1834. Emanc.i.p.ation in West Indies takes place, August ist; new poor law in England, August 14th; insurrection headed by Mazzini in Italy.
1835. Death of Cobbett, June 16th; anti-slavery periodicals taken from post-office at Charleston, S. C, and burned by mob, July; convent at Charlestown, Ma.s.s., burned by a mob, August; Garrison mobbed in Boston, and other abolitionists in New York and Vermont, October 21st; extension of munic.i.p.al suffrage in England; Tocqueville"s Democracy in America and Strauss"s Life of Jesus published.
1836. Transcendental Club founded in Boston, September; Parker begins to preach; t.i.thes commuted in England; taxes on newspapers reduced; dissenters permitted to marry without disobedience to conscience; Emerson"s Nature and d.i.c.kens" Pickwick Papers published.
1837. Discussion of slavery in House of Representatives suppressed, January; Miss Grimke"s anti-slavery lectures, June; Emerson"s address on The American Scholar, August 31st; Anti-Slavery Convention of N. E.
Methodists, October 25th; Carlyle"s French Revolution published.
1838. Emerson"s Divinity School Address, July 15th; Kneeland imprisoned sixty days, that same summer, for blasphemy; Pennsylvania Hall burned by a pro-slavery mob; Irish t.i.the system reformed; daguerreotypes invented; Atlantic crossed by steam; railroad from London to Birmingham; Channing"s Self-Culture published.
1839. Anti-Corn-Law League organised, March 20th; unsectarian common schools in England; great Chartist pet.i.tion; Pope forbids attendance at the scientific congress at Pisa.
1840. Penny postage, January 10th; nomination of candidate for President, April ist, by Liberty party: quarrels in May among abolitionists; World"s Anti-Slavery Convention at London, in June, refuses seats to female delegates; local self-government in Irish cities; protest of American Catholics against sectarianism of public schools; The Dial begins; Carlyle"s Heroes and Hero Worship published.
1841, Hetherington imprisoned in England for publishing Letters to the Clergy, and the editor of the Oracle of Reason for attacking the Bible; Emerson"s first volume of Essays published.
1842. Garrison calls on free States to secede, May; death of Channing, October 2d; Brook Farm started, as are many communties about this time; Spencer"s theory of the limits of government published, 1844. Morse proves value of telegraph by announcing nomination of Frelinghuysen for Vice-President by Whigs, May 1st; disunion banner publicly accepted by Garrison, June 1st; annexation of Texas and reduction of tariff decided by election on November 5th; rule against discussing slavery repealed by House of Representatives; Lowell"s Poems published.
1845. Parker begins to preach regularly in Boston, February 16th; potato rot in Ireland, August; Vestiges of Creation published.
1846. Mexico invaded by U. S. troops, March; free trade established in England, June 25th, and bill to reduce American tariff signed, June 26th; first volume of Grote"s Greece and first number of Lowell"s Biglow Papers published.
1847. Mexicans defeated at Buena Vista by General Taylor, February 22d and 23d; death of O"Connell, May 15th.
1848. Revolution in Paris, February 22d; King abdicates, February 24th; insurrections in Munich, Vienna, Berlin, Venice, and Milan in March, afterwards in other cities; "spirit rappings" at Rochester, N.Y., begin March 31st; Chartist demonstration at London, April 10th; Emanc.i.p.ation decreed by French Republic, April 27th; socialist insurrection at Paris, June 23d, 24th, 25th, and 26th; "Woman"s Rights"
Convention at Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 19th; revolt in Ireland, July 29th; Buffalo Convention of Free Soilers, August 9th; Kossuth dictator of Hungary, September 25th; State const.i.tution and town ordinances made in October by citizens of California without Federal sanction; pro-slavery defeat at election of Taylor, November 7th; flight of Pope from Rome, November 24th; Louis Napoleon president of France, December 10th; Lowell"s Vision of Sir Launfal, Fable for Critics, and Biglow Papers published, 1849. Defeat of King of Sardinia by Austrians at Novara, March 23d, prevents liberation of Italy; Rome captured by French, July 3d; Hungarian army surrendered to Russians by Gorgei, August 13th; Venice taken by Austrians, August 28th; Emanc.i.p.ation Convention in Kentucky.
