A. D. 1688 The revolution of King William, when the family of the Stuarts were banished, for attempting to introduce Popery and arbitrary power into England. 1691 The battle of the Boyne in Ireland, when King William defeated James II., and established the Protestant religion. 1709 Dr. Sacheverel tried and suspended for High Churchism. 1715 Suppression of a rebellion in Scotland, when the Pretender attempted to recover the throne of these kingdoms. 1722 Bishob Atterbury banished for supporting the Pretender. Yong Tching, Emperor of China, banished the Jesuits and other Popish missionaries, and imprisoned those of his subjects that refused to renounce Christianity. 1733 The Jesuits expelled from Paragua, in South America. 1746 Suppression of the rebellion in Scotland, the object of which was by the return of the Stuart family, to restore arbitrary power and Papacy in these kingdoms. 1757 Damien, a religious fanatic, attempts to assassinate the French king. 1763 The Jesuits expelled France, for their intrigues against the state. 1766 The Jesuits expelled from Bohemia and Denmark. 1767 The Jesuits expelled from Spain, Venice, and Genoa. 1768 The Jesuits expelled Naples, Malta, and Parma. 1773 The society of the Jesuits suppressed by the Pope. 1775 American war commences with Great Britian. 1779 The Protestant Dissenters in England relieved from certain grievances under which they laboured. 1780 Riots in London, occasioned by the extension of civil rights to the Papists. 1783 The termination of the American war, by which the United States became independent of Great Britian. 1789 French Revolution commences, by which both church and state were overturned and annihilated. 1791 Riots at Birmingham, in which the houses and property of many Dissenters were destroyed. 1793 Lewis XVI., king of France, beheaded. 1794 Missions established by the Calvinists, both of the Church of England and amongst the Dissenters, with the veiw of conver ting the inhabitants of the South Sea Islands, and other remote parts of the earth. 1798 Pope Pious VI. dethroned by the French at Rome. 1806 Bonaparte assembles the Jews at Paris for civil purposes, though at that time it was thought by some that he meant to restore them to the Promised Land. 1813 Statue against Unitarians for denying the Trinity repealed, by means of William Smith's (M. P. for Norwich) Bill for that purpose. 1814 March 31. The allied armies, with the Emperors of Russia and Aastria, together with the King of Prussia at their head, enter Paris, dethrone Bonaparte, liberate the Pope, proclaim the restoration of the Bourbons, in unison with the French people, avow civil and religious freedom, and announce peace and harmony to the whole world. June 20. Peace proclaimed at London with its usual formalities, amidst the acclamations of an immense multitude. 1820 Jan. 29. George III. died in the 82d year of his age, and in the 60th year of his reign-a reign distinguished for the abolition of African slavery, the education of the poor, and the extension of religious liberty. Jan. 31. George IV. proclaimed. May his reign prove conducive to the interests of knowledge, virtue, and piety! These form the only adamantine basis of national prosperity. There is a shape, upon whose wrinkled brow Be copied from that brow-the shape is Time! GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE-GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN.-Luke ii. 14. 23* Bartholemew, massacre, at Paris Baxter's, Richard, admirable remarks on moral evidence Carpenter, Dr., against Bishop Magee Charles V., Emperor, cured of bigotry Christianity, including Facts, Evidences, and Objections, with an enconium on its moral tendency Christians, number of Collyer, Dr. W. B., on Calvinism Common Prayer reformed Congregationalists Consubstantiation Dissenting Academies Dort, synod of Deists Destructionists De Thou, on toleration Dissenters Dunkers Emlyn, Mr. T., a sufferer in the cause of Arianism England, Reformation in Page 122 160 141 160 96 73 66 26 87 26 127 156 230 116 240 94 110 156 154 243 181 243 86 81 245 45 45 89 122 154 114 160 92 29 190 242 129 202 76 119 143 118 173 134 157 223 Primitive, or Ranters 137 241 113 244 41 44 85 171 177 Millenarians, and Millennium, with the opinions of Bishop Newton Dr. Priestley, Mr. Winchester, and the Rev. E. Irving Mixed communion Moravians Muggleton, Ludovick Mystics Nantz, edict of New American Sect New Methodits Connexion Nonjurors Paine, Thomas, an assertor of the existence of God Papists. See Roman Catholics. 233 157 193 222 206 116 83 203 205 174 124 27 60 Prettyman (now Bishop Tomline) on the Athanasian creed Price' Dr., on Arianism Priestley, Dr., his controversy with Bishop Horsley Protestants, French, persecuted Puritans Theists. See Deists. Theophilanthropists Tillotson, Archbishop, his aversion to the creed of St. Athanasius 66 Transubstantiation Trent, council of 66% 165 177 Page 155 86 143 144 66 76 |