands were given to Greece by the treaties of Nov. 14, 18G3-Nov. 29, 18G4. See p. 505). 6. Sweden retained Nor way, which had been ceded to her at the peace of Kiel (p. 479), witli a constitution of its own ; Den- mark was indemnified with Lauenhurg. 7. The nineteen cantons of Switzerland were increased to twenty- two by the accession of Geneva, Wallis, and Neuchdtel (at once canton and ?i principality). 8. Restoration of the old dynasties in Spain, in Sardinia, which re- ceived Genoa, in Tuscany, Modena, the Papal States. The Bourbons were not reinstated in Naples until 1815, as Murat had secured possession of that state for the present by his de- sertion of Napoleon. News of the discontent in France with the government of the Bour- bons, and of the discord in the bosom of the congress of Vienna, as well as the invitations of his adherent*, encouraged the deposed em- peror to return to France. 1815. Landing of Napoleon at Cannes March 1. with 1,500 men. Forced march upon Paris. All troops sent against him, even Ney with his corps, went over to him. March 13. Proclamation of the ban against Napoleon by the monarchs of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, RussiOj France, Spain, Portugal, and Sweden. King Louis X VIII. fled to Ghent. March 20. Napoleon entered Paris. The Hundred \ Days, March 20 to Jime 29, 1815. I Austria, Great Britain, Prussia and Russia, concluded a new March 25. Alliance at Vienna against Napoleon, whereby each r)ower engaged to furnish an army of 180,000 men. All Eu- 484 Modern History, A. d. ropean nations were invited to join the alliance. One after another all the states joined it except Sweden, which was occupied in crushing with military power the resistance of Norway to the personal union. The sum of the contingents furnished against Napoleon amounted to over a million men. May. Napoleon found himself obliged to make some apparent con cessions to the liberal party in France. Champ de Mai Acte additionel. In Belgium concentration of a Prussian army under Bliicher and an English-German under Wellington, against Napo leon. Murat, who had declared for Naj^oleon, defeated by the Austrians at Tolentino (May 3). Naples captured May 22. Murat fled to France. Reinstallation of Ferdinand as king of Naples. June 14. Napoleon crossed the boundary of Belgium. Engagement at Charleroi ; the advance guard of the Prussians under Ziethen forced back. June 15, Napoleon defeated Bliicher in the June 16. Battle of Ligny, after a brave resistance {Bliicher in personal danger), and drove him back. Bliicher marched upon Wavre. Ney defeated by the prince of Orange in the June 16. Battle of Quatre-Bras. The duke of Brunswick fell. Meantime concentration of the army of "Wellington, consisting of British, Hanoverians, Dutch, and troops from Brunswick and Nassau. Upon this force Napoleon hurled himself with superior numbers. 1815> June 18. Battle of Waterloo and Belle Alliance, called by Napoleon the battle of Mont St. Jeari. Napoleon thought he had insured the prevention of the jimcture of the Prussians under Bliicher with the English under Wellington, by directing Grouchy to engage the former. By afternoon Wellington's army, though still unyielding, had suffered so heavily that the day was only saved by the arrival of the Prussians under Bliicher. Complete defeat of the French, whose army, pursued by Gneisenau, was entirely scattered. Meanwhile Grouchy, on whose help Napoleon had relied, was engaged at Wavre against Thieleman, whose corps he by some unexplained error took for the whole Prussian army.^ June 22. Abdication of Napoleon in favor of his son. July 1. Arrival of the allies before Paris. July 7. Second capture of Paris. Entrance of Bliicher and Wellington. Return of Louis XVIII. Arrival of the two emperors, and of the king of Prussia. Meantime Napoleon fled to Rochefort, where, after futile attempts to escape to America, he surrendered himself to the British admiral Hotham on the ship-of-the-line Bellerophon, who conveyed him to Eng- land. Tlience, by a unanimous resolve of the allies, he was transported as prisoner of war to St. Helena, where he arrived in October (f May 5, 1821). 1 Thiers, Histoire flu Constdat et de V Empire, xx.; Ropes, Who Lost Wa^ Urloof — Atlantic Monthly, June, 1881. if A. D. Napoleonic ITars. — Modem Inventions. 485 Sept. 26. Foundation of the Holy Alliance upon the su<>t5estion of Alexander, conipi-isino- ;it lirst Rusmi, Austria, Prussia, theo- retically an intimate union on a basis of morality and reli^rion, but practically soon degenerating- into an alliance for the protection of absolute monarchy. Net/ made his escape, but was captured, condemned, and executed on Dec. 7, 1815. Murat made a reckless attempt to recover his throne bv landing in Calabria ; he was captured, court-martialed, and shot Oct. 13, 1815. Nov. 20. Second Peace of Paris. 1. France surrendered the four fortresses PhlUppevillef Ma- rienhurg (also Bouillon to the kingdom of the Netherlands), Saarlouis (and Saarhrucken to Prussia), Landau, which became a fortress of the German confederation, with the surrounding region as far as the Lau- ter (to Bavaria). France ceded to Sardinia that part of Savoy which she had retained in the first peace of Paris. She was therefore brought back, generally speaking, to the boundaries of 1790, instead of to those of 1792, which she had retained in the first peace. 2. Demolition of Hllningens, a fortress below Basle. 3. Seventeen fortresses on the north and east borders of France were to be garrisoned for five years at the utmost, by troops of the allies at the expense of France. 4. France paid 700 million francs for the expenses of war. Besides this the art treasures which the French had carried away from various cities, partly by treaties, and which had been left in Paris under the first peace, were now reclaimed. The desire of German patriots that at least a portion of the ancient appanages of the old empire, Lorraine, Alsace, and Strashurg, should be taken from France, which would thus be deprived of a point of at- tack against Germany, was not gratified. FOURTH PERIOD. FROM THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA TO THE PRESENT DAY- 1815-x. § 1. INVENTIONS. The universal adoption and application of four in- ventions which had been made at an earlier period, and in comparison with whose influence upon tlie transformation of the world that of all political events, wars, treaties, revolutions, almost disappears, lends the modern world its peculiar character. [A century of material, intellectual, social development of the people follows a century of diplomatic intrigue and misgovern- ment. (Compare with these inventions those of the fifteenth century, p. 279.) ] 1. The first attempts to utilize steam for the production of motion were made in the seventeenth century. Nothing, however, is cer- 486 Modern History. A. d. tainly known about either the exact date or place of the invention, or the person of the true discoverer. The French ascribe the invention to Denis Papin, of Blois (1647-1714), the English to the Marquis of Worcester (1663) and Captain Savery (1698). At all events the hrst steam engine which deserves the name seems to have been set up in p]ngland, and to have been used in mining. This was done by Newcomen, in Devonshire (1705). The man who did the most to improve the steam engine, and wliose inventions first made it possi- ble to use these machines in the most various industries, was James Watt (1736-1819), of Greenock, in Scotland. 2. The priority of the idea of applying steam to navigation is disputed between the French, English, and Aymricans. Tiu French ascribe the invention to the above-named Papin. In 1774 the count of Auxiron, and in 1775 Pcrier, are said to have sailed txie first little steamboat upon the Seine. The experiment was repeated by the marquis of Jouffroy in 1775 on the Douhs, and in 1780 on the Saone at Lyons with a vessel of larger dimensions. In England the inven- tion is ascribed to the marquis of Worcester ; it would seem, however, that the first steamboat in Great Britain was built in 1786 by Sym- ington at Edinburgh. To America, however, where experiments with small steamboats had been made upon the Delaware in 1783, 1785, belongs the honor of establishing the first regular steamboat service. This was instituted in 1807 by Fulton, who had already made an experiment with a steamsliip on the Seine in the presence of the first consul. Napoleon, and had in vain offered to apply steam to the French ships of war (1803). 3. Railroads were without doubt an English invention. In the second half of the seventeenth century wooden railroads were used in the mines at Newcastle on the Tyne, in imitation, it is claimed, of a similar arrangement in the Harz mines. In 1716 the rails were covered with sheet iron, and in 1767 the wood was replaced by cast iron. For a long time the roads were used only for securing an easier draught for horses. The first application of steam to rail- roads was made in 1806 by the engineer Trevithick. Gradual im- provement in the mechanical construction of the engines. George Stephenson in 1814 invented the locomotive and in 1829 an im- proved locomotive, which in 1830 ran upon the first great railroad for passenger trai^c between Liverpool and Manchester. The first road of this kind was constructed in 1825 between Stockton and Darlington. First railroad in Germany, Fiirth to Nuremberg (1835), at first a horse railroad ; the first larger line worked by locomotives was constructed between Leipsic and Dresden (1837). First railroad in the United States, 1827, at Quincy, Mass. ; cars drawn by horses. First roads to use locomotives : South Carolina, Baltimore Sf. Ohio, 1830-31. After England and North America were covered with an iron network, Germany, and much later France, began the construc- tion of railroads upon a large scale. [Financial disturbances caused (especially in England) by the withdrawal of capital from other in- dustries to be sunk in construction of railroads, and by stock specula- tion.] 4. The first electric telegraph was invented in 1809 by Sommering, A. D. Continental Europe. 487 a German, in Munich. The invention was offered to Napoleon I., who dismissed it as a "German notion." Alter the Dane, Orsted, had discovered electro-magnetism in 181*J, the Frenchmen Ampere and llitschie conceived tiie idea of applyinji^ the new discovery to the tele- graph. The first electro-magnetic telegraph which was actually con- structed and used was set up in (jiitlinyen by Gauss and Wefjer in 1833. Somewhat later an electro-magnetic telegraph was invented in Russia by a German, Schilling. Schillinffs invention was carried to England by Cooke, an Englisliman. There it was improved by Wheatstone, and this perfected telegraph was first practicrdly worked in London, between Euston Square and Camden Tow7i. Alter the invention had undergone many improvements, especially in Ger- many and America (Morse, 1844), Great Britain, the continent of Europe, and North America were covered with telegraph wires. The first submarine telegraph was laid in 1850 between England and France {Dover to Cape Gris-nez). Submarine cables were then laid from England to Ireland and Belgium (1851, 1853), and in many other locations. The gigantic undertaking of connecting Europe and America by a cable failed in 1857. A second attempt in 1858 was crowned with success, but only for a time. In 18(30 the undertaking was again renewed and brought to a successful close. ( Valencia in Ireland to Newfoundland, 1,650 English miles.) Since that time, laying of a second, third, fourth, and fifth cable. § 2. CONTINENTAL EUROPE.i 1817. Jubilee festival for the 300th anniversary of the Reformation. Festival of the "Wartburg. Burning of a number of absolut- ist writings (AficiUon, Schmalz, Holler, etc.). 1818. Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle. The great powers resolved, at the request of the French minister, the duke of Richelieu, to w^ithdraw the army of occupation from France. 1819. " Demagogic machinations." Murder of the German writer and Russian counselor, Kotzehue (Mar. 23), by the fanatic Sand in Mannheim. Secret organization among German stu- dents (^ur.scAensc^a/?). Reaction in Prussia. W.v. Humboldt, Beyme, Boyen, withdrew from the service of the state. Aug. Congress of ministers at Carlsbad controlled by Metternich. Censorship of the press. Supervision of the universities re- solved upon. The congress continued its sittings at Vienna, where the 1820. May. Final Act of Vienna was signed. In Spain rising of the liberals on behalf of the suspended constitution of 1812, which was restored. Oct. Congress at Troppau, ) 1821. Congress at Laybach, \ assembled to consult about the revolutionary movements in Naples and Piedmont. 1821. Victorious campaign of the Austrians against the Liberals iu 1 For France see p. 526. 488 Modern Hidory. a. d. Naples {Pepe, Caracosd) and Sardinia {Santa Rosa, battle of Nocara). In both countries absolutism in its severest form was restored. 1822. Congress of Verona on account of the Spanish and Grecian disturbances. 1823. French intervention in Spain under the lead of the duke of Angouleme. The French entered Madrid, forced Cadiz to capitulate, and liberated king Ferdinand VII., who had been detained a prisoner there. Cruel reaction, numerous execu- tions (Riego). 1810-1825. Conversion of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Central America and South America into independent states. Colt^mbia, a republic since 1819 (Bolivar dictator), was divided, in 1830, into three republics : New Granada (now Colombia in the narrower sense), Venezuela, Ecuador. Peru a free state in 1821; La Plata, too, Uruguay, Chili, and southern Peru, under the name of Bolivia, became independent. In the Jesuit state, Paraguay, Dr. {Joseph Gaspard Roderic de) Francia (and afterwards Lopez) long governed with dictatorial power. Mexico freed from Spanish rule 1821 by Iturbide, who became emperor in 1822, but was obliged to abdicate and leave the country. Mexico a republic 1823 ; Iturbide returned, but was executed 1824. Brazil an independent empire since 1822. 1820-1834. Revolutions and civil wars in Portugal. Don Miguel, the younger son of king John VI. (f 1826), after a long civil war and unheard-of barbarities, was conquered by his elder brother, Don Pedro (since 1822 emperor of Brazil). Don Pedro (f 1834) delegated the government of Portugal in 1826 to his daughter. Donna Maria ; in 1831 he delegated the crown of Brazil to his son, Pedro II. 1821-1829. War of Grecian Independence. Secret societies (hetaries). Prince Alexander Ypsilanti, at the head of a Grecian revolt in Moldavia and Wallachia (March- June, 1821), was defeated and fled to Austria, where he was de- tained a prisoner in Munkatsch for six years. Uprising in Morea (Alainots, April, 1821). Turkish attacks upon the Christians in Con- stantinople, Adi'ianople, etc.; terrible barbarities in Chios, v;hich had revolted ; over 20,000 Greeks murdered. Canaris burned a part of the Turkish fleet and put 3,000 Turks to death (1822). Lord Bi/ron (f Apr. 24, 1824), Ei/nard from Geneva. William Milller the Ger- man poet. German Philohellenists. [Philo-hellenists in England and America {Dr. Hoive)']. Brave defense of Missolonghi (1825, 1826). 1824-1830- Charles X., king of France (p. 627). 1825-1855- Nicholas I., emperor of Russia, his elder brother Constantine having renounced the crown. 1825-1827. Ibrahim Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, ravaged Morea, England, Russia, and France interfered in behalf of the Greeks, who were hard pressed and at variance among themselves. A. D. Continental Europe. 489 1826. Massacre of the Janizaries in Constantinople by Sultan Mah- mud II., after a mutiny. The troop was entirely aholislied. 1827. Battle of Navarino. Tlii' 'J'urkish lleet was destroyed by Oet. 20. the En<;lish, Freneh, and Russian fleets (" untoward event "), and Ibrahim was compelled to retreat from Morea. 1828-1829. Russo-Turkish War. The Russian <;eneral, Diebitch, crossed the Balkans (whence his surname, SahalLans/ci), and took Adrianople. In Asia Kars and Erzeroum were captured by Paskevitch, who had captured Erivan in 1827 in a war with Persia, and thereby gained the name of Eri'ianski. 1829. Peace of Adrianople. Russia restored almost all her conquests to Turkey, the latter power recoo^nizing, in advance, the resolves of the London Confzrence which announced in 1830 the independence of Greece. Provisional administration of the count Lkipo d''htria as president, who in 1831 was murdered in Napoli di Romania (Naujdia), the seat of government. The guardian powers, England, France, Russia, raised to the Grecian throne the Bavarian prince, 1832-18G2. Otto I., f 1867. 1830. Capture of Algiers by the French (p. 527). 1830, July 27-29. July Revolution at Paris. Abdication of Charles X. ; accession of 1830-1848. Louis Philippe I. For the details see p. 529. This revolution was followed by liberal uprisings throughout Europe. 1830-1837. William IV. (heretofore duke of Clarence) king of England. Whig ministry. 1830. Revolution in Belgium. Cause : The kingdom of the Netherlands, created by the congress of Vienna, had been formed by the enforced union of two utterly differ- ent elements, the protestant commercial state of Holland, which was of like nationality with its sovereign, and the catholic manufacturing country of Belgium, which was divided between the Flemish and Walloon nationalities, but was pervaded by Freneh culture. The suc- cess of the July revolution in Paris inflamed the long smouldering dissatisfaction in Brussels. 1830, Aug. 25. Outbreak in Brussels after a performance of the " MasanielloJ'^ The mediation of prince William of Orange^ the eldest son of king William I., failed of success. Prince Frederic, the king's second son, who had occupied a part of Brussels with a division of the army, was expelled from the city during the night of Sept. 20-27. On Nov. 18, Declaration of Independence passed by the Belgian congress. Provisional government. The London Conference between the great powers procured a cessa- tion of hostilities between Holland and Belgium and recognized the new state (Jan., 1831), which in February adopted a liberal monarch- 490 Modern History, A. D. ical constitution. After Louis Philippe had declined the honor for his second son, the duke of Nemours, upon whom the first choice fell, 1831-1865. Leopold I., of Saxe-Coburg, was elected king of the Belgians. [A man of ability and excellent disposition, he ap- proved himself an admirable constitutional monarch.] The war with Holland lasted until 1833. Peace was established in 1839. Results of the July Revolution : Revolutionary movements in Germany (in Saxony An(\. Hesse-Cassel, alteration of the constitutions). In Brunswick duke Charles (f 1873) was expelled ; duke William taking his place, in accordance with a decree of the diet of the con- federacy. Democratic transforunition in many of the Swis.j cantons. 1830-1832. Revolution in Poland. 1830, Nov. 29. Revolt in Warsaw. The attempted assassination of the grand duke Constantine foiled. Provisional government : Luhecki (pron. Lubetski), Czartoryski (pron. Tshar — ), Chlopicki (Klopitzki), regarded with suspicion by the democrats (Leleivel). General Chlopicki dictator until Jan., 1831, then prince Radzioil com- mander-in-chief. The emperor Nicholas deposed by the diet Jan., 1831. Prince Czartoryski president. The Russians advanced under Diebitch. Bloody engagement at Grochow (Feb. 19-25, 1831), where the Poles with 45,000 men offered long and victorious resis- tance to the superior force of the Russians (70,000 men with more than twice as many cannon as the Poles possessed), but were at last forced back upon Prague. Skrzynecki commander-in-chief ; defeat of the Russians at Wawar and Dembe Wielski ; the insurrection spread through Lithuania and Podolia. Diebitch defeated the Poles in the bloody 1831, May 2G. Battle of Ostrolenka. Diebitch f June 10. Want of harmony among the Poles. Massacres by the Polish demo- crats in Warsaw. Czartoryski escaped and was replaced by the in- efficient Krukowiecki. The new Russian general Paskevitch crossed the Vistula, captured Warsa/v (Sept. 6 and 7, 1831). The Polish insurrection suppressed. The Organic Statute of Feb. 26, 1832, deprived Poland of its constitution and reduced it to a province of the Russian empire, although with a separate administration. 1831. Uprisings in Modena, Parma, and Romagna, quickly sup- pressed with the assistance of the Austrians. 1833-1840. After the death of Ferdinand VII., civil war in Spain. Led by Espartero, the constitutional party, which supported the claims of Isabella II., the minor daughter of the king, and her mother Maria Christina, after a bloody contest, defeated the absolutist party (Don Carlos, brother of the king, f 1855 in exile ; leaders of the Carlists : Zumalacarregui, f 1835, Cabrera, Gomez). Espartero overthrown in 1843. Banishment of the queen dowager, Christina, 1833, The Frankfort uprising, wherein two watches were over- powered for a few hours, caused a vigorous reactionary movement throughout Germany. Frankfort received an Austro- Prussian garrison. Establishment of commissions for political inves- tigations, arrests and condenuiations. Meeting of the sovereigns of J A. D. Continental Europe. 491 Austria, Prussia, ;uul Russia at MUnchengrutz ; ministerial conference ill Tefditz (1833) aiul Vienna (18IM), by whose resolutions the rights of the estates in (Ternuiny were still further curtailed. 1833. Foundation oi the German Customs Union (Zollverein) [Maassen, Prussian minister of ihuinee), whieh had been zeal- ously advoeated by Prussia sinee 1818. In 1830 the union already ineluded a population of *Jo,000,000 and a territory of 80,G00 square miles. After 1854 it embraced 1)8,000 square miles and 35,000,000 inhabitants. 1835-1848. Ferdinand I., emperor of Austria. The chancellor of state, Metternich, was still the actual head of the government and the soul of the conservative reactionary policy throughout P^urope. Censorship of the press. Strict system of pass- ports. Police surveillance. 1837. Upon the death of William IV. of England, Hanover, where the salir la/v ^ regulated the descent of the throne, became separated hoin P^ngland. Partial repeal of the fundamental statute of 1833 by the king of Hanover, Ernst A ugust, under the pretext that the constitution had been adopted without his consent, he being at the time heii- to the throne. The true reason was probably that the constitution liad made the domains public property and had established a civil list. Dismissal of seven professors at Gottiiigen {Jacob and William Grimm, Dahlmann, Gervinus, Eicald, Albrecht and Weber), for refusal to take the oath of homage. 1837 — X. Victoria, queen of Great Britain and Ireland. 1837. Arrest of the archbishop of Cologne (Droste von Vischering'), in consequence of a quarrel wdth the Prussian government about marriages between persons of different religious beliefs. 1840. Death of Frederic William III. of Prussia. His sou and suc- June 7. cessor 1840-1861. Frederic WiUiam IV. (see p. 515). Mehemed All, viceroy of Egypt, in a previous victorious war (1831-1833) with his over-lord the sultan, threatened Constantinople. He was, however, compelled by the European powers to make peace, and obliged to be content with the investiture of Sgria as a fief from the sultan. The attempt of the Porte (1839) to deprive him of Syria, failed. Ibrahim, son of Mehemed Ali, defeated the Turks at A7,s//> on the Euphrates. Through treachery the Turkish Heet fell into tlio hands of the viceroy of Egypt. Relying on the supjjort of Fianee^ Mehemed Ali demanded from the young sultan Abdul-Medjid (1839- 18G1) the hereditary investiture of all lands under his government. To oppose these demands, England (lord Palmerston), Austritty Prussia, and Jiussia, concluded in 1840 a treaty of alliance, to the ex- clusion of France, which for a moment threatened the peace of Eu- rope. After the fall of the ministry of Thiers, however, aud after 1 Cf. p. 255, note. 492 Modern History. A. d« Guizot became president of the ministry in October, Prance sub- mitted and deserted the viceroy of Egypt. The armed intervention of England and Austria in Syria forced the viceroy to take a lower tone, and he retained only the hereditary rule over Egypt under the over-lordship of the Porte. 1846. Death of Pope Gregory X VI. Attempted reforms of his suc- cessor Pius IX. (Mastai-Ferretti). 1847. Convention of the united legislature (Landtag) in Prussia. War of the Sonderbund (separate confederacy) in Switzerland, against seven Catholic cantons (Jesuits). General Dufour quickly overpowered Freiburg and Luzerne. Dissolution of the Sonderbund. Transformation of the Swiss confederacy from a close alliance [Staatenbund] of sovereign cantons into ^federal nation [Bundesstaat]. The former diet, in which Zurich, Berne, and Luzerne had in turn been the chief town, was now succeeded by a confederate council which sat ii? Berne and consisted of 1. a council of estates (representation of the governments of the separate cantons), 2. a national council (representation of the whole Swiss people according to the density of the population). A common system of coinage ; centralized postal service and military organization. 1848. Feb. 24. February Revolution in Paris (p. 530). 1848-1851 (1852). France, for the second time, a republic. In S^witzerland, complete victory of the radicals. The can- ton of Neuchatel threw olf allegiance to its prince, the king of Prussia. 1848. Revolutionary movements in Germany, in consequence of the French revolution. Feb. 27. Popular assembly at Mannheim, under the lead of Itzlein, which demanded a German parliament, jury trials, free press, right of forming organizations, societies, etc. March 11. The elector of Hesse obliged to agree to these demands. March 13-15. Outbreak in Vienna. Metternich driven from the city, which fell into the hands of the burgher-guard and the students. March 18. Conflicts in the streets of Berlin. The troops, tired but not conquered, left the city by order of the king (March 19- 20). Formation of a poorly disciplined burgher- guard. Lib- eral ministers frequently changed. Anarchy in the capital. Call of a constituent assembly at Berlin. March 20. After disturbances had occurred in Munich as early as March 6, Louis I. (f 1868) abdicated in favor of his son Maximilian II. Disturbances in Saxony, Hanover, Nassau, Mecklenburg, etc. March 31. Preliminary parliament in Frankfort opened under the presidency of Mittermaier. Four sessions. Resolve adopted to call a national German constituent assembly, for the purpose of making a constitution for the German empire. April. A republican rising in Baden {Hecker, Struve), supported by the arrival of refugees (Herwegh) and foreign republicans quickly suppressed by the troops of the German confederation. 'A. D. Continental Europe. 493 General Frederic von Gagern treacherously shot by the volun- teers (April 20). May 15. Second insurrection in Vienna, which compelled the con- vocation of a constituent diet. The emperor left Vienna and went to Innsbruck. The intended dissolution of the legion of students caused a May 26. Third insurrection in Vienna, after wliich the troops left the city and a committee of public safety {citizens and students) controlled the city. 1848-1849. G-erman National Assembly (Parliament) May 18. in Frankfort (Church of St. Paul) for the purpose of " har- monizing " a constitution for the German empire with the governments of the various states. The national assembly elected archduke John of Austria {GOt years old) administrator of the empire. He entered Frankfort June 11. The confederate council (Bundestag) dissolved itself. First imperial ministry (afterwards made more complete): Schmerling (Austria), foreign affairs, and mtevior ; Peucker (Prussia), war; Heckscher (Ham- burg), justice. It was soon evident, however, that the newly cre- ated central power had no real authority either as regarded foreign countries or the separate states. President of the national assembly, Heinrich von Gagern. Par- ties: right (Radowitz, Vincke, \)rmce Lichnowsky), holding to the idea of an imperial constitution in harmony with the separate governments; left (Vogt, Ruge, Robert Blum), proclaiming the principle of the sov- ereignty of the people, and endeavoring to establish a republican confederation (Bundestaat) by revolutionary means; right centre (Gagern, Dahlmann, Gervinus, Arndt, Beseler, Bassermann, J. G)'imm), which hoped to persuade the governments to recognize the estab- lishment of a constitutional monarchy for Germany ; left centra (Rlimer, Fallmerayer, Raveaux, etc.), which insisted upon the micou- ditional subordination of the separate states to a central monarchy, to be created on the basis of the sovereignty of the people ; it recom- mended, however, that the views of the separate governments and such particular requirements of the states as were well founded should be respected. 1848. In Naples grant of a liberal constitution, followed by a reac- Feb. tion after the victory of the Swiss troops in the conflicts in the streets (May). War with Sicily, which was in revolt, but was subdued by Filangieri with great severity. After the murder of his minister, Rossi, Pius IX. fled to Gneta (Nov.). Rule of the anarchists and republicans (Mazzini) in Rome. After a two months' siege Rome was captured by the French (July, 1849), and the papal authority was restored. The Pope did not return to Rome, however, until 1850. (French garrison in Rome, 1849-186G.) 1848. Slavonic congress in Prague, June 2. called by the Czechs (Palacki), in order to unite the oppo- sition of the Slavonic people of Austria against the growth of German culture and influence. In order that the representatives of the different Slavonic nationalities might understand one another, 494 Modern History. A. d. the proceedings of this anti-German congress were held in German. June 12-17. Uprising of the Czechs in Prague suppressed by Win-' . dischgrdtz. Oct. 31. Capture of Vienna by imperial troops ( Windischgrdtz, Jella- chich). Robert Blum (member of the parliament of Frankfort), Messenhauser (commander of the city), and many others wered shot. Nov. 1. Commencement of the reaction in Prussia. Ministry^ Brandenburg - Manteujfel. General Wrangel entered Berlin: without resistance (Nov. 10). Proclamation of a state of siege. The burgher-guard disarmed. Nov. 27. Transference of the national assembly to Brandenburg.; As a quorum failed to meet there, Dec. 5. Dissolution of the national assembly and imposition of d constitution with two chambers, the second elected by uni-i versal (manhood) and equal suffrage. Dec. 10. Prince Louis Napoleon elected president of the Frenchlj Republic (p. 531). 1848-1849. War between Austria and Sardinia. The Austrians, driven from Milan by a revolt (March, 1848),) retired to Verona. An Italian attack at St. Lucia repulsed. Ran detzki, reinforced by Nugent (engagements at Udine and Belluno) advanced again. The troops of Charles Albert, king of Sardinia, victorious at Goito (May), were completely defeated by Radetzki at July 25. Custozza. Milan recaptured by the Austrians. Truce from Aug. 9, 1848, to March 20, 1849. Radetzki, by the vie-; tory of Mortara (March 21) and Novara (March 23), compelled the conclusion of peace. Charles Albert abdicated in favor of his son.: Victor Emmanuel, and retired to Portugal (f July, 1849). Capture of Brescia after terrible fighting in the streets. Cruelties exercised upon prisoners (Haynau). In Venice, after the withdrawal of the Austrian garrison (March, 1848), a provisional government ' the name of the king of Sardinia was succeeded, after the defeat oi the Italian army, by a republic (president Manin). Siege and cap-j ture of Venice by the Austrians (Aug. 1849). The whole of the Lombardo-Veuetian kingdom subjected anew to Austria. 1848-1849. Uprising of the Hungarians (Magyars). The Hungarians demanded and received a separate ministry (April, 1848). Count J5a«%an?/«, president of the ministry; Kossutt (pr. Kdshut), minister of finance. Diet in Pesth under the presidency of the archduke Stephen as palatine. The opposition of the Slavoni population and the appanages of the crown of Hungary (^Croatia Transylvania^ to the supremacy of the Magyars, and their demano for political equality, were supported by the court of Vienna. Jellw. chich appointed Ban of Croatia. Kossuth procured from the diet j levy of national troops (Honveds), and the issue of Hungarian pape money. Jellachich invaded Hungary, but was defeated at Velencze The archduke palatine Stephen resigned his office. Count Lamber^^ created imperial governor of Hungary, murdered at Pesth (Sept. The emperor dissolved the diet. A. D. Continental Europe. 495 After the abdication of Ferdinand I. (f 1875) his nephew mounted the throne as 1848 — X. Francis Joseph I., emperor of Austria. The Ilunoaiiiiu diet refused to recognize the abdication of Ferdinand I. and the accession of Francis Joseph I. Prince Wirv- dischgrdtz led an Austrian army into Hungary. Kossuth and the Magyar officials retired to Dehreczin. Windischgratz occupied Pesth (Jan., 1849). The Polish general Bern, to whom Kossuth had given a command, defeated the Austrians in a series of engagements. Other troops, under the Pole Dembinski and the Magyar princes Gorgey and Klapka, were successful against the Austrians. Demhinski was appointed commander-in-chief of the Magyar forces, but was de- feated at Kapolna (Feb. 20, 1849) and resigned his command. Meanwhile a bloody struggle was in progress in Transylvania: Bem^ defeated by ths Austrian general Puchner at Hermanstadt (Feb., 1849), after having received reinforcements, took the offensive against the Austrians and Russians, whom the former had called to their aid, wath success; driving the Russians out of Transylvania. In the west, too, fortune smiled upon the Hungarian arms. Gorgey relieved Ko- morn. Windischgratz was driven back to Pesth, which his successor, Welden, was compelled to evacuate; an Austrian garrison remained in Of en. In consequence of the 1849. Publication of the general constitution for Austria, March 4. which abolished the ancient Hungarian constitution, the diet, upon Kossuth's motion, pronounced the deposition of the house of Hapsburg-Lorraine. Kossuth placed at the head of the Mag- yar government with the title of govertior. Divisions and lack of de- cision among the Hungarians. Instead of marching upon Vienna they laid siege to Ofen, which Gorgey captured May 21. Kossuth and the diet made a pompous entrance into Pesth. Meanwhile at a meet- ing of the emperors of Austria and Russia, Russian intervention was agreed upon, and a common plan of operations adopted for the subjugation of Hungary. Last decisive struggle of the Hungarians. Bern defeated at Her- mannstadt in Transylvania by the Russians (Luders), who outnum- bered him three to one. Dembinski forced to retire before the su- perior Russian force under Paskevitch. Gorgey tried in vain to break through, the main Austrian army under Haynau, was defeated at Zsigard and Komorn, went to the aid of Dembinski, defeated the Rus- sians under Rudiger at Waitzen, but was obliged to retii-e to the mountains upon the approach of Paskevitch, escaping the Russians only by a masterly retreat. Kossuth fled witli the diet to Szegedin, whither Haynau marched. Dembinski, attacking him, was defeated at Szorek (Aug. 5), and at Temesvar (Aug. 9), where his army was almost entirely scattered. Confusion and discord among the Hun- garians. Kossuth laid down the chief power ; the dictatorship was conferred upon Gorgey. Two days later Gorgey concluded the 1849, Aug. 13. Capitulation of Vilagos, in which about 25,000 men laid down their arms (120 cannon surrendered) before the Russian general Riidiger. Most of the other I 496 Modern Hhtory. A. D. corps surrendered unconditionally ; Klapka alone, who defended Ko- morn, made an honorable capitulation. Kossuth, Bern, DemhinsJci, found refuge in Turkish territory. Haynau administered terrible punishment to the captured leaders of the insurrection. Numerous executions (count Batthyamji hanged), imprisonments and confisca- tions. Abolition of the Hungarian constitution. Transylvania and Croatia separated from Hungary. Abolition of the general constitution of Austria, Dec. 31, 1851. 1848-1851. Three wars of Schleswig-Holstein against Denmark. Cause: " Open letter " of the king. Christian VIII. (July 8, 1846), which arbitrarily decreed the continuance of the union of the duchies with Denmark, in spite of the different laws of inheritance in the two states. A revolutionary movement in Copenhagen (Casino party) compelled king Frederic VII. to pronounce the annexation of Schleswig to Denmark (1848). Hence insurrection in the duchies (March, 1848), and formation of 3i, provisional government of the coun- try (Beseler). 1848, First War. Prussian troops and those of the German con- April-Aug. federacy came to the assistance of the duchies, which were obliged to form a new army. General Wrangel defeated the Danes at Schleswig (April 23) and advanced to Jutland. The losses to commerce in the Baltic by the Danish blockade and the in- fluence of England and Russia produced the not very honorable truce of Malmo (26 Aug. 1848-26 March, 1849). Establishment of " com- mon government " for the duchies. Dissatisfaction with the truce throughout Germany. Angry de- bates in the national assembly at Frankfort ; contest in the streets with the populace, who were excited by the democrats. Murder of prince Lichnowsky and general von Auersivald (Sept.). 1849, March-July. Second "War. Creation of a governorship {Bese- ler, Reventlow-Preetz) by the central government of Germany. At Eckernforde the ship of the line Christian VIII. was fired by can- nonade and the frigate Gefion captured (April 5). Storm of the re- doubts of Ddppel by Bavarian and Saxon troops (April 13). The Prussian general Bonin, at tlie head of the Schleswig-Holstein army, defeated the Danes* at /ioMm^ (April 20). In consequence of the threatening attitude of England, France, and Russia, indifferent con- duct of Prussia and other German troops in the war (general Pritt- witz). Siege of Fredericia by the Schleswig-Holstein army, wliicn, however, suffered a considerable loss through a successful sortie of the Danes. Truce of Berlin, between Prussia and Denmark (1849, July 10), whereby Schleswig was to be occupied by Swedish troops in the north, in the south by Prussian troops, and received a neiv adminis- tration. The truce was converted into a peace (in the name of the Ger- man confederation as well). Bonin and all Prussian officers were recalled from the Schleswig-Holstein army. 1850, Jan.-1851, July. Third War, conducted by Schleswig-Holstein- ers alone without the aid of Germany. General Willise7i, for- merly in the Prussian service, assumed command of the army. He A. D. Continental Europe. 497 was defeated at Idstedt (July 24, 25). Selileswiof occupied by tlie Danes. In the enoi-ai^fnient at Mlssunde (Se])t. 12) thf Sclileswig- Ilolstein troops were a<;ain defeated. In the storm of FriedrirhsUidt (C)et. 4) they were repulsed with p^reat h)ss. The chief coniinand was transferred from Willisen to jjceneral Horst. The (xerinan con- federacy having been restored meanwhile (p. 408) enforced under Austrian inliuence the cessation of hostilities ; Holstein was occupied by Austrian troojjs with the consent of Prussia, and delivered to the Danes upon the vague promise of " respecting the rights of the duchies" (1852). 1849. Completion of the constitution of the G-erman Empire. Diet, composed of a chamber of state, appointed half by the govern- ments, half by the popular representatives of the separate states, and a popular chamber. Monarchical power with only a suspensive veto. Formation of two parties, the great German (Grossdeutsche) party, which wished to retain the German territory of Austria in Germany, and the small German {Kleindeutsche), which wished to exclude Aus- tria and form a narrower confederacy under the hegemony of Prussia. 1849. The offer of the crown of emperor of the Germans, by a April 3. deputation of the national assembly at Frankfort, was de- clined by the king. Frederic William declared that he could assume the imperial dignity only with the consent of all German gov- ernments. May. Uprising in Dresden (Tzschirner, Heubner, Todt, Bakunin) suppressed by Prussian assistance. Recall and withdrawal of a great number of representatives 1849. from the national assembly at Frankfort. The Rump-Par- June, liament (president Lowe-Kalbe) in Stuttgart dissolved. The administrator superseded by a central power to be executed hj Austria and Prussia alternately, "for the German confederacy" (The interim). Death of the administrator, Oct. 20, 1849. May. Republican uprising m the county palatine and in the grand duchy of Baden (Struve, Mieroslawski) ; defection of the army. Prussian troops under the prince of Prussia entered Baden, de- feated the insurgents at Waghdusel, besieged and captured Rastadt. The commander Tiedemann and others were shot ; many, among i;hem the poet Kinkel, condemned to imprisonment for life with hard labor {Kinkel, 1850, in Spandau, was rescued by Karl Schurz). 1850, Feb. 6. In Prussia the king and legislature took the oath of allegiance to the revised constitution. Exertions of Prussia to create a (J'rman federal state (Bundesstaat), with exclusion of Austria (Radowitz), actively supported by the old party of the hereditary empire in the Frankfort parliament, the Gothas (so called from a meeting in Gotha). The "alliance of the three kings" (Prussia, Hanover, Saxon//), concluded May 26, 1849, which was immediately joined by nu)st of the smaller German states, was soon broken up by the withdi'awal of Hanover and Saxony, Nevertheless the 32 498 Modern History. A. D. 1850, March 20. Parliament of Erfurt was opened, which on the 27th April concluded the discussion of a new German Union. May 9-16. Congress of princes in Berlin, wherein the dislike of electoral Hesse {Hassenpjiug) for the union came to light. Creation of a college of princes. Austria opposed the eiforts of Prussia by the Sept. 2. Reopening of the Frankfort parliament. Contest over the constitution in the electorate of Hesse. Re- peated dissolution of the assembly of the estates by Hassenpjiug. The whole country was pronounced in a state of war (Sept. 7). Resist- ance of the officials and the courts. The prince elector left the coun- try and invited the intervention of the diet, which had been restored by Austria, but was not recognized by Prussia and her confederates; Hassenpjiug ambassador to the diet. The diet granted aid to the prince elector, Prussia protesting. General Haynau appointed mili- tary dictator in electoral Hesse (Oct. 2). Almost the entire corps of officers in electoral Hesse received their dismissal. Rupture between Prussia and Austria ; Nicholas of Russia took sides with the latter (two meetings in Warsaw). Meeting of the emperor of Austria and the kings of Bavaria and Wiirtemherg at Bregenz, directed against Prussia. Execution of the decree of the confederacy by Bavarian and Austrian troops. The Prussian ' gov- ernment sent their troops (general Grohen) into electoral Hesse, and seemed for a moment about to opposfi the execution of the decree of the confederacy (encounter of the pickets at Bromizell, Nov. 8), but were finally satisfied with occupying the military roads of Prussia. Dismissal of the minister Radowitz, and thereby complete abandon- ment of the Prussian exertions for union. In the 1850. Conference at Olmiitz (3fa7iteuffel and Schwar- Nov. 29. zenberg) Prussia yielded to all the demands of Austria ; Schleswig-Holstein was delivered to the Danes, the unlimited authority of the elector was restored in electoral Hesse. The ques- tion of the German constitution was settled at the 1850-1851. Conference at Dresden Dec. 23-May 15. after a lengthy discussion, wherein the influence of the emperor of Russia had great weight, by a simple re- turn to the diet of the confederacy. Prussia herself invited the former members of the union to send representatives to that body, so that the 1851. German confederation of 1815 was reestablished in its old form. 1851- First universal industrial exhibition in Lon- don. 1851. In Paris, coujj d'etat of Louis Napoleon, who be- Dec. 2. came president of the republic for ten years (p. 531). 