Coke, Sir Edward, 341, 342.
Cilicia, Semitic, 21; under Persia, 26, 27, Colbert, 366.
134; Roman province, 136.
Cimbri, invade Italy, 127, 128, 167.
Cimon, 57, 61; rivalry with Themistocles,
62; recalled to Athens, death, 63.
Cimon, peace of, 63.
Cincinnati, society of the, 432.
Cincinnatus, L. Quinctius, 98. Cineas, 108.
Cinna, 130, 131.
Cinq-Mars, marquis of, 326.
Cinque Ports, 264.
Circles of the II. R. E., 300.
Cisalpine republic, founded, 459; included in Italian republic, 454.
Ciudad Rodrigo, captured, 473. Civil marriage compulsory, 521. Civil rights bill, 559.
Civil service act, 560.
Civil war, in England (Roses), 272; great rebellion, 347, 350; in France, 321, 322; in Portugal, 488; in Rome, 130, 140; in Spain, 490, 520; in Switzerland, 492; in United States, Shays's rebellion, 433; whiskey, 548; great rebellion, 557. Civilis, Cl., 168.
Clarendon, e. of, first interview with the
king, 346; receives grant of South Caro- lina, 358; chancellor, 378; fall, 379. Clark, John, settles Rhode Island, 297. Claudia, 148, 319.
Claudius, Roman emp., conquest of Brit- ain, 37; reign, 157. Claudius Pulcher, 111.
Claverhouse, defeat, 381; victory and death, 386.
Clay, Henry, U. S. sec. of state, 552. Clay's compromises, 555.
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, 555.
Clemens Maximus, 161.
Clement II., pope, 199; III., 200; V., 254; goes to Avignon, 263; XIV., 416. Cleomenes, k. of Sparta, 55; III., 79. Cleon, 65, 66.
Cleopatra placed over Egypt by Cæsar, 142; meets Antonius, 145; fails to charm Octavian, death, 147.- Clermont, council of, 214.
Cleves-Jülich, contested succession begun, 308; ended, 372. [Geneal. table, 307.] Clientes, 90.
Cliff temples in India, 23.
Clinton, Sir Henry, 429, 430.
Clisthenes, reforms of, 54.
Clitus, murder of, 75.
Clive, lord, 442; sketch of life, 443; in India, 443, 444.
Clodius, P., 135; tribune exiles Cicero, 128; ultra democrat, 139; death, 140. Cloten, 37.
Clovis. See Chlodwig.
Colchester, taken by Fairfax, 351. Coleman, execution, 381.
Coligny, adm. de, attempts to found a Huguenot colony in America, 288; mur- dered, 321.
Collatinus, 89, 93.
College, execution of, 383.
Colleges of sacred lore, 85; founded, 170. Colmar, 186.
Cologne, diet of, 300; archbishop of, elec- tor, 248.
Colonies, Greek, 48, 49; Roman and Latin, 109; in America: Spanish, 282, etc.; English, 291; Dutch, Swedish, 298; French, 299, 363. Colosseum, 82, 152.
Columbey-Nouilly, battle of, 516. Columbia, 488.
Columbus, Bartholomew, 283: Christopher, voyages to America, 282, 283, 284; state of Japan at the time of his voyage, 278; Diego, 284.
Comitia, centuriata, origin, 92; growth of power, 94, 102; chooses censors, 99; de- cline, 107; democratic reform of, 112; reformed by Sulla, 130; further conser- vative changes, 132; powers transferred to the senate, 149: curiata, original con- stitution, 91, 92; changes in the consti- tution, 94 and n.; constitution in the 4th cent. B. C., 102: tributa, established, 96; summons Coriolanus, 97; made equal with centuriata, 98; constitution in 4th cent. B. C., 102; resolves made univer- sally binding, 107.
Commercial panic in England, 539; in U. S., 556, 560.
Committee of public safety, in England, 347; in France, 453, 455. Commodus, Roman emp., 154. Common law, 266.
