Theodosius, the Younger [Author of the Code'], Emperor (born A. D. 401), succeeded to the Western empire, May 1; July 28, see 'Marcian.' Theodosius, St., Jan. 11. Theodota, St., Sept. 29. Theodotus, St., May 18. Theodulus, Sts., May 3, Feb. 17. Theognetus, dramatist, 849. Theognis, dramatist, 851. Theonas, St, Aug. 23. Theonilla, St., Aug. 23. Theophanes, historian, 555. Theophanes, St., March 13.
Theophanes, Prokopovitch, June 9. Theophilus, dramatist, 849. Theophilus of Antioch, 469. Theophilus, St., Dec. 6. Theopompus, dramatist, 849. Theophrastus (banished B.C.305), 743.
THERESA, Saint, Foundress, March 28, October 4, 15. Thermes, Paul de, May 6. Thermopyla, battle of, 381; Au- gust 7.
THESEUS, Son of Egeus (or Nep- tune) and thra, 113, 293, 399, 559, 645, 671, 675; arrives at Athens from Træzene [VIII. Hecatombæan], July 15; em- barks against the Mino-taur [vI. Munychion], April 13; returns from Crete with Ariadne' [her day at Cyprus 11 Mæmacterion, Sept. 9] on the festival of Ra- malia' [VIII. Pyanepsion] Octo- ber [8] 15; battle with the Ama- zons on the Boedromia' [XXVI Boedromion], October 2; con- quest and league, October 7; see Union of Attica.' Thesmophoria, matronal festivals in honour of Ceres the divinity, of four days [with three days of pre- paration], Sept. 14-24 [xiv. Pya- nepsion], October (19) 21-24. Thespis, the tragedian, 851. Thetis, the nymph, 519.
Thibault VI. of Navarre, July 10. Thicknesse, George, Master of St. Paul's School' (founded in 1510), 47.
Thierri, St. Abbot, July 1. Thierry, King of Austrasia, 780. Thiers, John Baptist, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Feb. 28. Thillo (or Tilman), St., Jan. 7. Thirlstane, John Maitland, Lord, Oct. 4.
Thirlby, Dr. Styan, Dec. 19. Thistle, order of the, 783. Thodeschini, see Pius III.' THOMAS, Saint, eminently the faith- ful,' father of the christians at Malabar (his remains found in 1522, and removed to Goa), on the Terminalia, September 21. Thomas, St. (Becket) of Canter- bury, 463 [July 11]; Dec. 21,
Thomas of Shaftesbury, 103. Thomas, St. Bishop, Oct. 2. Thomas, St. of Aquino, March 7. Thomas, St. of Villanova, Sept. 18. Thomas, William, May 18. Thomas, Bishop, Feb. 2, June 25. Thomas, Elizabeth, Feb. 3. Thomas, Dr. William, July 26. Thomas, Anthony, Sept. 17. Thompson, Sir Benjamin, Aug. 19. Thomson, James, 515; Sept. 11 [21], August 27 [Sept. 7]. Thomson, Dr. Wm., March 16. Thor (Juul) the Jupiter of the
Greeks and Romans, 679. Thoresby, Ralph, Aug. 16, Oct. 16. Thornhill, Sir James, May 4. Thornton, Bonnel, May 9. Thornton, John, Nov. 7. Thorpe, John, August 2.
Thoth (Deus), or Uchoreus, the father of letters, and the first establisher of laws, 837, see 'Mercury' Thouin, Andrew, Oct. 27. Thoynard, Nicholas, Jan. 5. Thrale, Henry, April 3. Thrasilla, St., Dec. 24. Thrasybulus, 549. Thrasymene, battle of, 421. Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas, 61; Feb. 12.
Thuanus (De Thou), Jacob Au- gustus, Oct. 9, May 7. Thucydides, 293, 391, 529, 549, 579, 615, 683, 801. Thuillar, Vincent, Jan. 12. Thunder-stone, fell, 735. THURSDAY, the fifth day (wisdom), October 12.
