HAMPTON ROADS PEACE CONFERENCE. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1865 (FEBRUARY). HANAU, Battle of. See GERMANY: A. D. 1813 (OCTOBER-DECEMBER). HANCOCK, John, and the American Revolution. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1775 (MAY-AUGUST); and 1776 (JULY). HANDVESTS. See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1559-1562. HANES. An ancient Egyptian city, once mentioned in the Bible by that name (Isaiah xxx. 4). Its ruins have been identified, about 70 miles above Cairo, on the western bank of the Nile. The Egyptian name of the city was Chenensu; the Greek name Heracleopolis. _R. S. Poole, Cities of Egypt, chapter 3._ HANNIBAL, The war of, with Rome. See PUNIC WAR, THE SECOND. ----------HANOVER: Start-------- HANOVER, OR BRUNSWICK-LÜNEBURG: Origin of the Kingdom and House. See SAXONY: THE OLD DUCHY, and A. D. 1178-1183. HANOVER: The Guelf connection. See GUELFS AND GHIBELLINES; and ESTE, HOUSE OF. HANOVER: A. D. 1529. The Duke joins in the Protest which gave origin to the name Protestants. See PAPACY: A. D. 1525-1529. HANOVER: A. D. 1546. Final separation from the Wolfenbüttel branch of the House. The two principalities of Brunswick and Lüneburg, which had been divided, were reunited by Ernest, called the Confessor. On his death, in 1546, they were again divided, the heir of his elder son taking Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, or Brunswick, and the younger receiving Brunswick-Lüneburg, or Hanover. From the latter branch sprang the Electoral House of Hanover, and the present royal family of England; from the former descended the Ducal Brunswick family. _Sir A. Halliday, Annals of the House of Hanover, book 9 (volume 2)._ {1624} HANOVER: A. D. 1648. Losses and acquisitions in the Peace of Westphalia. The alternating Bishopric. See GERMANY: A. D. 1648. HANOVER: A. D. 1692. Rise to Electoral rank. See GERMANY: A. D. 1648-1705; and 1125-1152. HANOVER: A. D. 1694-1696. The war of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV. See FRANCE: A.D. 1694; and 1695-1696. HANOVER: A. D. 1701. Settlement of the Succession of the Brunswick-Lüneberg line to the English Crown. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1701. HANOVER: A. D. 1714. Succession of the Elector to the British Crown. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1714. HANOVER: A. D. 1720. Acquisition of the duchies of Bremen and Verden by the Elector. See SCANDINAVIAN STATES (SWEDEN): A. D. 1719-1721. HANOVER: A. D. 1741. The War of the Austrian Succession: Neutrality declared. See AUSTRIA: A. D. 1741 (AUGUST-NOVEMBER). HANOVER: A. D. 1745. The English-Hanoverian defeat at Fontenoy. See NETHERLANDS (THE AUSTRIAN PROVINCES): A. D. 1745. HANOVER: A. D. 1757-1762. French attack and British defense of the electorate in the Seven Years War.