Declaration of Indulgence. 1673. Danby. The Test Act. 1678. Titus Gates' Plot. 1679. Habeas Corpus Act. 1681. Charles II's triumph over the Whigs. 1685. JAMES II. Monmouth's and Argyll's rebellions. 1688. The Revolution. WILLIAM III and MARY. 1689. Bill of Rights. Toleration Act. 1690. Battle of the Boyne. 1694. Bank of England established. 1696. The Whig _Junto_. 1701. Act of Settlement. 1702. ANNE. War with France. 1704. Capture of Gibraltar. England becomes a Mediterranean power. 1707. Act of Union with Scotland. 1708. Capture of Minorca. 1708-1710. Whig ministry. 1710-1714. Tory ministry. 1713. Peace of Utrecht. 1714. GEORGE I and the Hanoverian dynasty. 1721-1742. Walpole's administration. Evolution of the Cabinet and Prime Minister. Growth of imports and exports, 1727. GEORGE II. 1739. War with Spain. 1741-1748. War of the Austrian Succession. Clive in India. 1756-1763. Seven Years' War. 1757. Battle of Plassey. 1759. Capture of Quebec. 1760. GEORGE III. 1764-1779. Inventions by Arkwright, Hargreaves, and Crompton. Beginning of the Industrial Revolution. 1765. Grenville's Stamp Act. 1770. Lord North Prime Minister. Captain Cook surveys Australia and New Zealand. 1774. The Quebec Act. 1776. Declaration of American Independence. Adam Smith's _Wealth of Nations_. 1778-1779. France and Spain join the Americans. 1780. The "Armed Neutrality." Warren Hastings saves India. 1781. Fall of Yorktown. 1782. Volunteer movement In Ireland. Irish parliamentary independence. 1783. American Independence granted. 1784. Pitt Prime Minister: his India Bill. 1788. Convict settlement in Australia. 1789. French Revolution. 1791. The Canadian Constitutional Act. 1794. The "Glorious First of June." 1795-1796. Conquest of the Cape and of Ceylon. 1797. Battles of St. Vincent and Camperdown. 1798. Battle of the Nile. Irish rebellion. 1799. Wellesley in India. Capture of Seringapatam. Partition of Mysore and the Carnatic. 1800. Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Seizure of Malta. 1801. Battle of Copenhagen. 1802. Peace of Amiens. 1803. Battles of Assye and Argaum. Defeat of the Mahrattas. 1805. Battle of Trafalgar. 1806. Second capture of the Cape. 1808-1814. Peninsular War. 1810. Capture of Mauritius. 1812-1814. War with the United States. 1814. Corn Laws passed. 1815. Battle of Waterloo. 1820. GEORGE IV. 1825. Huskisson's Tariff Reform. 1827. Battle of Navarino. 1828. Corn Laws revised. 1828-1829. Repeal of Test Act. Roman Catholic Emancipation. 1830. WILLIAM IV. Whigs return to power. 1832. First Reform Act. Representative Government established in Newfoundland. 1834-1835. Reform of the Poor Law and Municipal corporations. 1837. QUEEN VICTORIA. Mackenzie and Papineau's rebellions in Canada. Great Boer "trek." 1840. Annexation of New Zealand. 1841-1846. Peel's Free Trade policy. 1842. Representative government in Australia. 1846. Corn Laws repealed. 1848. Responsible self-government In Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova