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34--Opening of International Exhibition by Her Majesty, in Hyde Park May 1, 1851

35--Louis Napoleon's Coup d'état Dec. 2, 1851

36--Duke of Wellington's Death Sept.14, 1852

37--Birth of Prince Leopold Apr. 7, 1853

38--Lord Palmerston advises Presbytery of Edinburgh to first consult the laws of sanitation before ordering a fast on account of the Cholera Oct. 19, 1853

39--Rev. F. D. Maurice dismissed from King's College for opinion's sake Oct. 27, 1853

=40=--War declared by Russia against Turkey Nov. 1, 1853

FIFTH EXERCISE.

41--War declared by England, against Russia Mar. 22, 1854

42--Epochal Work--Spencer's Psychology 1855

43--Treaty of Peace between England, France, and Russia, at Paris Mar. 30, 1856

44--Bands play on Sunday afternoons in Kensington Gardens Apr. 13, 1856

45--Birth of Princess Beatrice Apr. 14, 1857

46--Capture of Delhi Sept.20, 1857

47--First Sitting of the Court for Divorces: Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Judge Ordinary Jan. 16, 1858

48--Statue of Sir Isaac Newton unveiled by Lord Brougham at Grantham Sept.21, 1858

49--Darwin's "Origin of Species" published 1859

=50=--Death of Lord (Thomas Babington) Macaulay Dec. 28, 1859

SIXTH EXERCISE.

51--Thomas Hopley, schoolmaster, sentenced to 4 years' penal servitude for causing the death of R. C. Cancellor by excessive corporal punishment July 23, 1860

52--Lord Clarence advises Ironclads for the Navy Mar. 11, 1861

53--Recognition by English Government of the Southern Confederacy May 8, 1861

54--Death of Prince Consort of gastric fever Nov. 14, 1861

55--Marriage of Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark Mar. 10, 1863

56--Tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth Apr. 23, 1864

57--Tercentenary of the death of Calvin May 27, 1864

58--Inauguration of a statue to Sir Wm. Jenner, at Boulogne Sept. 1, 1865

59--Albert Medal for those who in saving life endanger their own Mar. 7, 1866

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