1852, May 8. Treaty of London (protocol) signed by the five great po"wer» and S^weden. In order to guarantee the in- tegrity of the Danish monarchy, a successor was appointed for the crown of Denmark and for the duchies of Schleswig-Holstem, with- A. D. Continental Europe. 499 out eoiisulting the estates of the ducliies. The female line next in succession having' renounced its rights, Christian of Sonderhnrg- Gliickshurg was proclaimed heir of tlic childless king Frederic V'll. for the entire monarchy. This treaty was recognized by Hanover^ Saxony, and Wdrtcmhenj, but not by the German am federation. 1852, Dec. 1. Napoleon III., emperor of the French (1852— 1870). 1853-1856. War of Russia against Turkey and 1854-185G. War of the western powers against Russia. Crimean War. Cause : Resuscitation of the old Russian plans of conquest (Catha/- rine II. p. 411) against Turkey by Nicholas L Thinking an alliance between England and France impossible, and believing that he had made sure of Austria and Prussia, he pressed forward with- out hesitation. He developed his views, concealing but little, to the English ambassador in St. Petersburg, Seymour : Servia, Bosnia, Bul- garia, and the principalities of the Danube Should become independent states under Russian protection. Constantinople should be occupied provisionally, by Russian troops ; the prospect of the ac(iuisition of Crete and Egypt was held out to England. In spite of the unfavor- able attitude of England, the emperor pursued his plans. Demand for a protectorate over all Christians of the Greek church in the Turkish empire, urged in an overbearing manner, by the Russian am- bassador prince Mentchikoff. The Porte refused to listen to the prop- osition. Mentchikoif left Constantinople with tlireats (May 21, 1853). 1853, A united French and English fleet was placed at the entrance to the Dardanelles, afterwards in the Bosphorus, for purposes of observation. 80,000 Russians crossed the Pruth and occupied the principalities of the Danube (July). INleeting between Nicholas and the emperor of Austria and the king of Prussia in Olmiltz (Sept.), where however, he did not obtain the desired alliance, but only an assur- ance of neutrality under certain conditions. The Porte declared war upon Russia (Oct.). Om£r Pacha crossed the Danube and held his ground against the Russians at Oltenitza (Nov. 4). The Russian fleet surprised and defeated a Turkish squadron at Sinope, Nov. 4. Upon the refusal of the emperor to evacuate the principalities of the Danube, 1854, March 12. Alliance of the western nowers with Turkey, and March 28. declaration of war by England and France upon Rus- sia. Paskevitch ap]iointed to the chief command of the Russian army which crossed the Danube, but besieged Silistria in vain (June). England and France sent troops to the aid of Turkey, which concen- trated in GalUpoli. Alliance between Prussia and Austria; these states declared the passage of the Balkans by the Russians an act of war, and soon demanded the evacuation of the principalities. The emperor Nicholas ordered the evacuation " for strategic reasons " (July). With the consent of the Porte the principalities were pro- visionally occupied by the Austrians. 500 Modern History. A. d A second French and English fleet {Napier) appeared in the Baltic, , but could make no impression upon the fortress of Kronstadt and cap- tured only the small fortress of Bomarsund, upon one of the Aland Islands. At the southern seat of war, the allies landed at Varna, on the Black Sea (June). Marshal St. Arnaud and lord Raglan command- ers-in-chief. The French invasion of the Dohrudsha was followed by great losses through sickness. At Varna the expedition to the Crimea was resolved upon, in order to destroy Sebastopol and an- nihilate the Russian naval power in the Black Sea. The French and English (50,000 men together) and 6,000 Turks landed at Eupatoria, on the west coast of the Crimea, Sept. 14, and defeated the Russians in the 1854, Sept. 20. Battle of the Alma. Marslial St. Arnaud died of the cholera. The command of the Frencli given to Canrobert. After the English had established themselves on the bay of Balaklava, and the French on the bay of Kamiesch, the 1854-1855. Siege of Sebastopol Oct. Nov. began. The city was surrounded by new fortresses by Mentchikoff] under the superintendence of Totlehen, and the harbor closed by sunken ships of war. An attack of the allies upon Sebastopol failed (Oct. 17). The Russian general Liprandi attacked the English at Balaklava (Oct. 25) and inflicted a severe loss upon them (charge of the Light Brigade). Aiter Mentchikoff hud received reinforcements, he attacked the allies anew, but was defeated in the bloody 1854, Nov. 5. Battle of Inkermann. Slow progress of the siege works during the winter. After the emperor of Russia had rejected the conditions of peace which were supported by Prussia and Austria, the latter power joined the alliance of the western powers (Dec. 1854), and placed a consider- able force upon the Russian boundary v/ithout, however, commencing actual operations of war. Prussia persisted in her neuti^al attitude. Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia concluded an alliance with the western powers and sent 15,000 men under La Marmora to the Crimea. A Russian attack upon Eupatoria was repulsed by the Turks. 1855, March 2. Death of Nicholas I. His son 1855-1881. Alexander II. (abolition of serfdom 1858- 1863). Prince Gortchakoff' received the chief command in Sebastopol. After fruitless negotiations in Vienna, Austria again assumed an attitude of waiting and withdrew a portion of the troops on the Russian border. Enormous losses among the besiegers, from sickness (Florence Night- ingale). Privations and daily skirmishes. At the request of Canro- bert the command of the French forces was transferred to general Pelissier (May 16). A general storm was repulsed, with great loss to the allies (June 18), Lord Raglan died June 28, and Simpson be* came commander-in-chief of the English army. A. D. Continental Europe. 501 After a continuous bombardment and many bloody en^aj^ements 1855, Storm of the Malakoff tower by the Freiieh, and of the Sept. 8. Redan by the Knolish, who were, however, soon driven out again by the Russians. Sept. 11. The Russians, by means of a pontoon bridge, withdrew into the northern part of the fortress. Oecupation of the city of Sehastopol by the allies. Nov. 28. In Asia, eapture of the fortress of Kars by the Russians. At the congress of Paris {France, England, Russia, Turkey, Sar- dinia, Austria, and at the last Prussia), the 1856, Marcb 30. Peace of Paris was agreed upon. 1. Russia ceded the mouths of the Danube and a small portion of Bessarabia on the left bank of the lower Danube. 2, Russia re- nounced the one-sided protectorate over the Christians in Turkey (whose elevation to equality with the Mohammedan population was promised by the Porte), and over the principalities of the Danube, whose relations were to be settled later. 3. Russia restored Kars, and promised not to establish any arsenals upon the Black Sea, nor to maintain there more shi})s than the Porte. 4. The western powers restored Sehastopol to Russia, after having destroyed the docks, the constructions in the harbor, and the fortifications. [5. Adoption of the four rules : 1. Privateering is and remains abolished. 2. The neutral tlag covers an enemy's goods, except contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, except contraband of war, not liable to capture under an enemy's flag. 4. Blockades, to be binding, must be effective.] 185G-1857. Dispute between the king of Prussia and Switzerland, in consequence of a hasty suppression of a royalistic outbreak in Neuchdtel (Neuenburg), settled by the release of the royalistic pris- oners by the Swiss, and the renunciation of Neuchdtel by the king of Prussia. 1857-1860. French and English expedition against China. Cause : infractions of the treaty with the English (of 1842) by the Chinese led to hostilities in Oct., 1856, between the English and the Chinese officials of Canton. The French government, which purposed an alteration of the commercial treaty with China, joined in supporting the English demands. 1857, Dec. Occujjation of Canton by the allies. 1858, Treaty of Tien-Tsin, which opened to European trade and the June, missionaries entrance to the interior of China, and allowed standing embassies to be established in the capital, Pekin. 1859, June. Infraction of the treaty of Tien-Tsin. The English, French, and American ambassadors, who w^ere on their way to Pekin, were tiu'ned back at the mouth of the Pei-ho. The attempt of the English and French to force their passage failed ; an attack upon the forts, undertaken with b it few troops, was repulsed with great loss. 1800. Landing of a French (general Montauban) and English (gen- May, eral Grant) corps at Shang-hai ; storm of the fortihed camp, while the flotilla of the allies proceeded up the Pei-ho. Negotiations commenced by the Chinese. In consequence of their 502 Modern History, A. D. dubious and faithless conduct the allies made a new advance, defeated a Tatar army of 1:5,000 men in the 1860. Battle of Palikao, and marched upon Pekin. Destruction of Sept. 21. the summer palace of the emperor as punishment for the cruel mutilation and execution of several persons whom the Chinese had treacherously captured. In affright prince Kong, the emperor's brother, concluded the 1860. Peace of Pekin, which ratified the treaty of Tien-Tsin and Oct. 24, 25. imposed upon the Chinese the payment of a large in- demnity. 1857. Illness of Frederic William IV. The prince of Prussia as= Oct. sumed the vice-regency, and later (Oct. 7, 1858) the regency as provided by the constitution of Prussia. The prince re- gent replaced the ministr}'^ of Manteuffel by an old liberal ministry (prince of Hohenzollern, Auerswald, Schleinitz, Benin, Bethmann-Holl- weg, and afterwards count Schwerin). 1859. War of France and Sardinia with Austria. April-July. An Austrian ultimatum having been rejected, field- marshal Gyulay crossed the Ticino, but his inactivity gave the French time to come to the assistance of the Piedmontese. Napoleon III. assumed the chief command. An extensive reconnoitring expedition of Gyulay's led to the May 20. Engagement of Montebello ; the Austrians, after obsti- nate resistance, driven back. Garibaldi and his volunteers in- vaded Lombardy. The allies assuming the offensive, Gyulay retired across the Ticino and was defeated in the June 4. Battle of Magenta (Napoleon III., Canrobert, MacMahon). Napoleon III. and Victor Emmanuel entered Milan. The em- peror Francis Joseph took the chief command in person. The Austrian army was defeated by the allies in the June 24. Battle of Solferino. The emperor Francis Joseph in a meeting with Napoleon III. July 11, in Villafranca was induced to accept preliminaries of peace (exchanged July 8) which were ratified and ccmpleted in the 1859, Nov. 10. Peace of Ziirich. 1. The emperor Francis Joseph ceded Lombardy (with the ex- ception of Mantua and Peschiera) to Napoleon III., who surrendered it to Sardinia. 2. Italy was to form a confederation (Staatetibund) under the honorary presidency of the Pope. 3. The sovereigns of Tuscany and Modena, who had been expelled in April and July, were to be reinstated; the revolted legations {Bologna, etc.), were to be given back to the Pope, but "without foreign intervention." Despite these enactments of the peace of Ziirich 1860. Tuscany, Parma (whose sovereigns had likewise been expelled), Spring. Modena, and the papal legations were united with the mon- archy of Victor Emmanuel, who, in return, was obliged to sur- render Savoy and Nice to France. Descent of Garibaldi with 1,000 volunteers (soon 4,000, May 11) A. D. Continental Europe. 503 upon Sicily. He marched upon Palermo. Bombardment of the city by the Neapolitan g^eneral Lanza, whereupon the city capitulated on condition of the free withdrawal of 25,0()0 Nea])olitan troops (June 6). Messina evacuated by the Neapolitans, with the exception of the citadel (June 28). Garibaldi landed on the mainland (Aug-. 20). Surrender of Reggio, triumphal progress through the southern half of the peninsida. King Francis II. left his capital, Naples, and retired behind the Volturno with 40,000 men, retreating to the for- tresses of Gaeta and Capua (Sept.). Meanwhile the Piedmontese troops under Fanti and Cialdini had entered Umbria and the Marches, W' here the desire for annexation had long since made itself manifest. The French general Lamo7'iciere, who had entered the papal service, was defeated in the 18G0. Engagement at Castelfidardo by Cialdini. The Papal Sept. 18. States (excepting the Patrimonium Petri) were aimexed by Victor Emmanuel, who thereupon invaded the Neapolitan terri- tory (Oct.) and jomed Garibaldi. The Neapolitan army retreated behind the Garigliano, Capua was taken. Francis II. and liis troops retired to Gaeta. 1860-1861. Siege of Gaeta. Francis II. capitulated after a brave Nov. 12-Feb. 13. defence and went to Rome. 1861> Marcb 17. Victor Emraanuel king of Italy. With the exception of Venice and the Patrimonium Petri the whole peninsula was united under one sceptre. Death of Cavoury June 6, 1861. New expedition of Garibaldi, with volunteer bands, to liberate Rome, against the wishes of the government. He was wounded and captured at Aspromonte, the southern point of Italy, Aug. 29, 1802. Treaty between France and Italy (Sept. 15, 1861), whereby the duration of the French occupation of Rome was limited to two years, and the Italian government nndei-took to protect the Patrimonium Petri against any foreign invasion. Florence mr.de th-» capital of Italy. 1861, Jan 2. Death of Frederic WilUam IV. The prince regent mounted the throne as 1861 — X. William I., king of Prussia. 1861-1867. Mexican Expedition, undertaken, at first, by France, England, and Spain in common. 1861. Treaty of London between these three powers. The purpose Oct. 31. of the expedition was to force the repid)lic of Mexico to fulfill certain treaty obligations towards these nations. 1861, Dec.-1862, Jan. Occupation of La Vera Cruz and the fort of San Juan d'Ulloa by the allies. 1862. Treaty of La Soledad w ith Juarez, president of Mexico, who Feb. 19. promised to pay the indemnity and the arrears of debt, as required. Juarez did not fulfill the obligations incurred, and demanded the delivery of his opponent, Almonte, who had come to the French camp from Paris. England and Spain Avithdrew from the expedition. Napoleon III., acting on the expectation that the republic of the United States of America would be broken up by the war between the North and the 1 504 Modern History. A. Do South, resolved to create a monarchy m Mexico. Magnificent plan to check the spread of the Anglo-Germanic race by this expedition, and induce a regeneration of the Latin race. 1862. An attack upon Puehla by 5,000 French repulsed. Retreat to May. Orizaba. The emperor sent 25,000 men as reinforcements, fol- lowed by more considerable numbers, to Mexico. After a long and bloody contest 1863. Puebla, bravely defended by Ortega, was captured by the May. French general Forey, who entered Mexico. The French called an assembly of notables, composed of opponents of Juarez, caused the monarchy to be proclaimed by this body, and the imperial crown of Mexico to be offered to the archduke Maximilian, brother of the emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. This young and ambitious prince, gifted with excellent abilities, suffered himself to be inveigled by Napoleon III. into accepting the crown. 1864. June. Arrival of Maximilian in Mexico. Prolonged contest with the republican armies. The new monarchy constantly in financial difficulties. Impossibility of establishing a settled state of affairs in a land so torn with party feuds. Meanwhile the end of the civil war in the United States had com- pletely altered the political relations. The decisive demand of the United States government that the French troops should be with- drawn from Mexico, put a sudden end to the magnificent plans of the French emperor. He submitted at once to the request of the United States. 1867. Withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico. The emperor Spring. Maximilian, who refused to leave with the French, continued the war alone. After a brave resistance he was surrounded in Queretaro, captured by treachery (Lopez ?), brought to trial before a court-martial at Juarez^ command, and shot (June 19, 1867). In Austria, m spite of the vehement opposition of the nobility and the clergy, 1861. Publication of a new, liberal constitution for the united Feb. 26. monarchy with a close diet for the Germano-Slavonic lands, and a wider diet (only projected, however) which by the participation of Hungarian members was to represent the united mon- archy, with the exception of Venice, for which the introduction of a special constitution was promised. Resistance to the February consti- tution, not only by the Hungarians, who demanded the restoration of their separate constitution with a special ministry, but also by the national parties of the other non-Germanic peoples of the empire. 1861. Coronation of the king of Prussia, William I. in Konigsberg; Oct. 18. soon after there broke out a constitutional conflict in conse- quence of a reorganization of the army which the government had carried out. Dissolution of the house of representatives (March, 1862). Res- ignation of the Schwerin ministry. Heydt ministry. The opposi- tion majority returned from the new elections (May) with increased strength (party of progress (Fortschritt), and the left centre). Von Bismarck (Otto Edward Leopold, prince of Bismarcl'-Schon- kausen, born 1815, 1848 member of the united Prussian legislature, A. D. Continental Europe, 505 1851 member of the diet of the confederation at Frankfort, after- wards ambassador at St. Petersbur<^- and at Paris) became president of tlie ministry. The ministry j;overned without the passage of a moneji bill. [Especial care bestowed upon the army, in which, accord- ing to Bismarck, the hope of Prussia and Germany rested (" Blood and Iron ")]. 1862. Revolution in Greece. King Otto (f 1807) compelled to leave the country by an insurrection. Provisional government. After a long search the Greeks found in George of Denmark a prince who accepted their throne (1863). England ceded to Greece the Ionian Islands (p. 483). 1863, Jan. Uprising in Poland and Lithuania suppressed in the spring of 1864. 1863. Congress of German princes at Frankfort o. M., under Aug. the presidency of Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, to con- sider a reorganization of Germany. The meeting was without result, Prussia refusing to take any part in the deliberations. The " Eider-Danes " in Copenhagen having brought about the 1863. Incorporation of Schleswig with Denmark, the patience of March 30. the diet of the German confederation, so well preserved in face of the encroachments of the Danes since 1852, was ex- hausted, and an immediate execution of the decree of the confederation was decreed (Oct. 1). 1863, Nov. 15. Death of Frederic VII., king of Denmark. According to the London Protocol (p. 498), Christian IX. suc- ceeded for the entire monarchy. In spite of this and regardless of his father's renunciation, the hereditary prince of Augustenburg pro- claimed liimself duke of Schleswig-Holstein as Frederic VIII. Yielding to the pressure of the influential party of the Eider-Danes in Copenhagen, Christian IX. accepted the new Danish constitution which incorporated Schleswag with Denmark. Great excitement in Germany. Public opinion decidedly favored the complete separation of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark, and demanded of the German confederation at least a preliminary occupation of the duchies. On the motion of Austria and Prussia, however, who were bound by the London Protocol, the confederation undertook nothing but the execu- tion of its decree, and caused Hanoverians and Saxons (general Hake) to enter the duchies of Holstein and Lauenhurg, which belonged to the confederation. Frederic VIII. proclaimed duke throughout Holstein. 1864, Feb.-Oct. "War of Austria and Prussia with Denmark. Cause: Austria and Prussia demanded the repeal of the No- vember constitution as being inconsistent with former agreements. (Denmark in 1852, when the two powers handed over Schlesioig-Hol- stein to her, had promised " to respect the rights of the duchies,'' which clearly excluded an incorporation of Schleswig.) Refusal of Denmark, Advance of the Austro- Prussian army (Feb. 1, field-mar- shal V. Wrangel, pruice Frederic Charles ; Austinan general v. Gab- lenz) into Schleswig. (Holstein continued in possession of the troops of the confederation.) The Austrians advanced upon the Danewerk, 506 Modern History. A. D. under heavy fig-hting'; the Prussians, after an unsuccessful cannonade at i 3/mMnt/e, crossed the Srhlei at Amis. The Danish commander i>e' 1 Meza surrendered the Danewerk Feb. 5, 6. He was replaced by gen- eral Gerlach. The Austrians under G^aJZens undertook to clear North Schleswig of the Danes. (Brilliant engagement of the Austrian ad- vance at Oversee, Feb. 6.) The Prussians under prince Frederic Charles undertook the difficult operation against the entrenchments of Dilppel, which had been transformed to a veritable fortress. 1864. Skirmishes and preliminary operations until the arrival of the Feb. 22-March 12. siege artillery. March 15- April 18. Actual siege of the entrenchments of Diippel. April 18. Brilliant storming of Diippel by the Prussians. Cap- ture of all the entrenchments. The Danes retreated to Alsen^ evacuating the fortress of Fredericia. A part of Jutland occu- pied by the allies, as a ransom. May 12-June 26. Truce, and meanwhile peace conference at London. Prussia and Austria seceded from the London Protocol. As no agreement could be reached either in regard to a personal union of the duchies with the crown of Denmark (Beust objecting as representa- tive of the confederation), or in regard to the division of Schleswig according to nationality, the war broke out anew. The Prussians vmder prince Frederic Charles (who had received the chief com- mand) accomplished the June 28-29. Passage to the island of Alsen, defeated the Danes at all points, and took a large number of prisoners. All Jilt- land occupied by the allies. At sea a Prussian squadron under Jaclimarn had fought success- fully at Jasmund, March 17, while an Austro-Prussian fleet under Tegethoff had won a victory at Heligoland, and after the truce had captured the islands off Friesland. These misfortunes induced Chris- tian IX. to make direct applications for peace, which led to the 1864, Oct. 30. Peace of Vienna. 1. The king of Denmark renounced all his rights to the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenhurg in favor of the emperor of Austria and the king of Prussia. 2. He agreed to recognize what- ever disposition the monarchs should make of these three states. Upon the motion of the two great powers, the execution against Holstein was declared by the confederation to be completed ; the troops of the confederation {Hanoverians and Saxons) evacuated the country. Prussia and Austria established a common government in the city of Schleswig. While the question of the succession was zealously discussed in the diet of the confederation, in diplomatic negotiations, and in the press, and the cause of the hereditary prince was agitated in both duchies, the Austrian and Prussian commissioners became involved in a wretched conflict. In order to put an end to this, the final decision in regard to the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein was postponed and the 1865. Treaty of Gastein was concluded between Prussia and Aus- Aug. 14. tria. A. D. Austro-Prussiftn War. 507 1. Both powers retained the sovereignty of both duchies, in com- mon ; Austria assuming the provisional administration of Holstein, Prussia that of Schleswig. 2. Rendsburg to be a fortress of the confederation, Kiel a harbor of the confederation ; the use of this harbor was to be in common, but Prussia received the chief connnand there; a military road, a tele- graph and postal line through Holstein were guaranteed to Prussia. 3. The emperor of Austria surrendered all his rights to the duchy of Lauenburg to the king of Prussia for two and a half million rix dol- lars. In execution of this treaty Prussia occupied the duchy of Schleswig (governor, v. Manteuffel) and Austria i\\e duchy of Holstein (governor, V. Gablenz). The duchy of Lauenburg, after the consent of the estates had been obtained, was joined in personal union to the crown of Prus- sia. Deep dissatisfaction with this treaty in the rest of Germany. Be- tween the two great powers new disputes soon broke out. Austria, being determined not to agree, under any circumstances, to a real in- crease of Prussian power, returned to the attitude of the confed- eration upon this point, and entered into agreement with the middle states of Germany. Prussia, regarding the decision of the German question by war as unavoidable, entered into negotiations with Italy. 1866. The Austro-Prussian War.^ June IG-July 22. The war proper lasted one month : June 22 to (Aug. 23). July 22. Allies of Prussia : the smaller North German states and Italy. Allies of Austria : Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Saxony, Hano- ver, Baden, the two Hesses. Cause of the war : the desire of the German people for greater unity, and the impossibility of reaching a re-organization of Germany with a strong central government as long as two great powers con- fronted one another in the German confederation, one having a pop- ulation largely non-Germanic, with non-Germanic interests. Special cause : the quarrel about the future of the North Al- bingian duchies. Austria wished that the crown prince of Augusten- burg should be recognized as duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and join the confederation as a sovereign prince. Prussia demanded (note of Feb. 22, 1865) that in case a new small state, Schleswig-Holstein, was cre- ated : 1. its lohole military force should become an integral part of the Prussian army and tleet, and its postal and telegraph systems be united with those of Prussia ; 2. that several important military posts (^Friedrichsort, Sonderburg, etc.) should be given to Prussia, to enable her to undertake the necessary protection of the new state against Denmark. Reason for the participation of Italy in the war: the favorable op- portunity of acquiring Venice. 1 Ber Feldzug von 1866 in Deutschland (by the Prvssinn General Staff) and Oesterreic/is Kumpf im Jahre 1866 (by the Austrian General Staff). 508 Modern History. A. D. Arming of the three powers, each claiming to be driven to that, step by tlie preparations of its opponent. The chief command of the Austrian armies in Bohemia and Mo- ravia (northern army) given to general Benedek (240,000 men), who made his headquarters at Olmiitz. The command of the army in Venice {southern army) given to archduke Albert. Prussia placed five armies in the field : — 1. First a.rmy in Lusatia (93,000) under prince Frederic Charles. 2. Second (Silesian) army (115,000) under the crown prince, Frederic William. 3. The army of the Elbe (46,000) in Thuringia under general Herwarth von Bittenfeld. 4. The reserve army at Berlin under general v. Mulhe (24,000). 5. The army of the Main not formed until later, at first divided into three corps, Vogel v. Falckenstein at Minden, Manteuffel at Schles- wig, Beyer at Wetzlar (in all 48,000 men). Commander-in-cliief of all forces, king William I. ; chief of the great general staff, gen- eral V. Moltke. The mediation of France, England, and Russia, proffered at Frank- fort, May 27, 28, was frustrated by the demand of Austria that at any peace conference which might be held there should be no refer- ence to an alteration of boundaries. The convocation of the Holstein assembly of estates (June 2) by the Austrian governor, v. Gahlenz, led to an open rupture. Prussia declared that the treaty of Gastein was broken, and general v. Man- teuffel entered Holstein (June 7) ; v. Gahlenz, under protest, retreated to Altona with the Austrian brigade, and thence to Hanoverian terri- tory. On the motion of Austria, which declared the peace of the confed- eration broken by the action of Prussia in Holstein, 1866. The diet decreed the mobilization of the whole army of June 14. the confederation, with exception of the three Prussian corps. Secession of Prussia, and dissolution of the German confederation. June 15. Prussia called upon Saxony, Hanover, and Hesse to disre- gard the resolve of the confederacy, to replace their troops upon a peace footing, and join a new confederation under the lead of Prussia. Upon the rejection of these demands, the Prussians in- vaded Hanover and Electoral Hesse. King George retreated to the south ; the elector, Frederic William, was carried to Stettin a pris- oner. The Prussians invaded Saxony (Herwarth) ; the Saxon army, king, and government retreating to Bohemia. Dresden occupied (June 18) ; all Saxony, excepting Konigstein, in the hands of the Prussians (June 20). Prussia resolved upon an offensive war. The occupation of Saxony opened the way for a strategic march of the army of the Elbe and the Jirst army along the line of Bautzen-Dresden. The concentration of the Austrian power about Ohniitz threatened the province of Silesia, but the Austrian army not being completely ready, the Prussians de- termined to forestall the enemy by an invasion of Bohemia. A. D. A list ro- Prussian War. 509 A. Principal Scene of War in Bohemia. Jime 22-25. Piussian invasion of Bohemia. June 26, 27. Prussuin victories (under prince Frederic Carl and the C7-oiLm prince) at Hii/inrrtrasser, Nachod (June 27) ; victory of the Amtrians at Trautenau (,hme 27). June 28. Prince Frederic Charles at Munchengratz forced back the Austrians and Saxons. Meantime the Sile.sian army defeated v. Gablentz at Soor (June 28), and the crown prince occupied 7'rautenau. Prussian victories of Skalitz (June 28, heavy losses) and Gitschin (June 29). Capture of Kimiginhof. The engagement at Schweinschddel completed the purjiosed ap- proach of the two Prussian armies to one another. They were pur- posely not united, but kept asunder in a manner " which, being without danger strategically considered, secured great tactical ad- vantages." Hitherto the chief movements of both armies had been directed by telegraph from Berlin. June 30. King William I. and general Von Moltke, chief of the general staff, left Berlin for the seat of war. On July 2 it was decided to attack the Austrians with the whole force on the next day, they being stationed behind the Bistritz brook, with the fortress of Kvniggriitz and the Elbe in their rear. 1866. July 3. Battle of Konigratz or Sadowa. The Jirst Prussian army, united with that of the Elbe (king William I., prince Frederic Charles, v. Herwarth), had a severe contest with the northern army of Austria, in an advantageous position, \\ni[QT Benedek ; in the afternoon the second (Silesian army), under the crown prince, gained the flank and rear of the Austrians, after a fatiguing march, and in combination with the first army secured the complete vic- tory of the Prussians. Pursuit was stopped by the Elbe and by the exhaustion of the troops. Retreat of the Austrians toward Olmiitz. Francis Joseph appealed to the mediation of France, and ceded Venetia to Napoleon III., but the truce desired by France was re- jected by Prussia and Italy. Two thirds of the Austrian southern army was transferred to the northern seat of war. Occupation of Prague by the Prussians (Jvdy 10), of Briinn (July 12). March of the main Prussian army upon Vienna. Benedek advanced to the defence of the capital, but was cut off from the direct way by the rapid advance of prince Frederic Charles, and forced to attempt the circuitous route by way of the Little Carpa- thians. A Prussian corps invaded Hungary. July 22. The engagement of Blumenau was broken off by the an- nouncement of the conclusion of a truce for five days, which was converted into July 20. The truce of Nikolsburg, after the preliminaries of peace had been signed under French mediation (p. 510). B. Western Seat of War. The entire army of the confederation was under the command of prince Charles of Bavaria. 510 Modern History. A. D. 1866. Victory of 16,000 Hanoverians over 8,000 Prussians and June 27. troops of Cohurg-Gotha, at Langensalza ; the junction of the Hanoverians with their southern allies was, however, prevented. June 29. Capitulation of the Hanoverians at Lagensalza. July 4-14. Victories of the Prussians at Dermbach (July 4), and in live battles on the Frankish Saale, over the south German troops (Hammelburg, Kissingen, Friedrickshall, Hansen, Wal- dasc'hach) July 10, thus forcing the passage of the river. July 14. Engagement at Aschaffenburg ; victory over the united Hessian, Austrian, and Darmstadt troops. Occupation of Frank- fort (July 16) and Darmstadt (July 17). Occupation of Wurz- burg and Nuremberg. Aug. 2. Truce. C. Seat of "War in Italy. 1866. Battle of Custozza ; victory of the Austrians (archduke June 24. Albert) over the Italians (king Victor Emmanuel). The Italian army retreated across the Mincio, but after the Aus- trian army was transferred, in large part, to the seat of war in the north, the Italians again advanced. July 20. Naval victory of the Austrians {Tegethoff) at Lissa over the Italians (^Persano). 1866. Peace of Prague Aug. 23. between Prussia and Austria. 1. The emperor of Austria recognized the dissolution of the German confederation, and consented to a reorganization of Germany without Austria, and agreed to the annexations contemplated by Prussia. J A special condition secured Saxony (as a member of the new north German confederation) from an alteration of her boundary. 2. Aus- tria transferred to Prussia her rights in Schleswig-Holstein, with the • reservation that the northern districts of Schleswig should be reunited I with Denmark, should the inhabitants express a desire for such re- • union by a free popular vote (rescinded, 1878). 3. Austria paid I twenty million rix dollars ('$15,000,000) for the costs of the war. 4. At the request of Prussia Venice was ceded to Italy. Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Electoral Hesse, Nassau, and the free city of Frankfort were definitively incorporated with Prussia, so that by this successful war the extent of the monarchy was in- creased from 111,000 square miles (over nineteen million inhabitants) to 140,000 square miles (twenty-three and a half million inhabitants). Peace between Prussia and Wiirtemberg (Aug. 13), Baden (Aug. 17), Bavaria (Aug. 22), Hesse (Sept. 3), Saxony (Oct. 21). The proposed cessions of territory in the southern states were in the main given up, inasmuch as Napoleon III. showed a desire for a rectification of bovmdaries as regarded Germany ; conclusion of an offensive and defensive alliance between Prussia and the southern states. Reciprocal guarantee of territorial integrity. The southern states placed their entire military force under the command of the king of Prussia in the event of war. Tiie demand of Napoleon IIX rejected. A. D. AiLStro-Prussian War, 611 1866. Peace of Vienna Oct. 3. between Austria iiiid Italy. Austria roco<]^iuzed the king- dom of Italy, with wliicli Venice wus unitetl. Prnssia hav- ing conchuled an alliance witii the Norlh (jerman states in August, 18(30, elections for a North Geiman diet were prescribed on a ba^is of manhood and direct suifrage. 18G7. First diet of the North German Confederation. Feb. 24. After a short discussion the diet agreetl with the govern- ments upon a constitution for the North German Confed- eration : presidency of the league united with the crown of Prussia, which represented the confederation in its international re- lations, declared war, concluded peace and treaties, and accredited ambassadors in its name. Tlie governments were represented in the council of the confederation {Bundesrath) , in which Prussia had seventeen votes, and the other twenty-one members twenty-six votes altogether. Imperial diet {Reichstag) originating from direct man- hood suffrage. Centralized military system, under the command of the king of Prussia. Universal compulsory military service. United customs, postal, and telegraph service. Count Bismarck, chancellor of the confederation. 1867. In Austria a reorganization of the state in a liberal sense was undertaken, in consequence of the unsuccessful war. The former Saxon minister, von Beust, president of the ministry, after- wards (until 1871) chancellor of the empire. Reconciliation with Hungary. Restoration of the Hungarian constitution. Solenm corona- tion of the emperor Francis Joseph in Pesth as king of Hungary. Reunion of the dependent lands {Croatia, Transylvania) with Hun- gary. Establishment of a liberal constitution in that part of the monarchy this side of the Leith (Cisleithafiia). (The constitution of 1861, p. 504, was suspended in 1805.) Germano-Slavouic Reichstag. 1867. Luxemburg question. Napoleon III. wished to secretly indemnify the French nation for the increased power of Prussia by a new annexation. His nego- tiations with the king of Holland in regard to the purchase of the grand duchy of Luxemburg were broken off in consequence of the objection of Prussia, whereupon Napoleon III. demanded that the Prussian garrison of Luxemburg should evacuate the fortress. Un- der the excitement which the dispute aroused in Germany and France, the outbreak of war seemed unavoidable, when the 1807, London Conference (Italy recognized as the sixth great Vlay 7-11. power) succeeded in establishing the following agree- ments : 1. The neutrality of the grand duchy was guaranteed by the great powers in common. 2. The Prussian garrison evacuated Luxemburg, and the fortifications were razed. 1807. Italian volunteers, with the tacit favor of the Italian govern- Sept.-Nov. ment, made an attack upon the papal territory. Na})o- leon III. declared the former treaty (p. 503) broken, and sent assistance to the Pope. The free troops were defeated at Mentana Rome received a new French garrison. 512 Modern History. A. D. 1868, April. First customs parliament in Germany. 1868. Outbreak of the Spanish Revolution in Cadiz. The royal- Sept, ist troops under Novaliches were defeated by the insurgent troops under Serrano at Alcolea. Queen Isabella fled to France; the whole country declared in favor of the revolution. Provisional government. The Bourbons deposed from the throne. Summons of a constitutional cortes. The majority* of the cortes established, in spite of the opposition of the numerous republican members, a new constitutional rnonarchy. Serrano provisional regent. After many negotiations with foreign princes, conducted by Prim (murdered 1870), without result, the prince of Hohenzollern (1870, p. 513) ac- cepted the Spanish crown. After his withdrawal, during the Franco- Prussian war, the duke of Aosta, the second son of Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, was elected by the cortes, and ascended the throne as 1870-1873. Amadeus I., king of Spain. 1869. In France general election for the corps le'gislatif • for the first time during the second empire, strong manifestation of party spirit, and a large number of votes cast. The departments, espe- cially the country population, gave the government a good majority, tliough weaker than formerly. In Paris and Lyons victory of the ultra radical party, and election of candidates opposed to the govern- ment and the dynasty, 1869) Nov. 16. Formal opening of the Suez Canal, which was completed by the indomitable perseverance of its projec- tor, the Frenchman, Ferdinand de Lesseps. 1869, Dec. 8. Opening of the Vatican Council. Proclamation of the dogma of papal infallibility July 18, 1870, by a vote of 547 to 2. Adjournment of the council, Oct. 20, 1870. Vacillating and indecisive conduct of the emperor Kapoleon III. in face of the daily increasing dissatisfaction in the country with the arbitrary character of the government, which was no longer offset by any brilliant achievements outside. Dismissal of the " vice emperor '* Rouher (July). Formation of a new cabinet, composed of similar re- actionary elements ; then, as the different factions of the opposition (Thiers, Ollivier, Favre, Gambetta, Rochefort) grew more bold, forma- tion of the 1870, Jan. Ministry of Ollivier from the ranks of the moderate liberals. Dismissal of the prefect of tlie Seine, Hausmann. The death of a radical journalist at the hands of Pierre Bonaparte, at, cousin of the emperor (self-defence or murder ?), produced an ex- traordinary excitement in Paris. Riots. Condemnation and imprison- ment of Rochefort, in consequence of his incendiary newspaper arti- cles. New riots. Arrest of many radicals. Prince Pierre Bonaparte declared not guilty by the court in Tours. April. A new liberal constitution, introduced by the government, was accepted by a decree of the senate, whereupon a vote of confidence was demanded from the people by a ^^ plebiscite " (May), which resulted, thanks to the application of well-known methods, in a majority of more than seven million yeas to one and a half million nays, the latter being cast in Paris and the larger cities. In the A. D. Franco-German War. 513 army and the fleet more than 50,000 voted " no." In view of this grave dissatisfaction in the army, and of the constant aj;itation of the parties, which were in no wise quieted by the liberal concessions which had been made, a diversion, to be induced by involving the country in foreign disputes, such as had often been tried in France, seemed to be the best means of extrication. To the adoption of this means the emperor, who was anxious for the future of his dynasty, was more anil more strongly urged by his ultimate councillors (the empress^ marshal Lebaeuf, duke of Gramont, minister of foreign affairs). 