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DICTIONARY OF DATES,

AND

UNIVERSAL REFERENCE.

AND

UNIVERSAL REFERENCE,

Relating to all Ages and Nations ;

COMPREHENDING EVERY REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE, ANCIENT AND MODERN-THE FOUNDATION,
LAWS, AND GOVERNMENTS OF COUNTRIES-THEIR PROGRESS IN CIVILIZATION, INDUSTRY,
AND SCIENCE-THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS IN ARMS-THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE-ITS CIVIL, MILITARY,

AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS-THE ORIGIN AND

ADVANCE OF

HUMAN ARTS AND INVENTIONS,

WITH COPIOUS DETAILS OF

ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND;

THE WHOLE

COMPREHENDING A BODY OF INFORMATION, CLASSICAL, POLITICAL,
AND DOMESTIC,

FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY JOSEPH HAYDN.

Third Edition.

TO WHICH IS ADDED, A COPIOUS INDEX OF LEADING NAMES.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.

MDCCCXLV.

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PREFACE.

THE design of the Author has been, to attempt the compression of the greatest body of general information that has ever appeared in a single volume, and to produce a Book of Reference whose extensive usefulness may render its possession material to every individual—in the same manner that a London Directory is indispensable, on business affairs, to a London merchant.

He grounds his hope of the Public, taking an interest in this work altogether upon its own intrinsic utility. Its articles are drawn principally from historians of the first rank, and the most authentic annalists; and the DICTIONARY OF DATES will, in almost every instance, save its possessor the trouble of turning over voluminous authors to refresh his memory, or to ascertain the date, order, and features of any particular occurrence.

The volume contains upwards of FIFTEEN THOUSAND ARTICLES, alphabetically arranged; and from the selection of its materials it must be important to every man in the British Empire, whether learned or unlearned, or whether connected with the professions or engaged in trade.

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