1850. Death of Wordsworth, April 24th, and of President Taylor, July 9th; Fugitive Slave Bill signed, September 18th; first national "Woman"s Rights" Convention at Worcester, Ma.s.s., October 23d and 24th; Bradlaugh"s first lecture; Hawthorne"s Scarlet Letter, Spencer"s Social Statics, and Tennyson"s In Memoriam published.
1851. London Great Exhibition opens May ist; a fugitive slave rescued at Boston, Sunday, February 16th, another at Syracuse, N. Y., October ist; usurpation of Louis Napoleon, December 2d, 1851.
1852. Uncle Tom"s Cabin published, March 20th; death of Frances Wright, and accession of Napoleon III., December 2d; Herbert Spencer announces the principle of Differentiation.
1854. Repeal of Missouri Compromise proposed by Douglas, January 23d; return of Burns, a fugitive slave, from Boston, June 2d; U. S.
Const.i.tution publicly burned by Garrison, July 4th; Kansas election carried by border ruffians, November 29th; Th.o.r.eau"s Walden published.
1855. Spencer"s Pyschology and Walt Whitman"s Leaves of Gra.s.s published, 1856. Sumner a.s.saulted, May 22d..
1857. Disunion Convention, Worcester, Ma.s.s., January 15th; death of Beranger, July 16th, and of Comte, September 5th; tariff reduced twenty per cent, in U. S. A.; Buckle"s History of Civilisation, vol. i., published.
1858. Essays by Darwin and Wallace read in public, July ist; Jews admitted to Parliament by act pa.s.sed July 23d; death of Robert Owen, November 17th; Lincoln and Douglas campaign in Illinois.
1859. Austrians defeated at Magenta, June 4th, and Solferino.
June 24th; Lombardy annexed to Sardinia by treaty of Villafranca, July nth; John Brown takes possession of Harper"s Ferry, Sunday, October 16th, and is tried November 2d; Darwin"s Origin of Species published, November 24th; John Brown hung, December 2d. 1860. Split of Democratic party, April 30th; death of Theodore Parker, May 10th; Garibaldi enters Naples, September 7th; election of Lincoln, November 6th; secession of South Carolina, December 20th; annexation of two Sicilies to Sardinia, December 26th; Mill on Liberty published.
1861. Confederate States of America organised, February 8th; protective tariff pa.s.sed, March 2d; Russian serfs emanc.i.p.ated, March 3d; Lincoln inaugurated, March 4th; Victor Emmanuel King of Italy, March 17th; Fort Sumter bombarded, April 12th, surrendered, April 13th; Lincoln"s proclamation, Monday, April 15th, calls all the North to arms; death of Cavour, June 6th; Union defeat at Bull Run, Sunday, July 21st.
1862. Paper money made legal tender in U. S. A., February 25th; return of fugitives from slavery by army or navy forbidden, March 13th; negro soldiers, April; death of Th.o.r.eau, May 6th, and of Buckle, May 29th; disastrous campaign of McClellan in Virginia ends by his retreat, July 8th; Union victory at Antietam, September 19th; emanc.i.p.ation announced as a possible war measure by Lincoln, September 22d; Union defeat at Fredericksburg, December 13th; Victor Hugo"s Les Miserables published, also Spencer"s First Principles containing his full theory of Integration and Differentiation.
1863. Lincoln proclaims emanc.i.p.ation, January 1st; signs bills suspending Habeas Corpus Act and establishing conscription, March 3d; Union defeat at Chancellorsville, May 3d; Vallandigham sentenced, May 7th; battle of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d, and 3d, ending in a Union victory; Vicksburg surrendered to General Grant, July 4th; Mississippi opened by surrender of Port Hudson, July 9th; Union victories at Lookout Mountain, November 24th, and Chattanooga, November 25th; Fenian Convention at Chicago, November 25th; Darwinism much opposed by European clergy about this time.
