1780 General Arnold deferts the service of the Congrefs, efcapes to New-York, and is made a brigadier-general in the royal fervice, Sept. 24.

Major André, adjutant-general to the British army, hanged as a spy at Tappan, i. the province of New-York, Oct. 2.

Mr. Laurens is committed prifoner to the Tower, on a charge of high treason, October 4.

Dreadful hurricanes in the West Indies, by which great devaftation is made in Jamaica, Barbadoes, St. Lucia, Dominica, and other islands, Oct. 3. and 10.

A declaration of hostilities published against Holland, Dec. 20.

1781 The Dutch ifland of St. Euftatia taken by admiral Rodney, and general Vaughan, Feb. 3. Retaken by the French, Nov. 27.

Earl Cornwallis obtains a victory, but with confiderable lofs, over the Americans under general Green, at Guildford, in North Carolina, March 15.

The island of Tobago taken by the French, June 2.

A bloody engagement fought between an Englith fquadron under the command of
admiral Parker, and a Dutch fquadron under the command of admiral Zoutman,
off the Dogger-bank, Aug. 5.

Earl Cornwallis, with a confiderable British army, furrendered prifoners of war to the
American and French troops, under the command of general Washington and count
Rochambeau, at York-town, in Virginia, Oct. 19.

1782 Trincomale, on the island of Ceylon, taken by Admiral Hughes, Jan. 11.
Minorca furrendered to the arms of the king of Spain, Feb. 5.

The ifland of St. Christopher taken by the French, Feb. 12.

The inland of Nevis, in the West Indies, taken by the French, Feb. 14.
Montferrat taken by the French, Feb. 22.

The houfe of commons addrefs the king against any further profecution of offenfive
war on the continent of North America, Mar. 4; and refolve, That that house
would confider all thofe as enemies to his majesty, and this country, who should ad-
vife, or by any means atteinpt, the farther profecution of offenfive war on the con-
tinent of North America, for the purpose of reducing the revolted colonies to obe-
dience by force.

Admiral Rodney obtains a signal victory over the French fleet under the command of count de Graffe, near Dominica, in the West Indies, April 12.

Admiral Hughes, with eleven thips, beat off, near the ifland of Ceylon, by the French admiral Suffrein, with twelve fhips of the line, after a fevere engagement, in which both fleets loft a great number of men, April 13.

The refolution of the houfe of commons relating to John Wilkes, Efq; and the Middlefex clection, pafied Feb. 17, 1769, refcinded, May 3.

The bill to repeal the declaratory act of George I. relative to the legiflation of Ireland, received the royal affent, June 20.

The French took and deftroyed the forts and fettlements in. Hudfon's Bay, Aug. 24.

1782 The

1782 The Spaniards defeated in their grand attack on Gibraltar, Sept. 13.

Treaty concluded betwixt the republic of Holland and the United States of America,
Oct. 8.
Provifional articles of peace figned at Paris between the British and the American
commiffioners, by which the Thirteen United American colonies are acknow-
ledged by his Britannic majefty to be free, fovereign, and independent itates,
Nov. 30.

1783 Preliminary articles of peace between his Britannic majesty and the kings of France and Spain, figned at Verfailles, Jan. 20.

The order of St. Patrick inftituted, Feb. 5.

Three earthquakes in Calabria Ulterior and Sicily, destroying a great number of towns and inhabitants, Feb. 5th, 7th, and 28th.

Armistice betwixt Great Britain and Holland, Feb. 1o.

Ratification of the definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States of America, Sept. 3.

1784 The city of London wait on the king, with an addrefs of thanks for difmiffing the coalition miniftry, Jan. 16.

The great feal ftole from the Lord Chancellor's houfe in Great Ormond-street,
March 24.

The ratification of the peace with America arrived, April 7.

The definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain and Holland, May 24.

The memory of Handel commemorated by a grand jubilee at Westminster-abbey,
May 26. Continued annually for decayed muficians, &c.

Proclamation for a public thanksgiving, July 2.

Mr. Lunardi afcended in a balloon from the Artillery-ground, Moorfields, the first attempt of the kind in England, Sept. 15.

