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An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, xiii CHARLES F. HORNE

Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River (A.D. 1609), 1 HENRY R. CLEVELAND

Galileo Overthrows Ancient Philosophy The Telescope and Its Discoveries (A.D. 1610), 14 SIR OLIVER LODGE

The Beginning of British Power in India (A.D. 1612), 30 BECKLES WILLSON

The Dutch Settlement of New York (A.D. 1614), 44 DAVID T. VALENTINE

Harvey Discovers the Circulation of the Blood (A.D. 1616), 50 THOMAS H. HUXLEY

The "Defenestration" at Prague (A.D. 1618) The Thirty Years War, 62 SAMUEL R. GARDINER CHARLES F. HORNE

The First American Legislature (A.D. 1619), 76 CHARLES CAMPBELL

Introduction of Negroes into Virginia (A.D. 1619) Spread of Slavery and Cultivation of Tobacco, 81 CHARLES CAMPBELL JOHN M. LUDLOW

English Pilgrims Settle at Plymouth (A.D. 1620), 93 JOHN S. BARRY

The Birth of Modern Scientific Methods (A.D. 1620) Bacon and Descartes, 116 GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Siege of La Rochelle (A.D. 1627) Richelieu Rules France, 129 ANDREW D. WHITE

The Great Puritan Exodus to New England The Founding of Boston (A.D. 1630), 153 JOHN G. PALFREY

Triumph and Death of Gustavus Adolphus at Luetzen (A.D. 1632), 174 BENJAMIN CHAPMAN

Recantation of Galileo (A.D. 1633), 184 SIR OLIVER LODGE

The Educational Reform of Comenius (A.D. 1638), 192 SIMON SOMERVILLE LAURIE

The First Written Free Constitution in the World (A.D. 1639) Earliest Union among American Colonies (A.D. 1643), 205 GIDEON H. HOLLISTER JOHN MARSHALL

Abolition of the Court of Star-chamber (A.D. 1641) The Popular Revolt against Charles I, 215 HENRY HALLAM LORD MACAULAY

The Founding of Montreal (A.D. 1642), 232 ALFRED SANDHAM

Presbyterianism Established Meeting of the Westminster Assembly (A.D. 1643), 238 DAVID MASSON

Masaniello's Revolt at Naples (A.D. 1647), 253 ALFRED VON REUMONT

The Peace of Westphalia (A.D. 1648) The War of the Fronde, 285 ARTHUR HASSALL

Religious Toleration Proclaimed in Maryland (A.D. 1649), 303 G. L. DAVIS

The Great Civil War in England The Execution of Charles I (A.D. 1649), 311 LORD MACAULAY CHARLES KNIGHT

Cromwell's Campaign in Ireland (A.D. 1649), 335 FREDERIC HARRISON

Molière Creates Modern Comedy (A.D. 1659), 347 HENRI VAN LAUN

Cromwell's Rule in England The Restoration (A.D. 1660), 357 THOMAS CARLYLE JOHN RICHARD GREEN SAMUEL PEPYS

Universal Chronology (A.D. 1609-1660), 387 JOHN RUDD

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