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| An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, | [xiii] |
| CHARLES F. HORNE |
| John Law Promotes the Mississippi Scheme (A.D. 1716), | [1] |
| LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS |
| Prince Eugene Vanquishes the Turks |
| Siege and Battle of Belgrad (A.D. 1717), | [16] |
| PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY |
| Bursting of the South Sea Bubble (A.D. 1720), | [22] |
| LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS |
| Bach Lays the Foundation of Modern Music (A.D. 1723), | [31] |
| HENRY TIPPER |
| Settlement of Georgia (A.D. 1732), | [44] |
| WILLIAM B. STEVENS |
| Rise of Methodism (A.D. 1738) |
| Preaching of the Wesleys and of Whitefield, | [57] |
| WILLIAM E.H. LECKY |
| Conquests of Nadir Shah |
| Capture of Delhi (A.D. 1739), | [72] |
| SIR JOHN MALCOLM |
| First Modern Novel (A.D. 1740), | [100] |
| EDMUND GOSSE |
| Frederick the Great Seizes Silesia (A.D. 1740) |
| Maria Theresa Appeals to the Hungarians, | [108] |
| WILLIAM SMYTH |
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| Defeat of the Young Pretender at Culloden (A.D. 1746) |
| Last of the Stuarts, | [117] |
| JUSTIN McCARTHY |
| Benjamin Franklin Experiments with Electricity (A.D. 1747), | [130] |
| JOHN BIGELOW AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN |
| Voltaire Directs European Thought from Geneva (A.D. 1755), | [144] |
| JOHN MORLEY |
| GEORGE W. KITCHIN |
| Braddock's Defeat (A.D. 1755), | [163] |
| WINTHROP SARGENT |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON |
| CAPTAIN DE CONTRECŒUR |
| Exile of the Acadian Neutrals (A.D. 1755), | [181] |
| WILLIAM H. WITHROW |
| Clive Establishes British Supremacy in India |
| Black Hole of Calcutta: Battle of Plassey (A.D. 1756), | [185] |
| SIR ALEXANDER J. ARBUTHNOT |
| Seven Years' War (A.D. 1756-1763) |
| Battle of Torgau, | [204] |
| WOLFGANG MENZEL |
| FREDERICK THE GREAT |
| Conquest of Canada |
| Victory of Wolfe at Quebec (A.D. 1759), | [229] |
| A.G. BRADLEY |
| Usurpation of Catharine II in Russia (A.D. 1762), | [250] |
| W. KNOX JOHNSON |
| Conspiracy of Pontiac (A.D. 1763), | [267] |
| E.O. RANDALL |
| American Colonies Oppose the Stamp Act (A.D. 1765) |
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| Patrick Henry's Speech, | [299] |
| JAMES GRAHAME |
| GEORGE BANCROFT |
| Watt Improves the Steam-engine (A.D. 1769), | [302] |
| FRANÇOIS ARAGO |
| First Partition of Poland (A.D. 1772), | [313] |
| JAMES FLETCHER |
| The Boston Tea Party (A.D. 1773), | [333] |
| GEORGE BANCROFT |
| Cotton Manufacture Developed (A.D. 1774), | [341] |
| THOMAS F. HENDERSON |
| Intellectual Revolt of Germany |
| Goethe's Werther Arouses Romanticism (A.D. 1775), | [347] |
| KARL HILLEBRAND |
| Pestalozzi's Method of Education (A.D. 1775), | [364] |
| GEORGE RIPLEY |
| Universal Chronology (A.D. 1716-1775), | [379] |
| JOHN RUDD |