The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 546 pages of information about The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 546 pages of information about The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1.

VOLUME I

General Introduction

An Outline Narrative of the Great Events
  Charles F. Horne

Dawn of Civilization (B.C. 5867)
  G.C.C.  MASPERO

Compilation of the Earliest Code (B.C. 2250)
  Hammurabi

Theseus Founds Athens (B.C. 1235)
  Plutarch

The Formation of the Castes in India (B.C. 1200)
  GUSTAVE LE BON
  W.W.  HUNTER

Fall of Troy (B.C. 1184)
  GEORGE GROTE

Accession of Solomon Building of the Temple at Jerusalem (B.C. 1017)
  HENRY HART MILMAN

Rise and Fall of Assyria Destruction of Nineveh (B.C. 789)
  F. LENORMANT AND E. CHEVALLIER

The Foundation of Rome (B.C. 753)
  BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR

Prince Jimmu Founds Japan’s Capital (B.C. 660)
  SIR EDWARD REED
  THE “NEHONGI”

The Foundation of Buddhism (B.C. 623)
  THOMAS W. RHYS-DAVIDS

Pythian Games at Delphi (B.C. 585)
  GEORGE GROTE

Solon’s Early Greek Legislation (B.C. 594)
  GEORGE GROTE

Conquests of Cyrus the Great (B.C. 550)
  GEORGE GROTE

Rise of Confucius, the Chinese Sage (B.C. 550)
  R.K.  DOUGLAS

Rome Established as a Republic Institution of Tribunes (B.C. 510-494)
  HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL

The Battle of Marathon (B.C. 490)
  SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY

Invasion of Greece by Persians under Xerxes Defence of Thermopylae (B.C. 480)
  HERODOTUS

Universal Chronology (B.C. 5867-451)
  JOHN RUDD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME I

Sphinx, with Great and Second Pyramids of Gizeh (page 12) Frontispiece From an original photograph.

The Rosetta Stone, and Description Facsimile of original in the British Museum.

The Sabine Women—­now mothers—­suing for peace between the combatants (their Roman husbands and their Sabine relatives) Painting by Jacques L. David.

THE GREAT EVENTS

BY

FAMOUS HISTORIANS

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General Introduction

THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS is the answer to a problem which has long been agitating the learned world.  How shall real history, the ablest and profoundest work of the greatest historians, be rescued from its present oblivion on the dusty shelves of scholars, and made welcome to the homes of the people?

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