DANES-continued. burghs break the peace, and invade Mercia: Ethelfled repels them, and takes Derby, 917. See NORMANS. Bedford taken from them, 919-they endeavour to destroy Edward's new fortifications at Towcester, and are repulsed, 921-those of Northumberland submit to him, 924-league with the Scotch and Irish, 937. See ANLAF.-. Edmund is defeated by them at Tamworth, afterwards conquers Anlaf, the son of Sihtric, and takes the Fiveburghs, 943-reduces Northumberland to complete subjection, 944. The northern pirates renew their depredations, 979-ravage Chester, Southampton, and Thanet, 980-attack Padstow, and lay waste the coasts of Devonshire and Wales, 981 -ravage the isle of Portland, and burn London, 982plunder Watchet, in Somersetshire, 988 -ravage Ipswich and Maldon, 991. See DANEGILD.-Are defeated at sea by Ethelred, 992- take Bamborough and ravage Lindsey, 993-under their king, Swein, attack London; are beaten back by the citizens, and conclude a treaty of peace, 994-burn the abbey of Tavistock, 997-invade Dorsetshire, 998-overrun and plunder Kent, 999gain a victory at Alton, 1001. Ethelred makes a truce, and pays them tribute, after which he orders a general massacre on St. Brice's day, Nov. 13, 1002-Swein invades England to avenge the massacre of his countrymen; Exeter and Wilton plundered, 1003he ravages East Anglia, burns Norwich and Thetford; is driven back to his ships by Ulfkytel, 1004-they withdraw from England, 1005 return, and lay waste all England; defeat Ethelred at Kennet, and obtain tribute, 1006-make fresh incursions, 1009-defeat Ulfkytel, at Ringmere, in East Anglia, burn Thetford, Cambridge, and Northampton; another band defeated in Scotland, by Malcolm II., 1010. Plunder and lay waste all the south of England; take Canterbury, and the archbishop Elphege prisoner, 1011-put him to death, and receive a tribute of 48,000l., 1012-Swein takes London, and nearly all England,1013-death of Swein, at Gainsborough, Feb. 3-his son, Canute, is driven out by Ethelred II., 1014-land again at the Frome, 1015-defeat Edmund Ironside, and become masters of the whole country. See CANUTE, K. of England and Denmark, and his successors.Defeated at Clontarf, near Dublin, 1039. • See BRIAN BOROIMHE.-They leave Ire land, and generally desist from piratical expeditions. For the continuation of their history, see DENMARK, and its several kings. They lose their power in England, 1049. DANGERFIELD, brings out the meal-tub plot, Oct. 23, 1679-the grand jury discredits his evidence, and ignores his charge against the countess of Powis, May 11, 1680-lord Castlemaine accused by him, is acquitted, June 23-examined by the Commons, Oct. 26-condemned to a fine, pillory, and whipping, May 30, 1685 dies of a wound received during the execution of his sentence, June 1. DANIEL, prophesies, B.C. 606. DANIEL, b. of Winchester, 703-resigns his see, 744-d. 745. DANIELIS, a rich widow of Patras, befriends Basil the Macedonian before his elevation, 850-visits him after he becomes emperor, and brings him magnificent presents, 870-bequeaths her wealth to his son, Leo VI., 887. DANIELL, J. F., professor of chemistry at King's College, d. 1845. DANTE, Alighieri, b. 1265-finishes his Divina Comedia, 1300 expelled from Florence with the Bianchi or Ghibelin party; befriended in his exile at Ravenna by Guido Novello da Pollenta, d. there, 1321. DANTON, a leader of the Jacobin club, instigates the massacres at Paris, Aug. 10, 1792 -a member of the committee of the Constitution, Sept. 29-executed, Apr. 5, 1794. DANTZIC, Occupied by the Teutonic knights, becomes an important Hanse town, 1404 -the place of refuge of Charles VIII. when driven from Sweden, 1457-incorporated with Poland by the treaty of Thorn, 1466-unsuccessfully besieged by the knights, 1521 receives Stanislas Leczinsky on his second expulsion, 1733 -taken by the Russians and Saxons, June 29, 1734-allotted to Prussia in the second partition of Poland, 1793-surrenders to Napoleon and remains in the occupation of French troops, May 26, 1807-restored to Prussia, 1814-the cholera breaks out and spreads into Northern