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The Great Events by Famous Historians [Volumes 1-14]
- Автор: Gutenberg
- Год: 1905
- Язык: английский
- Жанр: История
Электронная книга - «The Great Events by Famous Historians [Volumes 1-14]». Краткое содержание книги:
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbarossa to Dante)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Days (1910-1914)
Execution of Viscount Strafford for alleged participation in the Popish
Plot.
Alsace incorporated with French territory.
The Whig and Tory parties first so named in England.
1681. Strasburg seized by Louis XIV.
A patent by the crown granted to William Penn. See "WILLIAM PENN RECEIVES
THE GRANT OF PENNSYLVANIA," xii, 153.
Renewed persecution of Protestants in France.
First museum of natural history in London.
1682. Attempt of Louis XIV to seize the Duchy of Luxemburg.
Bossuet, in behalf of the French clergy, draws up a declaration which sets forth the liberties of the Gallican Church.
Colonizing of Pennsylvania by William Penn; he founds Philadelphia; also, with other Friends, purchases East Jersey.
Expedition of La Salle to the mouth of the Mississippi. See "DISCOVERY OF
THE MISSISSIPPI," xii, 108.
Death of Czar Feodor III; his sister, Sophia, regent in the name of her brothers Ivan V, of weak intellect, and Peter I (Peter the Great).
%1683%. A penny-post first established in London, by a private individual. Execution in England of Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney, for participation in the Rye House Plot.
Siege of Vienna by the Turks. See "LAST TURKISH INVASION OF EUROPE," xii, 164.
Attack on the Spanish Netherlands by Louis XIV.
%1684%. Forfeiture of the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company.
Formation of the Holy League by Venice, Poland, Emperor Leopold I, and Pope
Innocent XI against the Turks.
Genoa bombarded by the French. Louis XIV forcibly occupies Luxemburg.
An embassy sent from the King of Siam to France.
Publication by Leibnitz of his invention of the differential calculus. (See
Newton, 1665.)
%1685%. Death of Charles II; his brother, James II, ascends the English throne. Insurrection of Argyle and Monmouth; they are both executed. Jeffries' Bloody Assizes. See "MONMOUTH'S REBELLION," xii, 172.
Pillage of the coast of Peru by the buccaneers.
"REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES." See xii, 180.
A demand made for the surrender of Connecticut's charter; it is hidden in
Charter Oak.
Bradford's printing-press arrives in Pennsylvania. See "ORIGIN AND PROGRESS
OF PRINTING," viii, i.
%1686%. Attempt of James II to restore Romanism in the British domains; a camp established by him at Hounslow Heath. Revival of the Court of High Commission.
League of Augsburg formed by William of Orange, by which the principal continental states unite to resist French encroachments.
A bloody crusade waged by Louis XIV, and Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, against the Waldenses of Piedmont.
Recovery of Buda by the Austrians from the Turks.
Appointment of Sir Edmund Andros as Governor over the consolidated New
England colonies.
%1687%. Refusal of the University of Cambridge to admit Francis, a Benedictine monk, recommended by James II.
Leopold I compels the Hungarian Diet to make the kingdom hereditary in the
Hapsburg family.
Battle of Mohacs; defeat of the Turks by the Duke of Lorraine.
Capture of Athens by the Venetians.
Appointment of Tyrconnel, a Roman Catholic, as Lord Deputy of Ireland.
Publication of Newton's Principia.
Assumption of power by Peter the Great, in Russia.
1688. Louis XIV declares war against Holland: he makes war on Germany.
Capture of Philippsburg by the French.
Battle of Enniskillen in Ireland.
Landing in England of William of Orange, on invitation of the malcontents in that country. See "THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION," xii, 200.
New York and New Jersey united with New England under Governor-General Sir
Edmund Andros.
1689. William and Mary, she being daughter of the ex-king, are proclaimed King and Queen of England. Passage of the Bill of Rights.
James II lands in Ireland; he unsuccessfully besieges Londonderry: battle of Newtown Butler, defeat of the Irish Catholics.
Great Britain joins the League of Augsburg.
Overthrow of Andros in New England. See "TYRANNY OF ANDROS IN NEW ENGLAND," xii, 241.
At the instance of Louvois, his war minister, Louis XIV lays waste the
Palatinate.
Battle of Killiecrankie, Scotland; defeat of the government forces by the
Highlanders; Claverhouse, their leader, slain.
"MASSACRE OF LACHINE, CANADA." See xii, 248.
"PETER THE GREAT MODERNIZES RUSSIA." See xii, 223.
1690. Battle of the Boyne. See "SIEGE OF LONDONDERRY," xii, 258.
Presbyterianism reestablished in Scotland.
Defence of Canada by Frontenac.
James II leaves Ireland and returns to France.
Destruction of Schenectady by the French and Indians.
Conquest of Acadia and unsuccessful attempt on Québec by the English.
John Locke publishes his Essay Concerning the Human Understanding.
1691. Overthrow of the Jacobites in Scotland.
Battle of Salankeman; victory of Louis of Baden over the Turks.
Execution in New York of Jacob Leisler.
1692. Union of the colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts.
Beginning of the witchcraft mania in New England. See "SALEM WITCHCRAFT
TRIALS," xii, 268.
The duchies of Hanover and Brunswick become an electorate; Ernest Augustus elector.
Battle of La Hogue; the attempted French invasion of England defeated by the victory of the English and Dutch fleets.
Massacre, at Glencoe, of the MacDonalds.
1693. Defeat of the English fleet, off Cape St. Vincent, by Tourville, admiral of the French fleet.
Distress in France from famine and the expense of the war with England.
Founding of the College of William and Mary, Virginia.
Bradford's printing-press removed from Pennsylvania to New York. See
"ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING," viii, i.
1694. Attacks on the coast of France by the English.
Death of Queen Mary, consort of William. Cessation of the censorship of the press in England.
"ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND." See xii, 286.
Peter the Great of Russia employs Brant, a Dutch shipwright, to build a vessel at Archangel.
1695. Peace arranged between France and Savoy.
Azov captured from the Turks by Peter the Great.
1696. On the death of John Sobieski the Polish crown is purchased by Frederick Augustus, Elector of Saxony.
1697. Barcelona captured by the French.
Peace of Ryswick between France, Holland, England, and Spain.
Election of Francis I as King of Poland.
Battle of Zenta; crushing defeat of the Turks by Leopold I.
1698. Foundation of Calcutta by the English.
A Scotch colony established on the Isthmus of Darien: abandoned in 1700.
Peter the Great recalled from England by a revolt of the Strelitz guards; he subdues and disbands them.
Society for Propagating Christianity formed in London.
Partition of Spain arranged between England, France, and the Netherlands.
1699. Iberville settles a French colony in Louisiana. See "COLONIZATION OF LOUISIANA," xii, 297.
Reduction of the Turkish territories in Europe, by nearly one-half, arranged by the Peace of Carlowitz, between Turkey, Austria, Venice, and Poland.
Peter the Great introduces the computation of time in Russia by the Christian era, but adheres to the old style, which still obtains in that country.
1700. Russia, Poland, and Denmark make joint war against Sweden. The army of Peter the Great overwhelmed at Narva, by Charles XII of Sweden.
Foundation of the future Yale College, Connecticut.
1701. Frederick III of Brandenburg crowns himself King of Prussia. See "PRUSSIA PROCLAIMED A KINGDOM," xii, 310.