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CHRONOLOGY. 



1. Cratofi surrendered to the Pruttuns, June 

 Dieppe burnrd by the English, July 14. 

 Martinique taken from the French, March 83. 

 Earthquake in Turkey, July 3, which destroy- 

 ed three townt containing 10,000 inhabitants ; 

 mho near Naples, June 1 3, which almost destroy- 

 ed the city of Torre-dcl-Greco. About 3000 

 person* killed at Crenelle, near Paris, by. an ex- 

 plosion of powder mills, Sept. 3. Lavoisier, ob. 

 Kt. 51. Sir \V. Jones, ob. act. 48. M. de Con- 

 dorcct, ob. art. 51. Ed. Gibbon, ob. .tl. 57. 



1795. A large meteoric stone fell near Wood Cottage in 



Yorkshire, weighing 55 pounds, Dec. 13. Louis 

 XVII. of France dies in prison, June 8. Te- 

 legraphs used by the English, June 26. French 

 take possession of Amsterdam, Jan. 18. Stadt- 

 holder obliged to retire to England. Warren 

 Hastings, after a trial of 7 yean, acquitted 

 April '23. Battle on the Waal, allies and French, 

 Jan. 1 1 ; of Catalonia, March 5 ; of Neve Mun- 

 Her, March 5 and 1 8 ; of Figuera, Spaniards de- 

 feated, April 5 ; of Piedmont, Piedmnntese de- 

 feated, April 12; of Pontas in Catalonia, French 

 defeated, June H ; of Piedmont, French defeat- 

 ed, June 24, 27, and July 1 ; of Pampeluna, 

 French defeated, July 9 ; of Bilboa, Spaniards 

 defeated, July 17 ; of Quiberon, emigrants de- 

 feated, July 21 ; of Urutia, French defeated, 

 July SO ; of Vittoria, Spaniards defeated, Aug. 

 14 ; of Piedmont, Austrians defeated, Aug. 20 ; 

 of La Pietra, French defeated, Aug. 31 ; on the 

 Lahn, French defeated, Sept. 19; of Manhoim, 

 Austrians defeated, Sept. 2.'i; French defeated at 

 Piedmont, Oct. 1 jon the Mayne, Oct. 11 ; at 

 Mentz, Oct. 29; at Worms, Nov. 8 ; at Moselle, 

 Nov. 22 ; at Deux Fonts, Nov. 28 ; and at Al- 

 *cntz, Dec. 8. Breda taken by the French. Bricl 

 seized by them in January. The English take the 

 Cape of Good Hope in June. The French take 

 Dort, Jan. 10, and Dusseldorf, Sept. 6. Fran- 

 kendal retaken from the French, Nov. 12. Lux- 

 embourg surrenders to the French, June 7. Ma- 

 lacca surrenders to the English, Aug. 17. Man- 

 heim retaken by the Austrians, with 10,338 

 prisoners and 4 generals, Nov. 23. Sir E. Pel- 

 few takes 15 Bail, and burns 7, out of a fleet of 

 35 tail of transports, March 8. Admiral Ho- 

 tham defeats the French fleet, and takes two 

 ships of war, March 14. The Sceptre man of 

 war takes 11 Dutch East Indiamen, June 19. 

 Lord Bridport defeats the French fleet, June 

 25. Trincomalec taken by the English. The 

 French take Utrecht, Jan. 18. Poland parti- 

 tinned between Russia, Austria, and Prussia, 

 Nov. 25. Peace between France and Prussia, 

 and between France and Spain. The arsenal, 

 admiralty, &c. with nearly .10 streets in Co- 

 penhagen, destroyed by fire, June 5. A dread- 

 ful eruption of Mount Vesuvius. A comet ap- 

 pears; ee ASTRONOMY, p. 816. 



