The Great Events By Famous Historians Volume 1

About this eBook

Editor

Rudd, John, LL. D.

Title

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01

Credits

Produced by David Kline, Jared Ryan Buck and 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.

16352

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16352

Release Date

July 24, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE GREAT EVENTS — BY
2. 2.VOLUME 1 — The National Alumni
3. 3.COPYRIGHT, 1905, — By THE NATIONAL ALUMNI
4. 4.CONTENTS — VOLUME I
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME I
6. 6.THE GREAT EVENTS — BY — FAMOUS HISTORIANS
7. 7.General Introduction
8. 8.THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS
9. 9.AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE — TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF — THE GREAT EVENTS — (FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE OVERTHROW OF THE PERSIANS) — CHARLES F. HORNE
10. 10.DAWN OF CIVILIZATION — B.C. 5867 [20] — G.C.C. MASPERO
11. 11.COMPILATION OF THE EARLIEST CODE — B.C. 2250 — HAMMURABI
12. 12.THESEUS FOUNDS ATHENS — B.C. 1235 — PLUTARCH
13. 13.THE FORMATION OF THE CASTES IN INDIA — B.C. 1200 — GUSTAVE LE BON [23] W.W. HUNTER
14. 14.FALL OF TROY — B.C. 1184 — GEORGE GROTE
15. 15.BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM — B.C. 1017 — HENRY HART MILMAN
16. 16.DESTRUCTION OF NINEVEH — B.C. 789 — F. LENORMANT AND E. CHEVALLIER
17. 17.THE FOUNDATION OF ROME — B.C. 753 — BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR
18. 18.PRINCE JIMMU FOUNDS JAPAN'S CAPITAL — B.C. 660 — SIR EDWARD REED THE "NEHONGI"
19. 19.THE FOUNDATION OF BUDDHISM — B.C. 623 — THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS-DAVIDS
20. 20.PYTHIAN GAMES AT DELPHI — B.C. 585 — GEORGE GROTE
21. 21.SOLON'S EARLY GREEK LEGISLATION — B.C. 594 — GEORGE GROTE
22. 22.CONQUESTS OF CYRUS THE GREAT — B.C. 538 — GEORGE GROTE
23. 23.RISE OF CONFUCIUS, THE CHINESE SAGE — B.C. 550 — R.K. DOUGLAS
24. 24.INSTITUTION OF TRIBUNES — B.C. 510-494 — HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL
25. 25.THE BATTLE OF MARATHON — B.C. 490 — SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY
26. 26.DEFENCE OF THERMOPYLÆ — B.C. 480 — HERODOTUS
27. 27.JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
28. 28.JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
29. 29.END OF VOLUME I
30. 30.THE ROSETTA STONE

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