Thursday, Holy, May 14. Thury, Cæsar de, Sept. 4, see
Thurloe, John, June 1, Feb.
Tilman, see St. Thillo. Tilsit, the treaty of, 427. Times, the newspaper [Nos. 14,791], the first paper pressed by steam, Νου. 29.
Timæus, 615. Timocharis, 641.
Timocles, dramatist, 849. Timoleon, of Syracuse, 527; de- feats the Carthaginians, 257, 817; [May 20] Dec. 15. Timotheus, of Miletus, 543, 849. Timothy, the disciple, Jan. 22, 24. Timothy, St. (with others), Au- gust 19.
Timothy, St. of Rome, Aug. 22. Timour, see Tamerlane.
Tindal, Dr. Matthew, 539; Au- gust 16.
Tindal, Nicholas, June 27. Tindal, William, Sept. 16.
Cas-Tippo Saheb, Sultan of Mysore, 281, 425, 448.
Thurlow, Edward, Baron (of Ash-Tischbein, John Fred., June 21.
Tissaphernes, the officer, 801. Tissot, Simon Andrew, July 13. Tissot, Clement Joseph, June 30. Tithe-lands, first granted in Eng-
land for the preservation of the 'fold,' 843.
Titon de Tillet, 847; Dec. 26. Titus, Flavius Vespasianus Augus- tus, Emperor [the friend of Bri- tannicus,' born Feb. 12, A. D. 41], 353, 423, 491, 541, 593, 603, 709; Dec. 30 [A.D, 41], Sept. 13 [A.D. 82]. Titus, St. disciple, Jan. 4. 'Titus Andronicus,' the play, 85. Tlepolemia, Rhodian games, 499 [Aug. 24].
Toaldo, Joseph, Nov. 11. TOBACCO, the Indian weed,' first discovered in St. Domingo, 1496; introduced into France by Nicot, 1560; by Raleigh's colony into England and Ireland, 507. Tochumna, Sts. virgins of Ireland, June 11.
Tooke (John Horne), 49; March Tralles, Balthazar, Nov. 19.
Tooley, see St. Olaus.
Tooley, Nicholas, June 5.
Topics, Cicero's treatise on, 489. Toplady, Aug., Nov. 4, Aug. 11. Torcy, see Colbert.'
Torgau, victory there, 727. Torres Vedras, near Lisbon, Wel- lington's celebrated position of defence, Oct. 8. Torricelli, Evangeliste, Oct. 15. Torrington, George Byng, Vis- count, Jan. 17. Tostig, Earl, Sept. 25.
Totila, the Goth, 821.
TRANSFIGURATION, the christian festival (instituted in Greece, A.D. 700, at Rome, A.D. 1456), August 6.
TRANVECTIO, the equestrian pas- sage from the Temple of Honour (without the walls) to the Ro- man capitol, July 15. Trapp, Dr. Joseph, Nov. 22. Travis, George, April 24. Trees, the period of, with the Jews, Jan. 15 [30].
Trees, celebrated relics [add the 'plane-tree' of Xerxes, and the 'tamarisk' of Osiris], 603. Trelawney, Sir William, Dec. 11.
Totness, George Carew, Earl of, Tremouille, General de la (Vis-
Touchet, see Audley.'
Toulon, victory there, 823.
Toulouse, massacre there, 615; capture of, 229. Toup, Jonathan, Jan. 19. Tournay, apostle of, Oct. 1; taken by Henry VIII., 649. Tournefort, Joseph de, June 5. Tours, truce of [Feb. 20, 1444]. Tourville, Admiral de, May 28. Townley, Charles, Jan. 3. Tournely, Honoré, August 28, Dec. 26.
Tower of London, began, 844; its prisoners liberated, 687. Towers, Dr. Joseph, March 31, May 20.
Towgood, Matthew, Dec. 6. Townshend, see 'Sydney.'
count de Thouars), Sept. 20, Feb. 24.