1870, July 19-1871, March 3. Franco-Prussian War.^ General Causes : 1. The idea entertained by a great part of the French nation, and kept alive by historians, poets, and the daily press, of the reconquest of the left bank of the Rhine (les frontieres naturelles-). 2. The French, not understanding the long struggle of the German nation for political unity, saw in the consumnuition of this union only a forcible aggrandizement of Prussia, and in the victory of the latter state over Austria an unpermissible encroach- ment upon their own military fame. Special causes : 1. The internal troubles of the government of Napoleon III. (p. 512). 2. The rejection of the " compensation " de- manded, since 1866, from the cabinet of Berlin, for the growth of Prussia in extent and population. 3. News of the approaching in- troduction of an unproved weapon for the north German infantry, which threatened to put in question the superiority of the French chassepot. Immediate cause : The election of the prince of Hohenzollem to the throne of Spain (512), which was represented in Paris as a Prus- sian intrigue endangering the safety of France. The request made by the French ambassador Benedetti in Ems of king AVilliam I. in person, that he should forbid the prince of Ilohenzollern to accept the ISpanish crown, was refused. After the voluntary withdrawal of the prince, the French government looked to the king of Prussia for a distinct announcement " that he would never again permit the candi- dacy of the prince for the Spanish crown." King William refused to discuss the matter, and referred Benedetti to the regidar method of communication through the ministry at Berlin. This and the tele- graphic announcement of the proceeding was represented by the duke of Gramont as an insult to France. Tremendous excitement in Paris, artificially fermented (cries of "a Berlin ! "). In the corps h'gislatif (July 15), opposition of a small minority {Thiers: "because France is not prepared for war ") to the declaration of war, which the imperial government declared was forced upon them by Prussia (" La France accepte la guerre que la Prusse lui offre "). 1 Der deufsch-frnnz. Krieg 1870-71, edited by the division of the Prus- sian General Staff on military history. Niemann, Derfrnnz. Feldztig ran 1870-71, 2 vols. An En,i,^lish renderintc of the French view of the war will be found ill Jerrold'a Life of Napoleon III., vol. iv. " The tirst use of tliis idea, which can be established, was bv king Charlet VII., 1444. 514 Modern History. A. D„ In Germany quiet but decided attitude of the government and the people. William I. on his return to Berlin enthusiastically received (July 15). The same evening mobilization of the north German army and convention of the Reichstag ordered. July 19. Delivery of the French declaration of war. Opening of the north German Reichstag, which unanimously voted a war credit (July 23). South Germany understood that the French attack, although ap- parently directed against Prussia alone, was in reality an attack upon the German nation, and that Napoleon's purpose was the conquest of German territory and the establishment of a new confederation of the Rhine. The patriotic attitude of Louis II. of Bavaria, who on July 16 had declared that the case of war contemplated in the con- federation was at hand, and had ordered the mobilization of the Ba- varian army, had a decisive influence upon Wiirtemberg. Patriotic attitude of Baden. The French cabinet, which had counted on the neutrality of south Germany, at the least, undeceived. Hence a new military plan. The grand army was to be divided into three groups, the two former (250,000) of which were to force neutrality upon the south Germans, and hasten the hoped-for alliance with Austria ?ind Italy. This should be followed by an attack upon the north German army, while expedi- tions to the coasts of the German ocean should instigate an uprising in Hanover and secure the assistance of Demnark. In reality the strategic advance of the French army took place as follows : — 1. Corps under marshal MacMahon, at Strasburg. 2. Corps under general De Failly at Bitsch. 3. Corps under Marshal Bazaine at Metz. 4. Corps under general Ladmirault at Thionville (Diedenhofe^i). The corps of marshal Canrobert at Chalons, of general F. Douay at Bel/ort, and the Garde under general Bourbaki at Nancy formed the reserve (320,000). Commander-in-chief, Napoleon III. ; chief of the general staff, marshal Leboeuf. It appearing that most of the corps were not in readiness for war the plan of attack was exchanged for a defensive plan. The German forces moved in three great armies. I. Army, right wing, Steinmetz at Coblentz (60,000). II. Army, centre, prince Frederic Charles, Mainz (131,000, with the reserve 194,000). III. Army, left wing, crown prince Frederic William at Mann- heim (130,000). The total strength of the north German army 750,000 (of which 198,000 were Landwehr) ; of the south German 100,000. Commander- in-chief, king William I. ; chief of the general staff, general Von Moltke. The strategic movement of the German armies was at first planned for defense simply, but as the enemy's delay gave a chance for an attack an advance of all three armies towards the boundary, from Trier to Landau, began in the latter part of July. Before the Ger- mans could take the offensive the French made an A. D. Franco- German 1 1 ar. 515 3 ? 3: 3-? it CO-. -hS!=: I ^x3 ^^ 2.3.5.- ?33 m 1- p Albert;, t 1872. m. Marian Princess of Netherianc 1 5 = o m- ^-i 3!^ ^r ^^§ 516 Modern History. A. d. 1870. Attack upon Saarbriicken. The repulse of a single bat- Aug. 2. talion by three divisions was represented in the French re- ports as an important victory. Aug. 4. Engagement at Weissenburg. MacMahon after a most courageous defense defeated in the Aug. 6. Battle of Worth (Reichshofen) by the army of the crown prince, which was numerically greatly his superior. Aug. 6. German victory at Spicheren {Suarhrilcken^. In consequence of these defeats the French army commenced its retreat to the Moselle. The crown prince detached a corps to besiege Strashurg and other Alsatian fortresses, and advanced upon Nancy ; the I. army marched upon Aletz ; the 11. army upon Pont a Mousson, with the intention of surrounding the main force of the French about Metz and cutting them off from Paris. To prevent this Bazaine, upon whom the emperor had conferred the chief command, resolved, after some indecision, to retreat upon Chdlons-sur-Marne and join there the remnants of MacMahon's com- mand and a newly formed army. To prevent such juncture the ad- vance guard of the I. army attacked Bazaine and in the Aug. 14. Battle of Colombey-Nouilly and the Aug. 16. Battle of Vionville (drawn battle), with great losses, prevented the retreat of the French to Verdun. Upon the arrival of the delayed corps of the I. and 11. army on the next day, the French were again attacked in their excellently chosen and partially strongly fortified positions. In the Aug. 18. Battle of Gravelotte and St. Privat {Rezon- ville) the Germans under command of king William I. gained an advantageous position after eight hours' hot figTiting, in spite of the desperate resistance of the French. Aug. 19. Retreat of the French under the guns of Metz. The result of these three bloody battles near Metz was to separate the French force into two parts, and to surround their main army in and about a fortress which was not provisioned for so large a body of troops. 1870, Aug. 19-Oct. 27. Siege of Metz. Aug. 14-Sept. 27. Siege of Strasburg by general Von Werder. After the battles near Metz, advance upon Chalons. MacMahon evacuated Chalons, but instead of retreating to Paris, as was expected at the German headquarters, he attempted to reach Metz and liberate Bazaine by a circuitous flank march to the northeast. Napoleon III. accompanied the army. On learning of this manoeuvre the Germans made a detour toward the right (north). Bazaine 's attempt to break through the German lines and join Mac-= Mahon frustrated by the z' Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. Engagements at Noisseville. MacMahon saw the impossibility of reaching Metz, and con- centrated his forces at Sedan. The Germans (250,000) far outnum- bering the French (about 140,000) decided to send a part of their A. D. Franco- German War. 517 troops over the Mouse and surround the French army. Tliis was accomplished by the Sept. 1. Battle of Sedan. MacMahon, wounded in tlie morning, gave up the command to Ducrot, who afterwards transferred it to the ohler general Wimpffen. The victorious advance of the Germans on all sides was not checked by the brilliant charges of the French cavalry. At three o'clock the French army was surrounded. Napoleon III. delivered his sword to William I. and acknowledged himself a prisoner. Negotiations between Von Moltke and Wimptf'en, and between Napoleon III. and Bismarck. The following forenoon the 1870, Sept. 2. Capitulation of Sedan was signed. The entire French army prisoners of war : 39 generals, 2,300 offi- cers, 84,000 men, 25,000 having been captured during the battle (10,000 escaped to Belgium). Napoleon III. conducted to Wilhelms- hohe. In Paris the news of the first defeats, which had been long con- cealed, produced great excitement and the fall of the mmistry of Ollivier (Aug. 10). Montauban-Palikao, the minister of war, formed a new ministry composed of ultra- Bonapartists. Falsification of war news. Paris in a state of siege. The receipt of the news of the ca- pitulation of Sedan caused the 1870. Fall of the Empire and Proclamation of the 8ei)t. 4. (third) Republic. Flight of the empress Eugenie to England. Provisional gov- ernment of the " National defense." Trochu (president and gover- nor of Paris), Favre (foreign affairs), Gamhetta (interior), Cremieux (justice), Simon (religion and education), Le/io (war), Fourichon (navy). Sept. 4-16. March of the German armies upon Paris. Defenses of Paris : continuous line of bastions and trenches, sur- rounding the suburbs ; around this on the inside a belt railroad ; six- teen detached forts, two of which, Mont Valerien in the west and St. Denis in the north, were actual fortresses, all connected by continu- ous entrenchments and liberally provided with heavy artillery and military stores. Including the sailors and garrison, about 85,000 veterans ; with the mobilized guards from the ]>rovinces, the guard mobile and national guard of Paris, over 300,000 men. Extensive accumulation of provisions. The negotiations between Bismarck and Favre leading to no result (refusal of ant/ cession of territory), the great city was invested by the IV.i army on the north and east, by the III. army on the S. and W. Headquarters at Versailles. 1870, Sept. 19-1871, Jan. 28. Siege of Paris. After the capitulation of Sedan the whole war was a struggle for Paris. Excepting the conquest of Alsace and German Lorraiike, 1 The IV. army was formed, after Gravelotte, from corps of the I. and II. 518 Modern History, A. d. which Germany had regarded as the prize of victory, from the com- mencement of the war, all the military operations of the Germans had the object of preserving the positions and the lines of connection of the armies abont Paris, and of preventing any attempt to raise the siege ; the raising of the siege was, on the contrary, the object of all the French operations. 1870. In conseqnence of the withdrawal of the FrenQh garrison Sept. 20. from Rome, capture of that city by the Italian army and abolition of the secular power of the Pope. Sept. 23. Capture of Toul. Sept. 27. Capitulation of Strasburg. The delegation of the French government in Tours, since Oct. 9, under the dictatorship of Gambetta, who had left Paris in a bal- loon, formed two armies for the relief of Paris : a. army of the Loire (not 30,000) ; h. northern army. The former defeated by the Ba- varian general Von der Tann in the 1870, Oct. 10. Engagement at Artenay, Occupation of Orleans. While Gambetta with the greatest energy was strengthening and arming forces for relief, Bazaine, who, as leader of the largest regu- lar army in France, had thought to play a political role, by means of negotiations, was forced, after several unsuccessful sorties, to the 1870, Oct. 27. Capitulation of Metz. (3 marshals, 3,000 officers, 173,000 men, 500 field artillery, 800 fortress cannon.) A part of the besieging arm}^ was sent to reiriorce the armies before Paris ; a part was dispatched under Manteuffel against the French army of the north ; the largest part, under prince Frederic Charles, was sent against the army of the Loire. Nov. 28. Defeat of the army of the Loire at Beaune la Rolande (by prince Frederic Charles), whereby the purpose of the French commander to force his passage to Paris was frus- trated. Nov. 27. Defeat of the army of the north at Amiens by Man^ teuffel. Nov. 30. At Paris, sortie under Trochu and Ducrot, in coopera- tion with the intended advance of the Loire army. Storm and capture of Champigny and Brie. Successful defense of Vil- liers and Cceuily by Wiirtemberg troops. Further French ad- vance was checked, but they kept Brie. After great losses in the fight and through cold the French troops returned to Paris (Dec. 3). Dec. 2-4. Battle of Orleans, the name given to a number of engagements in which the Germans defeated the army of the Loire, with the following results : 1. Capture of the strong French entrenchments on the | right bank of the Loire, and re-occupation of Orleans. 2. Sep- 1 aration of the army of the Loire into two parts. Flight of the delegation of the government to Boi'deaux (Dec. 9). The larger part of the Loire army driven behind Vendome ; Frederic Charles, at Orleans, covered the besieging armies be- fore Paris from the south. A. D. Franco- German War. 519 Dec. 27. Oppninp^ of the bombardment of the forts of Paris, after the trauspoitation of licavv aitillcrv and innnitioiis had been accomplished with the greatest diitieulty. Bombardment of the city, Jan. 8, 1871. 1571, Jan. 12^ Battle of Le Mans. Defeat of Chanzi/ by Frederic Charles. The French army al- most annihihited. Jan. 10.-13. Sortie from Paris ag^ainst Meudon and Clamarty and one against Le Bonrciet re])ulsed. In the south, Bourbaki with 140,000 men forced von Werder, who was besieging Belfort, without giving up the siege, to take up a favor- able position along the Lisaine by a masterly retreat. In the three days Jan. 15-17. Battle of Belfort, Von Werder successfully defended his position, and forced Bourbaki to retreat. Jan. 18. Renewal of the title and office of German Emperor in the palace of Louis XIV. at Versailles, all the sovereign princes and the three free cities having offered the crown to king William I. Jan. 19. Last great sortie from Paris, with 100,000 men, under Trochu, repulsed after severe fighting. On the same day, Jan. 19. Battle of St. Quentin, in which general Von Gbben completely defeated and scattered the French army of the north. In the south Manteujfel forced the French to take refuge in the neutral territory of Switzer- land, where they were disarmed. 1871, Jan. 28. Capitulation of Paris by the convention of Versailles : 1. surrender of all the forts with munitions of war, disarmament of the city wall ; 2. all French soldiers in Paris considered as prisoners of war, with exception of 12,000 men, which, with the national guard, preserved order ; the French officials to provision the city ; 3. the city of Paris paid 200 million francs ; 4. truce (excepting the departments of Doubs, JurOy and Cote d'or) for three weeks, for the purpose of allowing a free elec- tion for a national assembly, which was to meet in Bordeaux, and de- cide between peace and war. Gambetta's resistance to this agreement was soon broken ; his resignation (Feb. 6). Elections throughout France (Feb. 8). The national assembly formed in Bordeaux (Feb. 12). Truce prolonged to 24th Feb., and afterwards to March 3. Thiers, elected head of the executive department, conducted the negotiations with Bismarck which resulted in the Feb. 26. Preliminaries of peace at Versailles. 1. France ceded to the German Empire : Alsace (except Belfort and territory) and German Lorraine, with Metz and Die- denhofen (Thionville), in all 4,700 square miles, Avith one and a half million inhabitants ; 2. France agreed to pay live milliards of francs for indemnification in three years, wliich were secured by an occupa- tion of French territory. 520 Modern History. A. D. March 1. Entrance of 30,000 German troops into Paris (addi- tional article), and temporary occupation of a small part of the city ; evacuated again on March 3d. The preliminaries of peace were rati- fied, and the details settled in the definitive 1871, May 10. Peace of Frankfort on Main. The results of the war were : 1. destruction of the military power of France ; 2. acquisition of a secure military boundary for Germany on the west ; 3. the realization of the political unit}' of the German nation. March 21-June 15. First imperial Parliament of the new German federal state (Bundestaat), which on April 14 almost unanimously adopted the following constitution for the em- pire : presidency hereditarily connected with the crown of Prussia, whose king bore the title of German emperor, and represented the empire in international relations, declared war and peace (with the consent of the Bundesratli), concluded alliances, and had the chief command of the army and navy. The representatives of the 25 gov- ernments formed the federal council (Bundesrath) under the pres- idency of the chancellor of the empire (the fiist : prince Bis- marck). (In all, 58 votes : Prussia 17, Bavaria 6, Saxony and Wur- temberg each 4, Baden and Hesse each 3, Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Brunswick each 2, the rest each 1.) The representatives of the people formed the imperial parliament (Reichstag), consisting of 382 mem- bers, chosen by direct manhood suffrage. Centralized military sys- tem ; universal compulsory service (3 years in standing army, 4 years in reserve, 5 years in the Landwehr), uniform postal and telegraph service, uniform system of coinage, weights and measures. The new German empire comprised 216,770 sq. miles, and more than 41,000,000 inhabitants. 1871, July 1. Rome became seat of the government and capital of Italy, now completely united under the sceptre of Victor Em- manuel (guarantee for the Pope). Sept. Opening of the Mt. Cenis tunnel across the Alps (begun 1859 ; 7.6 miles long). 1872, June 29. New agreement between Germany and France, which fixed the payment of the fourth milliard for March 1, 1874 ; the fifth, March 1, 1875 ; and permitted the substitution of a financial security for this last milliard, for the occupation of French territory. 3873, Jan. 9. Death of Napoleon III. in Chiselhurst (England). Feb. Amadeus I. resigned the Spanish crown. Spain a republic. Anarchy. Civil war against the Federalists in Cartagena (cap- tured 1874), and agamst Don Carlos in the north. July-Sept. The German troops, after an anticipation of the indem- nity, leave the French territory. In Italg, in Switzerland, and in Prussia, struggle between the state and the Roman catholic hierarchy. In Italy, dissolution of all mon- asteries in Home and the former papal states (Ma}^, 1873). In Swit- zerland, complete rupture with the Roman chair and establishment A. D. Franco- German War. i>^l of a catholic clcrji^y elected by tlu; people. In Prussia, in conse- quence of the May laws (;iftei\v:ii(ls extended), which the catholic clergy openly resisted, nnnicrous arrests and removals of ecclesias- tics. This contest led to the 1874. Introduction of compulsory civil marriage and the civil Oct. 1. registration of births and deaths, which afterwards became an imperial law (.Ian. 1, 1870). Oct. International Postal Congress in Bern. Tlie regulations agreed upon went into force July 1, 1875 (for France, Jan. 1, 1870). Dec. 29-31. Military '' pronunciamientosi " for Alfonso, prince of As- turia, son of queen Isabella, led to the 1875, Jan. Restoration of monarchy in Spain. 1875 — X. Alfonso XII., king of Spain. In the north, in spite of some successes of the royal troops, the civil war continued against Don Carlos, whom the new king declared to be an usurper. 1875. Revolt against Turkish government in Herzegovina, sup- July, ported by Montenegro and Servia. March. End of the civil war in Spain. Don Carlos was obliged to leave the country, and went to England. May. The Turks proved unable to suppress the revolt in Herzego- vina. Murder of the German and French consuls in Salonica. The three northern great powers invited the other three to join in making a common representation to the Porte (memo- randum of Berlin). Great Britain refused to join. Before the memorandum could be presented a May 29. Palace Revolution occurred in Constantinople. Deposi- tion of the Sultan Abdul- Aziz, who died shortly afterwards. Murad V. succeeded. 1876, July. Servia (prince Milan) and Montenegro (prince Nikita) declared war upon the Porte. A revolt which had broken out in Bulgaria bloodily suppressed by the Turks. The Turkish troops and the Turkish militia exercised shameful cruelties, wliich produced the greatest indignation through- out Europe, particularly in Russia, thereby giving the Russian gov- ernment a welcome excuse to proclahn itself the protector of the oppressed Christians, and especially of the Slavonic population in Turkey. Military preparations in Russia. Meanwhile the war was waged unsuccessfully by Servia, in spite ol the open Russian assistance, and the presence of Russian volunteers in the Servian army, which obtained a Russian commander in Tsher- najeff, while the Montenegrins were several times victorious. 1876. New, bloodless palace revolution in Constantinople. Murad Aug. v., who suffered from an incurable mental disorder, deposed. He was succeeded by his brother, Abdul Hamid II. The Turkish army crossed the Servian frontier, and was prevented from marching further only by an ultimatum of the Russian government. The Porte agreed to a truce for two months at first, and afterward for six months. Russia being unable to induce any other power to join her in an 522 Modern History. A. d. armed interference with Tiir!:ey, and being herself unprepared for war and hindered by the winter season, diplomatic negotiations were prolonged. Finally a conference of ambassadors of all the great powers was arranged to meet in Constaiitinoj)le. Dec. 24. Meeting of the conference. Promulgation of a constitu- tion for the whole Ottoman empire, which gave the Christians equal rights with Muhammedans and which the Porte hoped would make unnecessary any special provisions in favor of his Christian sub- jects, to be guaranteed by the powers. 1877. The guarantees which were still demanded by the conference in spite of the Turkish constitution, but which had been grad- ually reduced in extent, were rejected by the Porte, after consulta- tion with an imperial council summoned for the occasion. The am- bassadors of all the great powers left Constantinople. Peace concluded between the Porte and Servia on the basis of the status quo ante helium. Montenegro continued in arms. After further negotiations with the European powers, which had no result, and after completion of its preparations, the Russian govern- ment concluded to take up arms alone against Turkey, making a formal declaration that it had no conquests in view. 1877, April-1878, March. Turco-Russian War. A. Seat of war in Europe : A Russian army under the grand duke Nicholas crossed the Pruth, an understanding with Roume- lia having been previously reached, and advanced to the Danube, which was first crossed June 22 by a corps under Zimmer7nann, which occupied the Dohrudsha ; the main army, which Alexander II. had meanwhile joined, forced the 1877. Passage of the Danube at Shistova. June 27. A flying corps under Gurko crossed the Balkan by an un- guarded pass, and drove the Turkish garrison from the impor- tant Shipka Pass, by an attack from the south (July 17-19), while one division of the main army, under tiie crown prince, fronted east and by hard fighting, prolonged for months about the rivers Jantra and Lorn, held in check the Turkish army wndev Ahdul Kerim (after- wards under Mehemed Ali, and finally under Suleiman). The other division of the Russian army captured Nicopolis (July 15), but suffered repeated repulses with heavy loss before Plevna (S. W. from Nicopolis), where Osman Pasha had collected Turkish troops and thrown up strong fortifications (July 20 and 30), and was forced to wait for reinforcements. Meantime Suleiman Pasha attempted in vain to storm the Shipka Pass from the south with superior numbers (Aug. 23, Sept. 17). He was now appointed commander of the Turkish army in the east on the Lom, where his troops had been sadly missed. Arrival of Roumanian troops and Russian reinforcements before Plevna. After the failure of an attempted storm (Sept. 7-12), a reg- ular siege was undertaken (gen. Totlehen), and Dec. 10. Plevna captured. Osman Pasha, with 44,000 men, obliged to surrender after a futile attempt to break through the Rus- sian lines. Return of the Roumanians to their country, of Alexander A. D. Turco-Russian War. 523 //. to St. Petersburg. Servia (Dee. 14) declared war upon the Porte anew. Dec.-Jan. A Russian division under Gurko crossed the western Bal- kans and occupied Sophia ; a second un(k'r Radetzki and Sko- helef innived through the Shipka Pass. Both divisions, in conjunction with the portions of the eastern army which had also crossed the Balkans, advanced by way of Philij)popolis (victory of Gurko over remnants of the Turkish army, Jan. 10 and 17, 1878) and Adrianople (occupied Jan. 20), close upon Constantinople. B. Seat of war in Asia (Russian commander-in-chief grand duke Michael). While the operations of a Russian division against Batoum, as well as an expedition of the Turkish Heet to the Caucas- ian coasts, were without result, the main column of the Russian army (Loris-Melikqf) forced its way to Kars, which it invested (May, 1877). Two" other divisions occupied Ardaghan and Bajasid. The reverses suif ered from Mukhtar Pasha, who advanced to the relief of Kars from Erzeroum (June), compelled the Russians to retreat across the frontier, abandoning almost all their conquests. In October the Russians advanced again, and after the 1877. Storm of Kars Nov. 8. pushed on victoriously to Erzeroum. The success of the Russian arms created lively apprehensions in the west, particularly in England, to whom Turkei/ appealed for mediation. Angry negotiations between England and Russia. Mean- while the Porte was obliged to ask for peace directly of Russia, which in the 1878. Agreement of Adrianople Jan. 31. granted a preliminary truce, and sketched the plan of a future peace. 1878, Feb. 1. Greece sent her troops into Thessaly, but was induced to withdraw them after a few days. After the Russians had drawn their lines closer and closer about Constantinople aiid had occupied Erzeroum in Armenia, and a part of the English deet which was lying before the Dardanelles had entered the Sea of Marmora, the March 3. Peace of San Stefano (near Constantinople) was concluded between Russia and Turkey: 1. Montenegro and Servia received considerable additions from Turkish territory, and were recognized as independent ; likewise, Roumania. 2. Bul- garia, i. e. the larger part of ancient Moesia, Thrace, and Macedonia (boundaries : Danube, the Black Sea and vEgean Sea, Albania and Servia) remained tributary to the Porte, but received a Christian prince, separate administration and militia ; a Russian commissary with 50,000 men was to remain two years in the country. 3. The Porte was to introduce certain reforms in the small portion of his European possessions which remained to liim. 4. Turkey paid Rus- sia 300 million rubles, and ceded large parts of Armenia in Asia and the Dobrudsha in Europe, Russia agreeing to give the latter to Roumania in return for the part of Bessarabia (p. 501) which she had ceded in 1856. ► 524 Modern History. A. d. This peace aroused great opposition in the west, especially in Eng-j land, which showed herself ready to go to war with Russia in case thef latter insisted on the execution of the above conditions. Austria also) began to arm. June 4. The Porte concluded a treaty with England (at first secret), wherein the latter undertook to protect Turkey in Asia against] Russian conquest. The Porte, however, promised to introduce reforms! in these parts, and gave up the island of Cyprus to England (Cyprus] occupied July 11). Germany having mediated between Russia and England, to preventl war, and three powers having come to a preliminary understanding', | the 1878, June 13-July 13. Congress of Berlin met under the presidency of prince Bismarck. Principal conditions: 1. Montenegro, Servia, Roumania, became independent, but the cessions to be made to the two former states were somewhat reduced, while the territory which Roumania was to receive in exchange for Bessarabia was somewhat enlarged. 2. The principality of Bulgaria was limited to the country between the Danube and the Balkans, including, however, Sophia and its territory, (An assembly of notables elected prince Alexander of Battenberg (Hesse), a nephew of the Russian emperor, April, 1879.) 3. The southern portion of Bulgaria, with its boundaries considerably nar- rowed toward the south and west, was left under the immediate rule of the sultans, with the title Province of East Roumelia, but received a separate militia, and administration under a Christian governor-gen- eral ; only in specified cases could it be occupied by regular Turkish troops. 4. The Russian troops were to evacuate East Roumelia and Bidgaria inside of nine months, Roumania inside of a year. 5. The Porte ceded to Austria the military occupation and administration of. Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the military occupation of the Sandshak of Novi Bazar. 6. The Porte was advised to cede a part of Epirus and Thessaly to Greece. 7. Russia received in Asia Batoum (as a. free harbor), Kars, Ardaghan, and some border territories. 8. In Turkey, and all the states which had been separated from her, there should be political equality of all confessions. 1878. Death of Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy (p. 503). Jan. 9. He was succeeded by his son, Umberto (Humbert^ I. Feb. 7. Death of pope Pius IX. He was succeeded by Leo XIII. (Pecci). May 11 and June 2. Attempted assassination of the German em- peror William I., who at the second attempt was somewhat dangerously wounded. In consequence, law against the ex- cesses of the social democrats. 1878. Entrance of the Austrians into Bosnia and Herzego- July 29. vina, where part of the inhabitants offered armed resist- ance until autumn (1879, occupation of the Lim territory). 1879. In the German empire excited discussion of changes advocated by prince Bismarck in the tariff and economical policy (new tariff, July). Attempted reconciliation with the Pope. The A. D. Turco-Rassidu War. 525 Prussian minister of relio-ioii (Falk since 1872) retired ; his successor, Von Puttkainer (July 14). Russia assuniintj^ a hostile attitude, and attempting to form an al- liance with France against Gerniany, Sept. 21-24:. Bismarck visited Vienna, and a defensive alliance was concluded between Prussia and Austria. Oct. 1. The new system of jurisprudence for the entire German em- pire went in force (supreme court in Leipzig). 1880. The boldness of the Nihilists in Russia continuing- to increase Feb. in spite of the severe measures of the government (three des- perate attempts upon the life of Alexander II. inside of ten months), general LoiHs-MelikoJf was clothed with a sort of dictatorial power, but endeavored to prevent the imminent dangers by conces- sions. Conflict with the papacy in regard to ecclesiastical orders and new laws relating to education in Finance, and still more sharply in Bel- gium (liberal ministry of Frere Orban since 1878). In Prussia, all negotiations with the papacy proving vain, certain limitations of the existing laws relating to the church (p. 520) were introduced as an attempt to reach the desired result by political leg- islation. The resolutions of the congress of Berlin had never been com- pletely carried into execution, in part because of the resistance of the Albanian league (secretly aided by the Porte ?) to the cessions made to Montenegro, and also because the negotiations relative to a sur- render of territory to Greece had been without result. Hence the June 16-July 1. Conference of Berlin was called, which delivered to the Porte certain distinct propo- sitions in regard to these questions (Tkessali/ and Epirus with Janina to be given to Greece), which should eventually be enforced by armed interference. The Porte still delaying, a squadron of vessels of all the great powers assembled at Ragusa (Sept.). This demonstration produced the Nov. Surrender of Dulcigno and territory to Montenegro. 1881. March 13. Alexander II. murdered in St. Petersburg. He was succeeded by his son, 1881— X. Alexander III. Roumania made a kingdom. March-April. Conference of ambassadors at Constantinople. The Porte decided to carry out the surrender of territory to Greece, though to a somewhat smaller extent than was indicated by the Berlin conference. Sept. 8. Meeting of William I. of Germany and Alexander III. of Russia at Danzig. 1882. Disturbances in southern Dalmatia, Herzegovina, and Bosnia. Jan. Dispatch of Austrian troops to these points. Jan. 7. Excitement created in Prussia by the jiublication of a royal rescript, attacking the theory of responsible ministers, and an- nouncing that all persons m government service were expected to support the goverimieut at elections. 526 Modern History. A. d. 1881, Jan. 21. Passage of the electoral reform bill in Italy. Suffrage conferred on all male Italians over twenty-one years of age, who possessed either (1) a certain amount of property or (2) a certain amount of education. Adoption of the scrutin de liste ; minority representation in districts returning five or more deputies. Feb. 11. Lectures in the Czechish (Bohemian) language established in the university of Prague. Feb. 21. Trial of persons accused of being concerned in the murder of the czar of Russia. In spite of some concessions to the peasants, and of the continuance of vigorous repressive meas- ures, undaunted activity of the nihilists. March 6. Servia made a kingdom ; prince Milan king as Milan I. March 10. Suppression of the disturbances in Herzegovina and south- ern Dalmatia by the Austrians. Tendency in the German Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag to come to terms witli Rome and the clerical party (autumn). Approaching end of the Kultarkampf. April 10. Retirement of Gortschakoff, minister of foreign affairs in Russia ; he was succeeded by De Giers ; this change, regarded as an assurance of peaceful intentions, quieted the apprehen- sions which had been aroused by the anti-Teutonic invectives of Skobelejfin Paris and elsewhere (Skobeleff, f July 7). May 22. Opening of the St. Gothard railroad across the Alps. (Begun 1872, tunnel 9| miles long.) June 2. Death of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1807, at Nice ; conspira- tor in 1833 ; in Montevideo, in South America, 1835 ; defense of Rome, 1849 ; in North America, 1854 ; service against Aus- tria, 1859, 1860 ; unsuccessful attempts upon Rome, 1862, 1867 ; participation in the Franco- Prussian war, 1870, 1871 ; member of the Italian chamber of deputies, 1875). Rejection of the tobacco monopoly advocated by Bismarck, in the German Reichstag. 1882, June 21. Expiration of the Storthing in Norway. Violent royal speech rebuking the opposition. Constitutional struggle over the royal veto, and presence of ministers in the Storthing. Sept. Anti- Jewish riots, especially at Presshurg (Sept. 27-30). Sept.-Nov. New elections in Nor-way. Return of an increased radical majority. § 3. FRANCE. 1815 — X. 1814 (1815)1824. Louis XVIII. First restoration, Apr. 6. Royal proclamation of a liberal constitution (charte constitutionelle), June 4, 1814 : hereditary mon- archy ; two chambers {peers nominated by the king, loiver house elected by the people) ; freedom of the press ; religious liberty ; re- sponsible ministers ; judges not removable. Return of Napoleon. The Hundred Days (Mar. 20-June 22), see page 483. Fall of -Napoleon. A D. France. 527 1815, July 8. Second restoration. 1815, Sept. 25-1818, Dec. 29. iVlinistry of the duke of Richelieu. Nov. 20. Second peace of Paris (p. 485). An ultra-royalist chamber {ckanibre introuvahle ; compare the " Cav- alier " parliament of Charles II. of England, p. 378). La terreur Uanche. Parties : court (Richelieu), advocating return to the old monarchy ; legitimists {Decazes); doctrinaires {Guizot), advocates of constitutional monarchy with strong administration ; liberals (inde- pendents, Ptrier, Lafayette) ; Bonapartists ; republicans. Gravitation towards a monarchy resting on the middle classes (J)ourgeoisie). Ministry of Dessoles-Decazes (1818, Dec. 29-1819, Nov.) ; of • Decazes (1819, Nov. 10-1820, Feb.). 1820, Feb. 13. Murder of the duhe of Berry, the second nephew of Louis XVIII., by Louvel. Ultra-royalist ministry. Laws re- stricting freedom of the press and of elections. Sept. 29. Birth of the duke of Bordeaux, posthumous son of the duke of Berry ; " Henry V. ; " " Europe's child." Presenta- tion of the castle of Chamhord by national subscription. 1821, May 5. Death of Napoleon I. at St. Helena. 1821, Dec. 13-1828, Jan. 4. Ministry of Villdle (ultra-royalist). 1823, French mtervention in Spain ; capture of Madrid and Cadiz ; liberation of Ferdinand VII., by the duke of Angouleme. Cruel reaction. Numerous executions (Riego). Septennial election law (violation of the charter). New chamber of ul- tra-royalists (chambre retrouvee, 1824). 1824, Sept. 16. Death of Louis XVIII. 1824-1830. Charles X. 1825, March. Grant of a milliard (8200,000,000) to returned refugees as compensation for their confiscated estates. ^ Gro^vth of the liberal party : Collaud, Constant, Pe'rier^ Broglie, Chateaubriand. Outcry against the Jesuits. 1827, April 30. National guard disbanded. 1828, Jan. Fall of the Villele ministry in consequence of the return of a liberal majority at the election. 1828, Jan. 4-1829, Aug. 8. Martignac ministry (" too liberal foi the royalists, too reactionary for the liberals"). 1829, Aug.-1830, July. Polignac ministry ; reactionary, ultra-roy- alist. " No more concessions ! " 1830, March 18. Address of the 221, in reply to the king's speech ; vote of want of confidence. Dissolution May IG. July 5. Capture of Algiers by the French. Reasons for the expedition : 1. An insult offered the French ambassadors by the Dey, Husseyn. 2. The desire of the Frencli gov- ernment to quiet the agitation and dissatisfaction which prevailed in France, by some outside success. Algeria {Afrique Frangaise) subjugated by a tedious war with the Arabs and Kabyls, constantly breaking out anew. Abdel-Kader (1827, captured by Lamoriciere and the duke of Aumale, fourth son of 1 The ruined cavaliers m England got $3,000,000 in 1661. 528 Modern History. A^D* ^ O 03 ^ '3 •S — o- T-l £b H S -1— W oS ^ ^^ P.!^ ©5 S, 3 I2 t— 00 bJD -t— S S o" — *3- o .S2 o — -11 ^ ^ h-1 Hi ^ H— fac >7 h- 3 ^ iH • S W f:: -1- "H- rH ;^ s "o -i— > 03 ^ >^ M 3 TS M W 09 •rt — '5 — _3 t-:] H-; N Hi 09 Q<3 -So ■u o O 3 a;0 S 00 ^rH ^Ibi f >r_ .=«_ O'H -i: J: ^ ®-^ ::w fi 5- Hi ^ >o ^ o> «^ Jh «^> -C "^ :sx *^ ^ cr, ^•5 ^ E^, "•= ^^ I[. D. France. 529 iouis Philippe ; 1852, released and sent to Asia Minor by Louis Na- oleoii). New elections. Return of an increased liberal majority ; 202 of 16 221 reelected (" aide toi"). .830, July 27-29. The July Revolution. The Three Days of July. TJie Great Week. Cause : publication of the three (five) ordmances on July 26, irofessedly founded on article 14. 1. The recent elections declared lleoal. 2. The electoral system arbitrarily chang-ed so as to restrict he suffrage to rich lanil-owners. 3. Prohibition of tlie publication of lewspapers and pamphlets without a royal permit. This violation of ;he charter produced a revolt in Paris July 27. Protests {Thiers^ Mignei). Barricade fights. July 28, rising of the bourgeoisie ; imper- fect military preparations, bad leadership and care of the troops, who ji part deserted, resulted in the victory of the populace. Capture of the Hotel de Ville. July 29, capture of the Louvre. Retreat of tbe troops. Provisional government : Lajitte, Pt'rier, Barrot. Lafayette 3ommander of the national guard. Futile repeal of the ordinances. Duke of Orleans lieutenant general of France (" the charter hence- forward to be a reality"). Charles X. (f in Gorz, in Styria, 1836), and his son, the duke oj Angoideme, abdicated in favor of their grandson and nephew, the duke of Bordeaux (who subsequently called himself count of Chambord, p. 527). The claims of this pretender being set aside, the younger line of Bourbon (Orleans, see genealogical table, p. 528) was raised to the throne in the person of 1830-1848. Louis Philippe, the king of the French {le roi bourgeoise ; monarchy of July). Alteration of the charter in a liberal spirit. Abolition of art. 14. Prohibition of the censure. The king to share the initiative with the chamber. Ministry of Bro- glie, Guizot, Lafayette (1830, Aug. 11-Nov.) ; of Lafitte (1830, Kov. 2-1831, March 13) ; of Casimir P^rier (1831, Mar. 13-1832, May). Trial and condemnation of four ex-ministers of Charles X. Rebellion of the duchess of Berry (1832). 1832, Oct. 11-1836, Feb. Ministry of Thiers, Guizot, Broglie. Insurrection in Lyons (1834, April). 1835, July 28. Fiescki's infernal machme. By this attempt upon the life of Louis Philippe twelve persons were killed and forty wounded. It was followed by the adoption of laws limiting the freedom of the press (la"ws of September). Re- tirement of Guizot, Broglie (doctrinaires) ; ministry of Feb. 22, 1836 (Thiers, progressionists). Ministry of Sept. 6 (Mole, Guizot; Thiers out). 1836, Oct. 30. Louis Napoleon (nephew of Napoleon L, see the genealogical table, p. 466) made an adventurous attempt to get himself proclaimed emperor at Strasburg. He was captured without difficulty, his accomplices brought to trial, he himself sent to America by the French government on a ship of war (with an annuity of 15,000 francs from Louis Philippe's privy purse). ^ 1 Guizot, Mcmoires, vol. iv. chap. 24. 34 530 Modern Histwy, a. d. Ministry of April 15 (1837), Mol6 without Guizot. Union of Guizot and Thiers in opposition. Republican insurrection in Paris (May 12, 1839). Ministry of Soult (1839, May 12-1840, Mar. 1), without Guizot, Thiers, Odilon-Barrot. Ministry of Thiers (1840, Mar. 1-Oct. 29). Diplomatic complications consequent on the revolt of Mehemet AH (p. 491). 