of Warren Hastings, England, for peculation in India.

Galvani makes electrical discoveries.

1787. "FRAMING OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES." See xiv, 173.

Civil liberty taught in France by Lafayette and his companions in
America, leads to the French Revolution.

Shay's rebellion repressed. Congress undertakes the government of the
Northwest Territory.

Wedgwood manufactures his imitations of Etruscan ware.

Swedenborg's New Jerusalem Church founded.

1788. Revolution in the Austrian Netherlands provinces.

Ratification in eleven of the states of the Constitution of the United
States. Founding of Cincinnati. The members of the Society of Friends in
Philadelphia emancipate their slaves.

Mental derangement of George III of England. A penal settlement formed
by the English in Australia.

Louis XVI of France appoints Necker chief minister. New Assembly of
Notables; the Third Estate admitted, numbering one-half.

War against Russia declared by Sweden.

1789. Washington elected President of the United States. The first
Congress under the Constitution supersedes the Continental Congress.
Inauguration of Washington at New York, April 30. See "INAUGURATION OF
WASHINGTON: HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS," xiv, 197.

War in India between the English and Tippoo Sahib.

A Roman Catholic episcopal see erected at Baltimore, the first in the
United States.

Battle of Fokshani; defeat of the Turks by the Austrians and Russians.

Meeting of the States-General of France; power is seized by the Third
Estate. See "FRENCH REVOLUTION: STORMING OF THE BASTILLE," xiv, 212.

Mutiny of the Bounty, English ship.

1790. Philadelphia becomes the seat of government of the United States.
Harmar makes an unsuccessful expedition against the Indians of the
Northwest Territory.

First issue of French Assignats.

Declaration of independence by the Belgian provinces; Congress of
Brussels convened.

1791. "ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES BANK." See xiv, 230.

Vermont admitted into the Union. Defeat of St. Clair by the Miamis.

Passage of the constitutional act of Canada dividing it into Upper and
Lower Canada.

Buckle-makers of England petition Parliament against the use of
shoe-strings.

Guillotin introduces the machine for decapitation, bearing his name.

"NEGRO REVOLUTION IN HAITI." See xiv, 236.

Flight of the French royal family; they are stopped at Varennes and
taken back to Paris. Insurrections in La Ve