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The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 3

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 3

by Charles F. Horne

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Editor
Rudd, John, LL. D.
Title
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
Credits
Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
Language
English
LoC Class
D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere
Subject
World history
Category
Text
eBook-No.
25712
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25712
Release Date
June 6, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE GREAT EVENTS — BY
  2. 2.FAMOUS HISTORIANS — NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL — EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
  3. 3.ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D. — ASSOCIATE EDITORS — CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. — JOHN RUDD, LL.D. — With a staff of specialists — VOLUME III — The National Alumni
  4. 4.CONTENTS — VOLUME III
  5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME III
  6. 6.THE GREAT EVENTS — (THE PERIOD OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE) — CHARLES F. HORNE — THE "ROMAN PEACE" — CHRISTIANITY — THE PERIOD OF DECAY — FOOTNOTES:
  7. 7.GERMANICUS IN GERMANY — A.D. 13-16 — TACITUS — FOOTNOTES:
  8. 8.THE CRUCIFIXION — A.D. 30 [26] — FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR — FOOTNOTES:
  9. 9.THE RISE AND SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY — A.D. 33 — RENAN WISE NEWMAN — JOSEPH ERNEST RENAN — ISAAC M. WISE — JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
  10. 10.BURNING OF ROME UNDER NERO — A.D. 64 — SIENKIEWICZ TACITUS — HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ — TACITUS — FOOTNOTES:
  11. 11.PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS UNDER NERO — A.D. 64-68 — FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR — FOOTNOTES:
  12. 12.THE GREAT JEWISH REVOLT — SIEGE AND DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM — A.D. 70 — JOSEPHUS — FOOTNOTES:
  13. 13.DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII — A.D. 79 — PLINY LYTTON — PLINY — LORD EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON — FOOTNOTES:
  14. 14.THE JEWS' LAST STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM: THEIR FINAL DISPERSION — A.D. 132 — CHARLES MERIVALE
  15. 15.MARTYRDOM OF POLYCARP AND JUSTIN MARTYR — POLYCARP'S EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS — A.D. 155 — H. COX POLYCARP — HOMERSHAM COX — THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP TO THE PHILIPPIANS
  16. 16.PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS IN GAUL — A.D. 177 — FRANÇOIS P. G. GUIZOT
  17. 17.BEGINNING OF ROME'S DECLINE: COMMODUS — A.D. 180 — EDWARD GIBBON — FOOTNOTES:
  18. 18.EVENTFUL REIGN OF SAPOR I, KING OF PERSIA — A.D. 240 — GEORGE RAWLINSON
  19. 19.CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE — DECLINE OF PAGANISM — A.D. 300-337 — JOHANN LORENZ VON MOSHEIM
  20. 20.FIRST NICENE COUNCIL — RISE AND DECLINE OF ARIANISM — A.D. 325 — J. L. VON MOSHEIM A. P. STANLEY — JOHANN LORENZ VON MOSHEIM — ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY — FOOTNOTES:
  21. 21.FOUNDATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE — A.D. 330 — EDWARD GIBBON — FOOTNOTES:
  22. 22.JULIAN THE APOSTATE BECOMES EMPEROR OF ROME — A.D. 360 — EDWARD GIBBON
  23. 23.THE HUNS AND THEIR WESTERN MIGRATION — A.D. 374-376 — MARCELLINUS
  24. 24.FINAL DIVISION OF ROMAN EMPIRE: THE DISRUPTIVE INTRIGUES — A.D. 395 — J. B. BURY
  25. 25.CHRONOLOGY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY — A.D. 13-409 — JOHN RUDD, LL.D. — END OF VOLUME III

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