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)
1131. Birth of Maimonides, who, next to Moses, is believed to have had the greatest influence on Jewish thought. (Date uncertain.)
1132. Lothair II goes to Rome in support of Pope Innocent II against Antipope Anacletus II; he expels Conrad.
Wool-spinning is introduced into England by the Flemings at Worstead; hence the name "worsted."
1133. Lothair conducts Innocent to Rome and is there crowned emperor by him.
1134. Aragon and Navarre choose separate sovereigns, who are protected by Alfonso the Noble, King of Castile.
1135. Death of Henry I of England; Stephen usurps the throne. See "STEPHEN USURPS THE ENGLISH CROWN," v, 317.
A copy of Justinian's Pandects said to have been discovered at Amalfi.
The house of Hohenstaufen forced into submission by Lothair.
1136. Lothair marches into Italy with a large army; the cities make submission.
Matilda resists Stephen's usurpation of the English crown, and invades Normandy.
1137. Death of Louis VI; his son, Louis VII, succeeds to the French crown.
1138. David I of Scotland defeated at the Battle of the Standard. See "STEPHEN USURPS THE ENGLISH CROWN," v, 317.
Conrad, Duke of Franconia, elected emperor of Germany; he founds the Hohenstaufen dynasty. From his castle of Wiblingen his party takes the name of Ghibellines; his opponent, Henry Guelf, is put under the ban of the empire, hence the papal party were called Guelfs.
1139. Pope Innocent II taken prisoner by Roger; a treaty of peace confirms Roger's title. Arnold of Brescia is banished Italy. See "ANTI-PAPAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT," v, 340.
Robert, Earl of Gloucester, a natural son of Henry I, promises assistance to Matilda in her war against King Stephen of England. See "STEPHEN USURPS THE ENGLISH CROWN," v, 317.
1140. Conrad III defeats the forces of Guelf VI, uncle of Henry the Lion, while attempting to gain possession of Bavaria.
1141. Battle of Lincoln; King Stephen defeated and carried prisoner to Bristol. See "STEPHEN USURPS THE ENGLISH CROWN," v, 317.
1142. Henry the Lion is invested with the duchy of Saxony by Conrad III. His rival, Albert the Bear, created margrave of Brandenburg.
1143. Geisa, King of Hungary, invites German emigrants to join the colony of that people in Transylvania.
1144. Edessa, Turkey, stormed and captured by Zenghi, Sultan of Aleppo.
1145. Arnold of Brescia initiates the antipapal democratic movement. See "ANTIPAPAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT," v, 340.
Disruption of the Almoravide kingdom in Spain.
1146. Prince Henry inherits Anjou and Maine; Normandy submits to him.
St. Bernard, at the instance of Pope Eugenius, preaches a crusade for the protection of the Holy Land against Noureddin, Sultan of Aleppo.
Byzantium is ravaged by Roger, King of Sicily. See "DECLINE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE," v, 353.
Crusaders and mobs massacre Jews in Germany.
1147. Louis VII of France and Emperor Conrad III lead the Second Crusade.
Lisbon, after being taken from the Moors, is made the capital of Portugal.
Moscow, Russia, is founded by the Prince of Suzdal, Dolgoucki.
1148. Unsuccessful sieges of Damascus and Ascalon by the crusaders.
1149. Louis, returning by sea from his crusade, is captured by the Greeks, and rescued by the Sicilian fleet.
1150. Victory of Manuel, the Byzantine Emperor, over the Servians, who become vassals of that empire.
1151. Manuel invades Hungary, crosses the Danube, grants a truce to Geisa, and carries a large booty to Constantinople.
1152. Death of Conrad III; Frederick I, Barbarossa, elected emperor.
1153. Treaty by King Stephen and Henry Plantagenet concerning the succession of the English crown. See "STEPHEN USURPS THE ENGLISH CROWN," v, 317.
1154. A large portion of France united with the crown of England on the accession of Henry II, who founds the Plantagenet line, following Stephen's death.
The first Italian expedition of Frederick Barbarossa.
Pope Adrian IV, by a bull, grants Ireland to the English crown.
1155. Frederick reëstablishes the papal rule in Rome. Pope Adrian IV orders the execution of Arnold. See "ANTIPAPAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT," v, 340.
1156. Henry the Lion, of the Guelf line, has Bavaria restored to him. Austria erected into a duchy.
1157. Pope Adrian, in a letter to the German Emperor, asserts Germany to be a papal benefice; Frederick resists the claim.
Poland is compelled by Emperor Frederick I to pay him homage.
1158. Eric IX of Sweden conquers the coast of Finland and builds Abo.
Frederick I, Barbarossa, a second time invades Italy; he captures Milan.
1159. Election of Pope Alexander III; Frederick I creates an anti-pope, Victor IV.
War ensues between Henry II of England and Louis VII of France; the former claiming the county of Toulouse, Southern France.
1160. Emperor Frederick I calls the Council of Pavia; it declares Victor to be pope; Alexander excommunicates them all.
1161. Peace concluded between Henry II and Louis VII; they acknowledge Alexander as pope. The kings of Denmark, Norway, Bohemia, and Hungary declare in favor of Victor.
Henry II limits the papal authority in England.
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