Imprisonment of the pope and formation of the Roman republic by the French; the Helvetian republic founded by them.
"Jenner Introduces Vaccination." See xiv, [363].
Gas-lights introduced by Watt and Boulton.
1798. English expedition against Holland; capture of the Dutch fleet.
Mysore taken by the English; death of Tippoo Sahib.
Sugar first extracted from the beet-root by Achard.
"The Great Irish Rebellion." See xv, 1.
Count Rumford discovers that heat is a mode of motion.
Greathead, England, invents the lifeboat.
Gradual emancipation of negroes in New York.