Volume 11 — VOLUME XI
Reading edition
PAGE 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