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THE NEW STUDENT'S REFERENCE WORK

t Reign of Anne:   75;   Stuarts 1836;  Marlborough 1173;  Bolingbroke 238. (1) House of Commons becomes the ruling power;   617.

10. GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE:

a. Reign of George I:   751.

(1) The Prime Minister and Cabinet appear:  617;  Walpole 2038; England 617.

b. Reign  of George   II:    751;   Seven Years' War 1727;   Walpole 2038;   Saxe

1685;  Oglethorpe 1373.

(1)  William   Pitt,   Prime   Minister:    1496;   617;   Wilberforce  2083;

Lady Stanhope 1810.

(2)  Power of Great Britain extended to India and North America:

617; 920; 320; Clive 411;  Tippoo Sahib 1915.

c. Reign of George III:

(1)  Loss of American colonies:  751;   Pitt 1495.

(2)  War with France:   704; Napoleon 1301.

(3)  Trial of Hastings:   847; Begums 195; Burke 291; Sheridan 1740.

(4)  Work of Nelson and Wellington:   1319;  Trafalgar 1934;  Saint

Vincent 1663; Nile 1351; Waterloo 2052; Peninsular War 1445; Wellington 2067; Soult 1782.

(5)  Industrial development:

(a) Spinning and weaving; steamengine and locomotive: Arkwright 102; Hargreaves 838; Crompton 481; spinning 1799; steamengine 1816.

d. Reign of William IV:

(1) Great Reform-Bill: William IV: 2086; 617; Peel 1441; Wellington 2067.

e. Reign of Victoria:   2019.

(1)  House of Commons the ruling Dower in the nation:   617

(2)  Power abroad  maintained:   617.

(3) The Crimean War:   Crimea 478;   Great Powers 800;   Sebasto-

pol 1716; Raglan 1580; Napoleon III 1302; Balaklava 159; Alma 53; Turkey 1956.

(4)  Indian   Mutiny   Suppressed:     Cawnpore   354;    Havelock   848;

Lucknow 1123; Nana Sahib 1298.

(5) The   Expansion   of  Greater  Britain:    Africa  24;   Canada  320;

Australia 142; Afghanistan 22; Burma 293; Egypt and Sudan 592; New Zealand 1339.

(6)  Makers of the   Empire:   Disraeli 534;  Gladstone 771;  Gordon

781; Roberts 1619;  Rhodes 1607;  Rosebery 1634;   Salisbury. 1665.

(7) The  Struggle for  South  Africa:     Boers and Boer War   234;

Cape Colony 328; Jameson 958; Kruger 1013; Natal 1304; Orange River Colony 1389; Transvaal 1937.

(8)  Ireland and Home Rule:   937;  Bright 268; Balfour 160;  Camp-

bell-Bannerman 316; Dillon 532; O'Connell 1370; O'Connor 1371; Parnell 1425; Gladstone 771; Morley 1262.

f. Reign of Edward VII:   587.

11. CULTURE, LEARNING  AND  ART   DURING   THE  13TH,   14TH,   15TH    AND

16TH CENTURIES:

a. Education:

(1)  The schools of the monasteries:   1250;  Franciscans 707;  An-

glo-Saxon 73;  Alcuin 42;  Dominicans 543.

(2) The   universities:    1986;   Oxford  1405;   Cambridge   313;   Ger-

man 760; Heidelberg 856; Leipsic 1051; Bologna 239; Prague 1542; Salamanca 1664; Louvain 1120; Bonn 243; Montpellier 1259.

(3)  Books of the time:   1084;  1089.

b. Literature:   1084;  1089.

(1) The coming of the vernacular literatures:   Chaucer 373; Wye-

liffe 2114.

(2) Troubadour and Minnesinger: 1945; 1085; 1236; 1087.

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