1796. A meteoric stone, of 10 pounds weight, fell in 



Portugal, on the 19th Feb. On the 8th 

 March, a meteoric stone fell in Lu/atia. Bam- 

 berg liken by the French, Aug. 4. The Sar- 

 dinians defeated by the French at the battle 

 of Piedmont, April 14. Battle of Lodi, French 

 and Austrians, May 11 ; of Mantua, May 29; 

 of Wetztaer, French defeated, June 4 ; near 

 Kirpen, French defeated, June 20. Austrians 



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defeated by Jourdan, July 6; Archduke rcpnl- Clirop<.;- 

 sed by the French, July 8. Siege of Mantua IT- 

 raised, July 23. Anstrians defeated by Jour- v " p "V~" lir ' 

 dan, Aug. 11. Jourdan defeated by the arch- 

 duke near Nuremberg, Aug. 18. French d.-- 

 fcated by the Austrians, near Neuwied and Ani- 

 berg, Aug. 24. Jourdan defeated near Mu- 

 nich, Sept. 11 ; near Limbcrg, Sept. 18; and 

 at I shy on the Leek, Sept. 19. The French 

 take Bengali, Aug. 17. Bonaparte srizc;; Egypt, 

 July 1. Columbo surrenders to ihe English, 

 June 12. Constance seized by the French, 

 Aug. 2. Demerara, &c. surrendered to th:- 

 English, April 23 ; and again Sept. 23, 1803. 

 The French take Florence, July; Fianckfoi i, 

 July; Goza, June 11; and Milan, May 18. 

 Minorca surrenders to the Engli.h, Nov. 14. 

 The French take Munich, Aug. "25; and Nu- 

 rcmberg, July 9. Sir G. K. Elphinstone takes 

 the Dutch fleet in Saldanna Bay, A up. 1!'. 

 Peace between France and Naples ; the Trench 

 and Sardinians ; England and Spain. Cathe- 

 rine II. of Russia dies, Nov. 10. A comet ap- 

 pears ; see ASTRONOMY, p. 816. Amboyna 

 seized by the English, Nov. 28. Dr Thomas 

 Reid, ob. :et. 87. Dr G. Campbell, ob. An- 

 ton. I'lloa, ob. set. 80. James Macphcrson, ob. 

 act. 58. 



1797. Bank of England refuse to pay in specie, Feb. 25. 



The French invade Ireland. Mutiny on board 

 the fleet at Portsmouth for advance of wages, 

 &c. April 18, which subsided May 10. Muti- 

 ny at the Nore, which was quelled June 10, 

 when several of the mutineers were executed. 

 Revolution in Venice, May 17. Battle between 

 the Austrians and Bonaparte in Italy, Jan. 19. 

 and 27, when the Austrians were defeated. 

 Bonaparte defeats the Archduke, April 1. The 

 Austrians again defeated on the Upper Rhine, 

 May 7, when the French take Frankfort, Kehl, 

 &c. The French land a small force in South 

 Wales, Feb. 22. Ireland put under martial 

 law, May 19. The Spanish fleet defeated by- 

 Sir J. Jervis, who takes four ships of war, Feb. 

 14. Admiral Duncan defeats the Dutch fleet 

 off Camperdown, when two admirals and fifteen 

 ships of war were captured or destroyed, Oct. 

 11. Trinidad and four ships of the line taken 

 by the English. Trieste seized by the French, 

 but retaken by the Austrians, April 14. Ve- 

 rona taken by the French, April 28. The re- 

 public of Venice abolished by the French. 

 Treaty of Campo Formio, between the French 

 and Austrians, signed Oct. 17. Newspapers 

 first published at Constantinople. An earth- 

 quake at Sumatra, by which about 300 persons 

 perished, Feb. 20. The country between Santa 

 F and Panama, and the cities of Cuzco and 

 Quito, with 40,000 inhabitants, destroyed by 

 an earthquake in February : Violent shocks 

 were also felt in the West Indies. St Domingo 

 declares itself independent in January. The 

 French eize the Tyrol. A comet appears ; 

 see ASTRONOMY, p. 816. W. Mason, ob. zt. 

 72. Dr James Hutton, ob. 



1798. A meteoric stone, weighing 20 pounds, fell in the 



department of the Rhone, on the 12th March. 

 Other meteoric stones, one of which weighed 

 26 pounds, fell in India, at Krakhrst, on the 