1840. Second adventurous attempt of Louis Napoleon. He sailed from Margate with only hfty adherents to BolognCy where he was captured by the national guard, tried by the court of peers, and condenmed to imprisonment for life (escaped from Ham \mder the name and in the dress of a mason, Badinguet, 1846). The remains of Napoleon I., brought from St. Helena by the prince of Joinville, the third son of Louis Philippe, were solemnly entombed under the dome of the Invalides at Paris (1840, Dec. 15). Fortification of Paris. Quadruple treaty of London (1840, July 15); anger of France. Fall of Thiers. 1840, Oct. 29-1848, Feb. 24. Ministry of Soult and Guizot. Death of the duke of Orleans (1842, July 13). Trouble with England : Tahiti (Pritchard) ; Spanish marriages (1843-44). De- mand for electoral reform and exclusion of place-men from the chamber of deputies rejected by the government (pensee immuable). During this reign development of the parties : Legitimists (count of Chambord) ; Orleanists ; Bonapartists ; Republicans. 1848, Feb. 22-24. The Revolution of February. Barricade fights with the troops, conducted principally by members of the secret (socialistic) societies, assisted by a section of the national guard, which was dissatisfied with the reactionary policy of the government. Partial defection of the troops. Guizot resigned (Feb. 23). Louis Philippe abdicated in favor of his grandson, the Count of Paris, son of the duke of Orleans (f 1842) and the princess Helena of Mecklenburg. Duchess of Orleans in the chamber of deputies. {Uemeute etait devenue une revolution.) Provisional government at the Hotel de Ville (Dupont de I Eure, Lamartine, Ledru Rollin, Marie, Cre'mieux, Arago, Gamier-Pages, the elder). Republic proclaimed (Feb. 24), to the disagreeable surprise of the bourgeoisie of Paris. The socialist Louis Blanc became the head of a commission of laborers (afterwards called ministry of progress) with a view to the " organization of labor," but accomplished nothing prac- tical. Call of a national assembly at Paris to adopt a constitution for the nev/^ democratic republic. Establishment of costly public workshops (ateliers nationaux) and recognition of the " right to work." ^ Establishment of the garde inohile. 1848-1851 (1852). Prance (for the second time) a repub- lic. June 23-26. Terrible insurrection (the days of June) in Paris in con- sequence of the closing of the ateliers. Bloody fights in the 1 It is claimed that Louis Blanc was deceived by the government, who wished his support, but distrusted his theories. The workshops, predestined to failure, were neither conceived nor carried on in accordance with the design of their pro- jector. See Ely, French and German Socialism in Modern Times, p. 113. where authorities are quoted. A. D. France. 531 streets. Mui-dor of archbishop Affre and of general Bre'a. General Cavaignac clotlied with clitaatoiial jtowcr. Ihe continued efforts of the troops and the national ^uard subdued tlie insurrection of the laborers. Nov. 4, constitution of 184B. Dec. 20. Proehimation oi Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as president of the republic (5,.'V27,:Uo to 1,879,298 votes). 1849, Apr.-Aug-. Expedition to lionif . Le«»ishitive assembl}' (one house) with a monarchical majority. Death of Louis Philippe at Claremont (1850, Aug. 2G). 1851, Dec. 2. Coup d']6tat of Louis Napoleon, who. in complicity with St. Arnaud, Maupas, Morny, etc., caused the leaders of the republicans and Orleanists {Cavaignac, Charras, Chan- gamier, Lamoriciere, Bedeau, Thiers, Victor Hugo, and others) to ])e surprised in their dwellings at night and imprisoned, dissolved the (second) national assembly (1840-1851), annulled the constitution which he had sworn to defend, crushed (with some shedding of blood) the revolt which broke out in the streets of Paris on Dec. 3 and 4 in consequence of these measures, and summoned the whole people to a general election (plebiscite) . This resulted in the election of Dec. 20, 21. Louis Napoleon as president for ten years by a majority, it was asserted, of more than six million votes. The president was clothed with monarchical power, and permitted to issue a constitution. By a decree of Jan. 9, 1852, the president arbi- trarily banished his most important opponents ; by a decree of Jan. 14 he established a constitution like that of the first empire (senat, corps Ugislatif, see p. 464). A third decree confiscated the appanages of the house of Orleans, and compelled the members of this house to sell their whole private property in land in France within a year. Freedom of the press restricted. 1852, Dec. 2-1870. Napoleon III., emperor of the French. Proclaimed by a senatus consultum, Nov. 7, and rati- fied hj a plebiscite (Nov. 21, 22), with 7,824,189 votes against 253,145. Napoleon recognized by aU European powers. Assertions of peace- ful intentions wdth regard to Europe, particularly in an address at Bordeaux ('^L' Empire c'est la paix"). Napoleon III. married (Jan. 29, 1853) the Spaniard Eugenie Montijo, countess of Ttha. Birth of the prince imperial, 1856, Mar. 16. 1854-1856. Crimean war (p. 499) ended by the 1856, May 30. Peace of Paris (p. 501). The empire at its height of power and respect. 1857, French expedition to China (p. 501). 1858, Jan. 14. OrsinVs attempt upon the life of Napoleon III. Bombs. Orsini, under sentence of death, urged Napoleon to undertake the liberation of Italy (Orsini's " Testament," published in the Moniteur). Loi de surete' gem 'rale, allowing the government to ar- T'^st and banish, in certain cases, without trial (Feb. 19). Meeting of Novoleon III. and the Sardinian minister Cavour. Marriage of the prince Napoleon Bonaparte (geueri. table, p. 466) with Clotilde, daughter of Victor Emmanuel. I 582 Modern History. A. D. 1859. Austro-Sardinian war. 1860. Nov. 24. Decree allowing the address to the throne, and cre- ating ministers without portfolios. 1861. Debates permitted to be inserted in full in the Journal Officiel 1861-1867. Mexican expedition (p. 503). 1867. Great Exposition at Paris. 1867. Luxembourg question (p. 511). 1867. Expedition to Rome (p. 511). 1869, May. New elections ; for the first time during the second em- pire active participation of the parties and a large vote. The government received a good majority. In Paris and Lyons, victory of the ultra-radical party. 1870, Jan. 2. Ministry OUivier. Repeal of the loi de surete. Al- teration of the constitution by senatus consultum and plebiscite, Apr. 20, May 8. (5,679,000 majority for the government, large vote of no in the army.) 1870-1871. Franco-German war, p. 513 fol. 1871 — X. France (for the third time) a Republic. During the siege of Paris the numerous socialist party had made several attempts to seize the supreme power, which had been frustrated by the troops and the national guard. After the capitula- tion the workingmen had, under various pretexts, got possession of several hundred cannon, and converted the northeastern part of the city (^Montmartre and Belleville) almost into fortresses. The attempt of general Vinoy, commander of the city, to repossess himself of these arms led to a general 1871, March 18. Uprising of the Commune (murder of generals Lecomte and Thomas), and, after the defection of several regi- ments, to the March 28-May 22. Rule of the Socialistic Commune {Blanqui, Pyat, Fiourens, Delescluze, Cluseret, Rossel, etc.). Seat of the regular government, Versailles. The comite des interna- tionalistes held a reign of terror in Paris. Spoliation of the churches. Several million " advances " exacted from the Bank for the payment of the armed mob called the National Guard, whose ranks were swollen by socialists of all nations. The march upon Versailles ended in a shameful retreat, the insurgents being fired upon from Mont Valerien. Arrest of archbishop Darhoy and other " hostages,^^ after- wards murdered. Proclamation resolving France into a number of municipal republics. April 6-May 22. Second siege of Paris by marshal MacMahon, commander of the troops of the na- tional assembly, on the south and west sides, the German troops pre- serving a strict neutrality in the forts which they occupied on the northeast. Bombardment of the southern forts, and the city itself, by the Ver- sailles troops from the parallels which the Germans had constructed. Meantime socialistic violence in Paris. Destruction of the hoiise of Thiers, and overthrow of the Colonne Vendome, May 16, 1871 (re- erected 1874). I A. D. France. 533 May 21. The Versailles trooi)s entered the city throu4). 1840, July ()-185'2, Feb. 23. Ministry of lord John Russell ; lord Palmerstou, foreign set ivtary ; Macaulay, p:iyin;ister gen- eral. 1840. Failure of the potato crop in Ireland caused a famine 1840 and 1847. Population of Ireland 1841, 8,222,004. 1851, 0,033,982. 1847. Commercial panic in England. 1847, Nov. 18. Third (loth iuipeaial) parliament of Victoria. This distress coupled with the excitement produced by the rev- 1848. olut^ons or 1848 (p. 492) roused rebellion in Ireland, which was easily suppressed, and its leaders Smith O^Brien and Mit~ 1848, April 10. chell transported ; while in England the chartists held a monster meeting on Kcnnington common, and presented a petition to parliament. 1849, June. Repeal of the navigation laws. Encumbered estates July, act (Ireland). 1850, Sept. 30. Papal bull establishing a Roman catholic hie- rarchy in England. 1851, July. Ecclesiastical titles bill, imposing a fine of lOOZ. on all who should endeavor to carry this papal bull into effect, passed (never executed). 1851. Telegraphic communication between France and Eng- land. 1851. Great exliibition of the industries of all nations in Hyde Park, London. 1852, Feb. 27-Dec. 18. Earl Derby's first ministry, Disraeli, chancellor of exchequer (b. 1805 ; " Vivian Grey " 1825 ; M. P. 1837 ; earl of Beaconsfield, 1870 ; f 1881). Sept. 14. Death of the duke of Wellington. 1852, Nov. 4. Fourth (10th imperial) parliament of Victoria. 1852, Dec. 28-1855, Feb. 5. Aberdeen administration. W. E. Gladstone, chancellor of exchecjuer; lord Palmerstou, home secretary ; lord John Russell, foreign secretary. End of Caffir war in South Africa. Oct. 30. The British fleet entered the Bosphorus. 1853-1856. Crimean war (p. 499). 1854, June 5. Reciprocity treaty with the United States concluded (p. 555) ; abrogated 1800. 1855. Tlie mismanagement wath regard to the supply of food and clothing for the anuy in the Crimea and the feeble i)rosecu- tion of the war rendered the administration unpopular, and 1855, Jan. 30. lord Aberdeen resigned. 1855, Feb. 5-1858, Feb. 22. Palmerstou premier. Gladstone, chancellor of the exchequer, res. Feb. 22. Feb. 19. Bread riots at Liveq^ool. 18,50. Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean war (p. 501). War Mar. 30. with China. Treaty of Ticn-tsin, Jiuie 20, 1859. Peace ofPekin Aug. 24, 1800 (p. 56:i). 1857, Apr. 30. Fifth (17th imperial) parliament of Victoria. 544 Modern History. A. d. Nov. 12. Great commercial panic. Suspension of the hank charter act of 1844. In consequence of the attempted assassination of Napoleon III. by Orsini, lord Palmerston introduced the conspiracy to murder bill. On its rejection in the commons the ministry resigned, and the 1858, Feb. 22-1859, June 11. Second Derby ministry took office ; Disraeli, chancellor of the exchequer. 1858, June. Property qualification of members of parliament abolished. July. Jews admitted to parliament. Act for the better government of India. Aug. 5. The successful laying of the frst Atlantic cable (ceased working Sept. 4). Aug. 26. Treaty with the tycoon (shogun) of Japan (p. 563). 1858. The queen of England proclaimed sovereign of India. The government of the East India company ceased. The ministry, defeated on a reform bill introduced by Disraeli^ Apr. 13. dissolved parliament, but being in a minority in the 1859, May 31. Sixth (18th imperial) parliament of Victoria, resigned, and the 1859, June 13-1865, Nov. 6. Second Palmerston ministry came in. Gladstone, chancellor of the exchequer ; earl Russell (formerly lord John), foreign secretary ; lord Campbell, lord chancellor. 1860, Jan. 23. Commercial treaty between Great Britain and France. July-Oct. The prince of Wales visits the United States and Ca ada. 1861, July 27. Rupture of diplomatic relations with Mexico. Nov. 8. Mason and Slidell taken from the British mail steamer Trent (p. 557). Dec. 23. Death of the prince consort. 1862, Second Exhibition of the industry of all nations opened i May 1. London. 1863, The Maori (native) war in New Zealand, ended in 1869. 1864, The Schleswig-Holstein question (p. 505). June. Final cession of the Ionian Islands to Greece (p. 483). Jidy. The Thames embankment begun. 1865, June. Commencement of the Cattle Plague. Oct. Insurrection in Jamaica. Oct. 18. Death of lord Palmerston. 1865, Nov. 6-1866, June 26. Earl Russell premier. 1866, Feb. 1. Seventh (19th imperial) parliament of Victoria. Feb. Habeas corpus act suspended in Ireland. May. Failure of Overend, Gurney and Co. (liabilities over 19,000,- OOOL). Panic in London. July Telegraphic communication with America finally established. 1866, July 6-1868, Feb. 27. Third Derby ministry. Disraeli, chancellor of the exchequer. 1867, Aug. 15. The second reform act, — "a leap in the dark," — which greatly extended the franchise, received the royal as- sent. ,A. D. Great Britain. 545 18G7. Tbo Fenians attoiiii)t(Ml tho seizure of the arsenal at Cheater (Feb.). Rising in Ireland, easily suppressed. Attempt to release Fenians confined in Clerkenwell prison, by exploding gunpowder under the walls. 1867. Canada, Nova Seotia, and New Bnniswick were combined into one Dominion of Canada, with power to take in new provinces. Each province retained its own legislature for local affairs. All British A.merica, with the exception of Newfoundland, now belongs to this confederation. 1867. Abyssinia expedition, Magdala. 1868, Feb. 27-Dec. 3. Lord Derhji resigned, and Mr. Disraeli be- came premier. The general elections to the new parliament were so decidedly in favor of the liberals that the ministry re- signed, and 1868, Dec. 9-1874, Feb. 21. Mr. Gladstone became prime minister. 1868, Dec. 10. Eighth ('_Oth imperial) parliament of Victoria. July 26. Disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish church. A portion of the money so obtained given to the Roman catholic college of Mai/nooth, and another portion ap- plied to educational }> ir/>o.-tes. The royal assent was at the same time given to the bankruptcy bill, and to a bill abolishing imprisonment for debt. (Debtors' prisons : Fleet, Marshal' sea, etc.) 1868, Oct. 16. Opening of the Suez canal. 1870. Irish land act provided, among other things, for compen- sation to out-going tenants ; for loans to landlords for im- provements, and to tenants desirous of purchasing their hold- ings (Bright clauses). At the same session a system of 1870. national education was established by law. 1871. Purchase in the army abolished. Treaty of Washington with the United States, by which the Alabama claims were settled by 1872. Arbitration at Geneva and the so-called northwestern boun- dary dispute, decided by the emperor of Germany as arbiter (p. 560). 1872. Vote by ballot introduced. 1873. Ashantee war. Coomassie taken by 1874. the British, commanded bv <;-eneral Wolseley. 1874, Feb. 21.-1880, Apr. 28. Mr. Disraeli (1876, Aug., earl of Beaconsfield), premier ; sir Stafford Northcote, chancellor of the exchequer. 1874, March 5. Ninth (21st imperial) parliament of Victoria. 1875. Purchase of Suez canal shares from the khedive of Egypt. 1875, 1876. Visit of the Prince of Wales to India. The queen pro- claimed empress of India. Commercial panic. 1878, July 13. Treaty of Berlin. British take possession of Cyprus July 14 (p. 524). 1879. Irish land league, supported by Pamell, Dillon, etc. 187^ 1880, famine in Ireland. * 1879. War with the Zulus (" Jingoism "). 35 546 Modern History. A. D. 1880, Feb. 23. Parliament dissolved. Elections in favor of liberals ; resignation of ministers, Apr. 22. 1880, Apr. 28. Mr. Gladstone, prime minister ; marquis of Har- tington, secretary for India; W. E. Forster, chief secretary for Ireland, succeeded by lord F. Cavendish, and he by G. 0. Tre- vellyan. John Bright, chancellor of the duchy. 1880, Apr. 29. Tenth (22d imperial) parliament of Victoria. 1881, March 3. Irish coercion act. Aug. 22. Irish land act provided for a court of commission to try differences between landlords and tenants ; and in a measure granted the " three F"s : " 1. free sale ; 2. fair rents ; 3. fx- ity of tenure. 1882, May 6. Murder of lord Frederick Cavendish and an under-secretary in Dublin. July 11. Bombardment of Alexandria (Egypt). Resignation of John Bright. July 14. A new Irish coercion act went into force. Sept. Total defeat of Egyptian rebels by the British, commanded by sir Garnet Wolseley. Capture of Tel-el-Kehir. The British in India. 1836-1842. Lord Auckland, governor-general. 1839. First Afghan ^var, occasioned by an attempt to place a ruler in Afghanistan who sliould be subservient to tlie British, Kabul was easily occupied. Dost Muhammad taken prisoner, and Shah Shuj'd installed. In November, 1841, the Afghans rose, and, led by Alchar Khan, drove the British from Kabul. Terrible winter retreat to Jcddldbdd. 1842-1844. Earl of Ellenborough, governor-general. Two ar- mies sent to Afghanistan. Relief of Kandahar and Jalalabad, Capture of Kabul. The bazar blown up. Dost Muhammad re« placed, and the British withdrawn. 1844-1848. Sir Henry (afterwards lord) Hardinge, governor- general. 1845. First Sikh war. 1848-1856. Earl of Dalhousie, governor-general. 1848, 1849. Second Sikh war ended in the annexation of the Punjab. 1852- Second Burmese war. British Burma annexed, 1856. Annexation of Oudh on th " ground of misrule. 1856-1862. Earl Canning, governor-general. 1857. May 10. Mutiny of the Sepoys at Mirath (Meerut). Rising of the Muhammadans at Delhi. Massacre at Cawnpore (Nana Sahib), June 27. First relief of Lucknow by Have- lock, Sept. 25 ; final deliverance of the garrison by sir Colin Campbell, Nov. 16. Siege and capture of Delhi, June-Sept.j The mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah, captured, deposed, anc' banished to Rangoon ; f 1862. End of the mughal empire. 1858. The government of India transferred to the crown; gov- ernor-general to be viceroy. A. D. United Slates. • 547 18C2-1803. Lord Elgin, viceroy ; 18G4-18G0, lord Lawrence, viceroy. Fiuniiu' in Orissa, 18GG ; in Bundelkhand and Upper Hindustiin, 1S(;S, 1S(;«). 1869-1872. Lord Mayo, viceroy. Internal inij)r()vements. 1872-187G. Lord Northbrook, viceroy. Dethronement of the Mahrattd (Jdckicdr of Baroda. Visit of the prinee of Wales to India. 1876-1880. Lord Lytton, viceroy. 1877' Jan. 1. The queen proclaimed empress of India. 1877, 1878. Famine in southern India. 1878-1881. Second Afghan war. Refusal of Sher All to admit a British embassy. The Khxubar (Kyber), the Kuram,^iin(\. thj Boldn passes occupied by the British troops, f Sher All. Abdication of his son, Ydkub Khan. Defeat of a brigade of British troops by Ayub Khan. Brilliant march of sir F. Roberts from Kabul to Kanda- har, and rout of Ayu') Khan, 1880, Sept. 1. Abdurrahman Khdn, the eldest male representative of Dost Muhammad, recognized by the British as Amir, and their troops withdrawn from Kabul and Kanda- har. 1880. Marquis of Ripon, viceroy. 1881. Population of all India 252,541,210, an increase in ten years of over twelve millions. § 5. UNITED STATES. 1789. First congress met at New York, March 4. 178'J. George Washington (Virginia), president. John Apr. 30. Adams, vice-president. Nov. 1. North Carolina accepted the constitution. 1789. Three executive departments created. Thomas Jefferson (b. 1743, t 1825), secretary of state ; Alexander Hamilton (b. 1757, \ 1804), secretary of the treasury ; Hennj Knox, sec- retary of war. These with thj attorney general formed the cabinet. A national judiciary was also established. John Jay, chhf justice of the siprenvi court. 178J. First ten amendments (in the nature of a bill of rights) to the constitution proposed by congress to the state legislatures, and ratified, in the course of two years, by three fourths of the states. 1790, May 29. Rhode Island accepted the constitution. 1790. The financial affairs of the country were put on a firm basis. The seat of government to be at Philadelphia for ten years, and after that permanently located on the Potomac, where land was ceded by the states of JMaryland and Virginia {Distnct of Columbia), and the city of Washington laid out. 1790-1795. Indian war. Defeat of Harmar 1790 ; St. Clair 1791 ; and victory of Wayne 1794. 1790. Death of Franklin. Population 3,921,320 (1st census). National debt Jan. 1, 1791, Jii^75,4(33,47G.52. 1791, Aug. George Hammond, minister from Great Britain, received. Vermont a.lmitted (14th state). 548 • Modern History. A. d. A national bank (United States bank) chartered for twenty 1792, Apr. 2. years, and a mint, were established at Philadelphia. 1792. Two parties now came into prominence : the republican, afterwards democratic, led by Jefferson ; and the federalist, whose leaders were Hamilton and Adams. 1792. Kentucky admitted (15th state). Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. "Washington and Adams reelected. 1793. France declared war against Great Britain, and sent Genet as minister to the United States. He arrived at Charleston in April, and proceeded to fit out privateers, etc. Washington issued a proclamation of neutrality, Apr. 22 ; and the next year (1794) the neutrality act was passed. Genet appealed from the executive to the people, and, upon the demand of the government, was recalled. 1793. Fugitive slave act, substantially a dead letter until revived in 1850. 1794. Whiskey insurrection in v^estern Pennsylvania. It was caused by an internal revenue law of 1791, wliich laid an excise on domestic spirits, and was put down by an army com- posed of the militia of Pennsylvania and adjoining states. 1794. Eleventh amendment, securing the non-suability of states, proposed by congress, and declared ratified Jan. 1798. 1794. Peace purchased from Algiers, and from Tripoli and Tunis in the following years. 1794. The treaty of peace (p. 432) had been fully carried out by neither party. Great Britain had not delivered the posts held by her on the northern frontier. And she was accused of inciting the Indians to hostility, of impressing American seamen, and of capturing American trading vessels ; and besides, many slaves had been carried away by the British when they evacuated New York. On the other side, it was alleged that the provisions of the treaty with regard to the collection of debts due to British subjects had not been observed. To settle these differences John Jay was sent to England, and a 1794, Nov. 19. Treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation (Jay's treaty) was concluded. It provided for the delivery of the pi>sts before June, 1796 ; for a commission to decide what river was the " St. Croix " (p. 432) ; for compensation in certain cases to British subjects and American citizens, to be as- certained by commissioners ; for the regulation of trade between the two countries ; for the extradition of criminals, etc. The treaty met with great opposition; the ratifications were not ex- changed till Oct. 1795 ; and the money necessary to carry it out was not voted till 1796 {speech of Fisher Ames). 1795. Treaty with Spain established the southern boundary of the United States, and secured the free navigation of the Missis ■■ sippi, with right of deposit at New Orleans. 1796. Tennessee admitted (16tli state). Sept. 18. Washington's farewell address. 1797, Mar. 4. John Adams (Massachusetts), federalist, 2d president. A. D. United States. 549 Thomas Jefferson, republican, vice-])rosi(lont. 1797. Special mission to FrancH'. Attempt on tiic part of the French to extort money (X. Y. Z. affair). Pinckney, one of the envoys, replied : " Millions for defense, not one cent for tril)nte." Hostilities actually began. Provisional army raised ; Washington, lieutenant- general ; navy department organized 1798 ; Constellation captured Ulnsurgente 1799 ; but when Bonaparte came into power more pacilic intentions prevailed, and a convention was concluded 1800, Sept. 30. 1797. The language of the French sympathizers became so violent that the alien and sedition laws were passed. They were followed by the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798-1799, in which it was asserted tliat a state had a right to decide for itself how far the national authority should be considered binding. 1799, Dec. 14. Death of Wash'uKjton. 1800, Nov. 22. Congress met in Washington for the first time. Population, o,l>19,762 (2d census). 1801, John Marshall, chi(^f justice of the supreme court. In the elections of 1800 the republican candidates received a major- ity of the votes, but as they had equal numbers the election went to the house of representatives, which chose 1801. Thomas Jefferson (Virginia) 3d president ; and Aaron Burr, viee-president. James Madison, secretary of state ; Albert Gallatin, secretary of the treasury. 1801-1802. Repeal of the internal revenue taxes, and of many un- popular laws. 1802. Ohio admitted (17th state). 1803, April 30. The Louisiana Purchase, by which the United States actpiired : all of its present area between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, north of the then northern boundary of Mexico • the island on which Neic Orleans stands ; and a claim to Texas, to icest Florida, as that portion of the present states of Mississippi and Alabama south of 31° iiorth latitude was then called, and perhaps even to territory west of the Rocky Mountains (p. 554). The price was fifteen mil- lions of dollars, and the original area of the United States was more than doubled. X803, Dec. 12. Twelfth amendment, altering the mode of elect- ing president and vice-president, proposed by congress, and de- clared ratified 1804, Sept. 25. 1804—1805. Failure of the impeachment of Chase, a justice of the supreme court. 1801, July. Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. 1801-1805. Tripolitan war. Burning of the frigate Philadelphia (Decatur), which had been captured while aground, 1804. Capture of Deme. Bombardment of Tripoli. Treaty 1805. No inore tribute to be paid by the United States. 1805. Thomas Jefferson reelected president ; George Clinton vice-president. 1806, April. The British ship Leander fired on an American trad- ing sloop, killing John Pierce, the owner. The Leander ordered out of the waters of the United States. 550 Modern History. a. d. 1806, May 16. The British government issued orders in council, declaring- tlie coast of Europe from the Elbe to Brest to be in a partial state of blockade ; Napoleon replied (Nov. 21) by the Ber- lin decree (p. 469). Great Britain issued other orders in council (Jan. 7 and Nov. 11, 1807), followed (Dec.) by the Milan decree (p. 537), which orders and decrees practically put an end to the most profitable portion of the commerce of the United States. 1807, June 22. The frigate Chesapeake was fired into by the British ship Leopard, and four men claimed as deserters were taken out of her by the British. The president by proclamation ordered all British ships of war to leave the coast ; reparation was demanded of Great Britain, and congress laid an embargo (Jefferson's embargo) on all shipping in the ports of the Unit(;d States (Dec. 22). 1806. Failure of Miranda's scheme for revolutionizing the Span- ish American colonies. 1807. Trial and acquittal of Aaron Burr, late vice-president, for treason. It is said that he had designed seizing New Orleans, detaching several states from the union, and invading Mexico. 1807. Robert Fulton made the first successful application of steam to navigation, in the steamboat Clermont (engine imported). 1808. The importation of slaves into the United States prohib- ited after Jan. 1, 1808. The embargo policy was designed to compel Great Britain and France to withdraw their orders and decrees. The further history is as follows : — 1808. Supplementary acts : 1. Jan. 8, coasting and fishing ves- sels to give bonds to re-land cargoes in United States. 2. Mar. 12, boats and vessels of all kinds and land-carriages made subject to the embargo [April 17, Bayonne decree directing the seizure of all American vessels then in the ports of France]. 3. Apr. 25, coasting trade forbidden to foreign vessels, and to be exercised by others only under the most stringent rules ; enforcing act of 1809 (Jan. 9), by which every attempt to avoid the embargo worked iheforfeitureoi ship, boat, or vehicle, and involved ?ifine oi four times the value of the mer- chandise, one half to the informer, and the president was authorized to use the army and navy to enforce the emhargo. Embargo repealed except as to France and England, to take effect 1809, Mar. 15. No goods to be imported from those countries after May 20. 1809. March 4. James Madison (Virginia), democrat, 4th president. James Monroe, secretary of state. 1810. Population 7,239,881 (3d census). 1810, March 23. Rambouillet decree, ordering the sale of all American vessels which had been seized for violating the French decrees. 1810, May 1. Act known as Macon's No. 2 provided that in case either Great Britain or France should revoke its edicts the United States would proliibit trade with the other. Napoleon revoked the Berlin and Milan decrees, but not the Rambouillet decree, Aug. 5, to take effect Nov. 1, as to American vessels. This was considered by the president as a sufficient compliance with the condition of A. D. United States. 5ol Macon's No. 2, and a proclamation declared the non-importation act revived as to Great Britaiti after Feb. 2, 1811. 1811, May 10. En<;aents of 1812. L nsiiecessful invasion of Canada, surrender of Detroit (Anjj^. 10), defeat at Queenstown (Oct. 13). On the water, however, the American ship Essex (Porter) captured the Alert; the Constitution (Hull), the Guerriere ; the Wasp, the Frolic (both taken by the Poic- tiers, a British 74) ; the United States (Decatur), the Macedonian ; and the Constitution (Bainbridge), the Java. In 1813 the Amer- icans were defeated at Frenchtown (Jan.); gained the battle of Lake Erie (Perry); but were driven from their posts on the Niagara. The English blockaded the Atlantic seaboard, and June 1 the British frigate Shannon captured the Chesapeake ; the Pelican, the Argus ; but on the other hand the American ship Hornet took the Peacock ; the Enterprise, the Boxer. In 1814 there was another attempt to invade Canada ; the Americans captured Fort Erie and won the battles of Chippewa (Jidy 5) and Lundy's Lane (Jnly 15), but these victories led to nothing. Battle of Lake Cliamplain won by McDonough (Sept. 11). Aug. 24, the British under Ross defeated the Americans at Bladenshurgh ; entered Washington the next day and burnt all the public iauildings ; but were repulsed in an at- tempt on Baltimore (Sept. 13) ; and \vith great loss at New Or- leans (Dec, Jackson). At sea the American ship Essex (Porter), after a successful cruise in the Pacific, was captured by the Phoebe and Cherub ; the Peacock captured the Epen'ier ; the Wasp, the Reindeer and Avon. In 1815 the Constitution captured the Cyane and Levant ; and the Hornet, the Penrpiin ; while the President sur- rendered to a British stpiadron. Peace, however, had been made at Ghent, December 24, 1814, by a treaty by which none of the ques- tions which led to the war were settled, but which provided for com- missions to run the boundaries, as determined in previous treaties. The eastern states had resisted the embargo, and later had taken a very lukewarm interest in the war, and had consequently been left to shift for themselves. This dissatisfaction led to the summoninn; of the Hartford convention, 1814, Dec. 15, which adjourned in three weeks without accomplishing anything. 1815. Squadron, luider Decatur, sent to the Mediterranean, and a treat'/ negotiated mith Algiers. 1810. The second United States bank chartered for twenty years (charter of 1st ex])ired in 1811). Protective tariff. In- diana admitted (19th state). 1817-1825. James Monroe (Virginia), democrat, 5th i)res- ident. Era of good feeling. J. Q. Adams, secretary of state ; W. H. Crawford, secretary of the treasury ; and John C. Calhoun, secretary of war (rG5. 1817). 552 Modern History. A. d. 1817. Mississippi admitted (20th state). 1817-1818, Seminole war (Jackson). Invasion of Florida, then a ' colony of Spain. Execution of two British subjects. 1818. Illinois admitted (21st state). Pensions granted to the survivors of the revolutionary war, in needy circumstances. Convention with Great Britain as to the fisheries ; the coun- try west of the " Stony [Rocky] Mountains " to be occu- pied by the two powers in common for ten years, etc. 1819. Treaty with Spain. She gave up all claim to west Florida, (p. 432) which had been occupied by the United States since 1810, and ceded east Florida, The United States gave up all claim to Texas, and agreed to pay an indemnity of five mill- ions to its own citizens for claims which they had agamst Spain. 1819, Alabama (22d state). Financial crisis. 1820. Maine (23d state). Population of the United States 9,638,453, 1820. Missouri compromise, by which it was agreed that slavery should he prohibited in the United States west of the Mississippi, north of 30° 30' north latitude, this being the 1821. southern border of Missouri, which was admitted as a slave state (24th state), 1823, Dec. 2, The president in his annual message enunciated the Monroe doctrine : " That the American continents, by the free and independent position which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects tor future colonization, by any European power; " and that the extension of the system of the Holy alliance (p. 485) to America would not be viewed " in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States." Neither of the candidates for president receiving a majority of the electoral vote, the house of representatives chose 1825-1829. John Quincy Adams (b. 1767, f 1848) (Massachusetts), democrat, president, although Andrew Jack- son had received a plurality in the electoral college ; John C. Calhoun (b. 1782, f 1850), vice-president ; Henry Clay (b. 1777, t 1852), secretary of state. 1825. The Erie canal was finished ; the first railroad in America (at Quincy, Mass.) was completed in 1827, although steam was not used on such a road in this country until 1829. 1826. Failure of the Panama congress, and 1827 of another ap- pointed to meet near the city of Mexico. These were at- tempts to put the Monroe doctrine into practice. 1828, Tariff of abominations, 1829-1837. Andrew Jackson (b. 1767, t 1845), (Tennes- see), democrat, 7th president; John C, Calhoun, vice-president (res, 1831) ; Martin Van Buren (b. 1782, f 1862), secretary of state. Inauguration of the spoils system ; about 690 office holders removed by the president during the first year of his adniiut A. D. United States. 553 istration, in contrast with only seventy-four removals hij all former presidents. Tiie govt'i-unioiit was now in the hands of tliose wlio, accoi(lin<;' to senator Marcy of New York, saw " nothing wrong in tlie rnle that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy." 1829. The merchants of Jioston protested against the tariff acts, and were followed by the legislatures of South Carolina^ Virginia^ Alabama, and North Carolina. 1830. Population 12,8()(),()20 (5th census). 1830, Jan. 27. Speech of Daniel Webster (b. 1782, f 18.52), in the senate of the United States in reply to colonel Hayne of South Carolina, who upheld extreme states-rights views. 1831. William Lloyd Garrison established in Boston a paper called the Liberator, advocating the immediate and uncondi- tional emancipation of the negroes. This led to the organization of the abolitionists. 1831. Convention with France, nnitual settlement of claims. France to pay the United States 25,000,000 francs, and to be paid 1,300,000 francs, such sums to be distributed to claimants in either country. The tariff act of 1832, while containing a reduction of duties, retained the protective principle. A convention held in South Carolina reported 1832. A nullification ordinance (Nov. 1832), which de- clared that the tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitu- tional " and are null and void, and no law, tior binding upon this stale,^^ etc. Colonel Hayne was elected governor of South Carolina, and Cal- houn took the seat thus vacated in the senate. Dec. 10 president Jackson issued the nullification proclamation, in which the doc- trine of stales-rights was refuted and the national theory set forth ; and he declared his intention of executing the laws of the United States. This was followed by the nullification message, 1833, Jan. 16. This trouble was finally ended by the compromise tariff act, introduced into the senate by Henry Clay, 1833, Feb. 12. Both sides claimed the victory. 1835-1842. War with the Seminole Indians. 1836. Arkansas (25th state). 1837. Michigan (26th state). 1837-1841. Martin Van Buren (New York), democrat, 8tli president. 1837. Financial crisis : causes, removal (1833) of deposits from the United States bank to the local banks ; great extension of credit, and over-issue of paper money ; contraction of the vol- ume of the currency by the (1836, July 11) specie circular, which produced a great scarcity of monev. 1837. Rebellion in Canada, burning of the xVmerican steamer Car- oline by the royalists. McLeod's case. 1838-1839. The gag resolutions, by which congress declared that petitions praying for the abolition of slavery in the District of Cohimbia or against the inter-state slave trade should be tabled without being deliated, referred, or printed. 554 Modern History. A. D. 1840. Independent treasury established ; the national funds to be kept in the treasury at Washington and in the sub-treasuries established in certain cities, subject to the order of the treasurer. 1840. Population 17,069,453 (Oth census). After an exciting contest was elected 1841-1845. William Henry Harrison (Ohio), whig, 9th president, f 1841, Apr., succeeded by John Tyler (b. 1790, f 1862) of Virginia, vice-president. Daniel Webster, secretary of state (res. 1843). 1842. The northeastern boundary dispute with Great Britain set- tled by the Ashburton treaty. 1842. Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island. 1844. Experimental telegraph line between Washington and Balti- more built by professor S. F. B. Morse with money appro- priated by congress. 1845. Florida (27th state). In 1821 Mexico had separated from Spain, and in 1836 Texas declared itself independent of Mexico. Houston with eight hundred Texans defeated Santa Anna at the San Jacinto (1836, Apr. 21), and drove the Mexicans across the Rio Grande ; and 1845» March. Texas was annexed to the United States. 1845-1849. James K. Polk ( Tennessee), democrat, 11th president ; James Buchanan (b. 1781, f 1868), secretary of state. 1845. Texas (28th state) ; 1846, Iowa (29th state). The United States and Great Britain claimed the territory west of the Rocky Mountains from the northern boundary of Mexico, 42° north latitude, to the southern boundary of Alaska, 54° 40' north latitude. By the 1846. Oregon treaty this tract was divided between them, the 49th parallel forming the boundary, and the southern portion, which fell to the United States, retained the name of Oregon. The annexation of Texas led to a 1846-1848. War with Mexico, which was invaded by an army from the north commanded by Zachary Taylor (b. 1786, f 1850) ; battles of Palo Alto (May 8), Resaca (Mav 9). Surrender of Monterey (Sept. 24), Buena Vista (1847, Feb. 22 and 23). In March, 1847, another army under general Scott landed near Vera Cruz, which surrendered March 29th. He then set out for the city of Mexico, and won the battles of Cerro Gordo (April 18), Churubusco (Ar.g. 20), captured the fortress of Chapultepec (Sept. 12 and 13), and en- tered the city of Mexico (Sept. 14). On the Pacific the Amer- icans had been equally successful, and the war was ended by the 1848, Feb. 2. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico gave up all claim to Texas, the Rio Grande to he the boundary, and ceded to the United States the provinces of New Mexico and Upper California, in all about 522,955 square miles, in consideration of fifteen millions of dollars. A. D. United States. 5b6 1848. Wisconsin (30th st:lt^). In ISK) the Wilmot proviso, which provided tliat shiren/ shouUl not ho perniitteil in whatever territory should he aaj u ired h-oni Mexico, was defeated ; hut the agitation it occasioned led to tlie organ- ization ot" 1848. The Free soil party, the precursor of the present repuhlican party. 1849-1853. Zachary Taylor (Louisiana), whig, 12th presi- dent, f July 9, 1850 ; succeeded by Millard Fillmore of New York, vice-president. John M. Clayton, secretary of state ; fol- lowed by Danid Webster 1850, July 20, f 1852 ; who was suc- ceeded by Edward Everett (b. 1794, f 1805). 1850. Population 23,191,870 (7th census). The discovery of gold in California (1847) had led to the rapid population of that territory, and in 1850 it became tlie 31st state. 1850, Sept. Clay's compromises provided for the admission of Cal- ifornia as a free state ; for the payment to Texas of ten millions for her claim to New Mexico ; for the organization of Utah and New Mexico as territories without any mention of slavery ; for the prohibition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia ; and for the rendition of slaves who had escaped to free states, this last known as the 1850. Fugitive Slave Law. 1850, April 19. Clayton-Bulwer treaty with Great Britain settled certain cpiestions with regard to communication between the Atlantic and Pacijic ; which, owing to the acquisition of Cali- fornia, had become of importance to the L^nited States. 1853-1857. Franklin Pierce (New Hampshire), demo- crat, 14th president ; William L. Marcy, secretary of state ; Jefferson Davis (b. 1808), secretary of war. 1853, Dec. 30. Boundary dispute with Mexico settled by the Gadsden purchase ; by which the boimdary was to be the Rio Grande from its mouth to 31° 20' north latitude ; thence due west to the 111th meridian of longitude west of Greenwich ; thence in a straight line to a point on the Colorado river twenty miles below the junction of the Gila ; thence up the middle of the Colorado river until it intersects the boundary of California as determined by the treaty of 1848. The price was ten millions, and the area thus acquired was 45,000 square miles. 1854. Treaty -with Japan, which opened that country to commer- cial intercourse with the United States, negotiated by commo- dore Perry (p. 5G3). 1854. Reciprocity treaty with Great Britain secured to the Ajuericans the riyht to the ^^ fisheries ; " and certain articles were to be admitted free of duty into the United States and the British provinces. This treaty was terminated in 18GG by the United States. 