1864. General Grant takes command of all the Union armies, March 12th; undecisive battles in the Wilderness and at Spottsylvania, May 5th-10th; Fugitive Slave Act repealed, June 23d; Nevada admitted, October 31st; Lincoln re-elected, November 8th; Sherman marches from Atlanta, November 16th, and enters Savannah, December 22d.
1865. Death of Cobden, April 2d; Richmond entered by coloured cavalry, April 3d; Lee surrenders, April 9th; Lincoln shot, Good Friday, April 14th, dies April 15th; slavery abolished by Thirteenth Amendment, December 18th; Lecky"s Rationalism published.
1866. Prussian victory over Austria at Koniggratz, July 3d; Venice part of Kingdom of Italy, November 4th.
1867. First convention of the Free Religious a.s.sociation, May 30th; suffrage extended in England, August 15th; Home Rule in Hungary.
1868. Fourteenth Amendment in force, July 28th; Cuban declaration of independence, October 10th.
1869. Irish Church disestablished, July 26th; witnesses allowed to affirm in Great Britain.
1870. Death of d.i.c.kens, June 9th; Napoleon III. defeated at
Sedan, September 1st; France a republic, September 4th; Rome part of the kingdom of Italy, October 9th; Inger-soll begins to lecture; Home Rule agitation in Ireland, 1871. Paris surrendered to Prussians, January 28th; Communists supreme there, March 18th, suppressed, May 28th; emanc.i.p.ation in Brazil; Darwin"s Descent of Man published.
1872. Death of Mazzini, March 10th; secret ballot in England; Abbot"s "Demands of Liberalism" published in The Index (which began January 1, 1870).
1873. Spain a republic, February 11th; death of J. S. Mill, May 8th; American Liberal League, September 1st.
1874. Military usurpation at Madrid, January 3d; death of Sumner, March 11th; citizens of District of Columbia disfranchised, June 17th; Alphonso XII. king of Spain, December 30th; Mrs. Besant begins to lecture; Victor Hugo"s Ninety-Three published.
1875. Sunday Society organised at London.
1876. Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia opens, May 10th, and conventiom of Liberal League, July 1st; disputed election for President, November 7th; Sunday convention in Boston, November 15th; vivisection restricted in England; Cuban rebellion suppressed, 242 Liberty in the Nineteenth Century.
1877. Museum of Fine Arts in Boston open in and after March on Sundays.
1878. Anti-clerical resolution pa.s.sed by Woman Suffrage Convention, Rochester, N. Y., July; split of Liberal League at Syracuse, N. Y., Sunday, October 27th; Professor Winch.e.l.l obliged to leave Nashville, Tenn., for evolutionism.
1879. Specie payment resumed in U. S. A., January 1st; death of Garrison, May 24th; Henry George"s Progress and Poverty published.
1880. Bradlaugh refused his seat in Parliament, May 21st; many patriots banished to Siberia.
1881. Czar Alexander II. a.s.sa.s.sinated, March 13th, anti-Jewish mobs on and after April 27th; Bradlaugh excluded by force, August 1st.
1882. Death of Longfellow, March 24th, of Darwin, April 18th, of Emerson, April 27th, and of Garibaldi, June 2d.
1883. Foote and Ramsay, English journalists, sentenced respectively to twelve and nine months in prison for blasphemy.
1884. Death of Wendell Phillips; February 2d; Cleveland elected President, November 4th; Professor Woodrow dismissed from Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C, for teaching evolution, December 12th.
1885. Death of Victor Hugo, May 20th, and of General Grant, July 23d.
1886. Bradlaugh takes his seat, January 13th; railroad strike in
Missouri suppressed by Federal troops, March; b.l.o.o.d.y conflict of Chicago anarchists with police, May 4th; statue of Liberty unveiled in New York Harbour, October 28th.