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 54f4f CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. ter a reign of sixteen years, and is succeeded by his eldest son, Susunan Prabu. The princes Blitar and Purboyo, brothers of the Susunan, rebel. — Nine of the principal persons concerned in their revolt are taken prisoners, and being ranged in order before the Susunan, he re- quests his courtiers to show their attachment to his person by putting them to death, when a number of them rush upon the prisoners, and poignard them on the spot. The impostor, Pangeran Kudus, or Ponchowati, raises a rebellion in Java, is defeated, wounded, and, on being taken, put to death. Aryo Mataram, uncle to the Susunan, revolts. Joyo Purpito, the head of the great rebellion in Java, dies a natural death. The natives of Sumatra, irritated by the miscon- duct, of the agents of the English East India Com- pany, rise upon the Europeans at Bencoolen, and the garrison, panic-struck, abandons the fort. The natives of Bencoolen, alarmed for the en- croachments of the Dutch, invite the English to come back, who return accordingly. ^ The king of Boni becomes jealous of his sister, Batara Toja, or Datu Chita, and persecutes her and her husband. October 11. — The governor of the Philippines acts in a tyrannical manner, and loses his life in a