War with United States, 1812-14. Battle of Waterloo,1815. +1830+ George IV. ascends the throne, 1820. Greek War of Freedom, 1822-29. Byron in Greece, 1823-24. Catholic Emancipation, 1829. LORD MACAULAY (Thomas Babington). +1800-1859+. Barrister; Edinburgh Reviewer; M.P.; Member of the Supreme Council of India; Cabinet Minister; poet; essayist; historian; peer. +Milton+ (in the ‘Edinburgh Review,’ 1825); +Lays of Ancient Rome+ (1842); +History of England+-- unfinished (1849-59). “His pictorial faculty is amazing.” William IV. ascends the throne, 1830. The Reform Bill, 1832. Total Abolition of Slavery, 1834. LORD LYTTON (Edward Bulwer). +1805-1873+. Novelist; poet; dramatist; M.P.; Cabinet Minister; peer. +Ismael and Other Poems+ (1825); +Eugene Aram+ (1831); +Last Days of Pompeii+ (1834); +The Caxtons+ (1849); +My Novel+ (1853); +Poems+ (1865). Queen Victoria ascends the throne, 1837. +1840+ Irish Famine, 1845. JOHN STUART MILL. +1806-1873+. Clerk in the East India House; philospher; political writer; M.P.; Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews. +System of Logic+ (1843); +Principles of Political Economy+ (1848); +Essay on Liberty+ (1858); +Autobiography+ (1873); “For judicial calmness, elevation of tone, and freedom from personality, Mill is unrivalled among the writers of his time.” Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846. +1850+ Revolution in Paris, 1851. Death of Wellington, 1852. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. +1807-1882+. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature in Harvard University, U.S.; poet; prose-writer. +Outre-Mer+--a Story (1835); +Hyperion+--a Story (1839); +Voices of the Night+ (1841); +Evangeline+ (1848) +Hiawatha+ (1855); +Aftermath+ (1873). “His tact in the use of language is probably the chief cause of his success.” Napoleon III. Emperor of the French, 1852. Russian War, 1854-56. LORD TENNYSON (Alfred Tennyson). +1809----+. Poet; poet-laureate; peer. +Poems+ (1830) +In Memoriam+ (1850); +Maud+ (1855); +Idylls of the King+ (1859-73); +Queen Mary+--a Drama (1875); +Becket+--a Drama (1884). He is at present our greatest living poet. Franco-Austrian War, 1859. +1860+ Emancipation of Russian serfs, 1861. ELIZABETH B. BARRETT (afterwards Mrs Browning). +1809-1861+. Poet; prose-writer; translator. +Prometheus Bound+-- translated from the Greek of Æschylus (1833); +Poems+ (1844); +Aurora Leigh+ (1856); and _Essays_ contributed to various magazines. Austro-Prussian “Seven Weeks’ War”, 1866. Suez canal finished, 1869. +1870+