rth's literary
activity about at its
culmination.

1809. Abraham Lincoln born. 1809. Darwin, Tennyson, and
Gladstone born.

1812-1814. War with Great
Britain.

1815. Waterloo.

1820. Missouri Compromise.

1823. Monroe doctrine declared.

1825. First railway opened in
England.

1826. Death of Jefferson. 1826. Independence of Mexico and
Spanish Colonies in South
America recognised by
Canning.

1827. Navarino.

1828. Commencement of
"nullification" movement.
Election of Jackson.

1829. Catholic emancipation.

1830. Hayne-Webster debate.

1831. Garrison publishes first 1831. Mazzini founds Young
number of _Liberator_. Italy.
Lincoln starts life in New
Salem.
First railway opened in
America.

1832. First Reform Bill.

1833. Slavery abolished in
British Colonies.

1834. Lincoln elected to Illinois
legislature

1836-40. Great Boer Trek.

1837. End of Jackson's second 1837. Queen Victoria's accession.
presidency. First steam-boat from
England to America.

1838. First telegraph line in
England.

1839. Lord Durham's report on
Canada.

1841. First telegraph in America.

1842. Lincoln leaves Illinois
legislature, and (Nov.)
is married.

1844. "Martin Chuzzlewit"
published.

1845. Annexation of Texas.

1846. Boundary of Oregon and 1846. Boundary of Oregon and