Due de Montpensier. Escape of Prince Louis Napoleon from
Ham. Death of Pope Gregory XVI., and elevation of Pius IX.
Death of Louis Napoleon, Ex-King of Holland.

1847.--Splendid military successes of Generals Scott and
Taylor in Mexico. Fall of Mexico. Ravages of the Potato
Disease. Awful Distress in Ireland. Guizot succeeds Soult as
President of the Council. Frequent changes of Ministry in
Spain. Civil War in Switzerland. Grant of a Constitution to
Prussia. Liberal Measures of Pius IX. Death of the King of
Denmark; of Dr. Chalmers; of Silas Wright.

1848.--French Revolution, and Fall of Louis Philippe.
Abdication of the King of Bavaria. Tumults in Vienna and
Berlin. Riots in Rome. Chartist demonstrations in London.
Election of the National Assembly in France. General
fermentation throughout Europe. Distress of Ireland. Oregon
Territorial Bill. Free Soil Convention in Buffalo. Death of
John Quincy Adams. Election of General Taylor for President
of the United States.

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PRIME MINISTERS OF ENGLAND SINCE THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII.

KING HENRY VIII.

1509. Bishop Fisher, and Earl of Surrey.

1513. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.

1529. Sir Thomas More, and Cranmer.

1532. Lord Audley, (Chancellor,) Archbishop Cranmer.

1538. Lord Cromwell, (Earl of Essex.)

1540. Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey, and Bishop Gardiner.

1544. Lord Wriothesley, Earl of Hertford.

KING EDWARD VI.

The Earl of Hertford, continued.

1552. John, Duke of Northumberland.

QUEEN MARY.

1553. Bishop Gardiner.

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

1558. Sir Nicholas Bacon, and Sir William Cecil, (afterwards
Lord Burleigh.)

1564. Earl of Leicester, (a favorite)

1588. Earl of Essex.

1601. Lord Buckhurst.

JAMES I.

Lord Buckhurst, (Earl of Dorset.)

1608. Earls of Salisbury, Suffolk, and Northampton.

1612. Sir Robert Carr (Earl of Somerset.)

1615. Sir George Villiers (Duke of Buckingham.)

CHARLES I.

Duke of Buckingham.

1628. Earl of Portland, Archbishop Laud.

1640. Archbishop Laud, Earl of Strafford, Lord Cottington.

1640. Earl of Essex.

1641. Lord Falkland, Lord Digby.

Civil War, and Oliver Cromwell.

CHARLES II.

1660. Earl of Clarendon.

1667. Dukes of