1769 Rise of Hyder Ali, 1122 1770 Famine in Bengal, 1123 1773 =The Regulating Act=, 1123 1774 Death of Clive, 1124 Warren Hastings, 1124 1778 The Mysore war, 1127 1780 Robbery of Cheyte Singh and the Begums, 1128 1781 Parliamentary inquiry, 1129 1783 Dundas's India Bill, 1129 Fox's India Bill, 1129 The King procures its rejection, 1131 =Fall of the Whig ministry. Pitt's first ministry=, 1132 1784 Pitt's victory over the Opposition, 1134 Dissolution of Parliament, 1134 Pitt's Budget, 1134 Pitt's India Bill, 1135 Pitt's Irish policy, 1136 Failure of Pitt's Reform Bill, 1137 Pitt's financial success, 1138 1785 Charges against Warren Hastings, 1139 1787 Conduct of the Prince of Wales, 1140 1788 Trial of Warren Hastings, 1141 First motion against the slave trade, 1142 The King's illness. The Regency Bill, 1142 =Pre-eminence of Pitt=, 1143 * * * * * =Effect of the French Revolution in England=, 1145 =Pitt's foreign policy=, 1145 =Political development of the country=, 1146 1789 Affair of Nootka Sound, 1146 Alliance with Holland, 1146 Pitt's efforts to oppose Russia, 1147 Alliance with Prussia, Holland, and Sweden, 1148 1790 The Convention of Reichenbach, 1149 =Industrial development of the country=, 1150 1789 =The French Revolution=, 1151 Assembling of the States-General, 1153 Louis XVI. brought to Paris, 1154 =Excitement produced in England=, 1154 1790 =First reactionary movement=, 1154 Rejection of the Abolition of Tests and the Reform Bill, 1154 Burke's "Reflections," 1155