Germany, May 29, 1831. DANUBE, the, crossed by Darius, who leaves Megabazus there to attack Greece, B.C. 507-its banks occupied by Celtic tribes, who cross the river and invade Greece, 280-recrossed by them after their repulse at Delphi, 277-made the northern boundary of the empire by Augustus, 29-crossed by Trajan in pursuit of the Dacians, A.D. 101-his bridge over it constructed, 105-the Roman empire extended beyond it by the province of DANUBE-continued. D'ANVILLE appointed geographer to the DAPHNE, a sacred grove near Antioch, D'ARBLAY, Madame, (Miss Burney), b. DARCY, lord, surrenders Pontefract castle Feb. 19, 1807-repassed, March 1-the combined British and French fleets are invited by the sultan to enter, Oct. 8, 1853. DARDANUS, king of Troy, B.C. 1480 (1383 C.) DARIEN, isthmus of, crossed by Balboa, who reaches the Pacific Ocean, 1513-a Scotch colony established there, Nov. 4, 1698-abandoned, 1699. See PANAMA. DARIUS, Hystaspes, king of Persia, B.C. 521-takes Babylon, 518-divides his empire into satrapies, 516-makes India a twentieth satrapy, 512-unsuccessful in his Scythian war; enters Europe; crosses the Danube, and leaves Megabazus to attack Greece, 507. See GREECE. -Leaves Artaphernes governor of Sardis, conquers Imbros and Lemnos, takes Chalcedon, crosses the Bosphorus, and conquers Byzantium, 505-crucifies Sardoces, takes him down from the cross, and restores him to favour, 504-introduces a regular system of finance, and levies tribute on his conquered provinces, 503-promises to assist the Naxian exiles, 502-fails in his attempt to restore them, 501. See ARISTAGORAS.Defeats the Ionians at Ephesus, 499recovers Cyprus, 498-Caria, Clazomenæ, and Cyme, 497-defeats the Ionian fleet and takes Miletus, 494-prepares a fleet under Mardonius against the Greeks, 492-defeated, 491-sends another army into Greece; defeated at Marathon, 490 -begins preparations for another attempt, 489-d. 485. DARIUS, Nothus, an illegitimate son of Artaxerxes II., after the death of the usurper Sogdianus, is made king of Persia, B.C. 424-sends his youngest son, Cyrus, to command the army in Ionia, 407-d. 405. DARIUS III., Codomanus, king of Persia, B.C. 336. See BAGOAS.-War with Alexander; defeated on the Granicus, May 22, 334-near Issus, Oct. 333-at Arbela, Oct. 1, 331-on his flight to Media, assassinated by Bessus, 330. DARLING, Grace, heroism of, in succouring DARNLEY, earl of, b. 1795-d. from an acci- See BEORN.-The duke of Clarence and the earl of Warwick land at, 1470. See CLARENCE, George, duke of.-Taken by Fairfax, Jan. 18, 1646. DARTMOUTH, George Legge, lord, accused of having projected a Jacobite insurrection, and is committed to the Tower, 1691d. 1691. DARTMOUTH, William, lord, a privy councillor to queen Anne, 1701-secretary of state, 1710-negotiates with the French envoy the preliminaries of peace, 1711prevents a duel between the duke of Marlborough and earl Paulet, 1712-d.1750. DARU, count, d. 1829. DARWIN, Dr. Erasmus, b. 1721--d. 1802. DASMON, Olympic victor, B.C. 724. DASTAGERD, the palace of Chosroes Purvis, occupied by the emperor Heraclius, 627. DATES, Olympic victor, B.C. 472. DATES, one of the Persian generals defeated at Marathon, B.C. 490. DATIANUS, Consul of Rome, 358. DAUN, count, b. 1705-defeats Frederic the Great at Hochkirchen, Oct. 14, 1758takes the Prussian general Finck and his army, 1759-is defeated by Frederic at Torgau, Nov. 3, 1760-d. 1766. DAUPHIN. See DAUPHINY.-The title first borne by Charles, eldest son of John II. See CHARLES V., king of France.