O CYCLOPEDIA OF CHRONOLOGY, OR THE WORLD'S PROGRESS: A DICTIONARY OF DATES, WITH TABULAR VIEWS OF GENERAL HISTORY, AND AN PUBLISHED BY A. S. BARNES & BURR SOLD BY BOOKSELLEES, GENERALLY, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, BY A. S. BARNES & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. HOME CYCLOPEDIA, OR LIBRARY OF REFERENCE. IN EIGHT VOLUMES, EACH COMPLETE IN ITSELF. L. HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY. The World's Progress. By G. P. PUTNAM. II. GENERAL LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. BY GEORGE RIPLEY and BAYARD TAYLOR. III. THE USEFUL ARTS-including Agriculture, Domestic Economy, &c. By DR. ANTISELL. IV. UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY-a Record of the Names of Eminent Persons. By PARKE GODWIN. V. UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY-a Comprehensive Gazetteer of the World. By T. C. CALLI COTT. VI, SCIENCE-including Natural History, Botany, Geology, Mineralogy, &c. By Professor VII. ARCHITECTURE-Historical, Descriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical, and Mechanical. By ROBERT STUART. SAMUEL ST. JOHN, of Western Reserve College. In Press. VIIL CYCLOPEDIA OF EUROPE-a Manual of European Geography-embracing valuable Statistics concerning every important place. By F. L. UNGEWITTER. These volumes are intended to comprise a comprehensive view of the whole circle of human knowledge-in other words, to form a General Cyclopedia in a portable shape, for popular reference, for Family Libraries, fot Teachers and School Libraries, and for the general reader. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY A. S. BARNES & BURR BOLD BY BOOKSELLEEN, GENERALLY, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, PREFATORY NOTE TO THE TWELFTH EDITION. THE favorable reception of the former editions of this work has induced the new proprietors to have it revised and brought down to the close of 1854. A slight departure from the original plan will be observed in the continuation; the events which in the first part were placed under the heads of their respective countries, being now arranged in the supplement to the Chronological Tables. Of the various sources from which the materials have been drawn, particular mention is due to the "American Almanac," the "State of the Union," and some valuable articles in the "New York Tribune." The articles upon the British Museum, and Education in Europe, are taken, with the permission of the editor, from "Norton's Literary Almanac," a work which ought to be upon the table of every one who feels the importance of accurate information upon education and bibliography. NEW YORK, August, 1855. |