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Title: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
Author: Various
Editor: Rossiter Johnson
Charles Horne
John Rudd
Release Date: June 19, 2008 [EBook #25821]
Language: English
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The Imperial Austrian Councillors are thrown out of the window of the castle of the Hradschin, at Prague, by the enraged Bohemian Deputies, thus precipitating the Thirty Years' War
Painting by Vacslav Brozik
THE GREAT EVENTS
BY
FAMOUS HISTORIANS
A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY, EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS
NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL
ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D.
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
With a staff of specialists
VOLUME XI
The National Alumni
COPYRIGHT, 1905,
By THE NATIONAL ALUMNI
CONTENTS
VOLUME XI
PAGE
An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, xiii
CHARLES F. HORNE
Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River (a.d. 1609), 1
HENRY R. CLEVELAND
Galileo Overthrows Ancient Philosophy
The Telescope and Its Discoveries (a.d. 1610), 14
SIR OLIVER LODGE
The Beginning of British Power in India (a.d. 1612), 30
BECKLES WILLSON
The Dutch Settlement of New York (a.d. 1614), 44
DAVID T. VALENTINE
Harvey Discovers the Circulation of the Blood (a.d. 1616), 50
THOMAS H. HUXLEY
The "Defenestration" at Prague (a.d. 1618)
The Thirty Years War, 62
SAMUEL R. GARDINER
CHARLES F. HORNE
The First American Legislature (a.d. 1619), 76
CHARLES CAMPBELL
Introduction of Negroes into Virginia (a.d. 1619)
Spread of Slavery and Cultivation of Tobacco, 81
CHARLES CAMPBELL
JOHN M. LUDLOW
English Pilgrims Settle at Plymouth (a.d. 1620), 93
JOHN S. BARRY
The Birth of Modern Scientific Methods (a.d. 1620)
Bacon and Descartes, 116
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
Siege of La Rochelle (a.d. 1627)
Richelieu Rules France, 129
ANDREW D. WHITE
The Great Puritan Exodus to New England
The Founding of Boston (a.d. 1630), 153
JOHN G. PALFREY
Triumph and Death of Gustavus Adolphus at Luetzen (a.d. 1632), 174
BENJAMIN CHAPMAN
Recantation of Galileo (a.d. 1633), 184
SIR OLIVER LODGE
The Educational Reform of Comenius (a.d. 1638), 192
SIMON SOMERVILLE LAURIE
The First Written Free Constitution in the World (a.d. 1639)
Earliest Union among American Colonies (a.d. 1643), 205
GIDEON H. HOLLISTER
JOHN MARSHALL
Abolition of the Court of Star-chamber (a.d. 1641)
The Popular Revolt against Charles I, 215
HENRY HALLAM
LORD MACAULAY
The Founding of Montreal (a.d. 1642), 232
ALFRED SANDHAM
Presbyterianism Established
Meeting of the Westminster Assembly (a.d. 1643), 238
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