| PAGE | |||
| Beginning of the Earth | [3] | ||
| First Rain-storm | [7] | ||
| Plants | [7] | ||
| Mites | [8] | ||
| Insects | [8] | ||
| Fish | [8] | ||
| Frogs | [8] | ||
| Snakes | [8] | ||
| Birds | [8] | ||
| Animals | [8] | ||
| Monkeys | [8] | ||
| People | [8] | ||
| 4000 | B.C. | Bronze Age Begins | [16] |
| 3400 | B.C. | Menes | [28] |
| 2900 | B.C. | Cheops | [38] |
| 2300 | B.C. | Chaldean Eclipse | [46] |
| 1900 | B.C. | Abraham Leaves Ur | [49] |
| 1700 | B.C. | Israelites go to Egypt | [51] |
| 1300 | B.C. | Exodus; Iron Age Begins | [54] |
| 1200 | B.C. | Trojan War | [64] |
| 1100 | B.C. | Samuel; Saul | [70] |
| 1000 | B.C. | Homer; Solomon; Hiram | [68], [71], [76] |
| 900 | B.C. | Lycurgus | [79] |
| 776 | B.C. | First Olympiad | [87] |
| 753 | B.C. | Founding of Rome | [89] |
| 700 | B.C. | Nineveh at Top | [96] |
| 612 | B.C. | Fall of Nineveh | [98] |
| Draco; Solon | [114]-115 | ||
| 538 | B.C. | Fall of Babylon | [108] |
| 509 | B.C. | End of Kings at Rome | [119] |
| 500 | B.C. | Brahmanism | [111] |
| Buddhism | [112] | ||
| Confucius | [113] | ||
| 490 | B.C. | Marathon | [127] |
| 480 | B.C. | Thermopylæ; | [137] |
| Salamis | [140] | ||
| 480 | B.C. | Golden Age | [143] |
| 430 | B.C. | Peloponnesian War | [151] |
| 336 | B.C. } | ||
| 323 | B.C. } | Alexander the Great | [159], [162] |
| 202 | B.C. | Zama | [175] |
| 100 | B.C. | Birth of Julius Cæsar | [184] |
| 55 | B.C. } | ||
| 54 | B.C. } | Conquest of Britain | [186] |
| 44 | B.C. | Death of Julius Cæsar | [190] |
| 27 | B.C. | Augustus and the Empire | [191] |
| 4 | B.C. | Birth of Christ | [197] |
| Nero | [203] | ||
| Titus | [206] | ||
| 79 | A.D. | Pompeii destroyed | [208] |
| 179 | A.D. | Marcus Aurelius | [210] |
| 323 | A.D. | Constantine | [215] |
| 476 | A.D. | Downfall of Rome | [227] |
| 622 | A.D. | The Hegira | [244] |
| 732 | A.D. | Tours | [249] |
| 800 | A.D. | Charlemagne | [257] |
| 900 | A.D. | King Alfred the Great | [264] |
| 1000 | A.D. | First Discovery of America | [269] |
| 1066 | A.D. | William the Conqueror | [286] |
| 1100 | A.D. | The Crusades | [292] |
| 1215 | A.D. | King John; Magna Charta | [311] |
| 1300 | A.D. | Marco Polo | [318] |
| 1338 | A.D. | Beginning of One Hundred Years’ War; Crécy; Black Death; Joan of Arc | [327] |
| 1440 | A.D. | Invention of Printing | [333] |
| 1453 | A.D. | Fall of Constantinople | [335] |
| 1492 | A.D. | Columbus; Discovery of America | [337] |
| 1497 | A.D. | Vasco da Gama | [348] |
| 1500 | A.D. | The Renaissance | [359] |
| The Reformation | [365] | ||
| Charles V | [367] | ||
| King Henry VIII | [369] | ||
| Elizabeth | [372] | ||
| 1588 | A.D. | Spanish Armada | [375] |
| 1600 | A.D. | Shakspere | [380] |
| 1640 | A.D. | Charles I and Oliver Cromwell | [390] |
| Cardinal Richelieu | [395] | ||
| Louis XIV | [397] | ||
| 1700 | A.D. | Peter the Great | [402] |
| 1750 | A.D. | Frederick the Great | [407] |
| 1776 | A.D. | American Revolution | [412] |
| 1789 | A.D. | French Revolution | [420] |
| 1800 | A.D. | Napoleon | [428] |
| 1861 | A.D. | Civil War | [447] |
| 1914 | A.D. } | ||
| 1918 | A.D. } | The Great War | [460] |
A CHILD’S HISTORY
OF THE WORLD
BEGINS HERE
1
How Things Started
Once upon a time there was a boy—
Just like me.
He had to stay in bed in the morning until seven o’clock until his father and mother were ready to get up;
So did I.
As he was always awake long before this time, he used to lie there and think about all sorts of curious things;