BY W. S. W. VAUX, M.A., F.S.A.,
Assistant in the Department of Antiquities in the British Museum.
With Woodcuts. Post 8vo.
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED TO FACILITATE REFERENCE.
One Volume, 8vo.
This work will enable the student or general reader, or man of the world, to put his finger at once upon the date of any particular event by means of a careful alphabetical classified arrangement of the various elaborate chronologies which have been given to the world. It has been prepared with such care as will render it—it is hoped—a trustworthy book of reference.
It contains the dates of the events which mark the rise, progress, decline, and fall of states; and the changes in the fortunes of nations. Alliances, wars, battles, sieges, and treaties of peace; geographical discoveries, the settlement of colonies, and their subsequent story;—with all occurrences of general historic interest—are recorded in it. It further includes the years of the leading incidents in the lives of men eminent for worth, knowledge, rank, or fame; and of the writings, &c., &c., by which they are chiefly known; discoveries in every department of science; and inventions and improvements, mechanical, social, domestic, and economical.