1785 Dr. Seabury, an American miffionary, was confecrated bishop of Connecticut by five nonjuring Scotch prelates, Nov.

2786 The king of Sweden prohibited the ufe of torture in his dominions.

Cardinal Turlone, high inquifitor at Rome, was publickly dragged out of his carriage by an incenfed multitude, for his cruelty, and hung on a gibbet 50 feet high.

Sept. 26, Commercial treaty figned between England and France.

Nov. 21. £. 471,000 3 per cent. ftock transferred to the landgrave of Heffe, for Heffian foldiers loft in the American war, at £.30 a man.

Dec. 4. Mr. Adams, the American ambaffador, prefented to the archbishop of Canterbury Dr. White, of Pennfylvania, and Dr. Proft, of New-York, to be confecrated bishops for the United States. They were confecrated Feb. 4, 1787. 1787 May 21. Mr. Burke, at the bar of the house of lords, in the name of all the commons of Great Britain, impeached Warren Haftings, late governor-general of Bengal, of high crimes and misdemeanors,

1787 Aug. 11. The king, by letters patent, erected the province of Nova Scotia into a bishop's fee, and appointed Dr. Charles Inglis, to be the bishop.

1788 In the early part of October, the firft fymptoms appeared of a fevere diforder which afflicted our gracious Sovereign. On the 6th of November they were very alarming, and on the 13th a form of prayer for his reocvery was ordered by the privy council.

1789 Feb. 17. His Majefty was pronounced to be in a state of convalefcence, and on the 26th to be free from complaints.

April 23. A general thanksgiving for the King's recovery, who attended the fervice at St. Paul's with a great Proceflion.

July 14. Revolution in France-capture of the Bastile, execution of the gover

nor, &c.

1790 July 14. Grand French confedaration in the Champ de Mars.

1791 July 14. Great riot at Birmingham, in confequence of celebrating the French confederation.

MEN of LEARNING and GENIUS.

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N. B. By the Dates is implied the Time when the above Writers died; but when that Period happens not to be known, the age in which they flourished is fignifled by A. The names in Italics are those who have given the best English Tranflations, exclufive of School-books.

TOMER, the first prophane writer and Greek poet, flourished. Pope. Hefiod, the Greek poet, fuppofed to live near the time of Homer. Cooke. 884 Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver.

600 Sappho, the Greek lyric poetefs, A. Farukes.

558 Solon, lawgiver of Athens.

556 Elop, the firft Greek fabulift. Croxal.

548 Thales, the first Greek aftronomer and geographer.

497 Pythagoras, founder of the Pythagorean philofophy in Grecce. Rowe.

474 Anacreon, the Greek lyric poet. Fawkes, Addison.

456 fchylus, the firft Greek tragic poet, Potter.

435 Pindar, the Greek lyric poet. Weft.

413 Herodotus, of Greece, the firft writer of prophane history. Littlebury. 407 Ariftophanes, the Greek comic poet, fl.White.

Euripides, the Greek tragic poet. Woodhull.

406 Sophecies,

361 Hippocrates, the Greek phyfician. Clifton.

Democritus, the Greek philofopher.

359 Xenophon, the Greek philofopher and hiftorian. Smith, Spelman, Afbly, Fielding. 348 Plato, the Greek philofopher, and difciple of Socrates. Sydenham.

336 Ifocrates, the Greek orator. Dimfdale.

332 Ariftotle, the Greek philofopher, and difciple of Plato. Hobbes.

313 Demofthenes, the Athenian orator, poisoned himself. Leland, Francis. 288 Theophraftus, the Greek philofopher, and scholar of Ariftotle. Budgel. 285 Theocritus, the fift Greek paftoral poet, fl. Fawkes.

277 Euclid, of Alexandria, in Egypt, the mathematician, f. R. Simpon. 270 Epicurus, founder of the Epicurean philofophy in Greece. Digby. 264 Xeno, founder of the Stoic philosophy in ditto.

