The Danes begin their ravages in England, 867 university of Oxford, about 896 The university of Cambridge founded, 915 Paper made of cotton rags was in use, 1000; that of linen, 1170 Leo IX. the first pope that kept up an army,. 1054 The Turks take Jerusalem from the Saracens, 1065 Musical notes invented, 1070 Glass windows began to be used in houses in England, 1180 Pope Alexander III. compelled the kings of England and France to hold the stirrups of his saddle when he mounted his horse, 1181 The battle of Ascalon, in Judæa, in which Richard, king of England, defeats Saladin's army, consisting of 300,000 men, 1192 Chimneys were not known in England, 1200 Magna Charta is signed by king John and the barons of England, 1215 The houses of London, and other cities in England, France and The mariner's compass invented, or improved, by Gioia, 1227 1233 1302 John Wickliffe, an Englishman, begins to oppose the errors of the church of Rome with great acuteness and spirit.-His followers are called Lollards, 1362 The Vatican Library founded at Rome, 1446 1453 America first discovered by Columbus, a Genoese, in the service of Spain; 1492 Martin Luther began the Reformation, 1517 Pins first used in England, (before which time the ladies used skewers,) 1561 *First law in England, establishing interest at ten per cent. 1546 The great massacre of Protestants at Paris, 1572 Mary queen of Scots is beheaded by order of Elizabeth, 1587 *The Spanish Armada destroyed by the English, 1588 Watches first brought into England from Germany, 1597 The massacre of 40,000 English Protestants, in Ireland, 1640 1649 Cromwell assumes the protectorship, 1654 The Plague rages in London, and carries off 68,000 persons 1665 1666 Tea first used in England, 1666 The habeas corpus act passed, 1678 A comet appeared so near our earth as to alarm the inhabitants, 1680 Bayonets first used by the French in the battle of Turin, 1693 Russia, formerly a dukedom, is established as an empire, 1727 Fouli Khan usurps the Persian throne, 1732 Ccorge Washington born February 22, 1732 Westminster bridge, which cost 389,000/. finished 1750 Indies, by the Nabob, and 123 found dead next morning, 1756 General Wolfe is killed in taking Quebec from the French, 1759 First Congress of the American colonies, at Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1773 First Petition of Congress to the King, November, 1773 Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 George Washington appointed General and Comınander in Chief of the American Armies, June 15, 1775 Battle at Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 Declaration of Independence by the colonies, July 4, 1776 General Burgoyne surrendered October 17, 1777 Earl Cornwallis surrendered at York-town, Vir. October 19, 1781 free, sovereign, and independent states, Nov. 30, Washington proclaimed first President of the U. S. A. April 30, 1789 Revolution in France-capture of the Bastile, July 14, 1782 1789 The French declare war against England and Holland, Feb. 1, 1792 Louis XVIth of France, beheaded, same year. The glorious victory of the Nile, achieved by Nelson, Aug. 1, 1798 General George Washington died, December 14, aged 68, 1799 1801 War commenced between France and Great Britain, July, 1803 Unexampled tempest, began September 1, 1804 Bonaparte crowned emperor by his holiness the Pope, 1804 Great victory over the French fieet by Nelson, October 21, 1805 Surrender of the Danish fleet to Lord Nelson, 1807 Attack upon U. S. frigate Chesapeak-same year. War declared by U. S. against Great Britain, 1812 Surrender of General Hull's army-capture of the Guerriere Macedonian and Java-Battle of Queenston, same year. in Russia, 1813 Paris surrenders to the allies-Bonaparte abdicates and retires 1814 1815 CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES. The following abstract exhibits the amount of the white, black, and total population of the Union, at the three last national enumerations, and the total amount in 1790. Abstract of the population of the Union in 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820. Western states of the } 2,027,250 2,600,248 97,155 2,697,403 3,439,799 119,550 3,559,349 4,300,964 128,191 4,429,155 551 4,681 215 11,501 45,028 337 45,365 228,861 5,577 298 4,875 23,890 50,347 659 51,006 268,870 3,454 272,324 784,709 7,691 792,400 Total Northern States 2,027,250 2,650,295 97,8142,748,409 3,708,669 123,004 3,831,673 5,085,673 135,882 5,221,555 Abstract, &c. continued. 1790.1 1800. 1810. Total. Whites. 1820. Blacks. Total. Whites. Blacks. Total Whites. Blacks. Total. 216,326 125,222 341,548 235,117 145,429 380,546 10,066 4,027 14,093 16,079 747,610 514,280 365,920 880,200 551,534 423,088 974,622 7,944 24,023 260,222 147,128 407,350 22,614 603,074 462,042 1,065,116 10,425 33,039 337,764 140,339 478,103 376,410 179,090 555,500 419,200 219,629 638,829 249,073 196,255 119,336 345,591 214,196 82,548 102,261 60,423 162,684 145,414 200,919 415,115 237,440 265,301 502,741 107,019 252,433 189,566 151,419 340,985 1,792,710 1,876,952 845,267 2,222,219 1,538,750 1,063,489 2,602,239 1,732,116 1,255,944 2,988,060 23,024 34,311 73,677 179,871 41,084 220,955 324,237 35,691 91,709 13,893 105,602 215,875 5,179 3,671 8,850 276,759 58,648 335,407 614,674 Total Southern States 1,902,078 1,653,711 903,915 2,557,626 2,153,424 Northern and Southern3,929,328 4,304,306 1,001 729 5 306,035 5,862,093 Persons not designated in the census returns Total according to the census returns 82,274 406,511 434,644 129,491 564,135 45,852 261,727 17,328 40,352 42,245 76,556 339,727 82,834 422,561 75,548 42,176 33,372 73,383 55,988 10,569 66,557 191,317 805,991 1,043,922 379,932 1,423,854 1,254,806 3,408,230 2,776,038 1,635,876 4,411,914 1,377,810 7,239,903 7,861,711 1,771,758 9,633,469 **In consequence of the death of the Marshal, the population of 6 counties in this ate was not returned in season States and Territories. Maryland Columbia District 319,728 Virginia North-Carolina 393,751 South-Carolina Georgia Atlantic States of the South Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi Louisiana *Alabama Arkansas Missouri Western States of the 109,368 It is estimated at Grand Total 17,098 9,655,097 OF THE UNITED STATES, AS PROPOSED BY THE CONVENTION, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1787, AND SINCE RATIFIED BY THE SEVERAL STATES, WITH THE SEVERAL AMENDMENTS THERETO. WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ARTICLE I. Sect. 1. ALL legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives. Sect. 2. The house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year, by the people of the several states, and the electors in each stateshall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three.. fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every |