1799. Generals Harris and Baird besieged and captured SERINGAPATAM: Tippoo Saib killed (May 4). Buonaparte unsuccessfully besieged Acre, which was defended by Sir Sidney Smith. He returned to France, and was declared First Consul. 1800. =The Irish parliament agreed to a legislative union with England.= Malta taken from the French (Sept. 5). Maritime confederacy formed against England by Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark. 1801. UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Mr. Addington succeeded Pitt as premier. The French defeated by the English at ALEXANDRIA (Mar. 21). Battle of =COPENHAGEN= (April 2); this victory, and the assassination of the emperor Paul, broke up the maritime confederacy. By the terms of the union with Ireland, four spiritual peers, twenty-eight temporal peers, and a hundred commoners were to represent Ireland in the united parliament. The churches of England and Ireland were to be united into one Protestant episcopal church, called the United Church of England and Ireland; both countries were to enjoy the same commercial privileges; and the laws and courts of each country were to remain the same as before, subject to alterations by the united parliament. 1802. ~Treaty of Amíens~, between England, France, Spain, and Holland (Mar. 27). Buonaparte declared consul for life. This treaty was merely a truce. England surrendered all her conquests except Ceylon and Trinidad. Malta was to be given back to the knights of St. John. 1803. =Renewal of the war with France=: all the English travelling in France arrested. =War with the Mahrattas= in India. General Lake gained great victories at DELHI (Sept. 11) and LASWAREE (Nov. 1), and General Wellesley at ASSAYE (Sept. 23) and ARGAUM (Nov. 28). 1804. Pitt reinstated as premier. Buonaparte became emperor of France under the title of Napoleon I. 1805. Napoleon prepared to invade England. Victory over the French and Spanish fleets off CAPE FINISTERRE, by Sir Robert Calder (July 22), and off =TRAFALGAR= by Nelson, who was killed (Oct 21): naval power of France destroyed. 1806. Death of Pitt. A coalition ministry formed, the most important member of which was Fox, who died the same year. The French defeated by Sir John Stuart at MAIDA, in Calabria (July 6). Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree, to destroy the trade of England. 1807. Slave trade abolished by parliament. The duke of Portland appointed premier. COPENHAGEN bombarded by the English (Sept. 5), who seized the Danish fleet, which otherwise would have fallen into the hands of Napoleon. Portugal occupied by the French.