1874. Marriage of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, to the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.--General Election.--First Conservative Majority since 1841.--Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli) Prime Minister. 1876. Royal Titles Bill passed.--Bulgarian atrocities.--Servia and Montenegro declare war against Turkey. 1877. Russia declares war against Turkey. 1878. Death of Princess Alice.--Marriage of the Queen’s eldest granddaughter, Princess Charlotte of Prussia.--Treaty of Berlin.--Death of Lord Russell. 1879. Marriage of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, to Princess Louise of Prussia.--Birth of the Queen’s first great-grandchild.--Death of the Prince Imperial in South Africa. 1880.--General Election.--Large Liberal majority.--Mr. Gladstone Prime Minister. 1881. War in Egypt.--Tel-el-Kebir. 1882. Marriage of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, to Princess Helen of Waldeck.--The Queen fired at by a Lunatic. 1884. Death of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.--Birth of his posthumous son.--Passing of Mr. Gladstone’s Reform Bill giving Household Suffrage in Counties. 1885. Marriage of Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg.--Death of General Gordon at Khartoum.--Fall of Mr. Gladstone’s Ministry.--Marquis of Salisbury Prime Minister.--General Election.--Parties very nearly balanced.--Mr. Gladstone declares himself in favor of Home Rule. 1886. Lord Salisbury’s Government defeated.--Mr. Gladstone forms Government and introduces First Home Rule Bill, defeated in the House of Commons, June.--General Election, July.--Large Unionist Majority.--Lord Salisbury Prime Minister. 1887. The Jubilee. 1888. Death of German Emperor, William I., March.--Accession of the Queen’s son-in-law, the Emperor Frederick.--His death, June 15th. 1892. Death of the Queen’s heir in the second generation, the Duke of Clarence.--Death of her son-in-law, Prince Louis of Hesse.--General Election.--Liberal majority.--Mr. Gladstone Prime Minister. 1893. Betrothal and marriage of Duke of York to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.--Second Home Rule Bill defeated in the House of Lords. 1894. Birth of Prince Edward of York.--Death of the Czar, Alexander II.--Accession of the young Czar, Nicholas II.--His marriage to the Queen’s granddaughter, Princess Alix of Hesse.--Mr. Gladstone retires, and is succeeded in the Premiership by the Earl of Rosebery. BOOKS OF REFERENCE.