Commune of Paris 451, 454, 455; upris- ing, 532.
Comnenes, dynasty, 240: house, 240. Compton, b. of London, 383, 384. Compurgation, abolition of, 232. Concilium Germanicum, 184. Concini (Maréchal d'Ancre), 325. Concord, battle of, 426. Concordat in France, 319, 463. Condé, 315, 366, 368, 450.
Confederate States of America, 556; recog
nized by Great Britain, 555.
Confederation of the Rhine, establishment,
468; dissolution, 479.
Confession of faith, 338. Confirmatio chartarum, 266. Conflans, treaty of, 250. Confucius, 32.
Congress, Continental, 426, 427; of United States, 547.
Connecticut, colony of, 296; charter, 358; united with New Haven, 358; govern- ment, 351, 362; slavery partially abol- ished, 432.
Conrad, emp. of the H. R. E., I. (of Fran- conia), 194; II. (the Salian), 198; III., crusade, 215; reign, 219; IV., 225. Conrad the Red, of Lotharingia, 195.
Conradin, 225, 226.
Conseil du Roi, 446.
Consistorium principis, 159.
Constance, council of, 251; peace of, 222. Constance, of Sicily, married Henry VI., 222.
Constans, Roman emp., 160. Constant, B., 527.
Constantine, Roman emp., I. (the Great), 159; II., 160.
Constantinople, fall of, 260, 278; palace, revolution in, 521; conference of, 522. See Byzantium.
Constantius, Roman emp., 158, 160; Per- sian war, 188.
Constantius Chlorus, 158.
Constituent assembly in France, 447, 449. Constitutio Antoniana, 155. Constitution of Austria, of 1849, 495; Feb- ruary c., 504; c. of 1866, 511. Constitution, French, first, accepted by Louis XIV., 450; second (Republican), never executed, 454; third (of 1795), 457: fourth, 461; fifth, 464; of the First Empire, 465; c. of Louis XVIII., 565; c. of Louis Philippe, 529; c. of 1848, 531; c. of Louis Napoleon, 531; third re- public, 532; c. of 1875, 533. Constitution of Germany. See Bull, Gold- en, and diet of Regensburg. End of the H. R. E., 464; German confederation, 483; attempt to frame a new c., 493; new c. completed, 497; return to the confederation, 498; confederation dis- solved, 459; North German confedera- tion, 511; c. of the German empire, 520. Constitution of Hungary. See Bull, gold- en. Under Joseph II., 408; in 1848, 494; abrogated, 495; in 1861, 504; restored, 511.
Constitution of Naples, 493.
Coronado, Francisco Vasquez, 287. Coronea, battle of, 63, 70. Corporation act, 379, 539. Corpus Catholicorum, 371. Corpus Evangelicorum, 371. Corpus juris civilis, 210. Correggio, 328.
Corsica, Phocæans driven from, 19, 26, 84; assigned to Sextus Pompeius 146; king- dom of, 415.
Cortenuova, battle of, 224.
Cortereal, Gaspar and Miguel de, 284. Cortes at Cadiz, 473.
Cortez, Hernando, conquers Mexico, 285; discovers Lower California, 287. Corvinus, Matthias, k. of Hungary, 253. Cosa, Juan de la, 284. Council of ten, 262.
Council of the church, first oecumenical, 159; last, 159, 512.
Count of the Saxon Shore, 38. Courcelles, gov. of New France, 364. Court of Common Pleas, Exchequer, King's Bench, 266.
Courtrai, battle of, 254. Couthon, 454, 456.
Covenant. See Solemn League. Covenanters, defeat of, 379. Covilham, 353.
Cowpens, battle of, 431.
Constitution of Poland, old, 374; c. of 1791, Coxe, 365. 413; abrogated, 490. Constitution of Prussia, 497.
Constitution of 1812 in Spain formed, 473; abrogated, 483; restored, 487; abrogated, 488.
Constitution of United States signed, 433. See Amendments. Constitutions of Clarendon, 232. Consulate, French, 448, 461; Roman, es- tablished, 93; first plebeian consul, 101; age of eligibility, 120; treatment under the empire, 147. Conventicle act, 379.
Convention parliament, 378, 385. Convocation, 340, 437.
Convulsionnaires, 446.
Cook, James, voyages of, 442. Coote, Sir Eyre, 444.
Copenhagen, capture of, 249; 1st bom- bardment, 470; battle of, 536; 2d bom- bardment, 537; peace of, 373.
Corcyra, 64, 66.
Corday, Charlotte, 454.
Cordeliers, 451.
Cordova, Caliphate of, 183, 209. Cordova, Gonsalvo de 318.
Corea, conquered by Chinese, 32; by Jap- anese, 33; treaty with Japan, 564. Corfinium, capital of Italia, 129.
Corinth, origin, 48; national assembly at,
Cracow, 414; free state of, 483.
Cradock, Matthew, gov. of Mass. Bay, 295. Cranmer, archb. of Canterbury, 335; burnt 338.
Crassus, expedition against Parthia, 30, 133; democrat, 136, 137; consul, 140. Craterus, 74; regent of West, 76; in the Lamian war, 79.
Craven, gov. of Carolina, 417. Crawford, W. H., U. S. sec. of the treas., 551.
Crécy, battle of, 248, 257. Crefeld, battle of, 405.
Cremona, 35; founded, 112; battle of, 151; diet, 224. Crescentius, 197.
Crete, Phoenician settlements in, 17; un- der Minos, 18, 41; assigned to Brutus, 144; belongs to Venice, 326; yielded to Turks, 416.
Crimean war, 499, 500, 543; end of, 531. Critias slain, 69. Croatia, 511.
Croesus, k. of Lydia, conquers Grecian cities, intercourse with Greece, war with Persia, 21, 22; defeated, 22, 26; story of his miraculous rescue, 26.
Cromwell, Oliver, sketch of life, 375; first speech, 343; "Ironsides," 347; Marston
Cynoscephalæ, battle of, 71, 80, 119. Cynric, 178.
Cyprus, tributary to Assyria, 14; Phoeni- cian colonies in, 17, 41; given to Guy of Lusignan, by Richard of England, 215; given by Catherine Cornaro to Venice, 262; surrendered to the Turks, 326; given to England, 524; British take pos- session, 545.
Cyrene in Africa, hostilities with Egypt, 6; founded, 19; submits to Cambyses, 27; conquered by Darius, 28; assigned to Cassius, 144.
Cyrus, emp. of Persia, deposes Astyages, 62; defeats Croesus, 21, 26; takes Baby- lon, 16, 26; death, 27; the younger, 29. Cyzicus, battle of, 68, 134. Czartoryski, 490.
Czaslau, battle of, 401. Czechs, 493.
Dablon, 364.
Dacia, war with Rome, 152, 153; made a Roman province, 152; given up by Au- relian, 157.
Dædalus, 18.
Dale, Sir Thomas, 292.
Dalecarlians, revolt of the, 352.
Dalhousie, e. of, gov. gen. in India, 546. Dalmatia, 525, 526.
Danby, impeachment, 381, 383, 384; pres. of privy council, 385.
Dandolo, Henry, doge of Venice, 216, 262. Danegeld, instituted, 205; abolished, 231. Danelagh, 204; reconquered and lost, 205. Danes. See Denmark, Northmen. In Eng- land; three epochs of their ravages, 203; treaty of Wedmore, 204; massacre of Danes, 305; political conquest of Eng- land, 206. Dangerfield, 382, 383. Danish vespers, 205. Danneborg, 235. Dannevirke, 207. Dante Alighieri, 263.
Danton, member of Cordeliers, 451, 452, 453; of the Committee of Public Safety, 454; execution, 455.
Danzig, annexed to Poland, 413; captured by Napoleon, 469.
Daras, battle of, 190.
Darc, Jeanne, career, 260. Dardanos, peace of, 131.
