THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES; COMPREHENDING EVERY IMPORTANT TRANSACTION, FROM THE YEAR 1700, TO THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1825. BY HENRY BOYLE, EDITOR OF THE" UNIVERSAL CHRONOLOGIST"" FROM THE CREATION LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER, PATERNOSTER-ROW. MDCCCXXVI. PREFACE. THE Editor of the Universal Chronologist being fully aware, that however desirable a record of the earlier events of history may be to the generality of readers, there are, nevertheless, many persons anxious only to certify more. recent occurrences, has deemed it expedient to lay the present volume before the public. In the progress of the ensuing pages, containing a detail of every occurrence of notoriety from the 1st of January, 1700, to the 31st December, 1825, are necessarily included some of the most important periods that have occurred to chequer the page of general history. As relates to England, the accession of the House of Hanover to the British throne, and the attempts of the Stuart family to repossess itself of the government, form a very prominent feature; while the whole progress and developement of the French Revolution, the results of which have been so sensibly felt throughout Europe, and even extended to other quarters of the globe, constitutes a feature unprecedented in the annals of chronology. In regard to the latter portion of our labour, so interesting to the community at large, we have devoted such unremitting attention as, we trust, may ensure us general satisfaction. We are led to augur this result, as, we believe, there has not transpired a single occurrence of any notoriety from the year 1787, when the first assembly of the Notables was convened at Versailles by Louis the Six |