1854. Kansas-Nebraska bill passed. It provided for the organ- ization of two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and left the question of slavery to tliose who sliould there settle {squatter sov- ereignty)^ thus repealing in part the Missouri compromise. A 556 Modern History. A. d. struggle immediately ensued between the slave-holders and the aboli- tionists as to which party should colonize these territories first. Sack of Lawrence by " harder rujfians " (185(3, May 21) ; battle of Ossawat- toniie {John Broivn). At last the anti-slavery party proved successful. 1850. Rise of " Know-Nothingis?n,'' or secret opposition to foreign influence in national legislation. 1857-1861. James Buchanan (Pennsylvania), democrat, 15th president. 1857. In the Dred Scott case the supreme court decided that un- der the constitution neither negro slaves nor their descen- dants, slave or free, could become citizens of the United States ; and added, as a dictum, that the Missouri compromise was unconstitu- tional, and that therefore a slave did not become free by being carried to a territory where slavery had been prohibited under that compro- mise. 1857. Great commercial distress throughout the country. 1858. Minnesota (32d state) ; 1859, Oregon (33d state). 1859. John Brown with a handful of men seized the United Oct. 19. States arsenal at Harper's Ferry ; but, after half his men were killed, was captured, and hanged December 2d of the same year. 1860. Population of the United States 31,443,332 (8th census). 1860, Nov. Abraham Lincoln (b. 1809, f 1805) of Illinois, re- puhlican, received the electoral votes of all the free states, — Neio Jersey excepted, — but none from the slave states, and was de- clared president-elect. (New Jersey gave Lincoln 4, Douglas 3 votes.) 1860, Dec. 20. South Carolina seceded from the union, and was followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Lou- isiana, and North Carolina in January, ISGl ; by Texas in Febru- ary ; Virginia in April ; and by Tennessee and Arkansas in May. Missouri and Kentucky declared themselves neutral. Delegates from the seceded states met in convention at Montgomery, Alabama, 1861, Feb. 4 ; and formed a provisional government nnder the style of the Confederate States of America, Feb. 8. Jefferson Davis was elected president ; Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president. The se- ceding states endeavored to seize all the national property within their borders, and were successful except at Pensacola (Florida) and Charleston (South Carolina). At the latter place the commander of the United States forces withdrew to an unfinislied fort, Sumter, on an island in the harbor, Dec. 26, 1860 ; and on the 9th of January, 1801, a steamer, the Star of the West, bringing him supplies, -was fired on by the state forces, and forced to return. 1861, Jan. 29. Kansas admitted to the union as a, free (34th) slate. 1861. Lincoln reached Washington in safety Feb. 23 ; and was inaugurated (16th) president of the United States on March 4 without disturbance. "William H. Se-ward, secretary of state ; Simon Cameron, succeeded Jan. 1862, by Edwin M. Stan- ton, secretary of war ; Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury. The government of the so-called confederate states attempted to open negotiations, with the federal authorities, for a peaceful separation, A. D. United States. 557 but the president declined to entertain any such propositions. On the contrary, it was determined to succour the f/arrison in Charleston harbor. The insury 'ais fired on fort Sumter 1801, Apr. 12, wliieh surrendered Apr. 14. 1861-1865. The Civil War. Apr. 1."), the president issued a proclamation calling for 7o,000 rolu/iteers to serve for thi'ee months • and summoned coui^ress to meet July 4. April 18 / (1842, Aug. 27), Ni7}g-po (Oct. 13), Shang-hai (1842, June 19), and stormed Ching-keang (July 21). 1842, Aug. 29. Treaty of Nanking. 1. Canton, Amoy, Fuhchau, Ning-po, Shanghai, opened to British trade. 2. Hong-kong ceded to England. 3. The Chinese paid !?21, 000,000. 4. Establishment of a regular tarifp. 5. Otticial inter- course to be on a basis of equality. 1844, Jidy 3. Treaty with the United States {Caleb Cushing, am- bassador). Treaty with France (Oct. 23). 1850-1860. Hienfung. 1850, Aug. Outbreak of the Tai-ping rebellion (1850-1804). The leader was Hung Sui-tsuen, who called himself Tien-teh (" ce- lestial virtue ''), and claimed to have been commissioned by heaven to conduct a political and religious reform of the empire. Promulga- tion of a religious system based on some knowledge of Christianity. 1853. Capture of Nanking (Mar. 19), Shanghai (Sept. 7). Sui- tsuen proclaimed emperor. 1855. Failure of the attack made by the rebels on Peking. 1856, Oct. 8. The lorcha ^ Ai-row, owned by a Chinese, but com- manded by an Irishman and flying the British flag, was boarded at Canton by Chinese officers in search of suspected pirates ; twelve natives were carried off and the flag pulled down. 1856, Nov. Three Chinese forts destroyed by the American fleet under commodore Armstrong, the Chuiese having fired upon American boats. The attempt of the English government {Palmerston, p. 543) to ob- tain a disavowal of the attack upon the Arrow, or an apology there- for, resulted in the 1857-1860. (Second) war with Great Britain allied with France. Lord Elgin, English envoy. Destruction of the Chinese fleet (1857, May 26, 27). Capture of Canton (Dec. 28, 29). Treaties of Tientsin (June, 1858) with Great Britain, France, the United States. Infraction of the treaty (1859, June), renewal of the war. Repulse of the English attempt to force the passage of the Pei-ho forts (June -i Lorcha: a lij^ht Chinese sailinp: vessfl, carryini; c^uns, hiiilt after tlie Euro* pean model, but rigged Uke a Chinese junk. — Impkklax. Dictionauy. 562 Modern History. A. D. 25). Chinese defeat at Palikao (1860, Sept. 21). Destruction of the summer palace (Oct, 6), surrender of Peking (Oct. 12). 1860, Oct. 24. Treaty of Peking. Ratification of the treaty of Tientsin ; toleration of Chris- tianity ; revised tariff ; payment of an indemnity ; resident ambassa- dors at Peking. 1860-1875. Tungchi, six years old. Palace revolution. Administration of prince Kung. Reor- ganization of the imperial army under general Ward, an American (f 1861), and colonel Gordon, an Englishman. The " ever victorious force." 1862-1864. Suppression of the rebellion. Capture of Nanking (1864, July 19). Suicide of Hung Sui-tmen. 1866. Successful rebellion of Yakub Beg (f 1877) in Kashgar. 1868. Embassy of Atison Barlingaiiie (and two Chinese envoys) to the treaty powers. (Burliugame f 1870.) 1870, May. Mohammedan rebellion in the northwest (^Yun-7ian, Kan-suk). 1871. Russia annexed Kuldja, until the Chinese power should be reestablished in that region. 1873. Settlement of the audience question ; foreign ambassadors re- ceived by the emperor without the ceremony of prostration (kotow). Suppression of the Mohammedan rebellion. 1875 — X. Kwangsii, three years old {Tsai-tien). 1876, June 30. Opening of the first railroad in China (Shanghai to Woosung, eleven miles). 1877-1878. Terrible famine in the north of China. 1877, Dec. Defeat and assassination of Yakub Beg. Capture of Kashgar. 1879, June. Treaty with Russia negotiated by Chung-how : China obtained only a portion of Kuldja and paid an indemnity. Re- jection of the treaty. 1881, Aug. Peace with Russia negotiated by the marquis Tseng. Cession of nearly all of the Kuldja district ; China paid the expenses of Russian occupation. 1882. A threatened war with Japan avoided by Chinese diplomacy. Dispute with the French over Tonquin (p. 535). § 7. JAPAN. Mlkados. Shoguns (Tokugawa family). 1817-1846, Ninko 1787-1838 lyenori. ( 1838-1853 lyeyoshi. 1846-1866, Komei ^ 1853-1859 lyesada. ( 1859-1866 lyemochi. 1867 — X. Mutsuhito 1866-1868 Reiki (Hitotsubashi-yoshi- nobu ; Noriyoshi). Growing dissatisfaction with the usurped power of the shoguns among the samurai ; jealousy of the long possession of the shogunate by the Tokugawa family (1603-1868) among the great daimios. 1853, July 7. Commodore Perry, of the United States navy, en- tered the harbor of Yedo with four vessels, but soon departed ; in Feb. 1854, he returned, and concluded a A. D. Japan. 5G.'] 1854, Mar. 21. Treaty between Japan and tlu; United States, which was si<;iu'(l by tht' shogun, wlioni Perry took to b(! the "secular eni})eror " of flapan, inuU'r the newly assumed title of tai- hun (tycoon, ''<;reat prince," properly a title of the mikado). Trea- ties with Great Britain (1854, Oct. 14), and Russia (1855, Jan. *J(j). In 1858 trt'aties (peace, amity, unrestricted commcrc-i') concluded with tlie United States {Townshend Harris), Great Britain (Elgin), France, Russia, — all signed by the shogun. 1859. Yokoltaina, Ncujasaki, Hakodate, opened to trade. These unwarranted assumptions of power on the part of the &,hogun angered the mikado and the Kioto coui-t, where the foreigners were regarded with deep distrust. 1800. First Japanese embassy to the United States sent out by //, prime minister of the shogun (assassinated Mar. 23). 1861-18G5. Civil dissensions. Outrages upon foreign representa- tives. Death of an Englishman (Richardson) in a broil with the train of the brother of the prince of Satsuma, avenged by the bombardment of Kagoshima (iu Satsujna), and the exaction of SG25,0U0 (18o2). 18G2. The daimios, released from compulsory residence at YedOy Hocked to Kioto. 1863, Some American, Dutch, and French vessels, having anchored in the forbidden roadstead of Shimonoseki after due warning, were fired upon. In reprisal these powers bombarded the batteries, inflicting considerable loss. In spite of this 1864, Sept. 4. Bombardment and destruction of the Shimonoseki batteries by English, French, Dutch, and American vessels. Exaction of an indemnity of 63,000,000, of which the United States received 6785,000.1 1865, Nov. 25. Ratification of treaties extorted by the foreign pow- ers. 1867. Nov. 19. Resignation of Keiki, the last shogun. 1868. Restoration of the mikado. End of the dual gov- ernment. The proclamation setting forth the resumption of government by the mikado (1868, Jan. 3) was followed by the revolt of Keiki and by open war, which, after severe fighting (battles of Fushimi, 1868, Jan. 27-30 ; Wakamatsu, Hakodate), ended in favor of the imperial- ists (June, 1860). 1869. Nov. Residence of the mikado transferred from Kioto to Yedo (Jeddo), the name of the latter place having been previously changed to Tokio (" the eastern capital "). 1870. The mikado, by advice of the leading samurai {Okuho), changed front, and welcomed the foreigners. 1871. Embassy to the United States and Europe. 1871. Abolition of feudalism ; relegation of the daimios to private life ; abolition of the title ; exchange of their rev- enues for pensions. 1 In Feb. 18S3, the houfse of represpntatives accopfed a favoral)le report upon the Japanese indemnity bill. Repayment of the $785,000 without interest. 564 Modern History. A. d. Assimilation to western civilization. Issue of a code of criminal law (revised 1881) ; establishment of a government post ; introduc- tion of the telegraph ; railroad from Yokohama to Sliinogana (1872) ; bureau of education ; adoption of the Gregorian calendar (1874, Jan. 1) ; female normal school (1875) ; university of Tokio (1873); rees- tablishment of the Shinto faith (p. 32) ; new military system. 1874. Expedition to Formosa, avenging the murder of Japanese sail- ors on that island. 1876. Enforcement of a treaty with Corea. 1877. Rebellion in Satsuma (Saigo, Kirimo) suppressed after heavy fighting (Saigo,f Sept. 24). Large issue of inconvertible paper money to defray the expenses. 1878. Estal3lishment of local elective assemblies for regulating local taxation, and with right of petitioning the central government ; franchise secured to all males twenty-one years of age who pay a land tax of $5.00. 1881. Negotiations with the foreign powers relative to the adoption of a higher tariff, and to the abolition of the privilege enjoyed by foreigners of living under the jurisdiction of their native country. Dispute with China over the Loo-Choo islands. 1882, Oct. Imperial decree establishing a new constitution ; promise of a national assembly in 1890. INDEX. Abbrkviatiows : a. »= abbot ; adm. = admiral ; b. = bishop ; burpr- = burpprravc : c. = count ; d. = (liike; o. =earl; el. = elector; jr. d. = ^rand duke; II. R. K. = Holy Roinun Einiiire; k. = kin^; landar. = lniult;riive; niargr. = margrave; pr. = pruicei q. = queen; U. S. = United States of America; vise. = viscount. AiCHEN, 180, 195. See Aix-la-Chapelle. Aahme.^, king.<; of Egypt : I., 4; 11., 7. Abb:i.siilei^, rule of the, 183. Abdel-Kader captured by the French, 527. Abd-er-Rahmau : I., founded caliphate of Cordova, 183,209; III., 209. Abdul-Aziz, deposition of, 521. Abdul Hamid, II., 521 ; Kerim,522. Abel, k. of Denmark, 236. Aberdeen administration, 543. Abo, Peace of, 409. Abolitionists, organization of the, 553. Aboukir, battle of, 460. Abraham, 7. Absalon, bishop, 235. Abu-Bekr, 192. Abul Abbas, overthrows Ommiads, 183. Abydos, battles of, 68. Abyssinia, Christian kingdom of, 190. Abyssinian expedition, 545. Academic Framjaise founded, 326. Acadia, explorations in, 290 ; French claims to, 363 ; limits of, 364, n. ; granted to St. Etienne, 364 ; ceded to England, 363, 419 ; dispersion of the French inhabit- ants, 421. Achaean League, 43, 48 ; under Aratos, 79 ; under Philopcemen, 80 ; fall, 80 ; first Macedonian war, 118. Achfean War, 80, 122. Achaemenidie, 25-27. Acliaia, 39, 48 ; Roman province, 80, 146 ; duchy of, 216. Achilles, 47. Acilius Glabrio, 119, 135. A^oka, emp. of Magadha, 23. Acre, conquest of, in 3d crusade, 215 ; taken by Mamelukes, 217 ; repulse of Napoleon, 460. Aft for the better government of IndJa, 544 ; of confederation, 483 ; of grace, 387 ; of mediiition, 464 ; for perpetual par- liament, 345 : of settlement, 388 ; of su- premacy under Henry VIII., 335, under Elizabeth, 3:58; of uniformity, 338, en- forced by James I., 340, under Charles II., 379, of Vientia, 482; final act, 483, 487. Aotium, Corcyraeans victorious at, 65 ; de- feat of Antoniua, 146. Adalbert, archb. of Bremen, 199. Ad.ims, John, defends Preston, 425 ; mem- ber of Continental Congress, 426, 427 ; negotiates treaty with France, 429 ; vice- pres., 547, 548 ; pres., 548. Adams, John Quincy, sec. of state, 551 ; pres., 552. Adams, Samuel, 426. Addington administration, 536. Addison, Joseph, 436. " Addled " parliament, 341. Adelheid, empress, married Otto 1,, 196*, regent in Italy, 197. Adhemar of Puy, 214. Adherbal, 126. Adierkreuz, Gen., 472, Adolf of Nassau, elected k. of Germany, 244. Adolf Frederic, k. of Sweden, 409. Adrianople, battle of, 159, 171 ; peace ol, 489 ; agreement of, 523. .Sdiles, plebeian, 96 ; curule, 101 ; pay for the great games, 120. Jilgatian Islands, victory of Catulus, 111. JEgina, Doric community, 63 ; war with Athens, 57 : tributary to Athens, 63 ; as- signed to Athenian citizens, 65. ^gospotami, battle of, 69. Alfred the Great, k. of England, 204. MliB. Capitolina, 12, 153. Mile, leader of the South Saxons, 177. iEmilianus, 156. iEneas, 87. iEneas Sylvius, 253. 5ee Pius 11. jEolian tribes, 43 ; colonies, 49. ^qui, wars with Rome, 97, 98, 100 ; receive Roman citizenship, 105. ^rarii, 92. iEscendun, Danes defeated at, 204. ^schines, 72 -^schylus, 64. ^thelflajd, ladv of the Mercians, 204. ^thelred, kings of England, 1., 203, 204 ; II., the Unready, 205. Jithelstan, k. of England, 204. ^thelwulf. k. of England, 203. Aetius, 172 ; defeats Attila. 173. .Stolian League founded, 79 ; assists Rome, 116. Afghan war, first, 546 ; second, 547. Afghans of Ghor, supremacy in India, 211. Africa, circumnavigated by Egyptians (.'), 6 ; by Portuguese, 279, 280 ; Roman province, 121 ; Caesar's war, 142 ; Octavi- anus administers, 146; Vandal king- dom, 172; fall of the Vandal power, 174. Agamemnon, 47. Agathocles, k. of Syracuse, 20. Age of Augustus, 147 ; of Louis XIV., 371 : of Pericles, 64. Agesilaus. h. d Snurta, 70, 71. 566 Index. Agincourt, battle of, 259, 271. Agnes of Meran, 226 ; of Poitou, 199. Agrarian laws, 95, 97; Liciuian, 101; re- forms of the Gracchi, 124, 125 ; of Dru- pus, 128 ; of Sulla, 132 ; of Poinpeius, 137. Agricola, in Britain, 37, 152 ; his death, 152 ; his wall in Britain, 176. Agrigentum, 84 ; captured by Carthaginians, 20 ; by Romans, 110. Agrippa, M. Vipsauius, 146. Agrippiua, the elder, 148 ; the younger, 148, 150. Aguirre, Lope de, 288 Ahmad Shah, emp. of India, 442 ; Durani, invades India, 442, 443. Ahmednagar, kingdom, 353, 389. Ahuramazda, 24, 25. Ainos, 33. Aistulf , k. of Langobards, 175, 184. Aix-la-Chapelle, peace of 1668, 367 ; of 1748, 403, 419, 438 ; congress, 487. See, also, Aachen. Ajax, 47. Akbar the Great, 353, 354. Akkad, 13. Alabama, admitted to the Union, 552. Alabama claims settled, 545, 560. Alamanni, on the Rhine, 170; occupy Germania superior, 172 ; defeated by Chlodwig, 173. Alamgir II., emp. of India, 442. Alani, 170, 171. Alarijon, explores the Coloi-ado, 287. Alaric, k. of West Goths, 171. Alaska purchase, 559. Ala-ud-dan, sultan of Delhi, 241. Alba Longa, 87 ; destruction, 89. Albanian league, 525. Albemarle, d. of, 379. See, also. Monk. Alberoni, card., 397. Albert, the Bear, margr. of Brandenburg, 218, 219. Albert I., emp. of II. R. E., of Austria, 245, II., 253. Albert, c. of Ilolstein, 235. Albert, d. of Mecklenburg, 237, 238. Albert, of Saxe-Coburg, marries Victoria, 542 ; dies, 544. Albertine line, in Saxony, 305. Albigenses, 227. Albinus, Clodius, 155. Albion, 36. Alboin, k. of Langobards, 175. Albuera, battle of, 473. Albuquerque, 280, 355. Alcantara, order of, 240, 328. Alcibiades, 66 ; trial and flight, 68 ; death, 69. Alcolea, battle of, 512. Alcuin, 186. Alembert, 448. Aleppo, sultanate of, 210. Alesia, siege of, 139. Alessandria built, 221. Alexander, prince of Bulgaria, 524. Alexander, the Great, k. of Macedonia, 73 ; expedition to Persia, 20, 29, 73 ; invades India, 23, 75 ; plans to Hellenize the East, 75; his death, 76. Alexander, Popes : III., 221 ; V., 251 ; VI. 327. Alexander, tsar of Russia: I., accedes, 403 ; defeated at Austerlitz, 467 ; in the war of 1813, 477 ; in London, 482, 500 ; II., 500 ; murder, 525 ; III., 525. Alexandria, founded, 74 ; capital of Egypt, 77 ; Vespasian, 151 ; captured by Per- sians, 191 ; captured by Arabs, 182 ; by the French, 460 ; bombarded by the Eng- lish, 546. Alexandrine library founded, 77. Alexandrine war, 142. Alexis, tsar of Russia, 374. Alexius Comnenus, Greek emp., 214. Alfonso III., k. of Aragon, 276 Alfonso X., k. of Castile, 223, 240- Alfonso XII., k. of Spain, 621. Alford, battle of, 348. Algarbe, kingdom of, 276. Algeria, §xp. of Charles V., 304 ; French expedition, 489, 527. Ali, 182. Alien bill, 535. Alien and sedition laws in U. S., 549, Alkassor, battle of, 332. Alkmar, battle of, 461. " Alleluia victory,"' 38. Allen, Ethan, 427. Allersheim, battle of, 315. Allia, battle of the, lOO. " Alliance of the three kings," 497. Allouez, in New France, 364. " All the talents' " ministry, 537. Alma, battle of the, 500. Almagro, Diego de, 286, 287. Almanza, battle of, 434. Almanzor 209. Almeida, 280 ; siege of, 473. Almofidan. See Toorau-shah. Alniohades, conquer Spain, 240, Almoravides, conquer Spain, 209, 240. Alp Arslan, 210. Alsace, formerly Germania superior, 172; ceded to France, 316 ; protestants in, 369 ; ceded to tlie German empire, 519. Alsen, island of, 506. Altranstadt, peace of, 395, Alva, duke of, in the Netherlands, 330. Alvarado, 287. Alyattes, k. of Lydia, 21, 25. Amadeus I., k. of Spain, 512, 520. Amagro, 287. Amalaric, k. of West Goths, 174. Amalasuntha, 174. Amalric, k. of Jerusalem, 214. Amasis. See Aahmes. Amazon, discovery of, 284, 288. Amazons, 45. Amberg, battle of, 458. Ambiorix, 139. Amboise, conspiracy of, 321 ; peace of, 321. Amboyna, massacre of, 342, 354. Ambrosius, b. of Milan, 161. Amendments to U. S. Constitution, first ten, 547; 11th, 548; 12th, 549; 14th, 559 ; 15th, 560. Amcnemhat, kgs. of Egypt: I., conquers Nubia ; II., III., built lake Meri, 4 Amenhotep, III., k. of Egypt, war with Syrians, etc., 4; his statue (Meninon), 5. America, alleged discovery, 280 n. ; dis- covei-y by Northmen, 'i80 ; by Columbus, 279 ; named, 283 ; conquest of Mexicft Index. 567 285; conquest of Pern, 2*^6; Colifrny'a colonies, 2S8 ; \inriiii;i explon-tl, 2^9 ; founsar Uctavianu.«, emp. of Rome, his reign, 147 ; family, 148 ; death, 149. Augustus II., elector of Saxony, elected k. of Poland, 374: part in northern war, 394, 395 ; III., elected k. of Poland, 398 ; claimant for the Au.strian succession, 400 ; death, 411. Auraiig/.eb, euip. of India, depo.<'es his father, 354 ; his reign, 389. Aureliauus, emp. of Rome, 157 ; Persian war, and death, 188. Aurelius, Marcus, Rom. emp., war with Parthia, 30 ; reign, 154. Aurunci, 86, 103. Austorlitz, battle of, 467. Australia, first convicts sent to, 535. Au.strasia, 181-183, 187. Austria, Ostmark reestablished, 193 ; made a duclay, 221 ; house of llapsburg, 244 ; Hungarian succession secured to, 278 ; circle of, 300 ; anti-reformation in, 309 ; peace of Carlowitz, 372 ; war of the Span- ish succession, 391 ; peace of Rastadt, 394 ; peace of Passarowitz, 397 : alliance with Spain, 398; pragmatic sanction, 398 ; war of Austrian succession, 400; seven years' war, 403; reforms of Joseph II., 406 ; alliance with Prussia, 452 ; first co- alition against France, 452 ; peace of Campo Formio, 459 ; second coalition, 460 ; peace of Luneville, 462 ; indemnifi- cations, 455 ; third coalition, 467 ; peace of Pressburg, 467 ; Francis I., resigns the crown of the II. R. E., becomes emperor of Austria, 468 ; war with France, 471 ; peace of Vienna, 472 ; alliance with Na- poleon, 474 ; war of liberation, 477 ; con- gre.ss of Vienna, 482; influence in Ger- many and Italy, 487 ; Ferdinand I., 491 ; revolutionary movements, 491, 493 ; war with Sardinia, 494 ; Hungarian revolt, 494 ; Francis Joseph I., 495 ; general constitu- tion, 495 ; abolished, 495 ; (iernian em- pire, 497 ; w;ir with Fninee and Sardinia, loss of Lombardy, 502 ; February consti- tution, 504; war with Denmark, 505; with Prussia, 507 ; with Italy, 510 ; with- draws from German confederation, 510 ; union of crowns of Austria and Hun- gary, 511 ; occupies Bosnia and Herzego- vina, 524 ; alliance with Prussia, 525 ; disturbances in Bosnia, 525. Austrian succession, war of, 400, 438, 446. Austro-Prussian war, 507. Austro-Sardinian war, 532. Authari, 175. Avars, assist Alboin, 175; subjugated by Charles the Great, 185. Avesta, 24. Avignon, Popes at, 263 ; annexed to France, 4.02. Avitus, Roman emp., 162. Ayllon, Lucus Vasquez d", 286. ^ymer de Valence, 267. Ayoubites, dynasty of, 215. 217. Ayul) Khan, ,547. Azerinidocht, reign of, 192. Aziitt', gained by Turkey, 376; conquered by Peter the Great, 374 ; finally gained by Russia, 410. Azores, discovery of, 276, 279. Baal, 9, 10, 16, 18. Babar, founds Mughal empire, 353. Babenberg, house of, feud with house of Conrad, 194 ; receives the Kastmark, 196 ; becomes extinct, 244. Babington, conspiracy of, 330. Babylon, capital of Babylonia, 12 ; centre of the Chaldean empire, 13 ; founded by Ninus(?), 14 ; adorned by Nebuchadnez- zar, 16 ; captured by Cyrus, 26 ; revolt and recapture, 27. Babylonia, geography, 12 ; religion, 12 ; civ- ilization, chronology, 13; dependent on Elam, independent (old or Chaldean em- pire), 13 ; subordinate to Assyria, 13, 14 ; revolt under Nabopolassar, 15, 25 ; new empire, the leading Eastern power, 16 ; becomes a Persian province, 16, 26 ; re- volt against Darius, 27 ; subject to Mith- ridates I. of Parthia, 30. Babylonish captivity of the Jews, 11 ; of the papacy, 263. Bacallaos (Newfoundland), 288. Bacon, Francis, lord chau., 341 ; im- peachment of, 342. Bacon's rebellion, 359. Bacon, Roger, 235. Bactria, geography, 24 ; religion, 24 ; em- pire of, 25 ; subject to Parthia, 30. Badajos, geographical congress, 286; siege, 473. Baden, peace of, 394; becomes an electo- rate, 464 ; joined allies, 479. Ba?cula, battle of, 117. Ba>da, 180. Baffin, voyage of, 299. Bagdad, caliphate of, 183 ; under the Ab- basides, 210: destroyed by Mongols, 241. Bagleme. 238.' Bagradas, 141. Bahadur Shah, emp. of India, 442, 546. Bahamas. 358 Bahram (Varahran VI.), 191. Baillv, mayor of Paris, 450, 451, 455. P.aiasid, ,523 Ba'jazet I., 278. Biiji Rao, 443. Balaclava, battle of, 600. Bilaji Biiji Kao, 443. Balas, emp. of Persia, 189. Balbiuus, Cjrlius, 156. Bjilboa, Vasco Nuiiez de, 284. Baldur, 164, 166. Baldwin, k. of Jerusalem, I., 214, 234 ; II to v., 214. Baldwin, of Flanders, 216. Balfour, defeats Claverhouse, 381. Baliol, Edward, k. of Scotland, 264, 268. Ball, John, 268, 269. Ballard, conspiracy of, 339. Baltimore, Lord, 293. Bamberg, diet of, 221. Baner, Swedish general. 312, 314. Bank cif England, chartered, 388 ; stopped 570 Index. specie payment, 535 ; rcsunied, 539 ; charter renewed, 544. Bankruptcy bill in England, 54j. Bauuockburn, battle of, 267 Bar, confederacy of, 411. Bar, duchy of, 398. Barcelona, county of, 209; united with Aragou, 240. Bardija, 27. Barebone's parliament, 376. Barlow, sir G., gov. gen. in India, 541. Barnet, battle of, 274. Baronets, creation of, 341. Barras, 459. Barre, colonel, 423. Barrier treaties, 373. Barry, countess du, 446. Bar-.sur-Aube, battle of, 480. Barthelmy, 459. Basentello, battle (?), 197 n. Basle, council of, 319 ; peace of, 457. Bassein, ti-eaty of, 541. Bastidas, de, voyage of, 284. Bastile, destruction of, 449. Batavian republic, founded, 456; trans- formed to kingdom of Holland, 468. Batavians, revolt of, 151. Bates, trial of, 340. Batoum, Russians attack, 523 ; ceded to Russia, 524. Batthyanyi, count, 494, 496. Batu, 240. Baum, colonel, 429. Bautzen, battle of, 476. Bavaria, Bavarians, duchy established, 185 ; growth of power, 194 ; granted to Otto of Nordheim, then to Welf, 199 ; Henry the Proud dispossessed, 219 ; Henry the Lion reinstated, 221; given to Otto of Wit- telsbach, 222; duke Maximilian, 309 ; war of Spanish succession, 390; extinc- tion of electoral house, war of Bavarian succession, 406 ; to be exchanged for Netherlands, 408 ; allied with Napoleon, 467 ; with Austria, 478 ; allied with Aus- tria in Austro-Prussian war, 507 ; joins Prussia in the Franco-German war, 514 ; vote in Bundestag, 520.' Baxar, battle of, 444. Bayard, chev., 302, 318. Bayonne decree, 550. Bazaine, marshal, at Metz, 514, 516 ; sur- renders Metz, 518 : trial, 533. Beachy Head, battle of, 387. Beaconsfield, lord (Disraeli), sketch of life, 543; chan. of exch.,543; premier, 545; raised to peerage, 545. Beaufort, cardinal, 271. Beauue la Rolande, battle of, 518. Beausejour, 421. Becket, Thomas, archb. of Canterbury, 231 ; murdered, 232. Bedford, d. of, 260. Bedford, ministry of, 438. Bedloe, 381. Beheim, Martin, 280. Bel, 12, 13. Belfort, battle of, 519. Belgii, 37 ; subjugation of, 138. Belgium, Biilgians, 34 ; annexed to France, 453 ; revolution of 1830, 489 ; conflict with papacy, 525. Belgrade, battle of, 278, 397 ; peace of, 397, 398. BelLsarius, 174, 190. Bellona, 84. Belshazzar, 16. Bem, Polish aeneral, 495, 496. Benedetti, at .Ems, 513. Benedict, popes, V., 1V6 ; IX., 199; XI., 264 ; XIII., 251 ; deposed, 252. Benedek, general, 508, 509. Beneventum, battle of, 108 ; (Manfred), */26. Bengal, 22 ; Muhammedan sultans in, 353 ; British in, 443. Bennington, battle of, 429. Bentinck, earl of Portland, 386. Bentinck, lord William, gov. gen. in India, 541. Berengar II. (of Ivrea), 195. Berezina, passage of the, 475. Berg, grand duchy of, 468, 478. Bergen, 405. Bergerac, peace of, 322. Berkeley, lord, grant in America, 358. Berkeley, sir AVilliam, 358. Berlin, in Hanseatic league, 249; univer- sity founded, 471 ; conflicts in the streets, 492 ; peace of, 401 ; truce of, 496 ; con- gre.-s of, 524 ; conference of, 525. Berlin decree, 537, 550. Bermudas, 292. Bernadotte, on middle Rhine, 460 ; on up- per Danube, 467; crown prince of Swe- den, 473 ; acts with allies, 476, 477. Bernard, a. of Clairvaux, 214. Bernard, gov. of Mass., 424. Berne, joins Swiss confederacy. 248; ob- tains the Waadtland, 327 ; confederate council in, 492. Bernhard, of Ascania, 222 ; k. of Italy, 186 ; d. of Saxe-AVeimar, 312, 313. Bernicia, 178. Bernstorff, c.,409. Berry, d. of, murdered, 527. Berthier, prince of Neuchatel, 468. Berthold of Zahringen, receives Oarinthia, 199 ; aids Lothar, 218. Berwick, EngiisU, ^o» ; capture of, 264, 274 ; treaty of, 33S ; pn-iMcation of, 345. Berwick, marshal, 445. Bessarabia, ceded by Russia, 501 ; taken back in treaty of San Stefano, 623 ; in congress of Berlin, 524. Bessus, the satrap, 29, 74. Bestushef , 411. Bethlen Gabor, pr. of Transylvania, 3< 9, 310. Beust, v., 511. Beziers, storm of, 227. Bhartpur, battle of, 541. Biarni, discovers America, 281. Bible, translated by Luther, 3*; 2; English translation completed, 341. Bibracte, battle of, 138. Bidar, kingdom of, 353 ; conquered by Au- rangzeb, 389. Bijapur, kingdom, 353 ; annexed to Mughai empire, 389. Bill of Attainder, last used, 388. Bill excluding bishops from House ol Lords, 347. Bill of Rights, 386, Indnx. 571 Bills, the four, presented by parliament to C'harles 1., 8')0. Birger Jarl, '237. Birkebenerne, 238. Biroii, •llO, 411 ; invested with Curland, 414. Birthen, battle of, I'Jo. Biscop, Benedict, 180. Bismarck, count v., early life, 504; chan. of the confederation, 511 ; negotiations with Favre, 5l7 ; chan. of the empire, 520 ; at congress of Berlin, 524 ; at Vien- na, 525 ; defeated in Reichstag, 52tj. Bitiiynia, subjugated by Alyattesof Lydia, 21"; kings of, 78; war with Mithridates, 129 ; beque tthed to Rome, 134, 133. Bla, Lydian goddess, 21. Black Death, in England, 268, 269 ; in France, 258. Bla-^k Hole of Calcutta, 443. Black Prince. See Edward, the. Blackhcath, battle of, 333. Bladcnsburgh, battle of, 551. Bladud, 37. Blake, 376. Blanche, regent, 227. Blanket meeting at Manchester, 538. Blekiug, joined to Sweden, 236 ; ceded to Denmark, 238. Blenheim, battle of, 392, 434. Block, Adrian, 296, 298. Bloody Assize, 383. Blucher, surrenders, 469 ; occupies Dres- den, 476; in the war of liberation, 477- 434 ; created Prince of Wahlstadt, 477 ; at Waterloo, 484. Blumenau, battle of, 509. Boadicea, revolt of, 37. Bobadilla, 283. Boccaccio, Giovanni, 263. Bocchus, k. of Mauritania, 127. Bocholt, battle of, 185. Bockelsohn, Johann, 394. Bodenstein, 301. Body of Liberties, 298. Boeotia, 40 ; conquered by ^olians, 48 ; submits to Xerxes, 58 ; allied with Sparta, 62 ; aristocracies in, 63 ; war with Sparta, 77, 80. Bohemia, occupied by Boii, 167 ; by Mar- comanni, 167 ; by Slavs, 168 ; war with Henry I., 194 ; does homage to empire, 218 ; dukes created kings, 248; Ottokar's war with Rudolph, 244 ; Luxembourg house, 247 ; Charles IV.,emp., 248 ; Hus- sites, 252; united with Hungary, 278; Ferdinand I. elected king, 306 ; in Thirty Years' \Var, 308, 309 ; in Austro- Prussian war, 509 ; Bohemian language in Univer- sity of Prague, 526- Bohemond of Tarentum, 214. 1! ihmisch-Brod, battle of, 252. I'.oii, in Gaul, 34, 35; in Bohemia, 167. I'oilleau, 371. Boleslav, k. of Poland, 197. Bulingbroke, Henry. See Henry IV. of England, 270. Boliugbroke, vise, St. John created, 435; impeached, 437. Bolivar, 488. Bolivia, independent, 488. Bombay, 271 ; British in, 443. Bonaparte, Jerome, k. of Westphalia, 470. Bonaparte, JoBeph, 468; k. of Naples, 470; of Spain, 470; driven from Spain, 479. Bonaparte, Louis, k. of Holland, 468, 470; abdication, 473. Bonaparte, Lucien, 461. Bonaparte, Napoleon, first appearance, 4.')5 ; in command for the convention, 457 ; marriage to .losephine, 458 ; crosseil the Alps, 458 ; Egyptian exp., 460 ; regent of the consulate, 461 ; campaign in Itiily, 462 ; passage of the Gt. St. Bernard, 462 ; consul for life, 464 ; hereditary emp. of the French, 465. See Napoleon I. Bonaparte, Prince Napoleon, marriage, 531. Bonaparte, Pierre, 512. Bonapartists, ,527, 530, 534. Bond of association, 339. Bonder, family of, 237. Boniface, apostle of the Germans, 180, 184. Boniface, marquis of Montferrat, 216. Boniface Vlil., pope, 254. Bouifacius, Roman governor, 184. Bonner, b. of London, 336. Boon, Daniel, 425. Bordeaux, d. of, 527, 529. Borgia familv, 327. Bornhoeved, battle of, _ 224, 235. Borodino, battle of, 475. Boroughbridge, battle of, 267. Bosnia, occupied by Austrians, 524 ; dis- turbances, 525. Bosphorus, bridge of boats over, 28 ; king* dom of the, 129. Bossuet, 371. Boston, settlement of, 296 ; massacre, 425; tea-party, 425 ; port-bill, 425, 440; siege and surrender, 427. Bosworth Field, battle of, 275. Bothwell, 338. Bothwell-Brigg, battle of, 381. Bouillon, Godfray of, 214. Bourbaki, 514, 519. Bourbon, card, of, 322 Bourbon, constable of, defection, 302 ; death, 303. Bourbon, d. of, 445, 446. Bourbon family compact, 4-39. Bourbon, house of, contest with Catherine de' Medici, 321 ; descent, 324; in Spain, 414 ; in Naples, 416, 468 ; return to France, 481, 526 : final expulsion, 529. Bouvines, battle of, 223, 227, 233. Bovianum, capture of, 106. Boyne, battle of the 370, 387. Braddock^s defeat, 4-21. Bradford, William, 295. Bradstreet, 421. Braganza, house of, in Portugal, 332, 415. Brahma, religion of, 23. Brahmans, caste of, 23. Brandenburg, conquered by Albert the Bear, 218 ; falls to Lndwig the Bavarian, 247 ; an electorate, 248 ; falls to Charles IV. , 249 ; given to Frederic of Nuremberg (Hohenzollern), 252 ; this not a sale, 252 n. ; joins peace of Prague, 314 ; indem- nifications in peace of Westphalia, 316 ; great elector, 368 ; elector becomes king of Prussia. 372 ; East Prussia, secured to, 377. Brandt, 409. 572 Index. Brandywine, battle of, 429. Bra.sidas, 66. Eravalla, battle of, 207. Brazil, discovered, 284 ; independent, 488. Breda, compromise, 330 ; declaration of, 378 ; treaty of, 358, 364, 379. Bremen, free city, 222 ; in league of Rhine cities, 249; not ceded to Sweden, 316; remains free in 1803, 464. Bremen, bishopric, ceded to Sweden as a duchy, 316; Danes capture and sell to Hanover, 396. Brennus, British prince (?) 37; at Rome, 100. Brentford, affair of, 347. Breogau, 39. Breslau, battle of, 404 ; peace of, 401 ; fall of, 469. Bretigny, peace of, 258, 268. Bretwalda, 178. Brienne, de, 447. Bright, John, 542; resignation. 548. Brissot, Girondist, 451, 452, 454. Bristol, captured, 267 ; by Rupert, 347 ; sur- rendered, 349. Britain, geography, religion, mythical his- tory, 36 ; probable history to the year 411, 37; Irish invasion, 39; expedition of Caesar, 139 ; conquest begun, 150 ; de- scription, 163, 164 ; Roman Britain, 176 ; Teutonic conquest, 176. See. England. Britannicus, 150. Brithnoth, death of, 205. British Museum founded, 439. Brittany (Bretagne), independent, 182, 201 ; under Henry II. of England, 231 ; con- tested succession, 257 ; final union with French crown, 320 ; annexed to France, 3.33. " Broad Bottom Ministry," 433. Broglie ministry, 527, 529, 533. Briimsebro, peace of, 315, 352. Brook, Lord, grant in Conn., 296. Brougham, lord chancellor, 539. Brown, John, hanged, 556. Bruce, claimant for Scottish crown, 264. Bruce, Robert, coronation, 269; wins Ban- nockburn, V67 ; death, 268. Bruhl, c, 403. Brunanburh, battle of, 205. Brundisium, siege of, 141. Brunhilde, 181. Brunswick, 222, 316, 490. Brunswick, d. of, manifesto, 452 ; com- mands Prussians, 469 ; expedition, 472. Brunswick-Liineburg, duchy of, 224. Brute, 37. Brutus, Decimus, 144, 145. Brutus, L. Junius, 89; consul, 93; puts his son to death in 509 (accidentally omitted from the first paragraph in page 95). Brutus, M. Junius, 133 ; murder of Caesar, 144 ; death, 145. Brythonic Celts, 37. Buccaneers, 417. Buchanan, James, U. S. sec. of state, 554 ; pres., 556. Bucharest, peace of, 473. Buckingham, d. of: (1) favorite of Richard III., 275; (2) d. in the reign of Henry VIII., 334 ; (3) Villiers, favorite of James I., 341 ; assassination, 343 ; (4) favorite of Charles II., 380. Buddha, 23. Buddhism, its origin, 23; introduced into China, 31 ; into Japan, 33. Buena Vista, surrender of, 554. Bulgaria, revolt in, 521 ; principality of, 523, 524. Bull of Alexander VI., dividing the world, 282 ; ausculta fill, 254 ; clericis laicos, 254, 266. Bull, golden, of the H.R. E., 248 ; of Hun- gary, 277. Bull Run, battles of, 557. Bunker's Hill, battle of, 427. Bunyan, John, 389. Bunzelvvitz, 405. Burford, battle of, 180. Burghley, baron, 3:^8. Burgoyne, gen., 428 ; surrender of, 429. Burgundiaus, on the Oder, 164 ; around Worms, 170, 171 ; on the Rhone aud Saone, 172 ; subjugated, 181. Burgundy (see Burgundians), part of Frankish kingdom, in the second divis- ion, 181; in the third, 182; given to Lothar in the treaty of Verdun, 187 ; after his death, assigned to the west Franks, 193 ; divided into transjurane under Rudolf, 209 ; aud cisjurane under Boso, 193, 201 ; these two united into the kingdom of Burgundy or Aries, 198 ; which Rudolf III. bequeathed to Henry II., 198 ; and which was united with the empire, 198 ; the duchy of Burgundy re- mained with France, was seized by John II., and given to Philip the Bold, 258 ; growth of its power, strife with kings of France, '259 ; Burgundy and Orleans, 259 ; in the Hundred Years' War, 260 ; death of Charles the Bold, the duchy united with France, 262 ; the other Bvxrgundian lands fell to Maximilian of Germany, 253, 301 ; the duchy claimed by Charles V., .302; these claims renounced by Charles, 305; new kingdom of Burgundy proposed by Joseph II., 408. Burke, Edmund, 441. Burkersdorf, battle of, 406. Burleigh, baron, sec. of state, 338. Burlingame, Anson, 562. Burma, 22, 30 ; invasion of, 444 ; 1st Bur- mese war, 541 ; 2d, 546 ; annexed to In- dia, 546. Burnet, b. of Salisbury, 386. Burnet, \Villiam, gov. of New York, 417; of Mass., 418. Burnside, gen., 557. Burr, Aaron, vice-pres. of U. S., 549; duel with Hamilton, 549: trial, 550. Burs-Nimrud, ruins of, 12 n. 2. Bute, lord, 439. Butler, Irish gen., 313. Button's Bay, discovery of, 299. Buzzard's Bay, discovery of, 290. " Bye " or " Surprising " treason, 340. By lot, voyage of, '.^99. Bvng, admiral, 434. Byron, lord, 488. Byzantium, captured, 61, 68 ; importance to Athens, 72; name changed to Constanti- nople, 159 ; capital of eastern empire, 161« Index. bn "Cabal" ministry, 3S0. Caboi-bians overthrown, 259. Uabot, John and Sebastian, discover North America, 28;i, 3^38; Sebas'ian, voyajxe of, 283 ; alleged voyage, 285 ; voyage to South America, 'iStJ. Cahral, discovers Brazil, 284, 353. Cade, Jacli, rebellion of, 271. Cadiz, expedition of Wimbledon, 342 ; siege of, 473 ; capture, 527. "SVe also Gades. Cadmus, 18, 45. Cadoudal, executed, 465. Csedmou, 180. Caesar, C. Julius, leader of the democrats, 13(3; consul, 137; triumvir, 137; re- ceives (}allia Cisalpina and Narbonen- sis, 138; conquest of (Jaul, visits to Britain, 139; war with Pompeius, 140; Phansalus, 141; in Egypt, 142; vtni, vi//i, I'ici, 142 ; Africau war, 142 ; war with sons of Pompeius, 143 ; C. impera- tor, 143 ; reform of the calendar, 143 ; a.ssassination, 144. Caesar, G. and L., adopted by Augustus, 148. Calfir war, 543. Cairo captured by the French, 460. Cajetanus. iJ3 ; II., the Bald, 18(3, 187, 201; 111., the Fat, 193, 201; IV., 248; v., ancestor of the Span- ish line of Ilupshurjj, 301; reign, 3u2; Charles and Luther, 302 : wars with Francis I., 302, 3(i3, 304 ; with Henry 11., 3UG ; Schmalkaldic war, 305 ; abdica- tion, 30G. Sff Charles I., of 8pain ; VI., claims to Spanish succession, 390 ; reign, 3J7 ; pragm.-itie sanction, 39>< ; death, 400; VII., election, 401; exile, death, 402. Charles, card, of Lorraine, 319. Charles, d. of Lorraine, last Caroliugian heir to French crown, 202. Charles of Lorraine, Austrian gen., 372, 404. Charles, k. of Navarre, the Bad, 258. Charles, k. of Spain, 1., possessions in the Netherlands, 329 : reign, 330. See, also, Charles, emp. of 11.11. E., V.; II., 390; III., 414 ; IV., abdicates, 470. Charles, k. of Sweden, IX., 352; X., 373; XL, 373: XII., 394: wars with Peter the Great, 394 , Varna, 395 ; in Turkey, death, 396; XIII., 472. Charles Albert, e. of Bavaria, claimant for Au.strian inheritance, 400. Charles Albert, k. of .Sardinia, 49i. Charles Edward, young pretender, 438. Charles Gustavus of Tfalz-Zweibriicken, k. of Sweden, a')2. Charles Martel, 183, 184. Charles Theodore, 406 ; elector p.alatine, claimant for the Spanish succession, 406. Charleston, Carolina, foundation of, 358, 359; capture by I'linton, 430; evacua- tion, 431 , in the civil war, 537 ; evacua- tion, 559. Charter Oak, 361. Chartists, 542. Chase, Salmon P., U. S. see. of thetreaB.,556. Chastcnoy, peace of, 322. Chateaubriand, 527. Chatham, e. of, as \Vm. Pitt in Broad Bot- tom ministry, 433 ; sec. of state, 4o9 ; sketch of life, 4.39 ; prime minister, 424. Chatillon, congress at, 480. Chattanooga, battle of, 558. Chaucer, Geoffrey, 270. Chaumont, alliance of, 480. Chedorlaomer, k. of Babylon, 13. Cheops. See Khufu. Chephren. See Khafra. Cherry Valley, massacre of, 430. Cherusci, 168". Chester, battle of, 179. iievy Chase, battle of, 269. riie-wang-te, emp. of China, built the Chinese wall ; destroyed books, 32. Chiari. battle of, 392. Chierasco, treaty of, 311, 325. Chiersi, diet of, 201. Chil4 ; per- secution in China, 444; Christians in Turkey, 522, 624 ; toleration secured in China. 502. Christina of Sweden, 352. Christopher II., k. of Denmark, 236. Chrysanthemums, war of the, 243. Church, high and low, 4:33. Churchill. .S^? Marlborough. Cibola, seven cities of, 287. Cicero, birthplace of, 82; sketch of life, 1-36 : speeches against Catiline, 137 ; banished, 1.38; recalled, 139 ; proconsul, i^O ; murdered, 145. 