The Great Events of World History - Volume 11 #302512

The Great Events of World History, Volume 11! Featuring: HENRY HUDSON EXPLORES THE HUDSON RIVER, by Henry Cleveland GALILEO OVERTHROWS ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, by Oliver Lodge BEGINNING OF BRITISH POWER IN INDIA, by Beckles Willson DUTCH SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK, by David Valentine HARVEY DISCOVERS THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD, by Thomas Huxley THE "DEFENESTRATION" AT PRAGUE – THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR, by Samuel Gardiner & Charles Horne FIRST AMERICAN LEGISLATURE, by Charles Campbell INTRODUCTION OF NEGROES INTO VIRGINIA – SPREAD OF SLAVERY AND THE CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO, by Charles Campbell & John Ludlow ENGLISH PILGRIMS SETTLE AT PLYMOUTH, by John Barry BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC METHODS – BACON AND DESCARTES, by George Lewes SIEGE OF LA ROCHELLE – RICHELIEU RULES FRANCE, by Andrew White GREAT PURITAN EXODUS TO NEW ENGLAND – FOUNDING OF BOSTON, by John Palfrey TRIUMPH AND DEATH OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS AT LUETZEN, by Benjamin Chapman RECANTATION OF GALILEO, by Oliver Lodge EDUCATIONAL REFORM OF COMENIUS, by S.S. Laurie FIRST WRITTEN FREE CONSTITUTION IN THE WORLD – EARLIEST UNION AMONG AMERICAN COLONIES, by G. Hollister & John Marshall ABOLITION OF THE COURT OF STAR-CHAMBER – POPULAR REVOLT AGAINST CHARLES I, by Henry Hallam & Lord Macaulay FOUNDING OF MONTREAL, by Alfred Sandham PRESBYTERIANISM ESTABLISHED – MEETING OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY, by David Masson MASANIELLO'S REVOLT AT NAPLES, by Alfred von Reumont PEACE OF WESTPHALIA – WAR OF THE FRONDE, by Arthur Hassall RELIGIOUS TOLERATION PROCLAIMED IN MARYLAND, by G.L. Davis GREAT CIVIL WAR IN ENGLAND – EXECUTION OF CHARLES I, by Lord Macaulay & Charles Knight CROMWELL'S CAMPAIGN IN IRELAND, by Frederic Harrison MOLIÈRE CREATES MODERN COMEDY, by Henry van Laun CROMWELL'S RULE IN ENGLAND – THE RESTORATION, by Thomas Carlyle, John Green & Samuel Pepys