-Louis, eldest son of Charles VI., d. 1415-his brother, John, betrothed to Jaqueline, countess of Holland and Hainault, poisoned, 1417-Charles, third son of Charles VI. See CHARLES VII., king of France. -Louis, only son of Louis XIV., b. 1661 -d. of the small-pox, Apr. 14, 1711-his eldest son, Louis, duke of Burgundy, b. 1682-d. of the same disease, Feb. 18, 1712-his eldest son, the duke of Britanny, b. 1707-d. of the same, March 8, 1712a younger son, Louis, b. 1710-becomes dauphin. See LOUIS XV., king of France. -Lonis, only son of Louis XV., b. 1729 -d. 1765-his eldest son, Louis, b. Aug. 23, 1754 inherits the title; marries Maria Antoinette, daughter of Maria Theresa, of Austria, May 16, 1770. See LOUIS XVI., king of France. His only son, Louis Charles, b. 1785-titular k. of France, Louis XVII., 1793-d. a prisoner in the Temple, June 8, 1795-Louis Antony, eldest son of Charles X. See ANGOULÊME, duke d'-Henry Charles Ferdinand, son of the duke de Berry, titular dauphin, 1836--1844. See BORDEAUX, duke of. DAUPHINESS of France, consort of Louis, duke of Burgundy and dauphin, d. of the small-pox six days before her husband, and twenty-five days before her son, Feb. 12, 1712. DAUPHINY annexed to France, on condition that the king's eldest son should be called the dauphin, 1349-invaded by Victor Amadeus II., duke of Savoy, 1692. DAVENANT, Sir William, b. 1605-retires to Holland with the marquis of Newcastle, 1644-appointed poet laureate-and obtains a patent for Covent Garden Theatre, 1662-d. 1668. DAVENTRY, Charles I. marches to, before the battle of Naseby, May 31, 1645. DAVID, son of Jesse, b. B.c. 1086-kills Goliath, 1063--on the death of Saul becomes king, but is opposed seven years by Ishbosheth, 1056 (1070 H.)-becomes sole king, and allies himself with Hiram, king of Syria, 1049-subdues Syria, 1040 -rebellion of Absalom, 1023-d. 1018 (1030 H.) DAVID, king of Abyssinia, misrepresented by Alvarez to the conference of Bologna, 1533. DAVID, twenty-first emperor of Trebizond, excludes his nephew Alexius from the throne, 1458-dethroned by Mahomet II., sultan of the Ottomans, and sent with his family to Mavronoros near Serres, 1461-put to death, 1470. DAVID I., king of Scotland, 1124-supports the cause of the empress Matilda; but is conciliated by Stephen, 1136-he invades England, and is defeated by the earl of Albemarle in the battle of the Standard, near Northallerton, in Yorkshire, Aug. 22, 1138-d. 1153. DAVID II., Bruce, king of Scotland, June 7, 1329-attacked by Edward Balliol; he and his affianced bride, Jane, sister of Edward III., king of England, take refuge in France, 1332-returns to Scotland and assumes the government, 1342 -defeated and taken prisoner, and his army destroyed at Neville's Cross, by queen Philippa, Oct. 17, 1346-he is released for a ransom, after an imprisonment of eleven years, 1357--he is entertained in London by sir Henry Pikard, 1363-he dies Feb. 22, 1371. DAVID, brother of Llewelyn, put to death by Edward I., 1283. DAVID, eldest son of Robert III., king of Scotland, put to death by his uncle, the duke of Albany, 1405. DAVID, earl of Huntingdon, brother of Wm., the Lion, k. of Scotland. See BALLIOL, John; BRUCE, Robert; and HASTINGS, John. DAVID, Jaques Louis, b. 1750-founds a new school of painting in France, 1784d. in exile, 1825. DAVIDSON, J., murdered on his travels in Africa, 1836. DAVIES, Sir John, the poet, b. 1570-d. 1625. DAVIES, Henry Thomas, rear-admiral, b. 1788-d. 1853. DAVILA, the Italian historian, b. 1576—de 1631. DAVIS, John, explores the north-eastern | DEAN, Forest, of, its enclosures thrown DE BRIENNE, archb. of Toulouse. See DECAMERON. See BOCCACCIO. DE CAZES appointed head of the ministry DECCAN, campaign of sir Arthur Wellesley in the, 1803-of sir Thomas Hislop, 1817 -prize money distributed, Mar. 20, 1828. DECEBALUS. See DACIANS. DECELEA, a city of Attica, fortified by the DECENNALIAN games, celebrated by Anto- DECENTIUS, brother of Magnentius, takes DECIUS Mus, P., tribune of the people, DECLARATION of Rights assented to by DECRETALS. See CANON LAWS. DEFENDER of the Faith, a title given to Henry VIII. for his book against Luther, by pope Leo X., 1521. DEFOE, Daniel, b. 1663 - his pamphlet DE GRASSE defeated by Rodney in the Cicero against the accusation of his grandson, 45. DEIRA, part of Northumberland, the kingdom of, founded and governed by Ella, 560-on his death, joined with Bernicia to form the kingdom of Northumberland, 588. See ACCA. - Claimed by Oswin, son of Osric, 644. DELAMBRE, b. 1749-d. 1822. DELAMERE, Peter, first speaker of the House of Commons, 1377. DE LA RUE, Cornish, and Rock, invent porcelain paper and card, 1829. DELAVIGNE, J. F. C., b. 1794-d. 