Tremouille, Charlotte de la [besieged
in Latham House, 24 March, 1644], see Derby.' Trenchard, John, Dec. 16. Trenck, Francis, Baron, Oct. 4. Trenck, Fred. Baron, July 25. Trent, council there, 59, 813. Tresain, St. of Ireland, Feb. 7. Tresham, Henry, June 17. Trew, William, Dec. 15, Sept. 8. TRIBES, the XII Patriarchs (fathers of the 600,000 Israelites), in the order of their births;' 1. Reu- ben [sardius]:-2. Simeon [to- paz]:-3. Levi [carbuncle]:- 4. Judah [emerald]:-5. Dan [sapphire]-vi. Naphtali [dia- mond]:-7. Gad [ligure]:-8.
Asher [agate]:9. Issachar Troy Island, victory there, 679. [amethyst]:-10. Zebulun [be-Troyes, the treaty of, 337; mas- ryl]:-11. Manasseh (first-born) and Ephraim, sons of Joseph [onyx]-12. Benjamin, son of days' [jasper]; numbered ac- cording to the blessing, Gen. XLIX; according to their mo- thers,' and as leaders of tribes, Numbers I. V.; the order of the sealed, Rev. VII.
Tribonian, 221, 817. Tribute-day in the cities of Judæa
[1 Adar], Feb. 18.
Tribunes, institution of, Dec. 10. Triennial-act, repealed for the Sep- tennial, 281.
Triers, the martyrs of, Oct. 4. Trimalchio, 505.
Trimnell, Bishop, Dec. 27. Trimmer, Sarah, Dec. 15. Trincomalee, capture of, 29. Trinidad, discovered, July 31. Trinitarians, the order of, 88. TRINITY SUNDAY, May 31. Trinity Terms, 425. Tripoli, the peace of, 711. Triptolemus," the tragedy, 113. Tristram, Sir Amory, 215. Triumphs, of Pompey, 651; Cæsar, 505; Augustus, 239, 747; Mes- sala, 641; Diocletian, 761, 747. Triumvirate, the second, 775. Trivalore, tables of, 109. Trivulci, John James, Dec. 5. Troia, defeat there, 791. Troil, Dr. Uno Von, July 27. "Troilus and Cressida," the play, 581.
Tromp, Cornelius, 367; May 21. Tromp, Martin Van, July 31. Tron, St. of Brabant, Nov. 23. Tronchin, Theodore, Nov. 30. TROY, the fall of [XXIV Thargelion], April 24 [the Resurrection of Christ, A. D. 29, upon some au- thorities]; according to Whiston, B. C. 1270, May 23 [June 11]. Troy, the History of, first printed in English,' 629.
sacre there, 615. Truchet, John, Feb. 5. Trumbull, Sir Wm., 45; Dec. 14. Trumpeters, festival of, Jan. 13; see Tubilustrium.' Truxillo, founded, 429. Trypho, St., Nov. 10. Tubal (or Vulcan), the father of arms, 571.
Tubilustría, Roman purifying feasts of trumpets [when the Cruci- fixion' was commemorated], March 23.
Tucker, Abraham, Nov. 20. Tudor, see Suffolk.'
Tudor (Theodore), Sir Owen, Feb.2. TUESDAY, the third day (truth),
675; October 10. Tuffoone, the wind, 761. Tufton, see
Tuisco, see Mercury.' Tuke, Sir Samuel, Jan. 26. Tull, Jethro, June 3.
Tullus, Hostilius (reigned 32 years from B. C. 672), 3rd King of Rome, 821,
Tunis, plague there, 375. Tunstall, Bishop, Nov. 18. Tunstall, Dr. James, March 28. Turenne, Henry, Viscount de, 853; Sept. 11, July 27.