576 Index. Cid, 209. Cilicia, Semitic, 21 ; under Persia, 26, 27, 134 ; Roman province, 136. Cimbri, invade Italy, 127, 128, 167. Cimon, 57, 61 ; rivalry with Themistocles, 62 ; recalled to Athens, death, 63. Cimon, peace of, 63. Cincinnati, society of the, 432. Cincinnatus, L. Quinctius, 98. Cineas, 108. Cinna, 130, 131. Cinq-Mars, marquis of, 326. Cinque Ports, 264. Circles of the H. R. E.,300. Cisalpine republic, founded, 459 ; included in Italian republic, 454. Ciudad Rodrigo, captured, 473. Civil marriage compulsory, 521. Civil rights bill, 559. Civil service act, 560. Civil war, in England (Roses), 272 ; great rebellion, 347, 350 ; in France, 321, 322 ; in Portugal, 488 ; in Rome, 130, 140 ; in Spain, 4b0, 520 ; m Switzerland, 492 ; in United- States, Shays's rebellion, 433 ; whiskey, 548 ; great rebellion, 557. Civilis, CL, 168. Clarence, d. of, 274. Clarendon, e. of, first interview with the king, 346 ; receives grant of South Caro- lina, 358 ; chancellor, 378 ; fall, 379. Clark, John, settles Rhode Island, 297. Claudia, 148, 319. Claudius, Roman emp., conquest of Brit- ain, 37 ; reign, 157. Claudius Pulcher, 111. Claverhouse, defeat, 381 ; victory and death, 386. Clay, Henry, U. S. sec. of state, 552. Clay's compromises, 555. Clayton-Bulwer treaty, 555. Clemens Maximus, 161. Clement II., pope, 199 ; III., 200 ; V., 254 ; goes to Avignon, 263 ; XIV., 416. Cleomenes, k. of Sparta, 55 ; III., 79. Cleon, 65, 66. Cleopatra placed over Egypt by Caesar, 142 ; meets Antonius, 145 ; fails to charm Octavian, death, 147. Clermont, council of, 214. Cleve-Jiilich, contested succession begun, 308 ; ended, 372. [Geneal. table, 307.J Clientes, 90. Cliff temples in India, 23. Clinton, Sir Henry, 429, 430. Clisthenes, reforms of, 64. Clitus, murder of, 75 Clive , lord, 442 ; sketch of life, 443 ; in India, 443, 444. Clodius, P., 135 ; tribune exiles Cicero, 128 ; ultra democrat, 139 ; death, 140. Cloten, 37. Clovis. See Chlodwig. Cnut. See Knut. Coalition ministry, 441. Cobbet, William, 538. Cobden, Richard, 542. Cochin China, 30 ; annexed to China, 278 ; invasion of, 444. Code Napoleon, 462. Codrus, k. of Athens, 48. Coercion act, 546. Coke, Sir Edward, 341, 342. Colbert, 366. Colchester, taken by Fairfax, 851. Coleman, execution, 381. Coligny, adm. de, attempts to found a Huguenot colony in America, 288 ; mur- dered, 321. Collatinus, 89, 93. College, execution of, 383. Colleges of sacred lore, 85 ; founded, 170. Colniar, 186. Cologne, diet of, oOO : archbishop of, elec- tor, 248. Colombia, 488. Colonies, Greek, 48, 49 ; Roman and Latin, 109; in America: Spanish, 282, etc.; English, 291; Dutch, Swedish, 298; French, 299, 363. Colosseum, 82, 152. Columbey-Nouilly, battle of, 516. Columbus, Bartholomew ,2S3 ; Christopher, voyages to America, 282, 283, 284 ; state of Japan at the time of his voyage, 278 ; Diego, 284. Comitia, centuriata, origin, 92 ; growth of power, 94, l(i2 ; chooses censors, 99 ; de- cline, 107 ; democratic reform of, 112 ; reformed by Sulla, 130 ; further conser- vative changes, 132; powers transferred to the senate, 149 : curiata, original con- stitution, 91, 92; changes in the consti- tution, 94 and n. ; constitution in the 4th cent. B. c, 102 : iributa, established, 96; summons Coriolanus, 97 ; made equal with centuriata, 98 ; constitution in 4th cent. B. c, 102 ; resolves made univer- sally binding, 107. Commercial panic in England, 539 ; in U. S., 556, 560. Committee of public safety, in England, 347 ; in France, 453, 455. Commodus, Roman emp., 154. Common law, 266. Commune of Paris 451, 454, 455; upris- ing, 532. Comuenes, dynasty, 240 : house, 240. Compton, b. of London, 383, 384. Compurgation, abolition of, 232. Concilium Germanicum, 184. Concini (Marechal d'Ancre), 325. Concord, battle of, 426. Concordat in France, 319, 463. Cond.5, 315, 366, 368, 450. Condillac, 448. Confederate States of America, 556 ; recog- nized by Great Britain, 555. Confederation of the Rhine, establishment, 468 ; dissolution, 479. Confession of faith, 338. Confirmatio chartarum, 266. Conflans, treaty of, 250. Confucius, 32. Congress, (Continental, 426,427 ; of United States, 547. Connecticut, colony of, 296 ; charter, 358; united witk New Haven, 358 ; govern- ment, 3R1, 362; slavery partially abol- ished, 432. Conrad, emp. of the H. R. E., I. (of Fran- conia), 194 ; II. (the Salian), 198 ; III., crusade, 215 ; reign, 219 ; IV., 225. Conrad the Red, of Lothariugia, 195. Index. 577 Conradin, 225, 226. Consi'il (lu Hoi, 446. Coiisistorium priiicipis, 159. Coiistauco, council of, 251 ; peace of, 222. Constiiuce, of Sicily, married Henry VI., 222. Con.>(tans, Roman emp., 160. Constiint, B., 527. Constantine, Roman emp., I. (the Great), 159: II., 160. Constantinople, fall of, 260, 278 ; palace, revolution in, 521 ; conference of, 622. See Byzantium. Constantius, Roman emp., 158, 160; Per- sian war, IBS. Constjintius Chlorus, 158. Constituent assembly in France, 447, 449. Coustitutio Autoniana, J55. Constitution of Austria, of 1849, 495 ; Feb- ruary c, 504 ; c. of 1866, 511. Constitution, French, _/irst, accepted by Louis XIV., 450 ; second (Republican), never executed, 454 ; third (of 1795), 457; fourth, 461; ffth, 464; of the First Empire, 465; c. of Louis XVllL, 665 ; c. of Louis Philippe, 529 ; c. of 1848, 631 ; c. of Louis Napoleon, 531 ; third re- public, 532 ; c. of 1875, 533. Constitution of (iermany. See Bull, Gold- en, and diet of llegensburg. End of the H. R. E. , 464; German confederation, 483; attempt to frame a new c, 493; new c. completed, 497 ; return to the confederation, 498; confederation dis- solved, 459 ; North German confedera- tion, 511 : c. of the German empire, 520. Constitution of Hungary. See Bull, gold- en. Under Joseph II., 408; in 1848, 494; abrogated, 495; in 1861, 504; restored, 511. Constitution of Naples, 493. Constitution of Poland, old, 374; c. of 1791, 413; abrogated, 490. Constitution of Prussia, 497. Constitution of 1812 in Spain formed, 473 ; abrogated, 483 ; restored, 487 ; abrogated, 488. Constitution of United States signed, 433. See Amendments. Constitutions of Clarendon, 232. Consulate, French, 448, 461 : Roman, es- tablished, 93 ; first plebeian consul, 101 ; age of eligibility, 120 ; treatment under the empire, 147. Conventicle act, 379. Convention parliament, 378, 385. Convocation, 340, 437. Convulsionnaires, 446. Cook, James, voyages of, 442. Coote, Sir Eyre, 444. Copenhagen, capture of, 249; 1st bom- bardment, 470 ; battle of, 536 ; 2d bom- bardment, 537 ; peace of, 373. Corcyra, t)4, 66. Corday, Charlotte, 454. Uordeiiers, 451. Cordova, Caliphate of, 183, 209. Cordova, Gonsalvo de 818. Corea, conquered by Chinese, 32 ; by Jap- anese, 33; treaty with Japan, 564. Corfinium, capital of Italia, 129. Goriuth, origin, 48 ; national assembly at, 37 73 ; joins Achaean league, 79 ; destroyed, 80, 122. Corinthian war, 70. Coriolanus, 97. Corn laws repealed, 542. Cornaro, Catherine, 262. Corneille, 371. Cornwallis, lord, in the Southern States, 430 ; surrender of, 431, 441 ; in India, 541. Cora'bus, 61. Coronado, Francisco Vasquez, 287. Coronea, battle of, 63, 70. Corporation act, 379, 539. Corpus Catholicorum, 371. Corpus Evangelicorum, 371. Corpus juris civilis, 210. Correggio, 328. Corsica, Phocaeans driven from, 19, 26, 84 ; assigned to Sextus Pompeius 146 ; king- dom of, 415. Cortenuova, battle of, 224. Cortereal, Gaspar and Miguel de, 284. Cortes at Cadiz, 473. Cortez, Hernando, conquers Mexico, 285; discovers Lower California, 287. Corvinus, Matthias, k. of Hungary, 253. Cosa, Juan de la, 284. Council of ten, 262. Council of the church, first oecumenical, 159 ; last, 159, 512. Count of the Saxon Shore, 38. Courcelles, gov. of New France, 364. Court of Common Pleas, Exchequer, King's Bench, 266. Courtrai, battle of, 264. Couthon, 454, 456. Covenant. See. Solemn League. Covenanters, defeat of, 379. Covilham, 353. Cowpens, battle of, 431. Coxe, 365. Cracow, 414 ; free state of, 483. Cradock, Matthew, gov. of Mass. Bay, 295. Cranmer, archb. of Canterbury, 335 ; burnt 338. Crassus, expedition against Parthia, 30, 133 ; democrat, 136, 137 ; consul, 140. Craterus, 74 ; regent of West, 76 ; in the Lamian war, 79. Craven, gov. of Carolina, 417. Crawford, W. H., U. S. sec. of the treas., 551. Crt^cy, battle of, 248, 257. Crefeld, battle of, 405. Cremona, 35 ; founded, 112 ; battle of, 151 ; diet, 224. Crescentius, 197. Crespy, peace of, 305. Crete, Phoenician settlements in, 17 ; un- der Minos, 18, 41 ; assigned to Brutus, 144 ; belongs to Venice, 326 ; yielded to Turks, 416. Crimean war, 499, 500, 543; end of, 531. Critias slain, 69. Croatia, 511. Croesus, k. of Lydia, conquers Grecian cities, intercourse with Greece, war with Persia, 21, 22; defeated, 22, 26; story of his miraculous rescue, 26. Cromwell, Oliver, sketch of life, 375; first speech, 343; " Ironsides," 347; Mars ton 578 Index. Moor, 348 ; lieutenant-general, 349; lord protector, 376 ; turns out the rump, 376 ; rejects title of king, 377 ; death, 377- Cromwell, Richard, 375, 377. Cromwell, Thomas, 335. Crown Point, 421, 428. Crozat, sieur Antoine, 365. Crusades, cause, 213; I., 214; II., III., 215; IV., v., 216; VI., VII., 217; re- sults, 217. Ctesiphon, 153, 192. Cuba discovered, 278, 282 ; circumnavigat- ed, 284 ; conquered, 284 ; attack on, 419. CuUoden, battle of, 438. Culpepper, lord, grant in America, 357. Cumberland, d. of, became k. of Hanover, 642. Cumberland Straits, discovery of, 289. Cunaxa, battle of, 29. Cunctator. See Fabius. Cup-bearer, 195. Curiae, 91. Curio subjugated Sicily, 141. Curius Dentatus, M'., 106. Curland, incorporated with Russia, 414. Curland, d of, restored, 373. Custine, gen. 453, 454. Cu8toz2a,, battle of, 494, 510. Cyaxares, overthrows Nineveh, 15, 16 ; war with Alyattes, 21, 25. Cybele, Lydian goddess, 21. Cylon, insurrection of, 51. Cymbeline, 37. Cynoscephalae, battle of, 71, 80, 119. Cynric, 178. Cyprus, tributary to Assyria, 14 ; Phoeni- cian colonies in, 17, 41 ; given to Guy of Lusignan, by Richard of England, 215 ; given by Catherine Cornaro to Venice, 262; surrendered to the Turks, 326; given to England, 524 ; British take pos- session, 545. Cyrene in Africa, hostilities with Egypt, 6 ; founded, 19 ; submits to Cambyses, 27 ; conquered by Darius, 28 ; assigned to Cassius, 144. Cyrus, emp. of Persia, deposes Astyages, 62 ; defeats Croesus, 21, 26 : takes Baby- lon, 16, 26 ; death, 27 : the younger, 29. Cyzicus, battle of, 68, 134, Czartoryski, 490. Czaslau, battle of, 401. Czechs, 493. Dablon, 864. Dacia, war with Rome, 152, 153 ; made a Roman province, 152 ; given up by Au- relian, 157. Daedalus, 18. Dale, Sir Thomas, 292. Dalecarlians, revolt of the, 352. Dalhousie, e. of, gov. gen. in India, 546. Dalmatia, 525, 526. Dalziel, 379. Damascus, defection from Solomon, 9 ; captured by Ramannarari, 14, 136 ; sul- tanate of, 210. Damiens, 446. Damietta, captured, 217. Dan no ura, battle of, 242. Dan the Famous, k. of Norway, 207. Danaus, 44. Danby, impeachment, 381, 383, 384 ; pres of privy council, 385. Dandolo, Henry, doge of Venice, 216, 262. Danegeld, instituted, 205 ; abolished, 231. Danelagh, 204 ; reconquered and lost, 205. Danes. See Denmark, Northmen. In Eng- land ; three epochs of their ravages, 203 ■. ti'eaty of Wedmore, 204 ; massacre of Danes, 305 ; political conquest of Eng- land, 206. Dangerfield, 382, 383. Danish vespers, 205. Danneborg, 235. Dannevirke, 207. Dante Alighieri, 263. Danton, member of Cordeliers, 451, 452, 453 ; of the Committee of Public Safety, 454 ; execution, 455. Danzig, annexed to Poland, 413 ; captured by Napoleon, 469. Daras, battle of, 190. Dare, Jeanne, career, 260. Dardanos, peace of, 131. Dare, Virginia, 289. Darien, discovered by Columbus, 284 ; at- tacked by Drake, 289 ; Scotch settlement at, 362. Darius, name of several k.'s of Persia, I. succeeds Bardija, recaptures Babylon, 27 ; war with Scythians, reforms, war with Ionian Greeks, with European Greeks, death, 28 : II. Not/ms, 29 \ III., Codomannus, defeated by Alexander, death, 29, 74. Darnley, murdered, 338. Datis, 57. Daun, marshal, 404, 405. Dauphin, title of the heir to the French crown, 258. Dauphine of Vienne, transferred to the crown of France, 258, David, k. of the Jews, 8, 9. David II., k. of Scotland, capture of, 268. Davila, 285. Davis, Jefferson, U. S. sec. of war, 555 ; pres. of the Confederate States, 556. Davis, John, Arctic voyages, 289, 290. Davout, on the Rhine, 467 ; defeated at Eylau, 469 : in Hamburg, 476, 479. Day of the sections, 457. Decazes, ministry of, 527. Deccan, in India, geographical position, 22 ; arrival of Hindus, 23 : state of, in 1498,353; independence of, 442; passes under the control of the British, 541. Decebalus, 152, 153. Decelean war, 67. Decemvirs, 98. Decius, Roman emp., 156. DeciusMusP.,108. Declaration of Independence in Belgium. 489 ; in the United States, 428. Declaration of indulgence, 380. Declaration of rights, 385. Declaration of rights and liberties, 424. Deerfield, Indian attack, 3G3. Defoe, Daniel, 389, 436. Deiotarus, k. of Galatia, 78,. 136 ; submit! to Caesar, 142. Deira, 178. Dejoces, Median chief, 25. Delaware, lord, gov. of S. Virginia, 292. Index. 579 Delhi, in India. 22; snlfans of, 241, 863 ; capfiired V'j Liike, 541 ; revolt, 546. Delos, 41, 62. Delphi, advice to Croe.sus, 21 ; nttjirlted by (ijiul.s, 35; oracle. 51- plundered by Krisa, 54 ; by I'hocians, 72. Deniades, peace of, 73. Deniaratu-s, 55, 58. Pemes, 52. Demetrius, the false, 352. Demetrius Polioroetes, 77; in Athens, 79. Democnitic party in U. S., 548. Demosthenes, tlie general, 60, 67. Demosthenes, tlie orator, opposition to Philip, 72 ; forms alliance with Thebes, 73 ; poisons himself, 79. Denain, battle of,3i>2. Denmark, people of, 164; early history, 207: war with Charles the Great, 185; with Otto I., 195; with Otto II., 197 ; in- vasion of England, 2(t3, 2l)4 ; conquest of England, 205, 2u6 ; under Waldemar the conqueror, 235 ; capitulation, 236 ; Union of Calmar, 237, 276; share in thirty years' war, 310 : war with Sweden, 314 : feuds of the counts in, 352: lex regia, 374; treaty with Sweden, 397; alliance with France, 470 ; receives Lauenberg, 483 ; Schleswig-IIolstein, 496 : incorpora- tion of the duchies, 505 ; war with Aus- tria and Prussia, 505. Dennew itz, battle of, 477. Denys, Jean,2S4. Deorham, battle of, 178. Derby, e. of, impeachment, 270. Derby, e., 1st ministry of, 543 , 2d, 544 ; 3d, 544. Dermod, k. of Leinster, 232. Derwentwater, execution of, 437. Desaix, 460. Desiderius, k. of Langobards, 184. Desmoulins, Camille, at the storm of the Bastile, 449 ; member of Cordeliers, 451 ; executed, 455. Despensers, 267. Dessau, bridge of, battle. 310. Dessoles-Decazcs, ministry of, 527. Detmold, battle of, 185. Detroit, besieged by Pontiac,423. Dettingen, battle of, 402. Deutsch-Brod. battle of, 252. Deuxponts. See Zwoihrucken Devolution, war of, 3'30. Diadochi. wars of, 76. Diaeus, 122. Diana of I'oitiers, 320. Diaz, Bartholomasus, 280. Dictatorship, established, 93 : nature, 94 ; opened to plebeians, 101 ; disappearance, 123 ; Sulla assumes the office, 132. Diderot, 448. Didius, Julianus, Roman enip., 154. Dido, 17, 18. Diebitch, 490. Dieskau,421. Digges, 8ir Dudley, 343. Dijon, battle of, 174, 25a Dillon. 545. Dinwiildie, Robert, gov. of Virginia, 420. Diocletianus, IJoman emp , 158. Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, 20. Directory, in France, 448 ; government of, 457 ; 18th Frnetidor, change within the directory, 459 : 3d I'raiiial, rooigauized, 18th Hruuuiirc, ovi-rthrowu, 451. Disrnli. Si-e Heaconstield. l)is.seuter«, 379. Dobrudsha, invaded by French, 500: occu- pied by Russians, 522 ; (i; partition treaties, linl . peace of Utrecht 393; Floury s administration, 44li ; France in Austrian succession, 401) ; Beven years' war, 4U4, 424 , peace of Paris, 441 ; Louis XVJ., 44t) ; France in war of American inJepeudence, 431 ; first Frencii revolution, 448 ; storm of Bas- tile, 449; constituent, 449; legislative, 451 ; convention. 4r)'2 : first coalition, 452; first republic, 453 ; directory, 457; second coalition, 4i)0 . consulate, 457 ; third coa- lition, 467 : first empire, 465 ; wars, 468, 471, 474,475; congress of Vienna, 4S2 ; hundred days, 483 ; restoration of the Bourbons. Louis XVTIL, 529 ; July rev- olution, 529 ; second republic, 530 ; sec- ond empire, 531; Crimean war, 499; Fi-anco- (Jerman, 513; third republic, 632; excesses of the socialistic com- mune, 532; fall of Mac.Mahou, 534; Tonquin, 535. Franche-Comte, 367, 368. Fnuicis, d. of Alen9on, 322. Francis, d. of Guise, 319, 321. Francis I., emp. of Austria, 468. Francis I., k. of France, reign, 319 ; IJ.., 321, 338 Francis 1., emp. of II. R. E., 402 : II., 452 ; abdicated the crown of the II. R. E.,468. S^e Francis I., emp. of Austria. Francis II., k. of Two Sicilies, 5(i3. Francis Joseph I., emp. of Austria, 495, 602, 505, 509 : k. of Hungary, 511. Francis, Philip, 444. Francis Stephen, d. of Lorraine, 398. See Francis 1., emp, of II. R. E. Franco-German war, 513, 532. Franconia, duchy of, 181, 194, 313. Frauconian or Salian emperors, 198. Frankfort, imperial chamber at, 300 : grand duchy of, 438, 478 ; uprising, 490 : pre- liminary parliament, 492 ; parliament re- opened, 498 ; incorporated with Prussia, 510 ; peace of, 520. Frankland, organization of, 432. Franklin, Benjamin, 420; minister to France, 430 ; death, 547. Frank-pledge, 232. Franks, Hipuarian and Salian, 170, 171; Chlodwig, ruler of, 173 ; under the Mero- wingians, 181 ; under rt»e Carolingians, 183; Charles the Great, 184; treaty of Verdun, 187 ; later Carolingians, 201 ; Northmen in France, 2u9 ; extinction of Carolingians, 209. See France. Fratres arvales, 85. Fredegunde, 181. Frederic, burgr. of Nuremberg, 251. Fred(Tic I., k. of Denmark and Norway, 3;-<2; IV., 394, 409; V.,409; VII., 505. Frederic I., Barbarossa, emp. of II. R. E., crusade, 215 ; reign, 219 ; expeditions to Ifcily, 219, 221, 222, 235; II., 223, 224; cession to the Danes, 235 ; cliarter to Schwvz,245; III. (of Austria), 247; III. (IV.), reign of, 253. Frederic of llohenstaufen, 200. Frederic of Ilohenzollern, 244. Frederic the Warlike, d. of Au.'^tria, 224. Frederia the Warlike, marg. of Meissen, 251. I Frederic the Warlike, d. of Saxony, 2.52. ; Frederic \'., elector palatine, elected to throne of Boliemia, 309. Frederic I., k. of Prussia, 372; II., the Great, reign. 400 : first Silesian war, 400 ; second, 402; seven years' war, 4t)3 ; war of IJavarian succession, 406 ; league of princes, death, 408 Frederic VIU., d. of Schleswig-IIolstein, 505. Frederic, d. of Swabia, 218, 219. Frederic of llesse-Cassel, k. of Sweden, 393, 409. Frederic Charles, pr. of Prussia, 505, 506, 508, 509, 514, 518. Frederic William, el. of Brandenburg (the great elector;, accession, 314; peace of Vos.sem, 367 ; Fehrbellin, 368 ; Polish affairs, 373; Silesian duchies, 401. Frederic William I., k. of Prussia, 397 ; death, 398; II., 451 ; III., 459; con- quered by Napoleon, 469 ; appeal to the people, 475, 476 ; war of liberation, 477 ; in London, 482; IV., 491; declines the German crown, 497 ; death, 503. Frederic William, crown pr. of Prussia, war with Austria, 608 ; with France, 514. Frcilericia, siege of, 496. Fredericksburg, battle of, 557. Free soil party, 555. Freedmen's bureau, .559. Freiburg, battle of, 406; treaty of (la paix perpetuelle), 319. French revolution, 448. See, also, France, and Table of Contents, p. vi. French settlements in America, 363. Frey Yngve, k. of Sweden, 208. Freycinet, ministry of, 534, 535. Fribourg. See Freiburg. Fridigern, k. of West Goths, 171. Friedewald, treatv of, 305. Friedland, battle of, 469. Friedrichsburg, peace of, 396. Friedrichshall, siege, 396. Friedrichsham, peace of, 473. Friedrichstadt, storm of, 497. Frobisher, Martin, voyages, 289. Frode the Peaceful, k. of Denmark, 207. Fronde, old and new, 366. Frontenac, gov. of Canada, 362, 364. Frontieres naturelles, 513. Fuca, Juan de la, 290. Fugitive slave act of 1793, 548 ; revived in 1850, 555. Fujiwara, family of, 212, 213, 243. Fulco of Anjou, k. of Jerusalem, 214. Fulton, Robert, 486, 550. Fnlvius, M., 126. Fulvius Flaccus, Q., 118. Furrukabad, 541. Fiirstenwalde, treaty of, 249. Fushimi, battle of, 563. Fiissen, separate peace of, 402. Fust, Johann, 253. Gabelle, 258. Gades, Pho-nician colony, 17; capture by Scipio, 117, 141. Gadsden purchase, 555. (iaekwars, 443. Gaels, 38, 176. 584 Index. Gaeta. siege of, 503. Gag resolutions, 553. Gage, general, gov. of Massachusetts, 425. Gaillard, Chateau, erection, 226, 232; fall, 227. Galatia, 35, 37, 78. Galba, Sulpicius, Roman emp., 151. Galerius, 158, 159. Galilaea, 7, 11. Galileo Galilei, 327. Gallas, 313, 315. Gallatin, Albert, U. S. sec. of treas., 549. Gallia Cisalpina, 81, 144. Gallia Narbonensis, 36; Roman province, 125. Gallienus, 156, 157. Gallus, Roman emp., 156. Gama, Vasco da, 279, 353. Gambetta, in opposition, 512; member of national defense, 517, 518, 519 ; speaker, 534 ; ministry, 534 ; death, 535. Garay, gov. of Jamaica, 285. Gardiner, lord chan., 336. Garfield, James A., pres. U.S., 560. Garibaldi, invades Lombardy, Sicily, 502 ; death, sketch of life, 526- Garigliano, battle, 318. Garrison, William Lloyd, 553. Gasea, Pedro de, pres. of Peru, 288. Gascony (Gascoyns), 312; gained and lost with Eleanor, 226, 231 : ceded to Eng- land, 258 ; lost by England, 260. Gaspe, destroyed, 425. Gaspereaux, 421. Gast, Pierre du, 290. Gastein, treaty of, 506. Gates, general, succeeds Schuyler; Bur- goyne surrenders to, 429 ; defeated by Oornwallis, 430. Gaugamela, battle of, 29, 74. Gauls, geography, religion, 34 ; civiliza- tion, chronology, emigrations, 35 ; con- quest of Gaul by Caesar, ending 51 B. c, 36, 138 ; in Asia Minor, 78 ; invade La- tium, 100 ; wars with Rome, 103 ; Cisal- pine Gaul subjugated, 118 ; Cispadane and Transpadane Gauls Latinized, 118. Gaurus, battle of, 104. Gauta, 237. Gaveston, Piers, 267. Geert, c. of Ilolstein, 236. Gelimer, 174. Gellius Egnatiue, 106. Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse, 20. Genealogies. Angouleme, 318. Anjou, 261. Augustus, family of, 148. Bonaparte family, 466. Bourbon, Louis IX., to Henry III., 323 ; Henry IV. to " Henry V.,'- 528. Brittany, descent of, 320. Brunswick, 43^3. Buckingham, 275. Burgundy, 261,. 329. Cleves-Jhlich, 307. County Palatine, 369. Denmark, 2-39. England, sovereigns from Ecgbehrt to Henry III., 228 ; succession in 1553- 1603, 337 : descendants of Geo. III., ' 638. Flanders, counts of, 228. France, succession in 1328, 256. France, succession from Louis VIII. to Charles VIII., 261. Guise, 320 Hanover or Brunswick, 436. Hapsburg, 301. Hapsburg, German branch, 399. Hohenstaufen, 220. HohenzoUern, since the assumption of the royal title, 515. Lancaster and York, 273. Lorraine, 320. Naples, kings of, 261. Normandy, dukee of, 228. Norway, sovereigns of, 239. Orleans, 318. Portugal, illegitimate house of Burgun- dy, 332. Russia, descendants of Alexis, 410. Scottish succession, 265. Spanish succession, 390. Sweden, sovereigns of, 239. Valois, 257. Welfs, 220. General fundamentals, 297. General warrants, 440. Geneva annexed to France, 460 ; restored to Switzerland, 483 ; treaty of, 319. Geugis Khan. See Jenghiz Khan. Genji. See Minamoto. Genoa, war with Venice, 262 ; government, 263, 326 ; republic of, 415 ; transformed into Ligurian republic, 459; given to Sardinia, 483. Genseric conquered Carthage, 172. Geoffrey of Anjou, 230 ; of Monmouth, 235. George I. k. of England, 436; death of, 437; IL, 403, 437 ; III., 439; insanity, 537; death, 538 ; IV., 538, 539. George, k. of Greece, 505. George Podiebrad, k. of Bohemia, 253. George William, el. of Brandenburg, 311. Georgia, in America, settlement of, 418, 420 ; Spanish attack upon, 419 ; pro- vincial gov. restored, 430 ; Sherman's march through, 558. Georgia, in Europe. See Iberia. Gepiidje, 175. Gerbert, archb. of Rheims, 202. See Syl- vester II. Gergovia, siege of, 139. Germania magna, 163, 167. Germanicus, expeditions, 149, 167. Germantown, battle of, 429. Germany, geography, 162 ; high and low Germans, 163 ; ancient religion, 164 ; civ- iliziition, 166 ; early history, 167 ; futile attempt of Rome to subdue, 148 ; habita- tions of the tribes in 4th cent., a. d. 170 ; migrations and settlements, 170-175; Prankish empire under Merowingians, 181 ; under Carolingians, 183 ; Charles the Great, 184 ; renewal of the Roman em- pire, 185 ; treaty of Verdun, separation of French and German nationalities, 187 : Carolingians in Germany, 193 ; Saxon house, 194; Ho'y Roman empire, 196; Prankish, or Swabian emperors, 198 ; im vestiture strife, 199 ; concordat of Worms, 201 ; house of Uoheustaitf en, 219 ; Bar Index. 585 O!irossji,219 ; Wolf and Waihlinpon (IIo- heiistiuili'u), 2'23 ; iiitcnT^iium, 'J2o ; llu- dolf of llapsburj;, '1\\ : Liulwig and Frederic, 247 ; Luxemburg emperors, golden bull, 24S ; city leagues, 24it ; council of (.'onslance, 251 ; house of llapsburg, 2i)3 : Max, 3(K) ; reformation, 301; Charles V, 302: peace of Augs- burg, 300; auti-reformation, 306; thirty years' war, 308 ; peace of Westphalia, 315; Leopold l.,371; war of the Span- ish succession, 300; pnigmatic sanction, 3'.'"^ : Polish succession, 30S ; male line of llapsburg extinct, 400; war of Austrian succession, Maria Theresa, and Frederic the Ureat of Prussia, 400 ; seven years' war, 403 : Joseph 11., 407 ; war with first French republic, 453; peace of Lune- ville, 402 ; enactment of imperial dele- gates, 464; end of the Holy Koman em- pire, 408. Conff deration of the Rhine, 408 : war of liberation, 475 ; congress of Vienna. 482 ; establishment of the German confederation, 483 ; reactionary measures in Germany, 487,490 ; founda- tion of the Zollverein, 491 ; Gottiugen professors expelled, 491 ; revolutionary movements, 492 ; national assembly, 493 ; constitution completed, 497 ; conference at Olmutz, 498 ; confederation renewed, 498 ; (ierman (Austro-Prussian) war,5"'7 ; North German confederation, 510, 511 ; Franco-German war, 513 ; capture of Paris, 519 ; German empire founded, 519, 520; Kulturkampf, 521, 525; congress of Berlin, 524 ; tobacco monopoly de- feated, 526. Gero, nmrgr., 194, 195. Gerontes, 50. Gerson, 251. Gertruydcnburg, 393. Gessler, 246 Geta, 155. Gettysburg, battle of, 558. Ghazni, supremacy of the sultans of, 211. Ghent, pacification of, 331 ; peace of, 474, 537, 5r,l. Ghihellines, 219. Gibraltar, whence named, 183 n. ; taken by English, 392, 434 ; ceded to England, 437 ; defended bv Elliott, 440. Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 289. Gilbert, Raleigh, 293. Ginkell, 387. Girondists, party, 451 ; execution of, 455. Giselbort, 195. Glabrio, M. Acilius, 119, 135. Gladiators, war of the, 133. Gladstone, \X. E., 542; chancellor of the exchequer, 543, 544 ; 1st ailminisiration, 545 ; 2d administration, 546. Glasgow, general assembly at, 344. Glaucia, C. Servilius, pra'tor, 128. Glencoe, massacre of, 387. Glendower, Owen, revolt of, 270. Gloucester, d. of, protector, 271. Gloure-;tor, d. of, 274; becomes king Rich- ard 1 IT. ,275. 'Gneisetiau, defeats Kolberg, 469 ; reforms the army, 471 ; at Waterloo, 484. Onesen, archbishopric, 197- Goa, 353. Gtiben, gen. von, 519. (Jo-Daigo, 243. (iodericli, lord, premier, 539. (Jodfrey of Bouillon, 213, 214. Godfrey, k. of Denmark, 207. Godfrey the Bearded, d. of Lotharingia, 190. Godfrey, sir Edmonsbury, 381. Godolphin, e. of, in council, 882; cham- berlain, 383 ; lord high treas.,433: dis- missed, 435. Godoy, 470. Godwine, e. of Wessex, 206. Goffe, 359, 360. Goidelic Celts, 37. Golconda kingdom, 353; annexed to Mu- ghal empire, 389 : Nizsim of, 443 Golden bull, of II. R. E.,248 ; of Hungary, Golden rule enunciated by Confucius, 31. Gollheim, battle of, 246. Gomez, Estevan, voyage of, 286. " Good ■■ parliament, 209. Gordianus 1., II., 111., Roman emp., 155; Persian exp., 188. Gordias, kings of Phrygia, 22. Gordon assists Peter the Great, 374. Gordon, col. (" Chinese"), suppresses Tai- ping rebellion, 562. Gordon, lord George, 440. Gorges, sir Fernando, 295-297. Gorgey, 495. Gorkhas, conquest by Chine.«e, 444. Gorm the Old, k. of Denmark, 207. Gortschakotf , in Sebastopol, 500 ; retires, 526. Gorz, baron von, 396, 406. Gosnold, Bartholomew, 290, 291. Goths, 164; location, 170; defeated by De- cius, 156 ; Goths in Sweden, 208. See Gauta,, East Goths, West Goths. Goui-geo, Dominique de, 289. Graagaas, 209. Gracchus, Caius, attempts revolutionary reforms, 124 ; tribune, 125; death, 126. Gracchus, Tiberius, victory over the Celti- berians, 118. Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius, attempts revolutionary reforms, 124. Grafton, d. of, 424; administration, 424, 440. Granada, kingdom of, 275 ; conquest of, 276. Grand alliance between England, Holland, and others, 370, 391. Grand remonstrance presented to Charles I., 340. Granicus, battle of the, 74. Granson, battle of, 262. Grant, U. S., takes Fort Donel.«on, 557; Vicksburg, 558; lieut.-gen., 558; Lee capitulates to, 559; president of U. S., 560. Granvella.b., 330. Grasse, de, 441. Gratianus, Roman emp., 160. Gravamina ecclesiastica, 317. Gravel ines, battle of, 321. Gravelotte, battle of, 616. , rr Great Britain. »-» England, (i. e K 1^ \(a>9U k. (Jreat contract, 341. ' ' Great protestation, 342. 586 Index. Great rebellion, in England, 347 ; in the Uuitetl States, 557. Great wall of China, 32. Great war of liberation, 475. Greece, geography, 3J ; religion, 41; my- thological history, 43 ; Thessalian and Dorean migrations, 47; early constitu- tions, 50, 52; Persian wars, 28, 56-60; hegemony of Sparta, 56 ; hegemony of Athens, 61 ; age of Pericles, 64 ; Pelopon- nesian war, 64-69 ; hegemony of Sparta, 69 ; hegemony of Thebes, 70 ; rise of Macedonia, 71; Macedonian svipremacy, 73 ; empire of Alexander, 73-76 , strug- gles of the Diadochi, 76 ; formation of separate kingdoms, 77; Lamian war, 79 ; Achaeun and ^toliau leagues, 79 . de- clared independent, 119: Macedonia, Roman province, 122 ; Acliaia, Roman province^l47 ; Ajorea, conquered by Ven- ice, 372 ; by Turks, 397, 416; war of in- dependence, 488 ; revolution, 505. Greek colonies, 19, 2U. Greene, gen., 431. Greenland, discovery of, 209, 280. Gregorian calendar Introduced, 327 ; adopted by England, 420, 438 Gregory I., pope, 175; VI., 199; VII. (Ilil- debraud), 199, 200 ; IX., 224 ; XII., 251 ; abdicated. 252 ; XIII., reformed the cal- endar, 327 ; XVI., 492. Grenville, George, prime minister, 423; leader of Commons, 439 Grenville, lord, prime minister, 537. Grenville, sir Richard, 289. Grevy, Jules, pres. of the French republic, 534. Grey, e., prime minister, 539 ; resigned, 540. Grey, lady Jane, 336. Grijalva, Juan de, 285. Grimoald, 175. Grochow, battle of, 490. Grodno, diet of, 413. Grosbeeren, battle of, 477. Gross-Gorschen, battle of, 476. Grossjagerndorf , battle of, 404. Grumbach, execution of, 306. Guadaloupe, Hidalgo, treaty of, 554. Guanahani, its identification, 282. Guastalla, house of, 311,416. Guatimozin, k. of Mexico, 285. Guebriant, French marshal, 314. Guelfs. See Welfs. Guesclin, Bertraud du, 259, 276. Gueux, 330. Guilford, battle of, 431. Guinegaste," battle of the spurs,'' 319, 334. Guiues captured from the English, 321. Guise, house of, 319,321. Guizot, 527; ministry of, 497, 529; with Soult, 530 Gunpowder tirst used, 279. Gunpowder plot, 340. Guntherof Schwarzburg, 248. Guntram, 181. Guptas in India, 24, 210. Gurko, 522, 523. Qustavus I., Vasa, k. of Sweden, 352 ; IT., Adolphus, reign in Sweden, 352 ; in the thirty years' war, 311; death of, 312; III., 409 ; IV., abdication of, 472. Gutenberg, Johu, early printer, 253. Guthorm, 204. Guy of Lusignan, k. of Jerusalam, 214, 215, 216. Guyenne, transferred from France to Eng. land, 226, 231: ceded to England, 25S; lost, 260. iSee Aquitania. Guzerat, expedition of Mahmud to, 211; conquest of, 241 : Afghan kings, 353. Gyges, k. of Lydia, 6, 21. Gylippus, 67. Gyulay,502. Habeas corpus act, 381 ; suspended, 388, 535, 536, 538 ; in Ireland, 544. Hadrian, Roman emp., revolt of Jews un- der, 12,37 ; reign, 153; in Britain, 176. Ilafurstfjord, battle of. 208. Ilagelberg, battle of, 477. Hague, convention of the, 396. Ilaidar Ali of Mysore, 442, 444. llaidarabad, nizam of, 443. Hakem II., 209. Hakodate, battle of, 563 Hakou, k. of Norway, 208 ; IV., 238 ; V., 23-S ; VII., 237, 238 ; VIII., 238. Ilakon Jarl, k. of Norway, 208. Hale, Nathan, 428. Hales, sir Edward, 3''3. Halfdan the Black, k. of Norway, 208. Haliartus, battle of, 70. Halifax, member of council, 381 ; in oppo- sition, 382 ; pres. of council, 383 ; pres. of provisional council, 3S5 ; resigns, 387 ; impeached, 388; not in council, 433; whig leader, 435 ; first lord of treas. 436. Halifax, e. of, sec. of state, 439. Halland, 236, 238. Halys, 21, 134. Hamburg, free city, 222 ; conquered by Knut VI., 2.35 ; alliance with Llibeck, 249 ; Davout in, 476 : siege of, 479 ; peace of, 405. Hamilcar, 20. Hamilcar Barak or Barcas, 111, 113. Hamilton, Alexander, 547, 549. Hampden, John, refuses to pay ship money, 344 : impeached, 346 ; death, 347. Hampden clubs, 538. Hampton court conference, .340. Han, dynasty in China, 32; later Han, 211. Hanau, battle at, 478. Hancock, John, 424. Hanging gardens in Babylon, 12. Hannibal, destroys Saguutum, 113 ; crosses the Alps, 113 ; arouses the Gauls, 35, 114 ; Canna^ 115 ; befoi-e the gates of Rome, 110 ; leaves Italy, 117 ; defeated at Zama, 118 ; received by Antiochus, 119 ; death. 120. Hanover, ninth electorate, 372 ; treaty with Sweden, 396 ; allied with Prussia, 404 ; treaty with England, 437 ; receives Osnabrlick, 465 ; Prussia receives H., 467 ; Napoleon wishes to take away, 468 ; occupied by French, 469 ; becomes king- dom under Geo. III. of England, 538; separation from Great Britain, 491, 542 ; invaded by Prussians, 508 ; incorporate^ with Prussia, 510. Ilanseatic cities annexed to France, 473. Hanseatic league, ".^37, 249. llapsburg counts in Switzerland, 245. Indej', 587 Hapsburg, house of, 253 ; male line ex- tinct, 400 ; deposition. 49'). Ilai-ilekiiut. See llartbaciiut. llardenberg, 457, 482. Uardiuge, sir Henry, gov. gen. in India, 54G. llarley, Robert, speaker, 3SS, 433; di.s- missed from cabinet, 434 ; attempted a.s- gas.sination, 43o ; created earl of Oxford and Mortimer, 435. Ilarmodius, 54. Harold Hild^tantl, k. of Denmark, 207; Blue-tooth, k. of Denmark, 'ZU7 ; Utyn, k. of Denmark, 208. Harold I., linrt'fuot (.son of Cnut), k. of England, 206; II. {.son of Godwine), 20(5. Harold Haar/ager, k. of Norway. 208; Hardrnda, k. of Norway, invaded Eng- land, 20(3-, war with Denmark, 207; founds Opsla, 209; Gille,k. of Norway, 238. Hai-oun-al-Rashid, 186, 210. Ilarpagus, 26. Harrison, Wm. II., pres. of U. S., 554. Hartford convention, 551. llarthacnut, k. of England, 206 ; k. of Den- mark (Hardeknut), 207. Hartiugton, marquis of, sec. for India, 546. Harvard College, 297. Ha.xdrubal, in iSpain, 113; defeated, 115; death, 117. Ilasdrubal, son of Gisgo, 117. Ha^^tenbeck, battle of, 404. Hastings, battle of, 206. Hastings, Warren, sketch of life of, gov.- gen. of India, 444. Ilatto, archb. of Mainz, 194. Havana, surrendered to English, 422 ; re- stored to Spain, 423. Hawaii, 442. Haves, R. 13., pres. of the United States, 560. Ilaynau, 495, 496, 498. llavne. colonel, 553. Hekthtield, battle of, 179. llebert, 451, 454, 455. Hebrides, conquest of, 209. Hector, 47. Hegemony of Argos, 48 ; of Sparta, 56, 69 ; of Athens, 61 ; of Thebes, 70 ; of Mace- donia, 73. Hegira, 182. Hei. See Heike. Heidelberger .Stallung, 250. Heike. See Taira. Heilbronn, league of, 313. Hcinrich R-ispe, 225- Ileinsius, A., 391. Helena, 47. Heliasts, 53. Heliogabalus. See Elaeabalus. Heliopolis, battle of, 463. Helle, 46. Hellen, 43. Helluland, 281. Helots, 50; revolt, 62. Helsingborg, battle of, 249. Helvetian republic, 460. Helvetius, 448. Helvoetsluys, 384. Hemming, k of Denmark, 207. Hengestesdun, battle of, 181, 203. llcugi.^t. 177. HenuL'pin, ili.'g,al.'*o, Netherlands. Holland, lord, 439, 441. Holies, impeachment of, 346, 351. Holstein, given to Adolf of Schaumberg, 218 ; Adolf capt. by Knut VI. of Den- mark, cedes U. to Waldemar, II., k. of Denmark, 235 ; ceded to Adolf the young, 235 ; peace of Travendal, 394 ; united ■with Denmark, 409 ; war with Denmark, 496 ; occupied by the German confedera- tion, 505 ; united with Pru.ssia, 510. IIolstein-(;obtorp, d. of, 394, .397. Holstein-Gottorp, house of in Sweden, 409; in Russia, 411. Holy alliance, 485 ; Monroe's attitude con- cerning, 552. Holy league against France, 300, 318, 326, 334. Holy league in France, 322. Holy Roman Empire, revival of Roman em- pire under Otto, 196 ; end of, 462, 468. See Germany. Holy wars, I., 52 ; II., 71 ; III., 72- Homer, 49. Homildon Hill, battle of, 270. Hone, acquittal of, 538. Honorius, Roman emp., 38, 161. Honorius III., pope, 224. Hooker, gen., 557, 558. Hoorn, c. von, executed, 330. Hophra, k. of Egypt, 6. Hopital, de 1', 321. Horatii, 89. Horatius, laws of, 98. Horatius, Flaccus, Q., 83, 147. Horatius, Marcus, 93. Horatius Codes, 95. Hormisdas I., emp. of Persia, 188 , II., 188} IV., 191. Hormuz, battle of, 187. Ilormuzan, 192. Horn, Gustavus, 312. Horsa, 177. Hortensius, dictator, 107. Hospitalers. See Knights of St. John. Hotel de Ville destroyed, 533. Hotham, adm., 484. Hotspur See Percy. Howe, lord, occupies Philadelphia, 429. Howick, first lord of the admiralty, 537; sec. of war, 540. See earl Grey. Hubert de Burgh, 234. Hubertsburg, peace of, 406. Hudson Bay Company, incorporation of, 358. Hudson's Bay, discovery of, 299, 363. Hudson, Henry, voyage of, 298. Hudson river, 294, 298. Hugh the White, d. of France, 202. Hugh Capet, k. of France, 202. Huguenot colony in America, 288. Huguenots, wars of the, 321. Humbert 1., k. of Italy, 524. Humboldt, W. von, 477, 482, 487. Hundred days in France, 526. Hundred years' war, 257. Hungary, occupied by Magyars, 193, 277 ; Hungarians ravage (Jermany, 194 ; de- feated by Henry, 195; and Otto (Lech- feld), 196 ; lose Styria to Bohemia, 244; emp. Albert, II., k. of, 253; history to 149U, 277 ; golden bull, 277 ; 11. united with Boheniiaand secured to emp. Max., 278 ; war with Turks (Mohacs), disputed election, 3U3 ; Ferdinand 1., elected k., 306 ; succession secured to llapsburg, 372; Maria Theresa, q. of II., 400 ; Mo- riamur, etc., disputed, 401, n. ; revolt under Kossuth, 494 ; constitution abol- ished, 496 ; Feb. constitution, 504; con- stitution of H. restored, Austrian emp., k. of H. 511. Hung Sui-tsuen, leader of the Tai-ping re bellion, 561 ; suicide, 562. Index. 589 lliiiis (TOSS the Volga, 170; under AttilJi, lliiii.vadi, John, k. of lluugtiry, 278. lluroiiti, 8t>4 llus.uu Ali, 442. lluskisson, 53ii. lluss, Jolin, 252. Hussite war, 252. Hutrhinsou, gov. of Mass, 424, 425. llutten, Llrieh von, 302. llwang-ho, iu China, 30 ; first settlements of Chinese made along, 31. llvdaspes, battle of, 75. Hyde, .Vnne, 3*^3. livde, sir Edward. Sre. Clarendon, earl of. iryder.\li. Set Uaidar Ali. Ilyksos, 4. llyph;w>is, 75. llyrcanus, 136. lapvgians, 85. Iberia, 34, 188. Iberville, 362. Ibrahim Pasha, 488, 491. Iceland, settled by Northmen, 280 : con- quered by llakon V., of Norway, 238. Icouium, sultanate of, 210. Iconoclasts, 210. Ida, " the tlame bearer," 178. IdistaTiso, battle of, 149. Idstedt, battle of, 497. Ilerda, 141. Illinois, 3t>4 ; admitted to the Union, 552. Illiturgi, battle of, 115. lUyrian provinces, 472. Illvrians, war with Rome, 112 ; conquered, 121. Imperial chamber, 300. Impositions, 340. Imprisonment for debt abolished in Eng- land, 545. Inaros, 28. Independents, 349, .350. India, visited by Tyrians, 18; geography, early religion, 22 ; arrival of Hindus in the Punjab, 22; settlement and con- quest, 23 , castes, ib. ; rise of Braiiuiisin, ib. ; of Buddhism, ih. ; invasion of Alex- ander, 23, 75 ; Bactrian rulers, 24 ; Scyth- ians, Guptas, ib.: early history, 210 ; sul- tans of Ghazni, of Ghor, 211 ; sultans of Delhi, Timur .Shah, 241 ; western route to India, 282 ; Mughal empire, 353 ; Portugue.se, Dutch, English in I., East India companies 354 ; Auraugzeb, 389; decline of .Mughal empire, 442; Mah- ratta power, 443 ; British in Indii, Black, Hole, 443 ; Clive, Hastings, 444 , East India Company subordinated to government, 442 ; Comwallis and Wel- lington ; Mahratta wars, 541 ; queen of England proclaimed sovereign of India, 644 ; .\fghan war.-<, 546, 547 ; Sepoy re- bellion, ;)4'i , government transferred to crown, 544 : famine, 547. India bill, 53). Indians of America ; rapid disappearance from West Indies, 284 ; John Smith cap- tured by, 2yl ; intercourse with Plym- outh colony, 295: Peire, 471, 493. John, don, of Austria, Lepanto, 326; in the Netherlands, 330, 331 ; popish plot attributed to, 381. John, k. of Bohemia, 247 ; death, 257. John, k. of Knglaud, Lackland, reign, 233. John II., le Bon, k. of France, reign, 258. John of Brienue, " king of Jerusalem," 216. John of Gaunt, 269. John de Montfort, 257. John of Procida, 226. John the !•' ear less, d. of Burgundy, 259. John XXIII., pope, 251. John IV., k. of Portugal, 332 ; VI., 488. John III., k. of Sweden, a52. John Casimir, k. of Poland, 352, 374. John Frederic, el. of Saxony, 305. John George, el. of Saxony, 312, 401. John Parricida, 245. John Sobieski, k. of Poland, 374. John Zimi.sces, Grecian emp., 210. Johnson, Andrew, 558, 559. Johnson, Sir William. 421, 423. Johnston, ./oe, gen., 558 Joint committee of the two kingdoms, 348. Jones, John Paul, 430. Jonson, Ben, 339. Joseph, 8. Joseph I., emp. of the Holy Roman Em- pire, 390; reign, 392; death, 393, 397; II., co-regent, 406; reign, 407; plan of an exchange of territory , 408. Joseph, k. of Naples. Set Bonapnrte, Jo- seph. Jo.seph I., k. of Portugal, reign, 415. Joseph I., k. of Spain. See Bonaparte, Jo- seph. Joshua, 8. Joubert, 461. Jourdan, 455, 457, 458, 460, 479. Jovianus, Roman emp., 160; peace with Persia, 188. Juan de la Fuca strait, 290. Juarez, 503, 504. Juba, k. of Numidia. 141, 142. Judaea, attacked by Shi.sak, 5; geograph- ical position, 7; dependent kingdom un- der Herod, 11 ; part of Roman province of Syria, 11 ; Roman province, 150. Judah, kingdom of, geography, 7 ; founda- tion, 9; idolatry in, 10; allied with Egyptians, ih. ; tributary to the Assyri- ans, 10, 14 ; subject to Babylonians, 11 ; to the Egyptians, i*.; ravaged by Scvth- ians, ib. Judges arnon^ the Jews 8. I Jugurthan war, 126, 127. Julia, the elder and younger, 148. Julian, count, 183, n. Julian emperors, 147. Julianus, Roman emp., 160; invaded Per- sia, 188. Jiilich-CUeves succession, quarrel begun, 3u8 ; ended, 372. Julius II., pope, 327. July revolutiou at Paris, 489,529; its re- sults, 490. Junius, 440. Juno, 84. Junonirt, colony of, established, 126. Junot, duke of Abrantes, 47u, 471. Junto, 435. Jupiter, 84 ; Ammon, his temple in Africa, 27, 74 ; Capitolinus, temple of, 82. Jury, grand, 232. Jury trial, its Norman origin, 2o4; Jus auxilii, intercessionis, 96 ; reformandi, 306, 317. Justinian I., Grecian emp., victories in Italy and Africa, 174 ; war with Persia, 190 ; reign, 210. Jutes, 176. Juvenum, foundation of, 167. Kaempfer in Japan, 445. Kaeoshima, bombardment of, 563. Kahror, battle of , 24. Kaiserslautem, battle of, 455, 456. Kalb, de, 430. Kaled, expedition of, 192. Kalish, alliance of, 475. Kamakura, 242, 243. Kameel, sultan, 217. Kandahar, 442. Kanishka, Scythian k. in India, 24. Kansas admitted to the Union, 556. Kansas-Nebraska bill, 555. Kapolna, battle of, 495. Kara, Mustapha, 372. Karl Martel, 183, 184. Karlmann, brother of Charles the Great, 184. Karlmann, k. of Aquitiune, 201. Karlsefuc, Thorfinn, 281. Kars, storm of, 489, 501, 523. Kashgar, rebellion of Yakub Beg in, 562; capture of, ib. Katzbach, battle, 477. Kaunitz, prince, 403. Kay, battle of, 405. Keiki, the last shogun, 563. Kellermann, 452. Kelso, battle of, 348. Kenmure, execution of, 437. Kentucky admitted to the Union, 548. Kentucky and Virginia resolutioni of 1798-1799, 549. Kepler, 306. Kerman, sultanate of, 210. Kcrtk, Louis, Thomas, and David, 299. Khafra, k. of Egypt, 4. Khanates, 241. Khazars, war with Persia, 189, 190. Khorsabad, 12. Khufu, k. of Egypt, 4. Khusru in India, 211. Kieff, grand prince of, 276. Kieft, gov. of New Netherlands 357. 