244 Callimachus, the Greek eligiac poet.

208 Archimedes, the Greek geometrician.

134 Plautus, the Roman comic poet. Thornton.

159 Terence, of Carthage, the Latin comic poet. Colman.

155 Diogenes, of Babylon, the ftoic philofopher.

124 Polibius, of Greece, the Greek and Roman hiftorian. Hampton.

54 Lucretius, the Roman poet. Creech.

44 Julius Cæfar, the Roman historian and commentator, killed. Duncan. Diodorus Siculus, of Greece, the universal historian, fl. Booth.

Vitruvius, the Roman architect, A.

43 Cicere, the Roman orator and philofopher put to death. Guthrie, Melmoth. Cornelius Nepos, the Roman biographer, fl. Rowue.

34 Salluft, the Roman hiftorian. Gordon, Rofe.

30 Dionyfius of Halicarnaffus, the Roman hiftorian, A. Spelman.

19 Virgil, the Roman epic poet. Dryden, Pitt, Warton.

11 Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, Roman poets. Grainger, Dart.

8 Horace, the Roman lyric and fatyric poet. Francis.

A. C.

17 Livy, the Roman historian.

Ray.

19 Ovid, the Roman elegiac poet. Garth.

20 Celfus, the Roman philofopher and physician, fl. Grieve.

25 Strabo, the Greek geographer.

33 Phædrus, the Roman fabulift. Smart.

45 Paterculus, the Roman hiftorian. fl. Newcombe

62 Perfius, the Roman fatiric poet. Brewfler.

64 Quintius

64 Quintius Curtius, a Roman, hiftorian of Alexander the Great, f. Digbr. Seneca, of Spain, the philofopher and tragic poet, put to death. L'Erange, 63 Lucan, the Roman epic poet, ditto. Rowe.

79 Pliny the elder, the Roman natural hiftorian. Holland.

93 Jofephus, the Jewish hiftorian. Whiston.

94 Epictetus, the Greek ftoic philofopher, fl.

Mrs. Carter.

95 Quinctilian, the Roman orator and advocate. Guthrie. 96 Statius, the Roman epic poet. Lewis.

Lucius Florus, of Spain, the Roman historian, fl.

99 Tacitus the Roman hiftorian.

Gordon.

104 Martial, of Spain, the epigrammatic poet. Valerius Flaccus, the Roman epic poet.

Hay.

116 Pliny the younger, hiftorical letters. Melmoth, Orrery. 117 Suetonius, the Roman hiftorian. Hughes.

119 Plutarch, of Greece, the biographer.

Dryden, Langborne. 128 Juvenal, the Roman fatiric poet. Dryden.

140 Ptolemy, the Egyptian geographer, mathematician, and astronomer, A. 150 Juftin, the Roman hiftorian, A. Turnbul.

161 Arrian, the Roman hiftorian and philofopher, fl. Rooke.

167 Juftin, of Samaria, the oldest Christian author after the apoftles.

180 Lucian, the Roman Philologer. Dimfdale, Dryden, Franklin.

Marcus Aur. Antoninus, Roman emperor and philofopher. Collier, Elphinstone.

193 Galen, the Greek philofopher and phyfician.

200 Diogenes Laertius, the Greck biographer, f.

229 Dion Caffius, of Greece, the Roman hiftorian, f.

254 Origen, a Chriftian father of Alexandria.

Herodian, of Alexandria, the Roman hiftorian, A. Hart.

258 Cyprian, of Carthage, suffered martyrdom. Marfbal.

273 Longinus, the Greek orator, put to death by Aurelian. Smith.

320 Lactantius, a father of the church, fl.

336 Arius, a prieft of Alexandria, founder of the feet of Arians.

342 Eufebius, the ecclefiaftical hiftorian and chronologer. Hanmer.

379 Bazil, bishop of Cæfaria.

389 Gregory Nazianzen, bishop of Conftantinople.

397 Ambrofe, bithop of Milan.

415 Macrobius, the Roman grammarian.

428 Eutropius, the Roman hiftorian.

524 Boethius, the Roman poet, and Platonic philofopher. Bellamy, Prefion. 519 Procopius of Cæfarea, the Roman hiftorian. Halcroft.

Here ends the illuftrious lift of ancient, or, as they are styled, Claffic authors, for whom mankind are indebted to Greece and Rome, thofe two great theatres of human

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