The Annual Register, Volume 117Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1876 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... British Govern- ment . JAPAN . - Reforms . UNITED STATES . -Louisiana State conflict - Action of Congress - Rejection of Canada Reciprocity Treaty - President Grant on Specie Payments - Civil Rights Bill and Force Bill - End of Forty ...
... British Govern- ment . JAPAN . - Reforms . UNITED STATES . -Louisiana State conflict - Action of Congress - Rejection of Canada Reciprocity Treaty - President Grant on Specie Payments - Civil Rights Bill and Force Bill - End of Forty ...
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... British India 227 Agricultural Returns for 1874 229 The Registrar - General's Report on the Agriculture of Ireland in 1875 230 Trade Reports for 1874 and 1875 231 Census of Factories 232 Post Office Report for 1874 232 Police and ...
... British India 227 Agricultural Returns for 1874 229 The Registrar - General's Report on the Agriculture of Ireland in 1875 230 Trade Reports for 1874 and 1875 231 Census of Factories 232 Post Office Report for 1874 232 Police and ...
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... British law , if he had never been declared an enemy of the British Government , perhaps he would not be now the sitting member for Tipperary County . If Mr. Mitchel had not broken the ' law , ' had not defied the English Government ...
... British law , if he had never been declared an enemy of the British Government , perhaps he would not be now the sitting member for Tipperary County . If Mr. Mitchel had not broken the ' law , ' had not defied the English Government ...
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... British Government . The excitement he had gone through proved too much for his already weakened health , and on March 21 he died at Drumlane near Newry . Curiously enough , his brother - in - law and staunch champion in the House of ...
... British Government . The excitement he had gone through proved too much for his already weakened health , and on March 21 he died at Drumlane near Newry . Curiously enough , his brother - in - law and staunch champion in the House of ...
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... British Parliament and the British people had sought every opportunity of doing justice to Ireland , and he attributed it entirely to the language of the Irish members that these coercion laws were still in existence . Until they gave ...
... British Parliament and the British people had sought every opportunity of doing justice to Ireland , and he attributed it entirely to the language of the Irish members that these coercion laws were still in existence . Until they gave ...
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