592 Index. Kiel, peace of, 479. Kiew. See Kiett". Kilij Arsian, sultan of Iconium, 214. Kilkenny, statute, 269. Killiecrankie, battle of, 386. Kilsvth, battle of, 348. Kimbolton, lord, 346. Kin dynasty, in China, fall of, 242. King George's war, 419 ; Philip's war, 359 ; William "s war, 361. King's Mountain, battle of, 431. Kinsale captured, 387. Kioto, in Japan, 32 ; capital of the mikado, 213, 242 ; false mikado at, 278 ; capital transferred to Tokio, 563. Kirke, 386 ; appointed gov. of Mass., 361 ; Kirke's lambs, 383 ; raises siege of Lon- donderry, 386. Klapka, 495, 496. Kleber, 463. Klissow, battle of, 395. Knighthood, religious orders of, 217 ; Span- ish orders, 240, 328. Knights at Rome, 3 centuries, 88 ; number doubled, 89 ; in the army, 91 ; farm the taxes, 123 ; change in nature, 125 ; de- prived of jury service, 132 ; which is par- tially restored, 133. Knights in Athens, 53. Kniprode, VVinrich von, 277. Knowles in Boston, 419. Knox, Henry, U. S. sec. of war, 547. Knox, John, 304, 338- Knut the Great, k. of England and Den- mark, visit to Rome, 198 ; reign in Eng- land, 205, 206 ; in Denmark, i!07. Knut, St., k. of Denmark, 208 ; VI., 235. Kobad I., k. of Persia, first reign, 189; second reign, 190; II., 192. Kblhapur, 443. KoUin, battle of, 404. Kong, prince, 502. Koniggratz, battle of, 509. Kouigsberg, treaty of, 373, 470. Konigsmark, 315, 416. Koran, the, 182. Kosciuszko, 413, 414. Kossuth, 494, 495, 496. Kotzebue, murder of, 487. Krasnoy, battle of, 475. Kublai Khan in China, 242. Kuldja, disputed between China and Rus- sia, 562. Kulm, battle at, 477. Kulturkampf in Italy, Switzerland, and Prussia, 520 ; in Prussia, Frauce, Bel- gium, 525 ; approaching end, 526. Kuuersdorf, battle of, 4lj5. Kurile islands given to Japan by Russia, 32, n. 3. Kusunoki-Masashige, 243. Kiitab-ud-din, sultan of Delhi, 241. Kutschouc Kainardji, peace of, 412. Kutusoff, 467, 475. Labiau, treaty of, 373. Labienus, 139, 142, 143. Laborers, statute of, 268. Labrador, discovery of the coast of, 284. Labyrinth, in Egypt, 4, 6 ; in Crete, 18. Lacedemonian.^, in Sparta, 50. &« Greece and Sparta. Laconia, name first given to Maine, 295. Lade, battle of, 28. Ladislaus II., k. of Hungary and Bohe- mia, 278. Ladislaus Postumus, k. of Hungary, 278. Lady of England, 231. Lady of the Mercians, 204. Laets, 177. Lafayette, in America, 428 ; commander of national guard, 450; proscribed, 452; a liberal, 527 ; commander of national guard, 529. La Fere-Champenoise, battle of, 481. Lafitte, ministry of, 529. La Fontaine, 371. Lagidae. See Ptolemies. La llogue, battle of, 370, 387. Lahore, Muhammedan dynasty at, 211. Lake Erie, battle of, 551 ; Geoi-ge, battle of, 421. Lally, 444. Lamachus, 67. Lamberg, count, 494. Lamian war, 79. Lamoriciere, 503, 527. Lancaster, house of, 270. Lancaster Sound, 299. Laud act, 545, 546. Land league in Ireland, 545. Landshut, battle of, 405, 471 Landwebr,-sturm, established, 476. Lanfranc, archb. of Canterbury, 229. Langensalza, 510. Langobards, location, 170 ; found kingdom in Italy, 175 ; crushed by Charles the Great, 184. Langside. battle of, 338. Langton, Stephen, 233, 234. Lansdowne Hill, battle of, 347. Laon, capital of German kingdom of the Franks, 202 ; battle of, 481. Laotsze, Chinese philosopher, 31. La Plata, discovery of, 286 ; a free state, 488. La Rochelle, granted to Huguenots, 221; siege of, 325. La Rothiere, battle of, 480. La Salle, discoveries of, 364, 365. Lascaris, Theodore, 216. Las Casas, Bartholome de, 285. La Soledad, treaty of, 503. Laswari, battle of, 541. Lateran council, 201. Lateranus, L. Sextus, 101. Latham house, siege of, 348. Latimer, 338. Latin empire, 216, 240. Latin league, Rome's hegemony over, 90 ; dissolution of, 104. Latin war, great, 104. Laud, William, 344. 345; execution, 348. Lauderdale, 380, 381. Laudou, 405, 413. Laudonniere, Ren^, 288. Launay, de, murder of, 449. Lautrec, invaded Naples, 303. Laval, Franfois de, 364. Law's Mississippi scheme, 445. Lawrence, lord, viceroy in India, 546. Law of Edward the Confessor, 230. Laws of Ine, of Offa 180 ; of the twelve tables, 98. Index. 593 Lnybach, concrross at, 4^7. Lazicii, oodi'd to Koiue, 190; invaded by lloiinindui<, lltl ; lloruclius in, YSl. League in France, 322. Set Holy league. League of the Herman princes, 408. Lt-ague of the public weal, 260. Lear (Leir),37. Lebtfuf, mari*hal, 513, 514. Le Hourget, battle of, 519. Lechfeld, battle of, 190. Lee, Charles, 430. Lee, Richard Henry, 427. Lee, Robert E., in command of Confederate army, 567; Gettysburg, 658; Burreuder, 558." Lefort, in Switzerland, 374. " Legacy of Igeyasu," 350. Leges Cornelise, 132 ; duodecim tabularum, 9S ; Liciniae, 101 ; Publilise, 102 ; Valerias lIorati.eilius, war with Ser- torius, 133 ; subdues Crete, 134. Methuen treaty, 434. Metteci,52. Metteriiich, at the congress of Prague, 476 ; of Vienna, 482 ; of (.'arlsbad, 487 ; head of the conservative party, 491 ; driven from Vienna, 492. Metz, siege of, 306, 516, 518. Mexican expedition, 5U3, 532. Mexico conquered by Cortez, 285 ; freed from Spanish rule, 488 ; war with the United States, 554. Michael Angelo Buonarotti, 328. Michigan admitted to the Uniou, 553. Michillimachiuac, Jesuit mission, 364. Micipsa, 126. Midas, k. of Phrygia, 22. Middle Kingdom, 32. Middlesex, 178. Mieczeslav II., leader of the Poles, 198. Miguel, Don, of Portugal, 488. Mikado. See Japan. Milan, captured by Scipio, 35 ; captured by Barbarossa and destroyed, 221 ; rebuilt, ib. ; under the Visconti and Sforza, 262; war between Charles V., and Francis I., concerning, 3r)4, 319 ; Philip invested with, ib. : claims of Louis XJI. to, 318 ; appanage of Spain, 326 ; assigned to the emperor, 393 ; Victor Emmanuel in, 562. Milan decree, 550. Milan, pr. of Servia, 521 ; becomes k., 526. Milesians settle at the mouth of the Tigris, 28; in Ireland, 39. Miletus, in league with Croe.sus, 21, 28; lonians settle, 49 ; battle of, 67. Milhaud, confederation of, 322. Military roads in Persia, 28 ; constructed in Italy, 82 : in Britain, 176. Millenary petition, 340. Millesimo, battle of, 458. Milo, S. Annius, 139. Miltiades, 28 : at Marathon, 57. Milton, John, 3S9. Minamoto family, 212, 21?, 242. Mindcn, battle of, 405. Mineptah, k. of Egypt, 5. Minerva, 84. Ming dynasty in China, 242. Minnesota admitted to Union, 566. Minos, k. of Crete, 18, 46. Minotaur, 18. Minto, lord, gov. gen. in India, 541. Minucius, M., 114. Minuit, Peter, 298. Minv8B, 4.3, 46, 48, 49. Mir J afar, 443, 444; Kosim, 444. Mirabeau, C, 449, 451. Miramichi Bay, discovery of, 287. Miranda, 550. Mi.senum, treaty of, 146. Missi regis, 186. Miasionary Ridge battle of, 558 Misfiissippi admitted to the Uoion, 551. Missi8sipi)i riv«-r. discov. 287, 3(34; pos.session taken for France, 362, 36j : claimed by Fmuce, 420 ; navigation free to England and France, 422 ; tu England and the United States, 432. Missolonghi, 488. Missouri .idmitted to the Union, 652. Missouri compromise, 652. .Mithra. 25. Mithrkdates, I., founded Parthian empire, 30; II., k. of Parthia, 30. Mithridates VI.. k. of Pontus, his power, 129; Sulla concluded peace with, 131; alliance of Sertorius with, 133 ; killed himself, 1.36. Mithridatic wars,T.,129; ll.,132i 111., 134. Mobile colcmy, 365. Mocenigo, adm., 416. Miickern, battle of, 478. Modena, 416, 458. Moesia, 148, 153. Mohacs, battle of, 303, 372. Mohammed, 182. Moira, lord. gov. gen. in India, 64L Molai, Jacques de, 255. Moldavia, 395, 488. Mol«^, ministry of, 530. MoUerc, 371. MoUwitz, battle of, 401. Moloch, 17, 18. Moltke, 508, 509, 517. Momemphis, battle of, 6. Mompcson, impeachment of, 342. Monasteries in Ireland, 39 ; suppressed In England, 335 ; in Austria, 40^ ; in France, 534 ; in Rome and Papal states, 520. Mondovi, battle of, 458. Mongols, defeated by the Chinese, 32 ; in- vasion of Germany, 240 ; conquest of China, 242 ; repulse from Japan, 243 ; supremacy in Russia, 277 ; check the Os- man power, 278. Monk, 376, 377, 378. See Albemarle. Monmouth, battle of, 430. Monmouth, d. of, 382, 383. Monroe doctrine, 552. Monroe, James, 550, 551. Mons sacer, 96, 98. Montague, proceedings against, 342, 387. Montaigne, Michael, 324. Montcalm, 421, 422. Monteaglc, lord, 340. Montebello, battle of, 502. Montecuculi, 3G8, 372. Montenegro, war with the Porte, 521, 522; became independent, 524. Montereau, 259 ; battle of, 480. Monterey, battle of, 554. Montesquieu, 448. Montezuma, Mexican empire of, 285. Montgomery, general, 427. Montiel, battle of, 276. Montrhery, battle of, 260. Mnntmartre, storm of, 481. Montmirail, battle at, 480. Montmorency, 320 ; execution, 326. Montpellier, 2.58. Montreal, settled by Maisonneuve, 300 ; sur- rendered to English, 422; captured bj Montgomery, 427. Montrose, murquis of, plots against Argyle. 598 Index. 346 ; campaign, in Scotland, 348 ; execu- tion, 375. Monts, sieur de, 290. Moors, origin, 183 ; conquer Spain, 183 ; caliphate, 209 ; conquered by Almora- Tides, 209 ; by Almohiades, 240 ; conquest of Granada, 276. Moqui Canon, 287 Morabethes, 209, 240. More, Sir Ttiomas, 335. Morea (see Greece), conquered by Turks, 397 ; ravaged, 488. Moreau, 458, 460, 462, 465, 477. Moi-gan, 431. Morgarten, battle of, 247. Morliere. 206, 229. Mornington, lord, gov. gen. in India, 541. Moro, Ludovico, 318. Morosini, 416. Morse, 487. Mortier, 481. Mortimer, Edmund, 270; Roger, 267, 268. Mortimer's Cross, battle of, 272. Mortmain, statute of, 266. Moscow, national centre of Russia, 277 ; burning of, 475. Moses, 8. Moshaisk, battle of, 475. Moslems, 182. Mt. Cenis tunnel, 520. Mount Desert, 292, 299. Mountain, the, in the legislative assembly, 451, 453. Mowbray, conspiracy of, 270. Muawwiyah I., caliph, 182. Mucins Scaevola, 95. Mughal empire, founded, 353; end of, 546. See, also, India. Muhammed II., destroyed eastern empire, 278. Muhammed Ghori, 211, 241 ; Shah, 442 ; Tughlak, 241. Muhammedanisra, in China, 31 ; origin in Arabia, 182 : conquests in west, la3 ; in Persia 192, 193. Mulilberg, battle of, 305. Muhldorf, battle of, 247. Mukhtar Pasha, 523. Mummius, 122. Miinchengriitz, 491, 509. Munda, battle of, 143. Miinger, Thomas, 302. Munich, 312, 492. Municipal corporations reform act, 541. Mlinnich, 410, 411. IMuuro, major, 444. Mlinster, anabaptists in, 304 ; negotiations for peace at, 315. Murad, I., sultan of the Turks, 278; V., deposed, 521. Murat, 460, 467 ; g. d. of Berg, 468 ; k. of Naples, 470 ; drivea from Naples, 484 ; executed, 485. Murray. See Mansfield, lord. Murray, earl of, regent, 338. Murray, lord George, 438. Murten, battle of, 262. Musa, 183. Muthul, battle of, 126. Mutina, founded, 112 ; battle of, 35, 144. Mutiny act, 386. Mutsu-IIito, 33, 562. Mycale, 61. Mylae, battle of, 110, 146. Myonuesus, battle of, 119. Mysia, 20, 21. Nabis, 80, 119. Nabonetus, k. of Babylon, 16. Nabopolassar, k. of Babylon, 15, 16, 26. Nachod, battle of, 509. Nadir Shah, invades India, 442. Nafels, battle of, 250. Nagpur, raja of, 541. Najara, battle of, 259. Nancy, battle of, 262. Nangis, battle of, 480. Nankin, treaty of, 542, 561. Nantes, edict, see edict of, 369; revolu tionary tribunal of, 454. Nantwich, battle of, 348. Napata, kingdom of, 5. Napier, 500. Napier, lord, 561. Naples (see Sicily), separated from Sicily, under Charles of Anjou, 226 : conquered by Charles VIII., 262 ; by Alphonso of Ar- agon, 263 : by Louis XII. and Ferdinand, 318 ; revolt of Masaniello, 327 ; ceded by Austria to Spain, 398, 416 ; transferred into Parthenopasan republic, 460 ; French garrison, 463 ; Bourbons banished, 468 ; restored, 483 ; revohxtionary movements, 487, 493; liberated by Garibaldi, 503. Napoleon I., emp. of the French (see Bona- parte, Napoleon), crowned, 465 ; k. of Italy, 467 ; protector of the confederacy of the Rhine, 468 ; divorced from Jose- phine, 473 ; birth of the k. of Rome, 474 ; campaign of Feb., 1814, 480; abdicated, 481 ; removed to Elba, 481 ; return, 483, 526 ; hundred days, 483 ; Waterloo, 484 ; transported to St. Helena, 484; death, 527 ; entombment in Paris, 530. Napoleon III., emp. of the French (see Louis Napoleon), elected, 499, 531; at- tempted assassination, 531, 544 ; war with Italy, 502, 532 ; Mexican expedi- tion, 503; Luxembourg question, 511; Franco-Prussian war, 513 ; surrenders to William III., 517 ; death, 520, 533. Narragansett Indians, 359. Nar.'ses, 175, 188. Narva, battle of, 395. Narvaez, 285, 286. Naseby, battle of, 349. Nassau incorporated with Prussia, 510. National convention, 447, 451, 452 ; feder*. tion, 450 ; petition, 542. Naucrarics, 53, 55, 58. Navarino, battle of, 489, 539. Navarre, origin, 209; Joanna, heiress of, marries Philip IV., 254; Charles the Bad, k. of, 258 ; in the Huguenot wars, 321. Navarrete, battle of, 276. Navigation act, 376 ; repealed, 643. Nayler, 377. Nebraska, admitted to the Union, 559. Nebuchadnezzar, k. of Babylon, 6, 11, 16. Necker, 447, 449. Neerwinden, battle of, 370, 388, 453. Nehavend, battle of, 182, 193. Neku, k. of Egypt, 6, 11, 16. Nelson at Aboukir, 460; at Trafalgar, 467 Index. 591) Nemean festiv.al, 42. Nemod, 3'J. Ncpalese, conquerod by Chinese, 444. Neptuuus, 84. Nero, 0. Claudius, consul, 117. Nero, Uoiuau emp., lo'.i, 151. Nerva, llouiaii emp., 152. Nesselrodo, 4S2. Netiu'rlands, acquisition by the house of lUir^'iindy, 828, 329 ; war of liberation, 3o() ; independence recognized, 331 ; war with Louis XIY., 367 ; with England, 379, 38U ; New Amsterdam lost, 358 ; Spanish Netherlands given to Austria, strife with Joseph II., 408 ; trans- formed into the liatavian republic, 4o6 ; into the kingdom of Holland, 468; in- corporated with France, 473 ; the French expelled, 479; kingdom of the Nether- lands formed, 483 ; Belgium separated from Holland, 489. Neuchatel, given to Prussia, 393; to Ber- thier, 4bS ; as principality restored to Prussia, 482 ; as canton joined to the Swi"is confederacy, 483; revolt from Prussia, 492 ; given up by Prussia, 501. Neuhof, baron, k. of Corsica, 415. Neustria, decay of, 35 ; in the 2d division of the Frankish kingdom, 181 ; in the 3d, 182, 183 ; in treaty of Verdun, 187. Neutrality act, 548. Nevada admitted to the Union, 558. Nevers, house of, 311. Neville's Cross, battle of, 268. New Albion, ivest, discovered bv Drake, 289 ; east, granted to Plowden, 293. New Amsterdam, founded, 298 ; captured by English, 358, 379. Newbury, b.ittles of, 348. Newcastle, ministry of, 438, 439. Newcomen, 486. New England, named, 294 ; presidency of, 361 ; Indian hostilities in, 417. New Forest, 230. Newfoundland, discovery, 284, 287 ; Gilbert takes possession of, 289 ; grant of a part to sir Geo. Calvert, 299. New France, French settlements in, 299 ; name extended to the west, 364, 365 ; ceded to England, 422. New Granada, 488. New Hampshire, granted to Mason, 296; separated from Massachusetts, 359; in- surrection in, 432. New Haven, colony of, 357 ; union with Connecticut, 358. Nesv Jersey, granted to Berkeley and Car- teret, 358 ; under Andros, 361 ; divided into ea.st and west Jersey, .'>59. New Netherlands, agreement with the ( united colonies, 357; granted to dukes of York and Albany, 358. New North Wales, 299. New Orlean.s reserved to France, 422; British repulsed at, 551. Newport, treatv of, 351. New South Wales, 299. New Sweden, 298. Newton, I.saac, 388, 389. Newtown Butler, battle of 386. New York, name of New Amsterdam changed to, 358 ; captured bj' the Dutch, restored to England, 359 ; gov. Andros, 359, 361; gov. Fletcher, 362 ; gov. lUir- ni't, 417 ; settlement of idnn boundary, 41S; treaty with the Iroquois, 418 ; occu- pied by the Hritisii, 428 ; evacuated, 432. Ney, 4r)7 ; " bravest of the brave," 475, 477; joined Napoleon, 483 ; executed, 485 Niagara, expedition Hgaiust, 421, 423. Nicaja, council of, 159 ; Greek empire of, 216. Nice, truce of, 304 ; annexed to France, 502. Nicephorus Phocas, (Jreek emp., 210. Nicholas I., tsar of Russia, 488 ; Polish revolution, 490; intervention in Hun- gary, 495; joins Austria, 498; Crimeaa war, 499 ; death, 500. Nicholas V., anti-pope, 247. Nicia.s, 65-67 ; peace of, 66. Nicomedes, k. of Bithynia, 78; III., 129, 134. Niels, k. of Denmark, 208. Nightingale, Florence, 500. Nihilists, 525, 526. Nikita, pr. of Montenegro, 521. Nikolsburg, truce of, 5"9. Nile, battle of tlie, 460, 536. Nimrod, k. of Assyria, 5, n. 2 ; 13. Nimwegi-n, peace of, 368. Nineteen propositions, 347. Nineveh, on the Tigris, 12; foundation, 14 ; captured by Cyaxares, 15, 25 ; battle of, 192. Ninus, 14. Nippon, proper meaning, 32, n. 2, Nisib, battle of, 491. Nitta Yoshisada, 243. Nizam ul Mulk, 442. Noah, 36, 39. Noailles, Ticomte de, 450. Nobility in Rome, 101, 102; abolished in France, 453 ; new nobility, 467. Nobunaga, 355, 356. Noisseville, battle of, 516. Nola, battle of, 149. NoUendorf, battle of, 477, 478. Nombre de Dios, 289. Non-jurors, 386. No popery riots, 440. Nordlingen, battle of, 313. Nore, mutiny at the, 536. Noreia, battle of, 127. Noricum, 148, 167. Normandy, settled, 202 ; Vexin annexed to, 203; duke William conquers Eng- land, 206 ; belongs to Henry II. of Eng- land, 231 ; conquered by Philip Augus- tus, 227. Normans. See Northmen. North, sir Francis, 382. North, lord, administration, 400, 425; re- signs, 441. Northampton, battle of, 272. North Anna, battle of, 558. Northbrook, lord, viceroy of India, 547. North Carolina, separated from South Car- olina, 418 ; colonial charter suspended, 427 ; insurrection in, 425 ; accepted the constitution of U. S., 547. Northcote, sir Stafford, 545. Northern convention, 462 463. Northern war, 394. 600 Index. North German Confederation. See Ger- many. Northmen, wars with Charles the Great, 185 ; ravages in France and Germany, 193, 201 ; settled in Italy, 198, 199, 200 ; siege of Paiis, 201 ; settlement, 202 ; in England, 203, 204, 205 ; contiuest of Eng- land, 206. Northumberland, d. of, 336 ; e. of, 270, 271. Northumbria, kingdom of, 178, 179, 180. Norway, early history to 1103, 208 ; from death of Magnus Barfod to union of Cal- mar, 1103-1397, 238 ; to 1524, 276, 351 ; to 1789, 409 ; ceded to Sweden, 479, 483; war with Sweden, 484 ; constitutional contest in, 526. Notables, assembly of, 447. Notium, battle of, 69. . Nottingham, e. of, impeached, 270. Nottingham, e. of, sec. of, state, 385, 433 ; pres. of council, 436. Novara, battle of, 319, 488, 494. Nova Scotia, granted to sir Wm. Alexan- der, 295, 299 ; ceded to England, 393 ; 422, 439 ; fisheries in, 432. Novgorod, 208, 277. Novi, battle of, 461. Nullification proclamation, 653. Numa Pompilius, k. of Rome, 88. Numautia, destruction of, 123. Numerianvis, Roman emp., 158. Numidia, divided between Bocchus and Gauda, 121, 127, 142. Nuremberg, peace of, 303 ; fortified camo of, 312. Nymplienburg, alliance of, 401. Nystadt, peace of, 397. Gates, Titus, plot, 381 ; trial, 383 ; pardon, 386. Oaths of allegiance and supremacy, 386. Obelisks, 3. Ocampo circumnavigates Cuba, 284. Occasional conformity act, brought in, 433, 434 ; passed, 435 ; repealed, 437. Octavia, 145, 150. Octavianus, C. Julius Caesar ; negotiations with the senate, 144 ; appointed consul, 145 ; receives the west, 145 ; war with Sextus Pompeius and Antonius, 146 ; sole ruler, 147. See Augustus. Odenathus, 157. Odin, 164, 165. Odo, b. of Bayeux, 229 ; c. of Paris. See Eudes. Odovaker, ruler of Italy, 162, 173 ; over- thrown by Theodoric, 174. Odys.seus, 47. U)iiti-alin, 421. OswU'U, k. of NortUuuibria, 180. Othmann, 1S2. Otho. For tJerinan rulers, see Otto. Otho, Roman emp.. 151. Otis, James, 422, 42^3. Otterburne. .St Chevy Chase. Otto the Fiune, marg. of Brandenburg, 249. Otto I., k. of Greece, accession, 489; ex- pulsion, 605. Otto I. the Great, emp. of the II. R. E., Iit5 ; II., 1%, 197 ; III., " Wonder of the World,'" 197 ; IV., of Brunswick, 223. Otto of Nordheim. 199. Otto of Wittelsbach, 222. Otto the Illustrious, d. of Saxony, 194. Ottocar, k. of Bohemia, 244. Oudenarde, battle of, 392, 435. Ouilh, province in India, 22; under the Guptas, 24; independence of, 442: an- nexation, 546. Oudinot, 475, 477, 480. Ovando, 283. Overbury, sir Thomas, 341. Ovidius Naso, P., 83, 148. O.xbridge, treaty of, 349. Oxenstiema, A.xel, 313, 314, 315. Oxford, parliament of Charles I. at, 348. Oxford, e. of (Ilarley), lord high treas., 435 ; dismissed, 435 ; impeached, 437. Paches, 66. Pacific Ocean, discovered, 284. Pacte de famine, 446. Paix des dames, 303 ; de monsieur, 322. Pal.TGologi, Greek emperors, 278. Palaeologus, Michael, 216. Palatinate, electorate, 248 : in the thirty years" war, 310 ; division of, 316 ; war over the succession in, 369 ; devastation of, 370 ; in the war of the Bavarian suc- cession, 406. Palestine, (j, 7. Palikao, battle of, 502, 562. Palladius, in Ireland, 39. Palm, execution of, 468. Palr\erston, lord, in the Egyptian trouble, 491; alliance with Turkey, 499; for. sec, home sec, premier, 543 ; second ministry, death, 544. Palmvra, 157. Palo Alto, battle of, 554. Panipeluna, siege of, 479. Panama congress, 552. Pandulf, 234. Pauipat, battles of, 353^ 443. Pannonia, Roman prov., 149, 167. Panormus, 17, 20 ; battle of, 111. Pan.sa, 144. Paoli, 415. Papacy, origin, 175 ; foundation of its sec- ular power, 184 ; German popes, 196 ; Gregory VII., investitures, 199; Canos- sa, 200 ; concordat of Worms, 201 ; Ur- ban II., crusades, 213-217 ; contest with Frederic I., 221 ; Innocent III., 223 : Greg- ory IX., strife with Frederic 11., 224, 225 ; council of Lyons, 225; Adrian IV. gives Ireland to Henry II.. 2:52; Innocent III., contest with .Idni, 2^i3 ; council of Con- stance prorlaiius its superiority, 251 ; Boniface VIII., quarn-l with Philip the Fair, 254; Babyl(jnish captivity in Avignon, 255, 263; great schism, 2G3; reformation, 301; council of Trent, 305; anti-reformation, 306; Alexander VI „ Gregory Xlll., reform of calendar, 327 ; dispute with Henry VIII., 3;i4 ; bull ap- portioning the undiscovered portions of the world, 353; Pius VI. and .Joseph II., 408 ; I'ius VI ., seized by the French, 459 ; concordat of 1801, 463 ; Pius VII., seized by Napoleon, 473 ; receives the papal states again, 483: Pius IX., 492; revolt in Rome suppressed by French, 493 ; honorary president of the Italian league, 502; Vatican council papal infallibility, 512; temporal power of the pope abol- ished, 518 ; guarantee for the pope, .520 ; contest with Italy, Prussia, Switzerland, 521; Leo XII I. ,524. Papal states founded, 184 ; estates of Matilda obtained, 223; independent of the empire, 2(33; declining prosperity, 416 ; cession of Bologna, Ferrara, the Romagna, 458 ; transformation into the Roman republic, 459 ; without Romagna, Bologna, and Ferrara restored to the pope, 464 ; incorporated with France, 473; restored to the papacy, 483; Bo- logna, Ferrara, Romagna, incorporated with Italy, 402 ; p.'itrimonium Petri to be protected by Italy, 503; patrimonium Petri also incorporated, 518. Paper, improvement in, 279. Paphlagonia, 21, 136. Papin, Denis, 486. Papirius Carbo, 125, 127, 130, 131 ; Cursor, 105. Papists disabling act, 381. Pappenheim, 311, 312. Paraguay, discovery of, 286 ; rule of Fran- cia, 488. Paris, Lutetia Parisiorum, occupied by La- bienus, 139; court-camp of Childeberfc I., 181 ; siege by Otto II., 196; siege by the Northmen, 201 . capital of the French. monarchy (see Laon), 202: entrance of the allies, 481 ; second capture, 484 ; siege, 517 ; bombardment, 519: capitu- lation, 519 ; second siege, 530. See, also, France. Paris, peace of 1763, 422, 439 ; of 1783, 431, 441 : between Sweden and France, 473 ; of 1814, 481 ; of 1815, 485 ; closing the Crimean war, 510. Paris, son of Priam, 47. Paris, Matthew, 2-35. Parker, archb. of Canterbury, 338. Parliament, in P>nglaud, the witan, 177; p. of Simon of Montfort, 234; fixation without consent of p., illegal, 266: first perfect p., 267 ; separation into two houses, 268 : the " good p.," the " won- derful p.,'" 269: English in the house of commons, 271 : grand protestation 342; petition of right, 343, scene in the commons, 343 : no p. for 11 years, 344 ; the "short p.,'" 345 ; the '' long p.,"' 345; "Rump,"' 376; " Barebone's p.," C02 Index. 376; long p. dissolved, 378; resume of its history, 378, n. ; " conveution p.," 378; "cavalier p.,"' 378; couveiitioti p., 385; first triennial p., 388; first p. of Great Britain, 434; first septennial p., 437 ; Wilkes, 440 ; speeches printed, 440 ; contractors and revenue officers excluded, 441 ; first imperial p., 520 ; Catholics first admitted, 339 ; reform act, 540: annual p. demanded, 542 ; property qualification abolished, Jews admitted, 2d reform act, 544. Parliament of France, explained, 254, mixed chambers, 324 ; mixed chambers in 4 par- liaments, 324; resistance of the. p. of Paris, 366 ; p. of Paris abolished, but re- stored, 446; again abolished, 447. Parliament of Germany, 493-498. Parma ceded to Spanish Boui'bons, 403, 416 ; ceded to Fi'ance, 463 ; given to Napoleon's wife, 481 ; incorporated with Sardinia, 502. Parma, d. of, 331, 458. Parmenio, 74, 75. Parnell, 545. Parthenon, built, 64 ; blown up, 416. Parthenopaean republic, kingdom of Naples transformed into, 460 ; abolished, 461. Parthia, on the plateau of Iran, 24 ; revolt subdued by Darius, 27 ; geography of, 29 ; revolt under Arsaces, 29 ; kingdom of, wars with Rome, etc., 30; kingdom of, 78 ; Crassus, 140 ; war with Trajan, 153 ; dissolution, of monarchy, 30, 155. Partholan, k. of Ireland, 38. Partition of Poland, I., 411 ; II., 413 ; III., 414. Partition of Prussia proposed, 404. Partition treaties, 391. Paschal II., pope, 201; III., 221. Paskevitch, 489, 490, 495, 499. Passarowitz, peace of, 397. Passau, convention of, 305, 317. Patkul, 394, 395. Patna, massacre of, 444. Patricians, origin, 88, 90 ; conflicting views concerning. 94 ; conflict with the plebei- ans, 95, 96, 97, 100 ; create a new office, but soon lose exclusive control of all offices, 101. Paul I., tsar of Rus.sia, 422, 459, 463. Paul IV., pope, 327. Paullus, L. ^ISmilius, 112 ; consul, falls at Cannae, 115 ; the younger, victory over the Lusitanians, 118 ; defeated Perseus, 120. Paulus Diaconus, 186. Pausanias, 60, 61, 69. Pavia, 175 ; siege, 184 ; battle of, 303. Peasants' war, in Germany, 302. Pedro. I., emp. of Brazil, '488 ; IT., 488. Peel, Robert, home sec, 539 ; first adminis- tration, 540 ; second administration, 542. Peking, treatv of, 502, 543, 562. Pelagius, 183. Pelasgians, 43, 49. Pelham, Henry, administration, 438. Pelissier, 600. Pelopidae, 44. Pelopidas, 70, 71. Peloponnesian war, 64-69. Pelusium, 2 ; battle of, 7, 27 ; taken by Persians, 191. Penates, 84. Penda, k. of Mercia, 179, 183. Peninsula campaign of McClellan, 567. Peninsula War, 471, 637. Penn, William, 360, 377. Pennsylvania granted to William Penn, 359 ; government taken from Penn, 362 ^ new charter obtained by Penn, 362. Penny postage in England, 542. Penobscot, 294, 300 Penrith, battle of, 43S. Penruddock. rebellion of, 376. " Pensioned," parliament, 378, 381. Pensions, 552. Pentarchy of the great powers, 482. Pentland Hills, battle of, 379. Pepperell, William, 419. Pequigny, peace of, 274. Pequot war, 297. Perceval, 537. Percy, Harry (Hotspur), 270. Perdiccas, 74, 76. Pere la Chaise, 381. Pergamon, kingdom of, 78, 124. Pericles, rival of Cimon, 62; administra« tion of, 64 ; death, 65. Perier, 486, 527 ; ministry of, 529. Perioeci, 50. Perozes, k. of Persia, 189. Perperna, 132, 133. Perpetual peace, 319. Perry, com., at Yedo, 562. Perseus, k. of Macedonia, 78, 120. Persia, geography, 24 ; religion, 24, 25; revolt under Cyrus, 26 ; old Persian em- pire, ib. ; conquests of Cambyses and Da- rius, 27 ; administration of the empire, 28 ; war Avith the Greeks of Asia Minor, ib^; of Europe, 28, 56 ; decline and fall of the empire, 29; subject to Parthia, 30; new Persian empire founded, ib., 155, 187 ; wars with Rome, 190 ; restored to the limits reached under Darius, 191 ; conquest by Arabs, 192, 193. Persian wars, I., II., 66; III., 58; IV,, 60. Pert, air Thomas, 286. Pertinax, Roman emp., 164. Peru, exploration of, 286 ; conquest of by Pizarro, 287 ; a free state, 488. Perusia, civil war of, 146. Pescennius Niger, 155. Peshwa, 443, 541. Peter, k. of Aragon, 226; III., 276; IV., 276. Peter the Cruel, k. of Castile, war with, 258, 276. Peter T., the Great, tsar of Russia, 374 ; in England, 388 ; war with Charles XII., k. of Sweden, 394, 395, 396, 410; II., 410; III., 406, 411. Peter the Hermit, 200, 213. Peter de la Mare, 269. Peter des Roches, 234. Peter de Vinea, 226. Peterborough, lord, 434. Peterborough, sack of, 204. Peterloo. S^'c Manchester Massacre. Peterwardein, battle of, 397. Petion, 451, 454. Petition of Right, 343. Petrarca, Francesco, 263. Index. 603 Petre, father, 384. IVtrdus, 141. 14*2. retninius Maxiiuus. Roman emp., 161. PfanVudorf, battle of, 405. riiamoh, 2, n., 3; 4, 4. PbiiriseeB, 11. I'haruabazus, 68, 70. Pbiiniaces, 142, 143. Pbiirsalus, battle of, 141. I'hiilias, 64. I'biladolpbia, foundation of, 360 ; occupied by Hritisli, evacuated, 429; centennial exhibition at, 660. Philadelphia, burning of the frigate, 649. Philicui, altars of, 19. Philip, d. of Anjou. See Philip V., k. of Spain. Philip the Fair, archd. of Austria, 253, 301, 328. Philip the Bold, d. of Burgundy, 258 ; the Good, 259. Philip 1., k. of France, 203,226: II., Au- gustus, cru.-^de, 215 ; Bouvines, 223 : reign, 226 ; intrigue.^ against Richard of England, 232; trouble over Ingebord, 235 ; Ul.,U Hardi, 254 : IV., le Bel, 254 ; v., le Long,'2Lb: VI., 257. 1 hilip, landgr. of Hesse, 304, 305. Philip, k. of Macedonia, 71 ; V., k., war with Rome, 116, 118 ; with Antiochus, 119. Philip, d. of Orleans. See Orleans. Philip II., k. of Spain, war with Henry II., of France, 321 ; claim to French crown, 324; reign, 330: III., 331 ; IV., ] 331; v., claim urged by Louis XIV., 391; ' war of Spanish succession 392 ; recog- nized in Spain, 393 ; claimant for Aus- trian succession, 400 ; reign, 414. Philip of Swabia, emp. of the II. R. E., 223. Philip, king, Indian chief, 359. Philiphaugh, battle of, 348. Philippi, founded, 71 ; battle of, 145. Philippics of Demosthenes, 72; of Cicero, 144. Philippus Arabs, Roman emp., 156, 188. Philistines, 7, 8, 14. Philocrates, peace of, 72. Philomelus, 72. Philopoemen, 80. Phips, sir \Vm., gov. of Mass., 361. Phocacans, 19, 26. Phocion, 70, 79. Phoebidas, 70. Phoenicia, Phoenicians, expeditions of Ra- messu I., 5: war of Psamethik I., 6; subject to Tiglath-Pileser I., 14: geog- raphy, 1>) ; religion, 16, 17; constitution of the cities, 17 ; Sidon"s greatest power, ib. : voyages and colonies, ib. ; rise of Tyre, 18; foundation of Carthage, ib.; decline of Phoenician cities, 19 ; subject to Assyria, Egypt, Babylon, Persia, ib. ; to Macedon, the Seleucidse, the Ptole- mies, 20 ; retains native rulers under Persia, 26, 37 : P. refuse to assist faniby- ses against Carthage, 27 ; revolt sup- pressed by Artaxerxes III., 29; neve^ visited Britain, 37. Phraates, name of .several Parthian kings, 1., 29 ; II., 30 ; III., first war with Rome, 30; IV , attacked by Antonius, 30. war with AuguKtuH, 148. Phraortes, 15, 25. Phratries, 54. Phrixos, 46. Phrvgia, 21, 22. Phylu;, 45, 54. Piacenza, 416, 467. Piasts, Poland under the, 277. Piccolomini, 313, 314. See ^Eneas SiLvius. Picenum, 81, 83, 141. Pichegru, 455, 456, 469, 465. Piedmont, settled by Celts, conquered by Rome, 35, 118 ; under the East (joths, 174; under the Laugobards, 176. con- quered by Charles the Great, 184 ; Caro- lingians in, 193; Otto I. conquers Be- rengar of Ivrea, 195, 196; Henry II. conquers Ardoin, 197; Lombard league and Frederic Barbarossa, 219-222 ; Fred- eric I., 224 ; divided into small states, 262; under dukes of Savoy, 327; who became kings of Sardinia, 415 ; Napoleon occupies P., 458 ; Cisalpine republic, 469 ; abolished 460 ; restored, 462 ; Italian re- public, 464; Napoleon, k. of Italy, 467; ceded to France, 467 ; Lombardo-Vene- tian kingdom ceded to Austria, 483 ; rev- olutionary movements, 487 : war between Austria and Sardinia, 494; intervention of France, Austrians expelled, 502, 5U3. Pierce, Franklin, 565. Piers Plowman, 268. Pignerol ceded to France, 325. Pilgrims, 294. Pillnitz, conference, 451 ; declaration 452. Klpay, fables of, 191. Pindar, 73. Pinerolo, pacification of, 377. Pinto in Japan, 3o5. Pinzon Vincent Yanez, 284. Pipin, d'Heristal. 183 ; the Small, k. of the Franks, 175, 184. Piraeus, fortified, 58,61,64; blockade of, 68, 70. Pirates, war against, 134. Pi.«a, conquered by Genoa, 263; council of, 261. Pisistratus, 54. Pistoria, battle of, 137. Pitt, William, the elder. See Chatham. Pitt, William; the younger, sketch of life, 441 ; first administration, 442, 6.36 _; sec- ond administration, 536 ; death, 537. P=us II., pope, 253 ; VI , 407 ; VII., con- secrated Napoleon I., 465; imprisoned, 473; returned to Rome, 482; IX., at- tempted reforms of, 492 ;_ death, 524. Pizarro, Francisco, 286, 287. Placida, 161. Plague in Germany, 248 ; in London, 379. Plains of Abraham, battle of, 422. Plantagenet, house of, 231. Plassey, battle of, 443. Plata;ae, battle of, 60 ; surrenders, 66. Plato, 69. Plebeians, traditional origin, 89 ; true ori- gin, 90, 91, 92; admitted to senate, 94; contest with patricians, 95 ; tribunes, 96; comitia tributa, 96, 97; secession, 96 ; one plebeian consul, 101 ; all ot&cet opened to, 101, 107. 604 Index. Plovna, capture of, 522. Plinius, tbo elder, 152. Plistonmx, 63. *'Plon-[>lou,--466, 534. PlovAlen, sir Edward, 293. Pluukett, executioa of, 382 PJyinoutli, council of, 294 ; surrenders charter, 297 ; settlement of, in New Eng- land, 294. Plynioutli Company, 291, 293. Pocahontas, 291. Poischwizt, armistice of, 476. Poitiers, battle of (Charles Mattel), 183 ; (Black Prince), 258. Poitou, acquired by England, 226, 231, 258 ; lost, 260. Poland, kingdom formed, 168 ; war with Henry II., 197; with Conrad II.; sub- mits to empire, 198; under the Piasts, united with Lithuania, 277 ; Jagallons ; P. an elective monarchy, 352 ; elector of Saxony, k. of P., 372; republic, 374; Stanislaus, k., 395; truce of, 397; war of the Polish succession, 398, 414 ; first division, 411; second, 413; third, 414; kingdom of, 483 ; revolution in, 490 Pole, Michael de la, 269. Pole, Reginald, card., 335, 338. Polignae ministry, 527. Polk, James K., 554. PoUentia, battle at, 171. Polo, Marco, 242, 282. Polycrates of Samos, 7. Polygnotus, 64. Polysperchon, 76. Pombal, marquis of, 415. Pomerania, extinction of the ducal house, 314 ; given to Sweden and Brandenburg, 316 ; lost by Sweden, Hither P. given to Prussia, 396 ; Hither P. ceded to Den- mark, 479 ; to Prussia, 482. Pompadour, marquise de, 403, 446. Pompeii, 83, 152. Pompeius(ilIag-re;<5), subjected the Jews to Jloine 11; consul, 129; joined Sulla, 131; war with Sertorius, 133; defeats the pirates, 134; command in Asia, 135 first triumvirate, 137 ; consul, 140 ; de feat at Pharsalus, 141 ; death, 142, 143 Ser.tus escaped to Spain, 142; repulsed CsBsar, 143 ; treaty with triumvirs, 145 defeated and died, 146. Ponce de Leon, 284. Pondicherri, 443. Poniastowski, 413. Pontefract, castle of, 270. Pontiac, conspiracy of, 423. Pontifices, college of, 85. Pontius Gavius, 105, 106. Pontus, kingdom of, 78 ; first Mithridatic war, 129; second, 132; third, 134; P. Roman province, 136. Pooua, confederacy of, 443. Poor-law amendment act, 540. Pope, Alexander, 436. I'opham, George, 293. Popillius Laenas, 121. Popish plot, 381. Poplicola, L. Valerius, 93. Popptea Sabina, 150. Populonia, battle of, 107. Porrex. k. of Brita,in, 37. Porsena of Clusium, 95. Port Royal, foundation of, 290 ; razed by Argal, 292 ; captured by Phips, 361 ; by English, 363. Porteous riots in Edinburgh, 438. Portland, d. of, administration, 537. Porto Bello captured by Vernon, 438. Portocarrero, card., 391. Portugal granted to Henry, count of Bur» gundy, 240 ; his son becomes king of Portugal, ib. ; P. reaches its greatest power, discoveries, and settlements, 276, 280 ; Portuguese in India, 354 ; Emman- uel the Great ; Spanish province ; revolt, 332, 393 ; house of Braganza ; earth- quake of Lisbon, 415 ; refuses to join continental system ; occupied by French, 470 ; peninsula war, 471 ; revolution, 488. Poscherun, treaty of, 475. Potemkin, 412, 413. Potocki, Pelix and Ignaz, 413. Potosi, mines of, 288. Poutrincourt, 290. Powhattan, 291. Poyning's law. See statute of Drogheda. Prsemunire, statute of, 269, 270. Praetorship, established, 101 ; first ple- beian, 102 ; limit of age for, 120 ; num- ber of, 122 ; pro-prsetors, 122. Pragmatic sanction of St. Louis, of France, 227; of Charles VII., revoked, 260; of the emp. Charles VI., 398, 403. Prague, battle of, 404 ; compact of, 252 ; congress at, 476 ; peace of, 314, 510 ; uni- versity of, founded, 248; secession of Germans, 251 ; lectures in Czechish lan- guage establislied, 526. Presbytei'ians, 350. President, engagement with the Little Belt, 551. Pressburg, anti-Jewish riots, 526 ; peace of, 467. Preston, 425. Preston, battle of, 437. Preston Pans, battle of, 351, 438. Pretender, old P., 437 ; young P., 438. Priam, 47. Pride's Purge, 351. Prie, marquise de, 446. Prim, murdered, 512. Prince Edward's Island, 287. Princes in the Tower, murder of, 275. Princeton, battle of, 428; foundation of college at, 419. Pring, Martin, 290. Printing, invention of, 211, 253, 279. Probus, Roman emp., 157. Proconsuls, the first, 105; proconsulai provinces, 123. Propertius, S., 148. Property qualification abolished, 544. Prophets in Israel, 9. Pro-prsetors, 122. Proscriptions, under Sulla, 132; undei the second triumvirate, 145. Protectorate in England, 376. Protestant union, 308. Protestants, 303. Providence, foundation of, 297. Providence Plantations, charter of, 358i. Provisions of Oxford, 234. Prusias, 78, 120. Index. 605 rnssia {set also Rrany tlio Ti-u- ton'.c order, 218,277 ; West l'rus.«iii ceded to t'oUnd, 277 ; reformation in, Albert of Hniudenburg becomes d. of 1'. under Polish suzerainty, 3i>2: elector of Bran- denburg becomes k. of Prussia, 372, 373; P. obtains Neuchatel, and upm-r Guel- ders, ri'linquishes claims upon Orange to France, 3i)3 ; cessions from Sweden, 39»5 ; 1*. under Frederic the Great, 4(>5-408 ; claims upon Silesia, 400; proposed parti- tion of P., 404; Silesia retained, 40(3; shares in the partition of Poland, 411, 413, 414 ; joins first coalition against France. 462; alliance with England, 455 : peace of Ba^le, 457; indemnifica- tions, 4ti5 ; treaty with Napoleon, 467 ; not in the confedemcy of the Rhine, 468; war with Fi-.ince, 468; peace of Til- sit, 470; reform of the state and army, 471; war of liberation, 475; congress of Vienna, 482 ; receives Saarbriicken, 485; ZoUverein,A^\ ; united La«r/«rt^. 492 ; up- rising in Berlin, 492 ; Schleswig-IIol- stein, 496 ; offer of German crown to king of Prussia, 497; revised constitu- tion, 497 ; conference of Olmiitz, 498 ; William I., 503; constitutional conflict, Bismarck, 504 ; war with Denmark, 5i>5; with Austria, 507-510 ; Luxemburg question, 511 ; war with France, 513- 620; king of Prussia German emp.,519; numt)er of votes in the Bitndesrath, 520 ; May laws, civil marriage, 521 ; alliance with Austria, 525 ; royal rescript of Jan., 1882, 525. Pruth, peace of the, 395. Prynne, William, 344. Prytauies, 55. Psamethik, ks. of Egypt : I. revolted against Assyria, 6, 15 ; 11., 6; III., de- fejited by ("ambyses, 7. Psammeticus. See Psamethik I. Pseudo-Philippus, 122; Smerdis, 27, Pteria, battle at, 21, 26. Ptolemais. See Acre. Ptolemies, kings of Egypt, 11, 20, 74, 76, 77, 142. Public peace, 300. Publilius Philo, 102, 105. Pugacheff, 412. Pul, Chaldean king, 13. Pulaski, death of, 430. Pultowa, battle of, 395. Pultusk, battle of, 395. Punic wars, I., 109 ; II., 35, 113 ; III., 121. Punitz, battle of, 395. Punjab, 22 ; invaded by Alexander, 23 ; conquered by Gneco-Bactrian-J. ib.; by Scythians, 24, 241 ; annexed, 546. Pupienus Maximus, 156. Purandocht, reigu of, 192. Puritans in America, 295 ; in England, 345. Putnam, general, 428. Puttkamer, v., 525. Pydna, battle of, 120. Pvgmalion, of Tyre, 18. PV1os.66. Pym. John, M. P., 341; imprisoned, 342 ; impeached, 346; death, 34S. Pyramids, 3; battle of the, 460. I Pyrenees, battle of, 479; peace of the, I 866. Pyrrhus, k. of Britain, 37. Pyrrhus, k of Epirus, aids the Syracu- sans, 20; war with the KomaDS, 107- 1(»9 ; death, 108. Pytheas of Massilia, 37, 167. Pythian festival, 42. Quadi, war with Rome, 154. Quadruple alliance, 397. 437, 445. Qu.'rstiones perpetutc, 122. Qujestors appointed, 93 ; two more added, 99 ; accompany pro-praetors, 122 ; 20 quaestors, 132. Quaker Hill, battle of, 430. Quatre-Bras, battle of, 484. Quebec, founded, 299 ; taken by the Kertks, 299; surrendered to the English, 422; besieged in vain by Arnold, 427 ; battle of, 439. Queen Anne's bounty, 434 ; war, 363, 365 Queenstown, battle of, 551. Quiberon Bay, battle of, 439. Quincy , .Tosiah, 425. Quito, 287. Quivira, 287. Rabelais, 319. Racine, 371. Radagais, 171. Radetzki, 494, 523. Radowitz, 497, 498. Radzivil, 490. Rjedwald, k. of East Anglia, 179. Rastia, 148, 167. Rafn, descripton of Vinland, 281. Ragaz, battle of, 253. Raglan, lord, 500. Ragnarok, 166. Railroads, invention, 486 : in the United States, 486, 552. Rain, battle of, 312. Rajputana, 22 ; conquered by Akbar, 354; unsuccessful wars of Aurangzeb in, 389; independent, 442. Raleigh, Sir Walter, grant of Virginia, 289 ; expedition to Guiana, 290 ; expedition to the Orinoco and execution 341. Ramannarari, 14. Ramayana, Indian epic, 23. Rambouillet decree, 550. Ramessu, k. of Egypt, II., the Greek Sesos- tris, 5 ; III.. Rhampsinitus, 5. Ramillies, battle of, 392, 434. Ramses. See R^imessu II. Riindolph, Edward, 361 ; Peyton, 426. Raphael, Santi, 327. Rastadt, peace of, 394; congress of , 459; dissolution, 461. Ratisbon. See Regensburg. Raucoux, battle of, 402. Ravaillac, 325. Ravenna, imperial residence, 161 ; res! dence of Theodore, 174 ; battle of, 318. Recimir, 162. Reciprocity treaty, 543, 556. Recdinage act, 388. Reconstruction act, 559. Redan, storm of tiie. 501. Reform act, first, 540 ; Scotch, 540 ; second^ 644 606 Index. Reformation, beginning of, 301 ; ir, Eng- liind, 335 ; in France, 321 ; introduced into Geneva by Calvin, 304 ; in Switzer- land, 301. Regensburg, founded, 167, 215 ; electoral assembly at, 311 ; permanent diet at, 316, 371 ; battle of, 471. ftegillus, battle of, 95. Kegulus, M. Atilius, 110, 111, 112. Reichenbach, battle of, 406 ; conference at, 408 ; treaty of, 476. Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, 464. Reichshofen, battle of, 516. Reichskammergericht, 300. Reichstag, German, 511, 520, 526. Reign of terror, 454. Rekenitz, battle of, 196. Remigius, b. of Ilheims, 174. Reuse, electoral meeting at, 248. Republic of the Seven Ionian Islands. See Ionian Islands. Republican party in U. S., 548 ; in France, 530. Republics founded by the French during the revolution : Batavian, 456 ; Cisal- pine, 459 ; Helvetian, 460 ; Ligurian, 459 ; Parthenopaan, 460 ; Roman, 459. [Seven Ionian Islands, founded by Rus- sia, 461.] Reservatum ecclesiasticum, 306, 310. Restoration of the Bourbons, 481, 484, 526, 527; of the Stuarts, 378. Resumption of specie payments, 560. Reutlingen, battle of, 250. Revolution, American, 426 ; Belgian, 408 of 1830, 489 ; Central American, 488 English, I., 347,375; II., 384; French. I., 447; II. (July), 529; III. (Feb.), 530 IV. (Sept.), 517 ; German, 492 ; Greek 488; i/MHg-nr/an, 494 ; /«a/mn, 490, 493 502; Japanese, 563; Polish, 490, 505 Fortitguese, 488 ; South American, 488 Spanish, 488, 512. Revolutionary tribunal, 453. Rezonville, battle of, 516. Rhampsinitus. See Ramessu III. Rh.i, Isle of, 343. Rhett, William, 363. Rhine cities, league of, 249. Rhode Island, colony, founded, 297 ; pe- tition of, to be admitted to the colonial union rejected, 357 ; charter, 358 ; gov- ernment, 361,362; accepted the consti- tution of U. S., 547 ; Dorr rebellion, 554. Rhodes, colonized by Phoenicians, 17, 41 ; independent, 78 ; Roman province, 79 ; war with Antiochus III., 119, 120 ; cap- tured by Persians, 191 ; given to knights of St. John, lost to Turks, 217. Ribault, Jean, 288. Ricci, Jesuit general, 416. Richard of Clare, e. of Leinster, 232. Richard of Cornwall, elected emp. of H. R. K., 225. Richard I., Coeur-de-Lion, k. of England, crusade, 215 ; imprisoned, 216; released, 223 ; war with Philip Augustus, 226 ; reign in England, 232; II., 269, 270; III., 275. Richard, d. of York, 271. Richelieu, card., in thirty years' war, 311, 314; administration, 325; d. of, 487 ministry, 527. Richmond, surrender of, 559. Richmond, e. of, 275. See Henry VIL, k. of England. Ridley, 838. Ried, treaty of, 478. Rienzi, Cola di, 263, Riga, siege of, 474. Rimnik, battle of, 413. Rio de la Plata, discovery, 285. Ripon, marq. of, viceroy of India, 647. Ripon, treaty of, 345. Rivers, e. of, execution, 274. Rizzio murdered, 338. Roanoke Island, colony, 289. Roberjot, murder of, 461. Robert of Belesme, 230. Robert, c. of Clermont, 324, Robert, d. of France, proclaimed k., 202. Robert I., k. of France, 203. Robert, d. of Normandy, 214, 230. Robert Guiscard, 200. Roberval, gov. of Canada, 287, 288. Robespierre, member of the Jacobins, 451 ; in the convention, 453 ; at the head of the reign of terror, 454 : crushes the moderates and radicals, 455 ; overthrow and execution, 456. Robinson, John, 294. Rochambeau, 4-30, 452. Roche, marquis de la, 290. Rochefort, 512. Rochester, e. of, 882, 383. Rockingham, first administration, 424, 440 ; second, 431, 441. Rocroy, battle of, 366. Rodney, 441. Roe, sir Thomas, 354. Roeskild, peace of, 373. Roger II., k. of the Two Sicilies, 218. Rogers, Wood, capt., 417. Rohan, card., 447. Roland, death of, 185. Roland, madame, executed, 455. Roldan, revolt of, 283. Rolf, 208 ; siege of Paris by, 201 ; first d. of Normandy, 202. Roman republic, proclaimed, 459 ; abol- ished, 461. Romanow, house of, 353, 374. Rome, geography, 81 ; religion, 84 ; eth- nography, 85 ; origin, mythical and real, 87 ; the kings in legend, 88 ; in history, 90 ; constitution, 91 ; republic, constitu- tion, 93; patricians and plebeians, 95; decemvirs, 98; conquest by the Gauls, 85, 99 ; equalization of the old orders, 100 ; Samnite and Latin wars, l(i4, 105, 106 ; war with Tarentum, conquest of Italy, 107 ; Punic war, I., 109 ; II., 113 ; Hannibal in Italy, 114-117 ; Macedonian wars, 116, 118, 120, 121 ; war with Antio- chus, 119; Punic war, III., destruction of Carthage, 121 ; destruction of Corinth, 122; provinces of Rome, 122; civil dis- turbances, the Gracchi, 124 ; Jugurthian war, 126 ; Cimbri and Teutones, 127 ; Mithridatic wars, 129, 132, 134; Marius and Sulla, 130 ; conservative reforms of Sulla, 132 ; war with the gladiators, 133; with the pirates, 134 ; organization of Index. 607 Asia, 136 ; Catiline, 136 ; Cicero, 137 ; l«t triumvirate, 137 ; coiKniest of (Jaul, l.'iS ; civil war, 140; constitution uihUt C'lesur. 143 ; a-ssjuisiimtion of Cii'sjir, 144 ; 2«1 tri- umvinit**, 145 ; war Itetween Octaviunus and Antouius, 14() ; (U-tavianus ruler and enipiTor, 147 ; Julian emperors, 147-151 ; Flavian, 151 ; X\w. good emperors, 15ti- 154 ; emperors appointed by tlie soldiers, 154; Aurelian, 157; Diocletian, 158; Constantine, 15i) ; division of the empire into the eastern, or Ciroek, and the west- ern empire, 161 ; fall of the western em- pire, 162 ; Persian wars, 187, 188 ; Par- thian wars, 3(>. See Holy Roman Em- pire, and Eastern Empire. Borne (the city), described, 82; founded, 87 ; Cloaca>, Servian wall, 89 ; sacked by Gauls, 1(X>; fire in, under Nero, 151; sacked by Alaric, 171; by the Vandals, 173 ; seat of the papacy, 176 ; Pipin pa- tricius, 184 ; Charles the Great crowned in, 185 ; Arnulf, li)4 ; Otto 1., 195 ; Fred- eric III. (IV.), last emp., crowned in Rome, 263 ; sacked by the army of the constable of Bourbon, 303; occupied by the French, 459, 473 ; return of pope, 482; occupied by French, 503; captured by Italians, 518 ; capital of Italy, 620. Romulus and Remus, 87. Romulus Augustulus, Roman emp., 162. Roncevaux, 185. Rooke, sir George, 434. Ro.>iamunda, 175. Roses, wars of the, 272. Rosny. See Sully. Rossbach, battle of, 404. Rostra, 82, 104. Rothari, 175. Rouher, bit. Roum, sultanate of, 210. Roumania, indeiiendent, 524 ; kingdom, 524. Roumanian lanjxuage, 153. Roundheads, a^U. Roundway Down, battle of, 347. Rousseau, 448. Royalists, .3.50. Rudolf, archd. of Austria, 249. Rudolf, of Burgundy, k. of France, 202. Rudolf III., k. of Burgundy (Arlea), be- queaths kingdom to Henry II., 198. Rudolf 1., of Hapsburg, emp. of U. R. E., reign, 244; II., reign, .308. Rudolf, of Rheinfeld, d of Swabia, 199; anti-king of Germany, 200. Rudolfian line, 316. Ruol, treaty of, 366. Rulliauus, 102, 1()6. Rump parliament, in England, .3.51, 376 ; in Germany, 496. Rupert, count palatine, 250. 251. Rupert, pr., at Edgehill, :j47 ; at Marston Moor, 348; in cabinet, 3S0. Rurik, house of, 276, .'i52. Ru.ssell, adm. 5fe Orford. Russell, lord, executed, 382. Ru.ssell, lord John, 539; home sec, 540; first ministry of, 543 : foreign pec, .543; earl Russell, 544 ; second ministry, 544. Russia, Swedes subjugate the Slavs around Novgorod, 208; R. Under the Mongols, 241, under the house of Rurik, rise of Moscow, 276, house of Rurik succeeded by that of Romanow, 353 ; Peter the Great, 374 ; war with Charles XII., 394 ; peace of Nystadt, 397 ; seven years' war, 403; Elizabeth succeeded by Peter III., Frederic's friend, 405; Catherine II., neutral, 406; war with Sweden, 4<)9 ; house of Ilolstein-Ciottorp in K. , 411; the partition of Poland. 411, 413, 414; peace of Kutschouc Kainardji. 412; Paul I. , 459 ; R. in the second coalition against Fnmce, 460; Suwarotf in Italy and Swit zerland, 461; Alexander I., 463; third coalition, 467 ; war with France in alli- ance with Prussia, 468; p«!ace of Tilsit, 470 ; war with France, 474 ; burning of Moscow, 475 ; alliance of Kalisch with Prussia, 476; receives Warsaw at the congress of Vienna, 483; Nicholas I., 488; war with Turkey, 487; peace of Adrianople, 489 ; revolt in Poland, 490 ; alliance of 1840, 491 ; intervention in Hungary, 495 ; Crimean war, 499 ; peace of Paris, 501 ; Turkish troubles, 521 ; war with Turkey, 622 ; peace of San Ste- fano, 523 ; congress of Berlin, 524 ; Alex- ander III., 525; Nihilists, 626. Rustchuck, battle at, 473. Rut, John, 286. Rlitli, oath on the, 246. Ruyter, de, .368, 376, 379. Rydesdale, William of, 272. Ryswick, peace of, 362, 371. Sa'ad Ibu Abi Wakas, 192. Saalfeld, battle of, 469. Sabellians, 86. Sablnes, Sabine , women, 88; war with Rome, 89 ; subjugated, 107. Sacheverell, Dr., 435. Sadducees, 11. Sadowa, battle of, 509. Saghalen, ceded to Russia, 32, n. 3. Saguntum, siege of, 113. Sahs, in India, 210. Saif , 190. St. Albans, battles of, 272. St. Aldegonde, 330. St. Augustine, castle of, 289 ; siege of,419l St. Bartholomew, night of, 321. St. Clair, defeat of, .547. St. Claire sur Epte, treaty of, 202. St. Denis, 517. St. Esprit, mi.ssion of, 364. St. Estienne de la Tour, 300. St. Germain, peace of, 321 ; treaty of, .300. St. Germain-en-Laye, treaty of, 368, 374. St. Gotthard, battle of, 372 ; ^railroad, 526. St. Ignatius, massacre at, 357. St. Jacob, battle of. 253. St. John, Henry, dismissed from the cabi- net, 434 ; sec. of state, 435 ; created vise Bolingbroke, q. v. St. John, Oliver, 341. St. John, knights of, 217. St. John River, di.scoverv of, 290. St. Just, 454, 4,56. St. I..awrence, discovery of, 284, 287. St. Leger, 428. St. Louis, settlement of, .365. St. Lucia, ceded to the English, 422. St. Mary, mis.«ion of, 364. 608 Index. St, Patrick, 39. St. Petersburg, foundation of, 395 ; peace of, 405, 474. St. Privat, battle of, 516. St. Quentin, battle of, 321, 338, 519. St. Ruth, gen., 387. St. Savior, colony of, 292. St. Vincent, ceded to English, 422. Saladin, 215. Salamanca, battle of, 474. Salamis, battle of, 69, 62. Salem, settled, 295 ; witchcraft, 362. Salic emperors, 198. Salic Franks, 170, 173. Salic law, 255, 491. Salii, or dancing priests, 85. Salisbury, e. of, 272. Salvius Julian us, 153. Salzburg, made an electorate, 464 ; given to Austria, 468 ; ceded to Bavaria, 472 ; ceded to Austria, 482. Samaria, 7 ; capital of Israel, 9 ; captured by Sargon, 10 ; tributary to Assyria, 14. Sammuramit, 14. Samnites, 81, 83; wars with Rome. I., 104 ; II., 105; III., 105; join Pyrrnus, re- conquered, 108 ; revolt after Cannae, 115 ; attack Rome, but are repulsed by Sulla, 131. Samo, k. of the Slavs, 168. Samson, 8. Samuel, 8. Samurai in Japan, 212, 563. Sancho IV., k. of Castile, 276. Sancho I., k. of Navarre, 209; III., the Great, 209. Sancroft, archb. of Canterbury. 384. San Domingo, foundation of, 283 ; sack of, 290, 339. Sandon, 21, 26. Sandonidae, 21. Sandra-Kottos. See Chandragupta, 28. San Jago, 240, 328. San Stefano, peace of, 523. Santa F^, foundation of, 291. Sapor I., k. of Persia, 187 ; II., 188 ; III., 189. Saragossa, surrender of, 471. Sarakos. Sre Asshur-ebil-ili. Sardanapalus. See Asshur-natzir-pal I., As- shur-bani-pal, Grecian myth concerning, 16. Sardes, 21, 22, 26, 28. Sardinia, Phoenician colonies in, 17 ; sub- jugated by Carthage, 19 ; ceded to Rome, 112 ; given to Sextus Pompeius, 146 ; Enzio, k. of Sardinia ; S. also claimed by the pope, 225 ; reserved for the em- peror, 393; seized by Spain, but aban- doned, and given to Savoy in exchange for Sicily ; dukes of Savoy, kings of Sar- dinia, .397, 415 ; compelled to cede Savoy and Nice to France, 458 ; possessions on the main-land occupied and annexed by France, 460 ; old dynasty restored, 483 ; Austrians put down the liberals, 488 ; war with Austria, 494 ; shares in the Crimean wars, 500 ; the French and Sar- dinians defeat Austria, 502, 531 ; Victor Emmanuel k. of Italy, 503. ^e Italy. Sargon, k. of Assyria. 10, 14. Sasbach, battle of, 368. Sarsfield, 387. Sassanidae, in Persia, 30, 155 ; fall of, 182. Satsuma rebellion, 564. Saturninus, L. Appuleius, 128. Saucourt. battle of, 201. Saul, k. of the Jews, 8. Saussage at St. Savior, 299. Savage, conspiracy of, 339. Savannah, captured by the British, 430; evacuated, 431 ; taken by Sherman, 568. Savery, capt., 486. Savonarola, 327. Savoy, most powerful state in northern Italy, 327 ; obtains Sicily as a kingdom, 393 ; exchanges Sicily for Sardinia, dukes become kings of Sardinia, 397 ; acquires part of Milan, 415 ; ceded to France, 458 ; restored, 485 ; ceded again to J; ranee, 502. Savoy palace, 2H9 Saxe, marshal, 438, 446. Saxon kings and emperors, 194. Saxons, pirates, 38: location, 170; settle in Britain, 172, 176, 177,178; subdued by Charles the Great, 184, 185. Saxony, 194 : revolt against Henry IV., 199, 200 ; Lothar, duke, becomes emp., 218 ; Saxony under Henry the Proud and Henry the Lion, 218, 219 ; division of the old duchy, 222 ; electorate given to Fred- eric, margrave of Meissen, 252 ; separa- tion of the Albertine (Catholic), and Er- nestine (Lutheran) line, 305 ; alliance of Ferdinand and the Lutheran elector, 309 ; receives Lusatia, 314 ; Augustus II., becomes k. of Poland, 372 ; deposed, 395 ; Augustus III. , claimant for Poland, 398 , claimant for the Austrian succes- sion, 400 ; allied with Prussia, 408, 469; with Napoleon, 469 ; elector becomes king and joins confederacy of the Rhine, 469 ; capture of the king, 478 ; half of S. ceded to Prussia, 483 ; revolutionary dis- turbances, 492, 499 ; allied with Aus- tria against Prussia, 507 ; vote in the Bundesrath, 520. Say and Seal, vise, 296. Saybrook united with Connecticut, 357. Scandinavia, geography, 163 ; ethnography, 164; religion, 165. See Denmark, Nor- way, Sweden. Scharnhorst , 471, 476. Schenectady, destruction of, 361. Schill, 472. Schism act, repeal of, 437. Schism in the chm-ch, 221; the great S., 263. Schlegler, the, 250. Schleswig, foundation of, 194 ; yielded to the Danes, 198 ; war in Denmark over, 236 ; conquered by Wallenstein, 310 ; taken from the duke of Holstein-Got- torp by the Danes, 396 ; annexed to Denmark, 496 ; three wars with Den- mark, 496 ; delivered to the Danes, 498; incorporated with Denmark, 505 ; re- signed by Denmark, 506 ; provisionally governed by Prussia, 507 ; incorporated with Prussia, 510. Schmalkaldic league, 303 ; war, 305. Schoffer, Peter, 253. . Schomberg, 384, 385, 386, 387. Iitdex. 609 Schonbninn, treaty of, 467. Scliuli'iihur)?, 3i*o. ScluivliT, jjeii., 429. .^^cliwarzeiiben,', 474, 477, 478, 480. SchweiiischJidel, battle of, 6U9. liwepporuiann, 247. S.ipio, Cn., 112; killetl, 116. S< i|>io (.Vsirtticus), L. Cornelius, 119. Scipii) (B!""l»i't>'-^)- !'• Cornelius, llM3. .Siiiiio, P. Cornelius, 113, 115 ; killed, 116. Scipio, P. Cornelius (Africanus major), elected consul, 117; defeated Autiochus, ll't; death, 120. Scipio, P. Cornelius, iEmilianus (Africanus minor), captures Carthage, 121 ; takes Numantijv, 123. Scipio, P. Nasioa, 124. Scotland, geography, 36 ; Scots ravage Britain, ^, 176 : war with Edward 1., 264 ; contested .succession, 264, 266 ; Scot- land independent after Bannockburn, 268; capture of James, prince of Scot- land, 270 : James iV. invades England, 333 : Flodden field, 334 ; Mary queen of Scots, 338, 339: James VI. succeeds in England as James I., ;3.39 : episcopacy in Scotland, 340 ; riot in Edinburgh, solemn league and covenant, 344 ; bishops' war, 345: Scotch invade England, 348; Mon- trose in Scotland, 348 ; Charles surren- ders to Scotch, 349; secret treaty with, 350 ; Cromwell in Scotland, 375 ; perse- cution of covenanters, 382 : William and Mary receive the crown, 386; union with England, 434. Scroop, archb. of York, 270. Scurcola, battle of, 226. Scutage, introduction of, 231. Scythians, invade Media, 15, 25 ; India, 24 ; attacketl by Darius without success, 28. Sebastian, k." of Portugal, 332. Seba.stopol, siege of, 500. Secessio plebis, 96, 98, 107. Secession of the Southern States in North America, 558. Sedan, battle of, 517. Sedgemoor, battle of, 383. Seisachtheia, 52. Sejanus, 149. Sekigahara, battle of, a56. Seleucidae, conquer the Jews, 11 ; over the Phoenicians, 20 ; kings of Syria, 77 ; con- quered by Rome, 120, 153. Seleucus, 76. Self-denying ordinance, 349. Selim II., i^ultan of Turkey, 306 ; III., 473. Seminole war, 552. Seniiramis, 14, 16. See Sammuramit. Semitic peoples, religion of, 12. Sempach, battle of, 250. Sempronius Longus, T., 114. Sena gallica, battle of, 117. Senate, French, under the 4th constitu- tion, 461 ; receives greater power, 464 ; umler Louis Napoleon, 531 ; constitution of 1875, .5*3. Senate, Roman, origin, 87 ; enlargement, 89 : in the monarchical constitution, 91 ; under the republican constitution, 94; growing importance, 102; conflict with the Onicchi, 124; io.ses the jury duty, 125 ; the reforms of Sol la give the S. a temporary representative character, 132 ; j)ower of revision restored Xo censors, 133; reduced to a council under Cjpsar, 143 ; receives the power of appointing offi- cials, 149. Senate in the United States, 433. Seneca, 150. Sen lac. See Hastings. Sennacherib, 10, 15. Senones, 34, 35, 107. Sentinum, battle of, 106. Sepoy mutiny, 646. September laws in France. 529. Septennial parliament, 437. Septimaiiia, 174, 201. Septimius Severus, Roman emp., 154. Serfdom, 166; abolished by Joseph II., 407 ; by Alexander II., 500. Sertorius, Q., 130, 133. Servia, 521, 523; independent, 524; king- dom, 526. Servian constitution, 91. Servile wars, I.. 123 ; II., 128 ; III., 133. Servilius, P., consul, 134, 141. Servilius Ahala, C, 99. Servius Tullius, 89. Sesonchis. See Shashang I. Se.sostris, 5. Seti I., k. of Egypt, 5. Seven years" war, 403 ; in America, 420 ; va. India, 443 ; participation of Spain, 414. Severus Alexamler, Iloman emp., 154. Seville, treaty of, 437. Seward, William II., 556. Sextius Lateranus, L., 100, 101. Seydlitz, 404, 405. Seymour, lord, execution of, 336. Sforza, Francesco, becomes d. of Milan 262, 302, 303, 304. Shabak,6. Shaftesbury, lord chan., 380, 381, 382. Shah Alam II., emp. of India, 442, 444 ; Jahan, emp. of India, reign of, 354. Shahnauieh, Persian epic, refers to old Bao- trian empire, 25, 191. Shahr-Barz, Persian general, 191, 192. Shakespeare, 339. Shalmane-ser, ks. of Assyria, II., 14 ; IV, 10, 14. Shang, mythical dynasty in China, 31. Shanghai, 31, 501 ; opened to British trade, 561. Sharpe, archb., murdered, 381. Shashang 1., k. of Egypt, 5, 10, Shavs's rebellion, 433. Sheeah, 182. Shelburne, lord, administration, 431, 441 ; .sec. of state. 440. Shenandoah valley, 558. Shepherd kings in Egypt, 5 Sher All, death of, 547. Sheridan, general. Opequan, 558 ; FivO Forks, 559. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 441, Sheriffmuir, battle of, 437. Sherman, gen., campaign against John- ston, .558 ; march through (ieorgia, 558; received the surrender of the hist confed- erate armv, 559. Shiloh, battle of, 557. Shimonoseki batteries destroyed, 5'h3. Shinto religion, 32, 33; reestablished, 564 610 Index. Shipka pass, 522. Ship-money, writs for, 344. Shisak. See Shashang I. Shoguns, Japanese mayors of the palace, rise of, 213 ; Yoritomo, 243 ; Ashikaga shoguns, 278, 355 ; Tokugawa shoguns, 356, 445 ; overthfow of the shogun, 563. Shore, sir John, gov.-gen. in India, 541. " Short '- parliament, 345. Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, 434. Shrewsbury, battle of, 270. Shrewsbury, e. of. See Talbot. Shrewsbury, e. of, 384 ; secretary of state, 385 ; resignation, 387 ; laSt lord high treas., 435, 436. Sicilian vespers, 226. Sicily, Phoenician colonies in, 17 ; wars of Carthaginians and Greeks in, 20 ; Messe- nians settle in, 51 ; Syracusan expedition of the Athenians, 67 ; geographical de- scription, 83 ; collision between Rome and Carthage, 110 ; ceded to Rome, west- em S. the first Roman province. 111 ; war in Sicily, 116 ; subjugated, 117; re- volt of slaves in, 123, 128 ; war with Sex- tus Pompeius in, 146. Sicily, kingdom of, Roger II. assumes title of k. of the Two S., 218 ; Constance, heiress of the kingdom, wife of the emp. Henry VI., 222 ; war with Tancred, 223; Frederic II., 223; Manfred, 225; Charles of Anjou receives kingdom from tae pope, 'A'Z^ ; Sicilian vespers, French driven from S., which falls to Peter of Aragon, "226 {see Naples) ; S. united with Aragon, 263 ; given as kingdom to Savoy, 393 ; seized by Spain, but abandoned, and, by Savoy, exchanged with Austria for Sardinia, 397 ; after the war of the Polish succession ceded by Austria to Spain, ivith Nnples, 398; S. and Naples (as kingdom of the Two Sici- lies) given to Ferdinand, 3d son of Charles III. of Spain, 416 ; deprived of Naples by Napoleon, the court retires to S., 468 ; dynasty restored, 483 ; revolt, 493 ; Gari- baldi liberates S., 502. Sickingen, Franz von, 302. Sicyon, 40, 48 ; joins Achaean league, 72. Sidney, execution of, 382 ; pir Philip, death of, 339. Sidon, chief town of the Sidonians, 16 ; greatest power, 17 ; superseded by Tyre, 18 ; first city of Phoenicia under Persia, 19 ; abandoned by crusaders, 217. Sievershausen, battle of, 306. Sieyes, 449, 4d1. Sigibert I., k. of the Franks, 181. Sigismund, emp. of the II. R. E., 251. Sigismund, k. of Hungary, 277. Sigismund III., k. of Poland, 352. Sigurd, k. of Norway, 238. Sigurd Ring, k. of Sweden, 207, 208. Sikhs, revolt, 442 ; two wars with the Brit- ish, 546. Silarus, battle of, 133. Silesia united with Bohemia, 248 ; claims of Prussia, 400 ; retained by Prussia, 406. Silesian wars, I., 400 ; II., 402 ; III., 404. Simon, J , 517 ; ministry, 534. Simon of Montfort, the elder, 227. Simon of Montfort, e. of Leicester, his pap liament, 234. Simony, 200. Sindhia, 443, 541. Sinope, battle of, 499. Sipylus, battle of, 119. Siraj-ud-Daula, 443. Sistova, peace of, 413. Sivaji, 389, 443. Siward, e. of Northumberland, 206. Six articles, 335. Sixtus v., pope, 327. Skaania, 236, 237, 238. Skobeleff , 523, 526. Skrzynecki, 490. Slavery abolished throughout the British empire, 540 ; partially abolished in Conn., 432; abolished in Massachusetts, 431 ; in Pennsylvania, 431 ; in the United States, 433. Slave trade abolished in British dominion, 537; in the United States, 550. Slaves in Athens, 52; in Germany, 166, 177. Slavonic congress in Prague, 493. Slavs, great monarchy of, 168 ; religion, 169 ; regain their liberty, 173. Slawata, 309. Slidell, 544, 557. Sluys, battle of, 257. Smerdes. See Hirhor. Smith, John, in Virginia, 291, 292 ; explo. ration of coast of New England by, 294. Smolensk, 474, 475. Sobieski, John, k. of Poland, relieves Vi- enna, 372 ; in Poland, 374. Social democrats in Germany, 524. Socialistic commune, in France, 532. Socrates, 64, 69. Sogdianus, k. of Persia, 29. Soissons, battle of, 173, 181. Solemn league and covenant, in Scotland, 344 ; in England, 348. Solferino, battle of, 502. Soliman II., sultan of Turkey, besieged Vienna, 303 ; alliance with Francis I., 304, 305 ; death, 306 ; reign, 353. Soliman Pasha, 522. Solis, Juan Diaz de, 284, 285. Solomon, k. of the Jews, 9. Solon, of Athens, visited Croesus of Lydia, 21 ; constitution of, 52. Solway Moss, battle of, 335. Somers, lord keeper, 387 ; lord chan., 388; whig leader, 435. Somerset, execution of, 336. Sommering, 486. Sconces, 182. Soor, battle of, 402, 509. Sophia, princess of Hanover, 435. Sophia of Russia, 374. Sophocles, 6i. Sophonisbe, 117. Soto, Ferdinando de, 287- Soult, marshal, on the Rhine. 467 ; in Spain, 471, 473, 479 ; in France, 481. Soult, ministry of, 530. South Sea bubble, 435, 437, 445. Southwold Bay, battle of, 380. Spain, Phoenician settlements in, 17 ; Car- thaginian colonies in, 19 ; vvar with Car. thaginians in, 1J5 ; regarded as a Roma« Index. 611 province, 118 ; Invaded by Vandals, Suovi Alani, 171 ; West (Jotliic kiiigilom in, 172, 174 ; Sucvi and West Goths unito and are converted, 175 ; conquered by Moors, 183 ; fall of Cordova, rise of Christian kingdoms, 75G-103o, i09 ; revolt of Por- tugjil, union of Castile and Leon, 240 ; conquestof Granada, wars between Castile and Aragon, 276 ; union of Aragon and Castile, 328 ; discoveries in America, 282 ; war with France, peace of the Pyre- nees, 366 ; war with England, 377 ; war of the Spanish succession, 390 ; partition treaties, 391 ; peace of Utrecht, 393 ; house of Bourbon, 414 ; Jesuits expelled, 415; war with England in America, 419, 437, 438 ; Florida ceded to England, 423, 439; war with England, 440 ; Florida re- stored to Spain, 432,441 ; France declares war against, 453 ; Bourbons displaced in favor of Joseph Bonaparte, 470 ; penin- sula war, 471,473 ; constitution of 1812, ib. ; French driven from Spain, 479 ; Bourbons restored, 483; liberal rising, const, of 1812 restored, 4S7 ; French in- tervention, 488 ; revolt of the American colonies, 488 ; revolution of 1868, 512 ; S. a republic, 520 ; monarchy restored, 521 ; treaties with the United States, 548, 652. Spanish succession, 388 ; war of, 390. Sparta, founded, 48 ; constitution of Ly- curgus, 50; first hegemony, 56 ; Ther- mopylae, 58 ; Platajaj, 60 ; hegemony transferred to Athens, 61 ; war with Athens, 62 ; Peloponnesian war, 64 ; sec- ond hegemony, 69 ; loss of hegepiony to Thebes, 70 ; war with the Achaean league, 79, 122 ; Nabis defeated by Ro- I mans, 80. I Spartacus, 133. Speptator, 436. Speier, diet at, 224 ; imperial chamber at, 300; diet of , 302 30a Spenser, Edmund, 339. Speyer. Sec Speier. SphJacteria, 66. Sphinx, 3, 46. Spicheren, battle of, 516. Spinola, 309, 310. Spitamas, 26. Spithead, mutiny at, 535. Spoils system, in U. S., 552. Spottsylvania, battle of, 558. Spuilus Cassius, 97. Stadtlohn, battle of, 310. Stahremberg, 372. Stamford, battle of, 274. Stamfordbridge, battle of, 206. Stamp act, passage of, 423, 440 ; repeal of, 424, 440. Standard, battle of the, 230. Stiindish, Miles, 295. Stanislaus Lesczinski, k. of Poland, 395 ; abdicates, 398, 445. Stanislaus Poniatowski, k. of Poland, 411. Stanton, Edwin .M., 556. Star chamber, ^33 ; abolition of, 346. Stargard, truce of, 405. Stark, gen., 429. States General. Sep 6tats Gt-nt^raux. StJitthaltership, in the Netherlands 331 Steam, first attempt to utilize, 485 ; first steam-engine, 48G ; applied to navigation, 486. Steele, sir Richard, 436. Steenkirke, battle of, 370, 387. Stein, baron of, reorganizes Prussia, 471 ; central admiuistnition, 478, 479; at con- gress of Vienna, 482. Steinmetz, 614. Stenbock, Swedish general, 396. Stenkil, k. of Sweden, 20S, 237. Stephen, archd. palatine, 494. Stephen of Blois, k. of England, 230. Stephen, St., k. of Hungary, 277. Stephen Bathory, elected k. of Poland, 362. Stevenson, George, 486. Steward, office of, 195. Steyer, truce of, 462. Stilicho, 161, 171. Stillwater, battles of, 429. Stockach, battles of, 460, 462. Stockholm, massacre of, 352 ; treaty of, 396, 437. Stony Point, storm of, 430. Strafford, earl of, sketch of life, 344 ; im- peachment, 345 ; execution, 346. Stralsund, peace of, 237, 249 ; siege of, 310 ; lost by Sweden, 396. Strassburg, remains to the empire, 316; seized by Louis XIV., 369; siege, 516; capitulation, 518 ; ceded to the German empire, 519 ; bi-lingual oath of, 186. Strategi, 65. Strathclyde subjected to Northumbria, 180 ; submits to England, 204. Stratton Hill, battle of, 347. Strelitzes, 374. Struensee, 409. Stuart, house of, succeeds in England, 339; expelled, 375; restored, 378; ex- pelled, 385. Stuart, Arabella, 340 ; imprisonment and death, 341. Stuyvesant, Peter, 357, 358. Suessula, battle of, 104. Suevi, location, 164, 170 ; invade Spain, 171 ; unite with West Goths, 175. Suez Canal, 512, 545. Suffolk, d. of (Wm. de la Pole), impeach- ment, 271. Sugar act, passage of, 423. Suger, abbot of St. Denis, 226. Suleiman. See Soliman. Sulla, L. Cornelius, takes Jugurtha, 127 ; in the social war, 129 : war with Marius, 130 ; war against Mithridates, 130 ; ap- pointed dictator in Rome, 132 ; abdicated, 133 ; death, ib. Sully, d. of, 325, 340. Sulpicius Galba, P., 118 ; Rufus, 1.30. Sumir, 13. Sumter, Thomas, 430. Sunderland, (2d) e. of (Spencer), in cabinet, 381 ; sec. of state, .382 ; becomes Catho- lic, 383; dismis.sed, 384; returned to parliament, 387 , lord chamberlain, 388 ; (Sd) e. of, whig leader, 435; lord lieut. of Ireland, 436. Sung, kingdom of, 242. Snrajah Kowhih. See Siraj-ud Daula- Sunit, Knglish factory at, 353. Surinam, discovery of, 2S^. 612 Index, Surrey, earl of, executed, 336. Susiiina in Persia, 24, 30 ; invaded by Arabs, 192. Sutras, Hindu scriptures, 23. Suttee, abolition of, 541. Suvaroff , Turkish war, 413 ; storms Prague, 414 ; in Italy and Switzerland, 460, 461. Suy dynasty in China, 32. Svatopluk II., k. of Moravia, 194. Svea, 208, 237. Svend, Forked Beard, k. of Denmark, 207 ; in England (Swegen), 205 ; Estridsen, k. of Denmark, 207. Sverre, k. of Norway, 238. Svold, battle of, 209. Swabia, duchy of, 194 ; revolt of duke Ernst, 198 ; Rudolf of, anti-king, 200 ; rise of Wiirtemberg and Baden, 244 , league of cities, conflict with counts of Wiirtemberg, 250. Swabian city league, 249. Swally, battle of, 354. Sweden, Svea and Gota, mythical history, 208 ; Christianity introduced ; union of Calmar, 238 ; settlements in America, 298 ; in the thirty years' war (Gustavus Adol- phus), 311-314 ; at the peace of West- phalia acquires Pomerania, Riigen, Wismar, Bremen, Werden, 316 ; house of Vasa, 352; house of Zweibriicken, 373 ; war with Brandenburg, 374 ; Charles XII. 's war with Peter the Great, 894, 376; loss of Bremen, Werden to Han- over; Stettin, Wollen, Usedom, Hither Pomerania to Prussia, 396 ; " Hats " and " Caps," 409 ; house of Holstein-Got- torp ; war with Russia, 409 ; joins third coalition against France, 467 ; forced ab- dication of Gustavus IV. , 472 ; loss of Finland, 473 ; Bernadotte crown prince, 473 ; alliance with Russia, promise of Norway, 474 ; alliance with England, 476 ; peace with Denmark, loss of Pom- erania and Riigen, 479; at congress of "Vienna receives Norway, 483 ; which has to be subdued, 484. Swegen. See Svend. Swift, Jonathan, 436. Switzerland, 162 ; origin of the confeder- acy, 245 ; story of Tell, 246 ; war with Austria, 247 ; Berne joins the confed- eracy, 248 ; Sempach, 250 ; Armagnacs attack Basle, 253 ; practically indepen- dent, 300 ; reformation, Zwingli, 301 ; in- dependence acknowledged, 316 ; Berne takes the Waadtland from Savoy, 327 ; transformed into the Helvetian republic, 460 ; restoration of the independent can- tons, 464; addition of Geneva, Wallis, and NeucMtel, 483 ; civil war, new con- stitution, 492 ; NeuchS-tel resigned by the king of Prussia, 501 ; rupture with the papacy, 520. Syagrinus, 173. Sybota, battle of, 65. Sylvester II., pope, 197 ; III., 199. Symington, 486. Sypbax, 116, 118. Syracuse besieged by Carthaginians, 20 ; foundation of, 51 ; expedition of Athe- nians au;ainst, 67; war under Hioro ; war with Rome, 111 ; sack of, 110. Syria, Egyptian supremacy over, 4 ; lost by Ramessu II. , 5 ; wars of Psamethik in, 6 ; subject to Assyria, 14 ; conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, 16 ; under the Seleu- cidse, 77 ; taken possession of by Ti- granes, 134 ; a Roman province, 136 ; subdued by Aurelian, 157. Szczekoziny, 414. Tabernacle, 8. Taborites, 252. Tacitus, Roman emp., 157. Tadmor, foundation of, 9. Tadoussac, 290. Taginac, battle of, 175. Tagliacozzo, battle of, 226. Taharak, k. of Egypt, 6. Tai-ping rebellion, 561. Taira family in Japan, 212, 213,242. Talavera, battle of, 471. Talbot, e. of Shrewsbury, 272. Talikot, battle of, 354. Tallagio, de non concedendo, 267. Talleyrand, 481, 482. Tamerlane, defeats Bajazet, 278, 353. Tanagra, battle of, 63. Tancred of Haute ville, 199, 214 ; of Lecce, 223. Tang dynasty in China, 211. Tanneguy Duchatel, 259. Tannenberg, battle of, 277 Taoism, in China, 31. Tarentum, 51 ; war with the SamniteS^ 104 ; war with Rome, 107. Targowitz, confederacy of, 413. Tariff of abominations, 552. Tarik, 183. Tarleton, 431. Tarpeian rock, 82. Tarquinius Priscus, 35, 89 ; Superbus, 89. Tarquins, expulsion of, 93 ; war with, 103. Tassilo, d. of Bavaria, revolt of, 185. Tasso, Torquato, 328. Tatars, Mo7igols, 240 ; Khitans in China, 241 ; Mongols in China, 242 ; Manchoos invade China, 355 ; become independent, 412. Tatler, 436. Ta-tsing dynasty in China, 356. Tauroggen, treaty of, 475. Taylor, Zachary, 555. Tegethoff, 506, 510. Teja, k. of East Goths, 175. Telamon, battle of, 112. Telegraph invented, 486 ; first submarine, 487 ; communication between France and England, 543 ; experimental line built by S. F. B. Morse, 554 ; communi- cation between U. S. and Great Britain, 559. Tel-el-Kebir, capture of, 546. Tell, William, 246. Temesvar, 372, 397, 495. Templars , 217. Temple, in Jerusalem, erection of, 9; d» struction, reerection, 11. Temple, sir William, 382. Temuchin, 240. Tennessee, admitted to the Union, 548. Tenure of office bill, 559. Teplitz, alliance of, 477; conference at 491. Index. 618 Tert>ntiliu« Araa, 97. Tfiifiir hltiuchu, 5*27. tnry N. W. of Ohio, 433. , ^jt'ueral, 669. II- II, jioaco of, 407. r.-t act, 380; repealed, 539. T.'stri, battle of, 183. IVtricus, 157. IVtzel, Dominican monk, 801. Ti'uta, queen of the lll.vrians, 112. Tt'iitobod, king of Teutones, 127. Teutoburg forest, Komau legions annihi- lated in, 149, 167. Teutones, invaiie Italy, 127, 167. Teutonic knights, 21 7, 464. Teutons, 36 ; geography, 162 ; ethnology, 163; religion, 164; civilization, 166; history, 167 ; migration of Teutonic tribes, 170 ; Teutonic monarchies in the Roman empire, 171; in Britain, 176. Tewksbury, battle of, 274. Texas, annexed to United States, and ad- mitted to the Union, 554. T hales, 21. Thaiikmar, 195. Thapsus, battle of, 142. Thebes, in Egypt, 2, 4. Thebes, in Boeotia, founded, 45 ; war of the Seven against, 46; subdued, 48; Thebans at Thermopylae, 59 ; allied with Sparta against Athens, 62, 6o ; war with Sparta, hegemony of, 70 ; destruction, 73. Themistocles, 57 ; rebuilds walls of Ath- ens, 61; death, 61. Theodelinde. 175. Theodora, 210. Theodore, archb. of Canterbury, 180. Theodore I., k. of Corsica, 415. Theodoric the Great, k. of East Goths, 174. Theodoric I., k. of the Franks, 181. Theodoric I., k. of West Goths, 173. Theodosius, Roman emp. , 161, 171. Theophauo, wife of Otto II., 196, 197. Theramenes, 69. Thermidorians, 456. Thermopylaj, battle of, 58, 119. Theron of Agrigentum, 20. Theseus, 45, 61. Thesprotians, 41. Thessalian migration, 47. Thessalonica, kingdom of, 216. Thespalv, 40, 79, 141, 523. Thevet, Andre, 288. Thibet, Buddhism in, 23; conquered by Kang-he, 390. Thierry, k. of the Franks. See Theodoric. Thiers, fall of the ministry of, 491 ; in op- position, 512; head of the executiTe 519 ; ministry, 529 ; fall , 530 ; president, 533 ; resigns, ib. ; death, 534. Thirty-nine articles, 338. Thirty tyrants, 69, 157. Thirty years' war, 308. Thistlewood, executed, 638. Thomas, gen., 658. Thor, 164, 165. Thorn, peace of, first and second, 277. Thracia, 28, 150. Thrasybulus, 68, 69, 70. Three bishoprics (Toul, Metz, Verdun), taken by France, 306, 321; ceded to France, 316 ; taken by Germany, 518. Three kingdoms in China, 32. Throgmortoii, SpaniHh plot of, 339. Tluicydides (son of Melasias), 04. Thucydides (the historian), 64; banish- ment, 66. Thugs, suppression of the, 541. Thuringia, kingdom of, conquered by The- odoric I., 181; landgraves become ex- tinct, territory divided, 226. Thusnelda, 149. Thutmes ill., k. of Egypt, 4. Thyrea, battle of, 66. Tiberias, battle of, 215. Tiberius, Roman emp. , 149 ; adopted by Au- gustus, 148; subjugated Paunouia, 149. TibuUus, Albius, 14S. Ticinus, battle of, 114. Ticonderoga, fortification of, 421 ; captured by Ethan Allen, 427 ; by Burgoyne, 428. Tien-Tsin, treaty of, 601, 502, 543, 561, 562. Tifata, battle of, 131. Tiglath-Adar, k. of Assyria, 14. Tiglath-Pileser, ks. of Assyria, I., II., 14. Tigranes, k. of Armenia, 30, 134, 135. Tigranocertii, battle of, 135. Tillotson, archb. of Canterbury, 387. Tilly, White Hill, 309; in Holstein, 310; Magdeburg, 311 ; death, 312. Tilsit, peace of, 409, 537. Timoleon, 20. Tin not brought from England by Phoeni- cians, 17, n. Tinchebrai, battle of, 230. Tingitana, 150. Tippamuir, battle of, 348. Tipu sultan, 442, 444, 54L Tirhakah. See Taharak. Tiridates, k. of Armenia, 150, 188. Tiridates, k. of Parthia, 29. Tissaphemes, 67, 70. Titian, 328. Titus, Roman emp., 151, 152 ; destroys Je« rusalem, 12. Togrul Beg, 210. Tokio. See Yedo. Tokoly, count, 372. Tokugawa lyeyasu, 355. Tokugawa shoguns, 356. Tolbiacum, 173. Tolentino, battle of, 484 ; peace of, 458. Toleration act, 386. Tolly, Barclay de, 472, 474. Tolosa, kingdom of, 172 ; battle of, 240. Tbnningen, surrender of, 396. Tonquin, annexed to China, 278 ; disputa with the French over, 662. Toonin-shah, 217. Torbay, 384. Torgau, alliance of, 302 ; battle of, 406. Tories, origin of the name, 382. Torres Vedras, lines of, 473, 637. Torstenson, 314, 315. Tostig. 206. Totila, k. of East Goths, 174, 176. Totleben, 405, 500. Toul. See Three bishoprics. Toulouse, battle of, 481. Tours, battle of, 183. Tourville, 370, 387. Tower of Babel, 12. Townshend, 436, 440. 614 Index. Towton, battle of, 274. Trafalgar, battle of, 467. Traitorous correspondence bill, 535. Trajan, Roman emp. ; Parthian exp. 30 ; reign, 152, 153. Trausubstantiation, 269. Transylvania, 3u9, 315, 416, 511. Trasimenus, battle of lake, 114. Trautenau, battle of, 509. Travendal, peace of, 394. Ti-eason, statute of, 269. Trebia, battle of the, 114, 461. Trebizond, Greek empire of, 216. Trelawney, b., 384. Trent, affair of the, 557. Trent, council of, 305. Trenton, battle of, 428. Trevelyan, G. 0., sec. for Ireland, 546. Treves. See Trier. Trevithick, 486. Trevor, sir John, 388. Trial of the bishops under James II., 384. Tribes of Israel, 8. Tribunes, appointment, 96, 97 ; military tribunes created, 99 ; abolished, 101 ; lose their revolutionary character, 102 ; their power limited by Sulla, 132 ; re- stored, 133 ; conferred upon Caesar, 143. Tribur, imperial diet at, 199, 200. Tribus, 92. Triennial act, 345, 388. Trier, archb. of, 248. Trierarchy, 58. Trifanum, battle at, 104. Trifels, 216. Triple alliance between England, Holland, and Sweden, 367, 380 ; between England, France, and Holland, 437. Tripoli tan war, 549. Triumvirate, first, 137 ; second, 145. Trochu, 517, 518, 519. Trojan war, 47. Troppau, congress at, 487. Troyes, peace of, 259, 271, 338. Truce of God, 199, 203. Tschesme, battle of, 412. Tseng, marquis, 562. Tshernajeff, 521. Tsin dynasty in China, 32 ; later Tsin, 211. Tuathal, 39. Tudor, house of, 333. Tughlak, sultan of Delhi, 241. Tuileries, storm of the, 452 ; burnt, 533. Tullus Hostilius, 89. Tunes, battle of. 111. Tunis, Louis IX. at, 217 ; expedition of Charles V. against, 304 ; French expe- dition to, 534. Turco-Russian war in Europe, 522 ; in Asia, 623. Turenne, marshal, 315, 366 ; death, 368. Turgot, 447. Turin, peace of, 371 ; battle of, 392, 434. Turks, Turkey, empire of the Seljuk T., 210 ; supremacy of the Osman or Otto- man T., 278 ; war with Charles V., 303 ; alliance with Francis I., 305; war with Max. II., 306 ; with Venice (Lepanto), 326 ; highest development of the em- pire, decline, 353 ; wars with Leopold I. (siege of Vienna), 372; peace of Carlo- vvitz, T. receives Temesvar, loses Morea to Venice, Hungary and Transylvania to • Austria, 372, 416 , Azoff lost to Russia, 375; Charles XII. in T., 395; Azoff re- gained, 396 ; conquest of Morea, war with Austria, peace of Passarowitz, Aus- tria receives Temesvar, Little W'allachia, Belgrade, part of Servia, 397 ; war with Poland and Russia, regains Belgrade, Servia, Little Wallachia, 398 ; war with Russia and Austria, 408, 410 ; Azoff finally lost, 410 ; with Catharine II. (1), peace of Kutschouc Kainardji, Bug the boun- dary, 412 ; (2) peace of J assy, Dniestei the boundary, 413 ; war with Russia, peace of Bucharest, Pruth the boun- dary, 473 ; revolt of Greece, 488 ; mas- sacre of Janizaries, Navarino, 489 ; war with Russia, peace of Adrianople, 489 ; Crimean war, 499 ; peace of Paris, 501 ; revolt of Herzegovina, etc., "Bulgarian atrocities," 521; war with Russia, 522: peace of San Stefano, 523 ; congress of Berlin, 524 ; loss of much territory, 524 ; conference of Berlin, surrender of Dul- cigno, 525. Tuscany, Cosimo de Medici of Florence becomes grand duke of T., 327 ; Francis Stephen, of Lorraine, receives T., 398, 416 ; becomes an appanage of Austria, 416 ; grand duke expelled, 461 ; ceded to Parma, as kingdom of Etruria, 463 ; old dynasty restored, 483 ; united with Sar- dinia, 502. Tuscaroras, 363, 417. Two Sicilies. See Naples, Sicily. Tycoon. See Shogun. Tyler, John, 654. Tyler, Wat, 269. Tyndale's translation of the Bible, 335. Tyndaris, battle off, 110. Tyrant, 49. Tyrconnel, 383, 387. Tyre, 16 ; subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, 16 ; surpasses Sidon, 18 ; height of its pros- perity under Hiram, 18 ; decline, 19 ; be- sieged by Nebuchadnezzar, 19 ; captured by Alexander, 20. Tyrol, acquired Carinthia, 244 ; given to Austria by Margaret Maultasch, 249 ; falls to archduke Maximilian, 253 ; in- vaded by Bavarians, 392 ; ceded to Ba- varia, 468 ; revolt of Tyrol under Hofer, 471 ; revolt subdued, southern Tyrol an- nexed to Italy, 472 ; T. restored to Aus- tria, 482. Tyrone, e. of, rebellion, 339, 341, Ulf-Jarl, 207. Ulm, 250 ; truce of, 315 ; surrender of, 467. Ulrica Eleanora, q. of Sweden, 396. Ulrich, d. of Wurtemberg, victory of Swai bian league over, 250. Ulrich, d. of ^yiirtembe^g, restored, 304. Umbria, 81, 83, 141. Umbro-Sabellian tribe, 86. " Unam Sanctam," 254. Union of Calmar, 237, 238, 240, 35L Union Gt5nerale, failure of, 534. Union, German, 498. Union, Protest-ant, 308, 309. Union Jack, 434. Index. 615 Onitcd colonies of New England, 298. United Irishmou, 53'I. United Kingdom of Cireat liritain and Ire- hind, f)30. UnittMl Netherlands, republic of, 316. See Netherlands. (Jnited New Netherland company, 298. United Provinces. ISee Netherlands. United States of America, independence proclaimed, 428 ; articles of confedeni- tion, 429 ; independence recognized and boundaries established, 432 ; first con- gress at New York, 547 ; first meets at Washington, 649; Jay's treaties, 648; Louisiana purchase, 649 ; war of 1812, 651 ; Missouri compromise, 552; war with Mexico, 654 J fugitive slave law, 648, 665 ; civil war, 657, prohibition of slavery, 568 ; resumption, civil service reform, 660. United States bank, 647 ; second, 651. Unstrut, battle of, 196, 199. Urana, Pedro de, 288. Urban II., pope, 213. Urchan, 278. Uruguay, discovery of, 286 ; independent, 488. Usurtasen, ks. of Egypt, I., XL, III., 4. Utica, Phoenician colony, 17 ; battle of, 141. Utraquists, 252. Utrecht, peace of, 393, 435 ; treaty of, 363 ; union of, 331. Uzeda, d. of, 331. Vapa, Cabepa de, 286. Vadimonium lake, battle of, 105, 107. Valdivia, 287. Valens, Roman emp., 160. Valentinianus, I., Roman emp., 160; II., 160; III., 161, 173. Valerianus, Roman emp., 156, 188. Valerius, laws of, 98. Valerius Corvus, M., 103, 104 ; Maximus, 110 ; Poplicola 93. Valley Forge, 429. Valmy, battle at, 452. Valois, house of, 257. Van Buren, Martin, 552, 553, Vandals, location, 170 ; invaded Spain, 171 ; kingdom in Africa, 172 ; power in Africa destroyed, 174. Vane, sir Henry, execution of, 379. Van Tromp, 376. Varahran I., k. of Persia, II.. III., 188; IV., v., 189; \\.,see Bahram. Varna, battle of, 278. Varro, C. Terentius, 115. Varus, Quintilius, 143, 149, 167. Va.sa, house of, 352. Vassals, 166. Vatican council, 512. Vaucelles, truce of, 306. Vauchamps, battle of, 480. Vedas, 22, 23. Veii, war of Romulus with, 88; siege of, 99. Velasquez, Diego, 284, 285. Venaissin, annexed to France, 452. Vendee, royalistic revolt in the, 453, 454 ; conclusion of the war, 457 ; new revolt repressed, ib. Vcndome, 392, 435. Vendomo, column, 532. Venezuela, discovery of, 283 ; republic ol, 488. Venice founded by Italian fugitives, 173 ; shares iu 4th cru.xade, 216 ; constitu- tion, 697-1464, 262 ; acquisition of Corfu and Cyprus, height of its power, ib.; leuguo of Cambray , 34 ; kings of, become kings of Eugliind, 213. \Vo8t, Fniucis, 295. >\'t'8t Franks, separation from the East Franks, 187 ; Curolingiim rulers, 201 ; develop into the French nation, 202. Western empire separated from the eastern empire, 10 ; fall of, 162, 173 ; revival by (.'harles the Great, 185 ; by Otto 1., 190. West (loths, location. 170 ; enter the Roman empire, 171 ; found kingdom in Spain, 172 ; under Theodoric, k. of the East Goths, 174 ; conquered by the Arabs, 183. Westminster assembly, 347. Westminster, treaty of, 380. 403. Weston, lord treasurer, 344. Westphalia, 184 ; kingdom of, formed, 470 ; fall of, 478 ; peace of, 315 ; conditions of the peace, 316, 317. West Point, 430. West Virginia admitted to the Union. 558. Wettin, house of, in Meissen, 218 ; receives electoral Saxony, 252 ; division of the line, 305 Wetzlar, imperial chamber at, 300. Wexford, massacre of, 375. Weymouth, George, 290. Wharton, Thomas, sec. of state, 387 ; in the whig junto, 435. Wheatstone, 487. Whigs, origin of the name, 382. Whislcev insurrection 548. White, John, gov., 289. White Hill, battle on, 309. White Plains, battle of, 428. Whitney, Eli, invented cotton gin, 548. Whittingtou, sir Richard, 271. Wiclif, doctrine as taught bv Huss con- demned, 252 ; in England, 269. Widukind, 185. Wiesloch, battle of, 310. Wilderness, battle of the, 558. Wilkes, John, 4^39, 440. William I., the Conqueror, k. of England, Hastings, 206 ; reign, 229. See William duke of Normandy; II., the Red, reign of, 230. William and Mary sovereigns of England, 370, 371 ; reign, 385 ; of Scotland, 386 ; wars with France, 370, 371 ; death of Mary, 388. See William, prince of Or- ange. William III., k. of England, reign alone, 388, 389 : war of Spanish succession, 390- 394; death, 389, 392; IV., 489; reign, 539 ; death, 491, 541. William I., emperor of Germany, election, 519 ; attempted assassination, 524. William I., k. of Holland, 489. William Longsword, d. of Normandy, 202. William, d. of Normandy's claim to the English succession, 20