DIARY OF LAST CENTURY.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume VII, Issue 68, 19 September 1901, Page 2

DIARY OF LAST CENTURY.

The following is a list of some of the greatest events which occurred during last century : 1801. Legislative Union of England and Ireland. 1802. Treaty of Amiens signed. 1803 and 1804. War with France. 1805. Battle of Trafalgar. 1806. Death of Pitt and Fox. 1807. Slavery Abolished. 1808. Wellington takes command in Portugal. 1809. Death of Sir John Moore at Corunna. 1810. Great Financial Panic. 1811. Prince of Wales made Regent. 1812. Assassination of Mr. Perceval (Premier of England). 1813. Second year of American War. 1814. Cape Colony Ceded to Britain. 1815. Battle of Waterloo. 1816. Death of Sheridan. 1817. Habeas Corpus Act Suspended. 1818. Death of Queen Charlotte. 1819. Birth of Que<srl Victoria. 1820. George IV. Assended Throne. 1821. Death of Napoleon. 1822. George IV. visits Scotland. 1823. Daniel O'Connell's Agitation in Ireland. 1824. Death of Lord Byron. 1825. Tasmania made a Separate Colony. 1826. Commercial Panic. 1827. Death of Canning. 1828. Wellington Prime Minister. 1829. First Railway, Liverpool and Manchester. 1830. William IV. Ascended Throne. 1831. Cholera Epidemic. 1832. Reform Bill passed. 1833. First Reformed Parliament met. 1834. Victoria Colonised. 1835. Municipal Reform Act passed. 1836. Most peaceful year of century. 1837. Queen Victoria Ascended Throne. 1838. Queen's Coronation. 1839. Chartist Agitation. 1840. Penny Post Instituted. 1841. Prince of Wales Born. 1842. War with China; Cession Hongkong. 1843. Annexation of Natal. 1844. First Factoi'y Act passed. 1845. Great Irish Famine began. 1846. Repeal of the Corn Laws. 1847. Political Unrest in France, and Revolution following year. 1848. Punjab War. 1849. New Zealand made a Colony. 1850. Death of Sir Robert Peel. 1851. Great Exhibition opened. 1852. Death of the Duke-of Wellington. 1853. Repeal of Transportation Act. 1854. Crimean War began. 1855. Balaclava Charge. 1856. Crimean War ended. 18.57. Indian Mutiny. 1858. End of East India Company's Rule. 1859. Formation of Volunteer Regiments. 1860. War with China. 1861. Heath of the Prince Consort. 1862. Great Cotton Famine. 1863. Marriage of the Prince of Wales. 1864. War between Denmark and Prussia. 1865. Death of Lord Palmerstou. 1866. Atlantic Cable laid. -—T567- Duiniuiutruf CimarhrFounrfeifc — - 1868. Abyssinian War. 1869. Church of Ireland Disestablished. 1870. Elementary Education Act Passed. 1871. Franco-Prussian War ended. 1872. Ballot Act passed. 1873. Ashanti War. 1874. Tichborne Trial. 1875. Suez Canal Bought by Britain. 1876. Bulgarian Massacres. 1877. Queen Victoria Proclaimed Empress of India. 1878. Berlin Treaty Signed. 1879. Zulu War. 1880. Lord Roberts Relieved Kandahar. 1881. Boer Republic Established. 1882. Bombardment of Alexandria. 1883. Dynamite Outrages. 1884. Egyptian War. 1885. Death of General Gordon. 1886. Defeat of First Home Rule Bill. 1887. Jubilee of Queen Victoria's Reign 1888. Annexation of British New Guinea ; also Local Government Act passed. 1889. Parnell Commission. 1890. Baring Bank Crisis. 1891. Free Education Granted. 1892. Death of the Duke of Clarence. 1893. Defeat of the Home Rule Bill. 1894. Mr. Gladstone Retired from Political Life. 1895. War between China and Japan. 1896. War between Turkey and Greece. 1897. Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria's Reign. 1898. Khartoum Expedition. 1899. Boer War began. 1900. Annexation of the Transvaal and Orange Free State Republics.