Dare, Virginia, 289.
Darien, discovered by Columbus, 284; at- tacked by Drake, 289; Scotch settlement at, 362.
Darius, name of several k.'s of Persia, I. succeeds Bardija, recaptures Babylon, 27; war with Scythians, reforms, war with Ionian Greeks, with European Greeks, death, 28: II. Nothus, 29; III., Codomannus, defeated by Alexander, death, 29, 74.
Darnley, murdered, 338. Datis, 57.
Daun, marshal, 404, 405.
Dauphin, title of the heir to the French crown, 258.
Dauphiné of Vienne, transferred to the crown of France, 258. David, k. of the Jews, 8, 9.
David II., k. of Scotland, capture of, 268. Davila, 285.
Davis, Jefferson, U. S. sec. of war, 555;
pres. of the Confederate States, 556. Davis, John, Arctic voyages, 289, 290. Davout, on the Rhine, 467; defeated at Eylau, 469; in Hamburg, 476, 479. Day of the sections, 457. Decazes, ministry of, 527. Deccan, in India, geographical position, 22; arrival of Hindus, 23; state of, in 1498, 353; independence of, 442; passes under the control of the British, 541. Decebalus, 152, 153.
Decelean war, 67.
Decemvirs, 98.
Decius, Roman emp., 156.
Decius Mus P., 108.
Declaration of Independence in Belgium, 489; in the United States, 428. Declaration of indulgence, 380. Declaration of rights, 385.
Declaration of rights and liberties, 424. Deerfield, Indian attack, 363.
Defoe, Daniel, 389, 436.
Deiotarus, k. of Galatia, 78, 136; submits to Cæsar, 142.
Dejoces, Median chief, 25.
Delaware, lord, gov. of S. Virginia, 292.
Demetrius, the false, 352.
Demetrius Poliorcetes, 77; in Athens, 79. Democratic party in U. S., 548. Demosthenes, the general, 66, 67. Demosthenes, the orator, opposition to Philip, 72; forms alliance with Thebes, 73; poisons himself, 79.
Denain, battle of, 392.
Denmark, people of, 164; early history, 207; war with Charles the Great, 185; with Otto I., 195; with Otto II., 197; in- vasion of England, 203, 204; conquest of England, 205, 206; under Waldemar the conqueror, 235; capitulation, 236; Union of Calmar, 237, 276; share in thirty years' war, 310; war with Sweden, 314; feuds of the counts in, 352; lex regia, 374; treaty with Sweden, 397; alliance with France, 470; receives Lauenberg, 483; Schleswig-Holstein, 496: incorpora- tion of the duchies, 505; war with Aus- tria and Prussia, 505.
Dennewitz, battle of, 477. Denys, Jean, 284.
Deorham, battle of, 178.
Derby, e. of, impeachment, 270.
1st ministry of, 543, 2d, 544; 3d, Drepanum, sea-fight at, 111.
Dunes, battle of the, 377.
Dinwiddie, Robert, gov. of Virginia, 420.
Diocletianus, Roman emp,
Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, 20.
Dunkirk, siege of, 377; sold to France, 379.
Dunse, pacification of, 345.
Dupleix, gov. of Pondicherri, 443.
Dunstan, archb. of Canterbury, 205.
Düppel, storming of, 506.
Durazzo, house of, in Naples, 263. Dur-Sarrukin, 12, 15.
Directory, in France, 448; government of, Dutch in America, 298; in India, 354.
East India Company of London, origin, 354; charter renewed, 540: government of India ceases, 544; exclusive trade with China ceases, 561.
East Indies, ocean route to, discovered, 279. See, also, India.
East Roumelia, province of, 524. Eberhard, d. of Franconia, 195;
Würtemberg, wars with Rudolf I., 244;
der Greiner, wars with cities, 249.
Eberwiz. See Chosroes II.
Ecbatana, 24, 25, 26, 28.
