THE 



BOOK OF DATES 



A Treasury of Universal Reference 



Comprising the Principal Events of all Ages, from the Earliest Periods 

 to the End of 1861, arranged Chronologically and Alphabetically, with 

 Index of Names, in one large volume, post 8vo, cloth gilt, antique 

 bevelled, price 7s. 6d. 



From the Preface. 



THE great objects in view in this work are to present simultaneously 

 to the eye of the reader the chief contemporaneous events in the 

 history of the world, divested, as much as possible, of reflection and 

 inference, yet clearly showing the tendency and progress of each 

 nation in connection with all ; to give a full and fair record of facts, 

 so arranged that the widening circle of their effects might be readily 

 traced by a thinking mind ; to furnish the well-read historian with 

 a remembrancer, and the unread student with a book of reference, 

 wherein he could, at a moment's notice, ascertain the events amid 

 which an individual life was passed the circumstances which ren- 

 dered a particular era remarkable the date of any important or 

 curious fact in War, Statesmanship, Science, Art, Religious develop- 

 ment, &c., wherein, too, he could trace their antecedents and se- 

 quences, though his memory might afford but a slight clue to the 

 discovery of those precise periods, acts, or dates. 



The work consists of two parts: in the first of which are exhibited, 

 in synchronistic order, the principal events that have occurred in the 

 several countries of the world ; in the second is given an alphabetical 

 arrangement of all the curious or important facts of history, so clas- 

 sified that, with a very small expenditure of time and care, the work 

 may be used as a comprehensive guide to universal history. 



The publishers have great confidence that they are giving to the 

 scholar a vade mecum of considerable value to the man of business 

 a "ready reckoner" in history to the general reader a treasury of 

 facts and to the man of letters a complete book of reference. 



From the Spectator. " A storehouse of facts and dates." 



From the Literary Gazette. 11 Admirably adapted for a work of reference 



CHARLES GRIFFIN & COMPANY, LONDON. 



