The Tablet of Memory; Showing Every Memorable Event in History, from the Earliest Period to 1817 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...small kingdoms were swallowed up in Castile and Arragon, 1492.--Primacy of Toledo founded, 680.--St. James, the tutelar saint of Spain, since the finding of the apostle's body in the ninth century.--Holy brotherhood instituted, I960.--Kingdom of, founded by the union of the two crowns of Castile and Arragon, the queen of Castile having married the king of Arragon, 1479, who assumed the title of Catholic Majesty.--By the conquests of Navarre and Grenada, Ferdinand put a complete end to the dominion of the Moors in this countrv, 1511.--Escurial began building, 1569; Fuero Juzgo code of Jaws enacted by Cindasvindus, 612; that called Les usages, formed by the count of Barcelona, 1060; Fuero de Costilla, by AlphonsoIX. 1211; Fuero real, by Alphonso X. 1254; Sietepartidas, by Alphonso XI. 1347; Recipilation, by Philip II. 1567; Nueva ditto, by Philip IV. 1665; Novissima ditto, by Philip V. 1723; who resigned bis crown to his son, Dec, 1724; but on his son's death he re-assumed it.--The kingdom treacherously seized by Buonaparte, and given to his brother Joseph, 1808.--Charles IV. abdicated in favour of his son Ferdinand VII., March 19, 1808.--Joseph Buonaparte made king of, July, 18C8.--The theatre of war, from that period to the expulsion of the French, in 1814, whan Ferdinand, who had been held captive in France, was restored. Stockholm, built, 1253. Stralsnnd, in Pomerania, founded, 1209. Surat factory, in the East Indies, founded, 1603. Sussex kingdom, founded by Alia, a Saxon, 419; ended, 448. Sweden, anciently Scandinavia, kingdom of, began, 481; united to the crown of Denmark and Norway, in 1394; Gustavus Vasa expelled the Danes, in 1525, until which time the crown was elective; Christianity introduced there, 829; no nobility there before 1500; nobility ma...