1843. DELAWARE, one of the United States of America, 1774-the French fleet, under D'Estaing, arrives in the Bay of, July 11, 1778--canal to the Chesapeake completed, 1830. DELFINO, Giovanni, doge of Venice, 1356dies of the plague, 1361. DELFINO, Uberto, employed by pope Clement VI. to preach a crusade against the Turks, but without effect, 1345. DELFT, William, prince of Orange, assassinated at, by Balthazar Gerard, July 10 (June 30), 1584-ineffectual conference of the Remonstrants and Calvinists at, 1613. DELHI taken by Timour, 1399-by Nadir Shah, 1739-conquered, and the Great Mogul pensioned by the East India Company, 1803-seized by Sepoy mutineers, and the British massacred, 1857. "DELICATE investigation" into the charges made against the princess of Wales, May 22, 1806 DELILLE, Jaques, the French poet, b. 1738. -d. 1813. DELIUM, battle of; the Athenians defeated by the Lacedæmonians; Socrates saves the life of Xenophon, B.C. 424. DELIUS, M., a German traveller, killed by falling into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, 1854. DELMENHORST and Oldenburg ceded by Denmark to Paul, grand duke of Russia, in exchange for Holstein, June 1, 1773given by Paul to Augustus Frederic, bp. of Lubeck, Dec. 14. DELOLME, d. 1806. DELOS, a common treasury established at, by the Greeks for the Persian war, B.C. 470-treasury removed from, to Athens, 461-Lustration of, 426. DELPHI, the temple of, burnt, B.C. 548-a congress for the pacification of Greece, 368. See THEBES.-Seized by the Phocians, 357-its mountain-passes occupied by the Etolians, 290-attacked by the Celts or Gauls, 278-Eumenes II., k. of Pergamus, attacked by assassins in its neighbourhood, 172. See PYTHIAN GAMES. DELUGE, Noachian, assigned to fifteen dif ferent periods between 3246 and 2104 B.C.-Ogygian, in Attica, 1764-Deucalion's, in Thessaly, 1503 (1504 H., 1383 C.) See INUNDATION. DEL Uovo, one of the forts of Naples, taken by Gonsalvo de Cordova, 1503. DEMADES, an Athenian orator, obtains influence in Athens after the battle of Chæronea, B.C. 338-prevails on Alexander to spare the orators, 335-his twelve years' administration, 326-put to death by Cassander, the son of Antipater, 318. DEMARATUS, Proclidan k. of Lacedæmon, B.C. 510-deposed by Cleomenes, retires into Persia, 491. DEMERARA surrenders, with Essequibo, to the British, 1781-taken by gen. White, Apr. 22, 1796-surrenders, with Berbice, to gen. Grinfield and commodore Hood, Sept. 25, 1803--ceded to Great Britain by Holland, 1814-the missionary Smith ill-treated there, 1824. DEMETRIANUS, bp. of Antioch, 252-260. DEMETRIUS PHALEREUS, first takes part in Athenian politics, B.C. 325-head of an oligarchical government, 317 — archon, 309-expelled from Athens by Demetrius Poliorcetes, 307 withdraws first to Thebes; goes thence to Egypt, 296-fills the chair of philosophy at Alexandria; banished by Ptolemy Philadelphus into Upper Egypt, and d. there, 283. DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES, son of Antigonus, k. of Asia, b. B.C. 337-defeated at Gaza by Ptolemy Soter and Seleucus. Nicator, 312-occupies Megara, drives Demetrius Phalereus from Athens, and restores the democracy, 307-defeats Ptolemy in a naval battle near Cyprus, 306-besieges Rhodes, 304-secures the neutrality of Rhodes by a treaty, and sails to oppose Cassander, 303-defeats him, 302-initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries at Athens, called into Asia to assist his father, escapes after his defeat at Ipsus, 301--marriage of his daughter, Stratonice, to Seleucus Nicator, who gives him Cilicia, and enables him to recover Athens, 299-defeats Archidamus IV., the Proclidan, 296-invited to assist the sons of Cassander, 295-they are slain, and he makes himself k. of Macedon, 294-takes Thebes, 293-again, 291-celebrates the Pythian games at Athens, 290-expelled from Macedon by Pyrrhus, 287-made prisoner by Seleucus Nicator, 286-d. in captivity, 283 DEMETRIUS II., k. of Macedon, son of Antigonus Gonatas, succeeds his father, 239 -defeats the Etolians; d. 229. DEMETRIUS, son of Philip V., k. of Macedon, sent by him to plead his cause before B |