See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1774 (MAY-JUNE); 1774 (SEPTEMBER); 1775 (MAY-AUGUST); 1776 (JANUARY-JUNE), 1776 (JULY). In diplomatic service. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1782 (APRIL); 1782 (SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER). Presidential election and administration. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A.D. 1796-1801. ADAMS, John Quincy. Negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1814 (DECEMBER). Presidential election and administration. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1824-1829. ADAMS, Samuel, in and after the American Revolution. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1772-1773; 1774 (SEPTEMBER); 1775(MAY); 1787-1789. ADDA, Battle of the (A. D. 490). See ROME: A. D. 488-526. AD DECIMUS, Battle of (A. D. 533). See VANDALS: A. D. 533-534. ADEL.--ADALING.--ATHEL. "The homestead of the original settler, his house, farm-buildings and enclosure, 'the toft and croft,' with the share of arable and appurtenant common rights, bore among the northern nations [early Teutonic] the name of Odal, or Edhel; the primitive mother village was an Athelby, or Athelham; the owner was an Athelbonde: the same word Adel or Athel signified also nobility of descent, and an Adaling was a nobleman. Primitive nobility and primitive landownership thus bore the same name." _William Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, chapter 3, section 24._ See, also, ALOD, and ETHEL. ADELAIDE, The founding and naming of. See AUSTRALIA: A. D. 1800-1840. ADELANTADOS.-ADELANTAMIENTOS. "Adelantamientos was an early term for gubernatorial districts [in Spanish America, the governors bearing the title of Adelantados], generally of undefined limits, to be extended by further conquests." _H. H. Bancroft, History of the Pacific States, volume 6 (Mexico, volume 3), page 520._ ADEODATUS II., Pope, A. D. 672-676. ADIABENE. A name which came to be applied anciently to the tract of country east of the middle Tigris, embracing what was originally the proper territory of Assyria, together with Arbelitis. Under the Parthian monarchy it formed a tributary kingdom, much disputed between Parthia and Armenia. It was seized several times by the Romans, but never permanently held. _G. Rawlinson, Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy, page 140._ ADIRONDACKS, The. See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ADIRONDACKS. ADIS, Battle of (B. C. 256). See PUNIC WAR, THE FIRST. ADITES, The. "The Cushites, the first inhabitants of Arabia, are known in the national traditions by the name of Adites, from their progenitor, who is called Ad, the grandson of Ham." _F. Lenormant, Manual of Ancient History, book 7, chapter 2._ See ARABIA: THE ANCIENT SUCCESSION AND FUSION OF RACES. ADJUTATORS. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1647 (APRIL-AUGUST).