The Eighteen Christian Centuries

by James White

• Union Act, passing of the, [502].
• United States, the revolt of the, [518] et seq.
• Universal church, belief in a, before the Reformation, [419].
• Urban II. and the first Crusaders, [262].
• Utrecht, thy peace of, [502].

• Valens, the emperor, [97]
  • —his defeat and death, [100].
• Valentinian, the emperor, [97].
• Valerian, the emperor, [72].
• Vandals, conquest of Africa by the, [108]
  • —sack of Rome by the, [111]
  • —overthrow of the, by Belisarius, [124].
• Vasco da Gama, the discovery of the route to India by, [401].
• Venaissin, acquisition of, by the Pope, [306].
• Venice, rise of, [277]
  • —power, &c. of, [407]
  • —attacked by Julius II., [408]
  • —league of Cambrai, [409]
  • —decay of the power of, [412].
• Verona destroyed by Attila, [110].
• Versailles, Louis XIV. at, [481]
  • —its cost, [483]
  • —the peace of, [520].
• Vespasian, accession of, [24].
• Vicenza, taken by Attila, [110].
• Vidius Pollio, anecdote of, [36].
• Vikinger, the, [208].
• Virginia, settlement of, by the English, [454].
• Visigoths, settlements of the, in Spain, &c., [128].
• Vitellius, the emperor, [24].

• Wales, early state of, [171], [172].
• Wallace, the victories, &c. of, [320].
• Walpole, Sir R., the ministry of, [505].
• Wartburg, seclusion of Luther at, [428].
• Wealth, influence of the Crusades on, [272].
• Wellington, the victories of, in India, [525].
• Wenilon, Bishop of Sens, [206].
• Wentworth, execution of, [468].
• Western Church, severance of the Eastern from, [133].
• Wickliff, his translation of the Bible, [342].
• Wickliffites, persecution of the, [365].
• William of Normandy, churches, &c. erected by, [244]
  • —the conquest of England by, [253]
  • —character of, [288].
• William Rufus, character of, [288].
• William III., accession of, in England, [485]
  • —his reign, [486]
  • —the death of, [499].
• Winchester, the Bishop of, [384].
• Winifried, the monk, [175].
• Witig, King of the Ostrogoths, [124]
  • —his overthrow, [125].
• Wittenagemot, the, [151].
• Wolfe, the conquest of Canada by, [517].
• Woman, increased respect paid to, [283].
• Worms, the Diet of, Luther before, [427].

• Yeomanry, rise of, in England, [431].
• Yezdegird, King of Persia, [162], [165].

• Zorndorf, the battle of, [513].

THE END.

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