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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)
1451. Guienne conquered by the French from the English. Ghent revolts against Philip, Duke of Burgundy.
1453. End of the Eastern empire. See "MAHOMET II TAKES CONSTANTINOPLE," viii, 55.
Submission of Ghent to the Duke of Burgundy after its forces had been defeated at Gaveren.
Battle of Castillon; defeat of the English; loss of all the English conquests in France, except Calais; end of the Hundred Years' War.
Emperor Frederick III creates Austria a duchy.
1454. Mental aberration of Henry VI of England; the Duke of York protector.
Publication of the first-known printing with movable type. See "ORIGIN
AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING," viii, i.
Venice by a treaty with Turkey secures trade privileges in Greece.
1455. Beginning of the contest for the crown of England. See "WARS OF THE ROSES," viii, 72.
1456. Battle of Belgrade; victory of Hunyady over the Turks. Athens conquered by the Turks.
1457. Church of the Unitas Fratrum organized in Bohemia. Francis Foscaro, being deposed as doge of Venice after a reign of thirty-four years, dies of grief on hearing the bells rung to celebrate the election of his successor.
At Mainz is published the Book of Psalms, the earliest work printed with its date.
1458. Pope Pius II acknowledges Ferdinand I as King of Naples, strives to restore peace, and unite all powers in resistance to the Turkish aggressions.
Genoa submits to the King of France, Charles VII.
Election of Matthias, son of Hunyady, as King of Hungary.
George Podibrad, leader of the church-reform party, chosen King of
Bohemia. 1459. Silesia submits to Podibrad, King of Bohemia.
1460. James II of Scotland takes up arms against the English; he is killed, by the bursting of a cannon, at the siege of Roxburgh castle; his son, James III, succeeds.
Christian I of Denmark inherits Schleswig and Holstein.
Discovery of the Cape Verd Islands by the Portuguese; they penetrate to the coast of Guinea.
1461. Death of Charles VII of France; his son, Louis XI, involves himself in a contest with his leading nobles.
Prince Henry of Portugal, just prior to his death, sends Peter Covilham and Alfonso Paiva, overland, to explore India.
Trebizond, the last Greek capital, surrenders to the Ottoman Turks.
1462. Accession of Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow. See "IVAN THE GREAT UNITES RUSSIA AND BREAKS THE TARTAR YOKE," viii, 109.
1463. War between Venetians and Turks in Greece.
Conference between the kings of France and Castile; the artful policy of
Louis XI prolongs discord in Spain.
1464. Queen Margaret invades England; her adherents are defeated at Hexham. See "WARS OF THE ROSES," viii, 72.
Pope Pius II attempts the organization of a crusade against the Turks; he dies at Ancona; Paul II elected.
Sforza, Duke of Milan, makes himself master of Milan.
1465. Henry VI of England is imprisoned in the Tower of London.
War between the League of the Public Good and Louis XI of France; treaty of Conflans; the King makes many promises, few of which he performs.
King Matthias invites learned men from Italy to Hungary; he founds the
University and Library of Budapest.
Athens captured and pillaged by the Venetians, under Victor Capello.
1466. Worn out by constant warfare the Teutonic Knights, by the treaty of Thorn, cede West Prussia to Casimir IV of Poland; they retain East Prussia as a fief of Poland.
1467. Charles the Bold succeeds to the Duchy of Burgundy.
A crusade against George Podibrad, King of Bohemia, proclaimed by Pope
Paul II.
1468. Visit of Louis XI to Charles the Bold at Péronne. See "CULMINATION OF THE POWER OF BURGUNDY," viii, 125.
Founding of the Library of Venice.
Ivan III repels an invasion of the Golden Horde and prepares the independence of Russia.
1469. Marriage of Princess Isabella of Castile to Ferdinand of Aragon.
Beginning of the reign of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence. See "LORENZO
DE' MEDICI RULES IN FLORENCE," viii, 134.
About this time Peter Covilham (see 1461), his companion having died in India, penetrates into Abyssinia and is there detained. 1470. Restoration of Henry VI, by Earl Warwick, to the throne of England.
Siege and capture of Negropont (Euboea) by the Turks; massacre of the inhabitants.
Pomponius Laetus collects a society to study the antiquities of Rome; he is imprisoned and persecuted for his unguarded enthusiasm.
1471. Edward IV reënters England; defeat of the Lancastrians at Barnet; Warwick—the King Maker—slain. See "WARS OF THE ROSES," viii, 72.
Translation by Caxton of Recueil des Histoires des Troyes. See "ORIGIN
AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING" (also plate), viii, 24.
1472. Normandy ravaged by Charles the Bold.
Philippe de Comines, the chronicler, enters into the service of Louis XI.
1473. Resumption of the commotions in France; the Count of Armagnac assassinated; the Duke of Alençon arrested.
1474. Ferdinand and Isabella commence their joint reign in Castile. Caxton publishes his first book, The Game and Playe of the Chesse.
1475. Emperor Frederick IV refuses to give Charles, Duke of Burgundy, the title of king; war ensues; Charles conquers Lorraine.
1476. Switzerland unsuccessfully invaded by the Duke of Burgundy. Assassination of Sforza, Duke of Milan; his son Gian Galeazzo Maria succeeds, under the regency of his mother, Bona.
Sten Sture, Protector of Sweden, founds the University of Upsal; he checks the nobility and priesthood by summoning deputies of the towns and peasantry to attend the national Diet.
1477. Maximilian, son of Emperor Frederick III, marries Mary of Burgundy.
Italy invaded by the Turks; they advance to within sight of Venice.
Publication of the first book printed in England, Caxton's Dictes or
Sayengis of the Philosophers.
René of Lorraine and his Swiss mercenaries overwhelm Charles the Bold at
Nancy; he is slain.
Burgundy is seized by Louis XI. See "DEATH OF CHARLES THE BOLD," viii, 155.
Grant of the Great Privilege of Holland and Zealand, by Mary, Duchess of Burgundy. The Groot Privilegie was a recapitulation and recognition of ancient rights. Although afterward violated, and indeed abolished, it became the foundation of the republic.
1478. Condemnation and death of the Duke of Clarence. He is said to have chosen to die by being drowned in a butt of Malmsey, a wine of which he had been inordinately fond.
Conspiracy of the Pazzi, a powerful family of Florence, against the Medici; most of the conspirators massacred by the people; the others judicially punished.
Sultan Mahomet II, of the Ottoman Empire, completes the subjugation of
Albania.
Novgorod taken by Ivan III, of Russia, who puts an end to its republic.
1479. Battle of Guinegate; Maximilian defeats the French. Ferdinand the Catholic succeeds to the throne in Aragon; union of Castile and Aragon.
1480. Founding of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Spain, by Cardinal Mendozas. See "INQUISITION ESTABLISHED IN SPAIN," viii, 166.
1481. Maine and Provence united to France.
Battle of Bielawesch; the Nogay Tartars crush the Golden Horde and secure the independence of Russia.
1482. Death of Mary of Burgundy; her infant son, Philip, succeeds to the sovereignty of the Netherlands.
Ferdinand and Isabella begin a war for the conquest of Granada.
1483. Usurpation of Richard III; murder of the princes. See "MURDER OF THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER," viii, 192.
Death of Louis XI; Charles VII, his son, succeeds to the French throne.
Renewal of the Union of Kalmar; Sweden and Norway acknowledge John I, but