The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
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
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
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
COPYRIGHT, 1905, By THE NATIONAL ALUMNI
Gazing across the broader field of universal history, one comes more and more to overlook the merely temporary, constantly shifting border lines of states, and to see Western Europe as a whole, to watch its nations as a single people guided by similar developments of the mind, impelled by similar stirrings of the heart, taking part in but a single story, the marvellous tale of man's advance.
This sense of an all-enfolding unity, an ever-advancing common destiny, sinks weakest perhaps in the period we now approach. The nations seem sharply separated in their careers. In the preceding age the power of Spain and the fanaticism of its monarch, Philip II, had made the reëstablishment of Catholicism the dominant question throughout Europe. But in 1609 Philip III of Spain abandoned his father's attempt to conquer Holland and again enforce a universal religion. In 1610 Henry IV of France, who had brought peace and amity out of the savage religious wars within his own realm, fell under an assassin's knife. These two events may be accepted as marking a turn in the current of the world, a change in the thoughts of men. The next half-century saw wars indeed, bloody and bitter wars, but they were no longer primarily religious. The strife was more than half political, and men of opposite faiths found themselves at times allied upon the battle-field. The feeling of religious brotherhood grew weaker, that of political allegiance stronger.
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THE GREAT EVENTS
FAMOUS HISTORIANS
NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
CONTENTS
VOLUME XI
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME XI
AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE
TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF
THE GREAT EVENTS
(ERA OF POLITICAL-RELIGIOUS WARS)
CHARLES F. HORNE
THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
FOOTNOTES:
HENRY HUDSON EXPLORES THE HUDSON RIVER
A.D. 1609
HENRY R. CLEVELAND
GALILEO OVERTHROWS ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
THE TELESCOPE AND ITS DISCOVERIES
SIR OLIVER LODGE
FOOTNOTES:
BEGINNING OF BRITISH POWER IN INDIA
A.D. 1612
BECKLES WILLSON
DUTCH SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK
A.D. 1614
DAVID T. VALENTINE
HARVEY DISCOVERS THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD
A.D. 1616
THOMAS H. HUXLEY
THE "DEFENESTRATION" AT PRAGUE
THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
SAMUEL R. GARDINER CHARLES F. HORNE
FOOTNOTES:
FIRST AMERICAN LEGISLATURE
A.D. 1619
CHARLES CAMPBELL
INTRODUCTION OF NEGROES INTO VIRGINIA
SPREAD OF SLAVERY AND THE CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO
A.D. 1619
CHARLES CAMPBELL JOHN M. LUDLOW
CHARLES CAMPBELL
ENGLISH PILGRIMS SETTLE AT PLYMOUTH
A.D. 1620
JOHN S. BARRY
BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC METHODS
BACON AND DESCARTES
A.D. 1620
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
SIEGE OF LA ROCHELLE
RICHELIEU RULES FRANCE
ANDREW D. WHITE
GREAT PURITAN EXODUS TO NEW ENGLAND
FOUNDING OF BOSTON
JOHN G. PALFREY
TRIUMPH AND DEATH OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS AT LUETZEN
A.D. 1632
BENJAMIN CHAPMAN
RECANTATION OF GALILEO
A.D. 1633
SIR OLIVER LODGE
FOOTNOTES:
EDUCATIONAL REFORM OF COMENIUS
A.D. 1638
S. S. LAURIE
FOOTNOTES:
FIRST WRITTEN FREE CONSTITUTION IN THE WORLD
EARLIEST UNION AMONG AMERICAN COLONIES
G. H. HOLLISTER JOHN MARSHALL
ABOLITION OF THE COURT OF STAR-CHAMBER
POPULAR REVOLT AGAINST CHARLES I
HENRY HALLAM LORD MACAULAY
FOUNDING OF MONTREAL
A.D. 1642
ALFRED SANDHAM
PRESBYTERIANISM ESTABLISHED
MEETING OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
DAVID MASSON
FOOTNOTES:
MASANIELLO'S REVOLT AT NAPLES
A.D. 1647
ALFRED VON REUMONT
PEACE OF WESTPHALIA
WAR OF THE FRONDE
ARTHUR HASSALL
RELIGIOUS TOLERATION PROCLAIMED IN MARYLAND
A.D. 1649
G. L. DAVIS
FOOTNOTES:
GREAT CIVIL WAR IN ENGLAND
EXECUTION OF CHARLES I
A.D. 1649
LORD MACAULAY CHARLES KNIGHT
FOOTNOTES:
CROMWELL'S CAMPAIGN IN IRELAND
A.D. 1649
FREDERIC HARRISON
FOOTNOTES:
MOLIÈRE CREATES MODERN COMEDY
A.D. 1659
HENRI VAN LAUN
CROMWELL'S RULE IN ENGLAND
THE RESTORATION
THOMAS CARLYLE JOHN R. GREEN SAMUEL PEPYS
FOOTNOTES:
CHRONOLOGY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY
Embracing the Period Covered in This Volume
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.