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1640 Foundation of Madras (1640), Bombay (1662), and Calcutta (1698), 1114
Fox's India Bill,
1757 The Battle of Plassey,
1761 Overthrow of the French power in India,
Contest with the native states,
1763 Massacre of Patna,
1764 Battle of Buxar,
The King procures its rejection,
Maladministration of the India Company,
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Fall of the Whig ministry. Pitt's first ministry,
1784 Pitt's victory over the Opposition,
Dissolution of Parliament,
Pitt's Budget,
Pitt's India Bill,
Pitt's Irish policy,
Failure of Pitt's Reform Bill,
Pitt's financial success,
1785 Charges against Warren Hastings,
1787 Conduct of the Prince of Wales,
1788 Trial of Warren Hastings,
First motion against the slave trade,
The King's illness. The Regency Bill,
Pre-eminence of Pitt,
Effect of the French Revolution in England,
1789 The French Revolution,
Assembling of the States-General,
Louis XVI. brought to Paris,
Excitement produced in England,
1790 First reactionary movement, ·
Rejection of the Abolition of Tests and the Reform Bill,
Burke's "Reflections,"
1791 The Canada Bill,
Breach between Fox and Burke,
The Birmingham riots,
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Declaration of the Republic,
Pitt's policy as yet unchanged,
Progress of the French Revolution,
The King's flight to Varennes,
1792 The Girondin ministry deolares war,
The King suspended,
Massacres of September,
Revolutionary character of the war,
Edict of Fraternity, .
Change of opinion in England as to the Revolution,
French successes on the Continent, and against the royalists in
1795 Prussia, Spain, and Holland leave the coalition,
Complications attending Irish difficulties,
Necessity for the Union,
Irish opposition to Government,
Grievances of the peasantry,
Weakness of the executive,
1789 Effect of the French Revolution,
Formation of the Society of United Irishmen,
1791 Disunion among the Catholics,
Mismanagement of the Government,
1793 Catholic Relief Bill passed,
Renewed agitation for reform,
1794 Failure of Fitzwilliam's efforts,
1795 Lord Camden succeeds Fitzwilliam,
The character of the rebellion,
1796 Defensive measures of Government, Arrest of the revolutionary committee,
The expedition to Bantry Bay,
1797 Lake's success in Ulster and Munster,
1798 Outbreak of the rebellion,
Cornwallis succeeds Camden,
Humbert's expedition to Killala,
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1799 Opposition to the Union,
1802 Peace of Amiens,
Peace between England and Russia,
Napoleon appropriates Holland, Switzerland, and Italy,
Napoleon continues his aggressions,
Demands the repression of the English press,
And the expulsion of the emigrants from England,
Consequent change of feeling in England,
1238
Negotiations for Pitt's return,
1239
1803 Napoleon examines the resources of Egypt, England, and Ireland, 1239
His interview with Lord Whitworth,
The militia embodied,
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Failure of renewed negotiations for Pitt's return,
Declaration of war with France,
Character of the war,
Napoleon arrests the English in France,
He excites discontent in Ireland,
Emmett's Rebellion,
Difficulty of Addington's position,
1804 Pitt offers to undertake the Government,
Addington resigns. Pitt's Tory ministry,
Preparations to resist the French invasion,
The Additional Force Bill. Increase of the navy,
Napoleon attempts to form a coalition,
His conduct with regard to Georges' conspiracy,
Treaty of Tilsitt,
Battle of Jena,
The Berlin decree,
1807 The orders in Council,
Battle of Eylau,
Incapacity of the Grenville ministry,
Expedition to Buenos Ayres,
Expedition to the Dardanelles,
Expedition to Alexandria,
1807 Dissolution of the third coalition,
Capture of the Danish fleet,
War between Russia and Sweden,
Continental System acknowledged except in Portugal,
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