Turgot, Anne Robert James, May 10, March 18. Turiaf, St., July 13. Turibius, St., April 16. Turibius, St. Alphonso, Nov. 16. Turkey, treaty with Russia, 25; peace with Austria, 697. Turk's Island, seized, 365. Turnebus, Adrian, June 12. Turner, Captain Samuel, 631. Turnin, St. of Ireland, July 17. Turnus, King in Latium, 775. Turretini, Benedict, March 4. Turretini, Francis, Oct. 17, Sept.
Turretini, John Alphonso, May 1. Tuscan year, 153.
Tutbury Castle, 483. Tutchin, John, Sept. 23. Tweddell, John, July 25. Tweed, chain-bridge, 505. Twelfth-Day, January 6. Twining, Thomas, Aug. 6. Twiss, Richard, April 26, March 5. Twyne, John, Nov. 24. Tychsen, Olaus, Dec. 30. Tygrius, St., Jun. 12. Tylney, Edmund, August 20. Typho (Sirius) the Egyptian god, 161; August 26. Tyrannio, St., Feb. 20.
Tyre, Era of, October 19; the city taken, (561) August 20. Tygrius, St., Jan. 12. Tyrwhitt, Thomas, Aug. 15. Tytler, Dr. Henry, Aug. 24.
Ubaldus, St., May 16. Udal, John, June 15. Udall, Nicholas, 535. Uffa, King in England, 665. Ufford, Archbishop de, June 7. Ughelli, Ferdinando, May 19. Ulfrid, St., Jan. 18. Ulm, capture of, 695. Ulmar, St., July 20. Ulpian, St. of Tyre, April 3. Ulric, St. of Augsburg, July 4. Ulrick, St. of England, Feb. 20. Ulster, patron of, Sept. 10. Ulster, Earl of, April 4. Ultan, St., Sept. 4. Ultius, see St. Vulsin. Underhill, the actor, 731. Uniformity Act, August 24. UNION, by Theseus (399) of the divided Athenian families into one commonwealth [XVI Heca- tombæan], ancient year, July 23:-metonic, July 12:- by Petavius, July 14:-Roman, 16 [June].
Union of the Greek and Latin churches (described, A. D. 1444, by Syropulus), July 6; the Pon- tiff and Emperor separated, 26 August, 1439.
Union of the seven Belgic Pro- vinces; 1. Holland: -2. Zea- land:-3. Utrecht:-4. Guelder- land:-5. Overyssel:-6. Gro- ningen:-7. Friesland, January 23; treaty of alliance with Eng- land, Jan. VII; truce with Spain, April 9; war with England, 515. Union of Scotland with England, 495, 703; May 1.
Union of Ireland with Great Bri- tain, the bill is passed, July 2; the royal style is settled, Nov. 5; date of the nominal (civil) union, Jan. 1:-the population, 8,000,000.
Union between Sweden and Nor- way, is voted, October 20. Universities of Europe, 729, see 'Gottingen.'
Unleavened-bread, feast of, see 'Passover.'
Upton, James, junior, Dec. 2. URANIA, the muse, 'heavenly-born,' 649; September 9. Urban, St. Pope, May 25. Urban VIII. Maffeo Barberini, Pope, 209; July 29.
Urquhart, Sir Thomas, 447 [8]. Ursins, Anne Mary des, Dec. 5. Ursinus, Zachary, July 18, Mar. 6. Ursinus, John Henry, May 14. Ursinus, Geo. Henry, Sept. 10. Ursmar, St., April 19.
Ursula, St. patroness of the Sor- bonne, Oct. 21.
Ushant, victories off, 365, 507. Usher, Archbishop (James), 823;
Jan. 4, March 21.
Utica, Cæsar left, June 13; mar- tyrs of, Aug. 24.
Utrecht, peace of, 199, 475; cap- tured, 625.
Vaccination, first applied, May 14. Vachet, John Ant. le, Feb. 6. Vadé, John Joseph, July 4. Vahl, Martin, Oct. 10, Dec. 24. Vaillant, John Foi, May 24, Oct. 23.
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