Egremont, sec. of state, 439. Egypt, geography, religion, 2: civiliza- tion, chronology, 3 old empire, new empire, 4; stories of Sesostris, 5; not con- quered by Assyrians 961 B. C., 5 n. 2 ; con- quered by Ethiopians, 6 by Assyrians, 6, 14; revolt of Psamethik, 6; becomes a province of Persia, 7; conquered by Cambyses, 27; under the Ptolemies, 77: conquered by Cæsar, 143; Roman prov- ince, 147 reconquered by Aurelian, 157: by Muhammedans, 182; sixth crusade, 217; revolt of Mehemed Ali, 491; revoit of Arabi Pasha, 546. Eider-Danes, 505. El, 13.
El Dorado, 288.
Elagabalus, Roman emp., 155. Elam, empire of, 13.
Elba, conferred upon Napoleon, 481. Eldon, lord chan., 536.
Eleanor of Poitou, married Louis VII., and afterward Henry of Anjou, 226. Eleanor, wife of Edward I. of England, death of, 264.
Electoral reform bill in Italy, 526. Electors of the H. R. E., 248. Electro-magnetism discovered, 487. Elgin, lord, viceroy of India, 546; envoy to China, 561.
Eliot, John, missionary, 357. Eliot, sir John, 341, 343. Elisha, 9.
Elissa, founds Carthage, 18. Elizabeth of Bohemia, 341. Elizabeth of Valois, 324, 330.
Elizabeth, q. of England, reign, 338, 339. Elizabeth, tsarina of Russia, ally of Aus- tria, 403; death relieves Frederic, 405; reign, 411.
Ecclesiastical commision, new court of, Elizabeth Islands, 290.
Ecclesiastical titles bill, 543.
Ecgberht, k. of Wessex, lord of England south of the Forth, 180, 181, 203.
Eckmühl, battle of, 471.
Eclipse of the sun, 21.
Ecnomus, battle of, 110.
Ecuador, republic of, 488.
Edda, elder and younger, 165. Edessa, captured, 215. Edgehill, battle of, 347.
Edict of Nantes, promulgation, 324 revo- cation of, 369; of restitution, 310; of tolerance of Joseph II., 407. Edinburgh, treaty of, 338; liturgy in, 344; general assembly, 345.
Edmund Gammal, k. of Sweden, 208. Edmund, St., k. of England, 203. Edward I., k. of England, agreement with Philip IV., of France, 254; reign, 263, 264; reforms, 266; II., reign, 267; III., reign, 268; war with France, 257; laws in Ireland, 269; IV., reign, 272, 274; invades France, 260; V., reign, 275; VI., reign,
Edward the Black Prince, victory of Poitiers, 258; aids Peter the Cruel, 276; death, 269. Egmont, at Gravelines, 321; sketch of life, execution, 330.
Ellenborough, e. of, gov. gen. in India, 546. Ellichpur, kingdom founded, 353; con-
quered by Auranzeb, 389.
Elster, battle of the, 478. Ely, capture of, 229.
Emadeddin Zenki, 215.
Emancipation of the serfs in Russia, 500. Emancipation proclamation, 558. Embargo policy of U. S., 550. Emir-al-Mumenin, 182; al Omra, 210. Emmanuel Philibert, d. of Savoy, 326. Emmanuel the Great, k. of Portugal, 332. Emmet's insurrection in Ireland, 536. Enactment of the delegates of the empire, 464.
Encumbered estates act, 543. Endicott, John, 295, 296. Enghien, d. of." See Condé. Enghien, d. of executed, 465.
England. See Britain. Teutonic conquest, 176; West Saxon kings, 203; Danish su- premacy, 206; Norman conquest, 206; Norman kings, 229; house of Plantagenet, large possessions in France, 231; conquest of Ireland, 232; magna charta, 233; par- liament, 234; hundred years' war, 257; loses French possessions, 260; annexation of Wales, 264; reforms under Edward I., 266; first perfect parliament, 267; Scot- land lost, 268; black death, 268; peace
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