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TABLE No. II.-(Continued.)

M.

A.M.

A D.

1788 5960 Dec. 1834

1789 5963-3 April 1838

1790 5966 6 Aug. 1841 1791 5970 Dec. 1844

17925973-3 April 1848

1793 5976-6 Aug. 1851

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Constantinople in 1833. Slavery abolished, 1834. Napoleon II. dies, 1832 Act opening the trade to India and China, forming a new era in British commerce, 1833. Queen Victoria begins to reign, 1837. Louis Napoleon attempts insurrection at Strasburg, 1836. Exiled to America, and returned to Europe, 1837. Coronation of Queen Victoria, 1838. Marriage in 1840.. War with China and Afghanistan, 1839-42. The Pachalic of Egypt made hereditary, 1840. Louis Napoleon landed at Boulogne, 1840; taken and imprisoned in the fortress of Ham.

Birth of the Prince of Wales. Sind conquered. Louis Napoleon escapes from Ham, 1846. Punjab

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Year of revolution on the Continent. Chartist demonstration in England. Louis Napoleon President of France, 1848. Fall of Papacy. The Pope driven from Rome. Cholera rages, 1849. The Punjab annexed, 1849. Nana Sahib's claim for pension refused, 1851. Papal aggression, 1850. Great Exhibition opened, 1851. Christians admitted to office in Turkey, 1849. Turkish Croatia in rebellion, 1851.

Prince Leopold born, 1853. Australian gold arrives, 1851. Death of Wellington, 1852. War declared against Russia. Louis

TABLE No. II.—(Continued.)

M.

A.M.

A.D.

1794 5980 Dec. 1854

1795 5983 3 April 1858

Napoleon installed Prince President, 1852, and declared Emperor, 1852; marries, 1853; his life attempted several times. Rights of Greek Christians confirmed in Turkey, 1853. Insurrection in Epirus and Albania, 1854. Pegu annexed, 1852; and Nagpoor falls to the British, 1853. War with China and Persia. Indian mutiny, 1857. Great commercial panic, 1857. Napoleon's life attempted twice, 1855. Birth of the Prince Imperial, 1856. Awful inundation in south of France, 1856. Conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor, 1857; again, in Jan., 1858. Outbreak at Chalons suppressed, 1858. Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of Hindustan, 1858. Excitement about the confessional, 1858. Volunteer corps organized, 1859. War in Italy: Magenta, Solfeferino, won by Louis Napoleon, 1859; his first expedition to the spiritual Egypt. Însurrection in the Papal States. Garibaldi, 1859. Dispute between Louis Napoleon and the Pope regarding the Legations, 1860. Savoy and Nice annexed to France, 1860. Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 1860, the Pope protesting. Massacre of Christians at Jeddo, 1858; at Damascus, 1860; Lebanon, 1860. Great fire at Constantinople, 1859. Meeting of Emperors of France and Austria at Villa Franca, 1859. Priests forbidden to meddle with politics, 1861.

TABLE No. II.—(Continued.)

M.

A.M.

A.D.

1796 5986 6 Aug. 1861

1797 5990 Dec. 1864

1798 5993 3 April 1868

1799 5996 6 Aug. 1871

Death of the Prince Consort, 1861. International Exhibition, 1862. Prince of Wales visits Palestine, 1862. Louis Napoleon reminds the clergy of their duty towards Cæsar, 1862. War in Mexico, 1862. American war breaks out, 1861. President Lincoln declares the slaves of the Southern States to be for ever free, 1863. Otho deposed, 1862, and George I. made King, 1863. Louis Napoleon proposes a Congress. England declines the invitation.

Second expedition to Italy, 1867. Day of humiliation, 9th Oct., 1867. Retirement of Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales made Prince Regent.

Disappearance of King George of Greece. Austria seizes Greece, and eats up two minor German States. Russia seizes on Turkey; all occurring probably in 1869 and 1870.

Russia and Austria combine to make war on France, Oct. 27, 1871. The Emperor of Austria dies about the end of 1871. Russia seizes on Greece, and makes the new Emperor his dependant. Napoleon signs covenant (perhaps) with the Jews, Oct. 27, 1871. The Emperor of Russia is killed in Palestine, on the field of battle, June 3, 1872, and Napoleon becomes supreme monarch, all the kingdoms of the old Roman Earth falling to him (except Britain) before the end of this M. Pestilence in Rome begins

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Dec., 1873, or Jan., 1874, followed by famine. Resurrection of the just, exactly at 1800-1 M, 6th Dec., 1874. Fall of Rome and a great part of Italy, between Dec. 6, 1874, and Jan. 25, 1875. Translation of the saints at about 1 A.M. of the night of the 24th-25th Jan. Restoration of the Jews to Jerusalem, March 10, 1875. Antichrist also appears; and is fully revealed, April 9, 1875. The two witnesses appear, April 2, 1875. Paris taken June 20 or Sept. 4,

1878. Eclipse of the sun, July 29 ; shooting stars, 13th to 24th Aug. Fearful storms the last week of August, causing great sickness in Antichrist's army in Palestine. Sign of the Son of man appears about Sept. 1. Christ appears descending on Mount Olivet at sunset of Sept. 20, 1878.

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CHAPTER XII.

THE FUTURE--TO THE APPEARANCE OF
ANTICHRIST.

ON commencing this chapter let me beg my reader to recollect that I can only speak positively on those points in the future which are distinctly revealed in Holy Writ; there can be no mistake for instance in such a point as September 20, 1878, being the last day; but though I shall attempt to fix as nearly as possible the very days on which the great events of the next 13 years will occur, it must be distinctly understood that in some cases there may be some error one way or the other, and also there may be some slight mistakes in the description of the events themselves. God has enabled us to ascertain with certainty that point which is most important to us, viz., the speedy coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord; He has shown us pretty clearly that we ought to beware of the Emperor of the French, but it is not necessary

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