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_An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_, xiii CHARLES F. HORNE

_Dante Composes the_ Divina Commedia _(A.D. 1300-1318)_, 1 RICHARD WILLIAM CHURCH

_Third Estate Joins in the Government of France (A.D. 1302)_, 17 HENRI MARTIN

_War of the Flemings with Philip the Fair of France (A.D. 1302)_, 23 EYRE EVANS CROWE

_First Swiss Struggle for Liberty (A.D. 1308)_, 28 F. GRENFELL BAKER

_Battle of Bannockburn (A.D. 1314)_, 41 ANDREW LANG

_Extinction of the Order of Knights Templars Burning of Grand Master Molay (A.D. 1314)_, 51 F. C. WOODHOUSE HENRY HART MILMAN

_James van Artevelde Leads a Flemish Revolt Edward III of England Assumes the Title of King of France (A.D. 1337-1340)_, 68 FRANCOIS P. G. GUIZOT

_Battles of Sluys and Crecy (A.D. 1340-1346)_, 78 SIR JOHN FROISSART

_Modern Recognition of Scenic Beauty Crowning of Petrarch at Rome (A.D. 1341)_, 93 JACOB BURCKHARDT

_Rienzi's Revolution in Rome (A.D. 1347)_, 104 RICHARD LODGE

_Beginning and Progress of the Renaissance (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century)_, 110 JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

_The Black Death Ravages Europe (A.D. 1348)_, 130 J. F. C. HECKER GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

_First Turkish Dominion in Europe Turks Seize Gallipoli (A.D. 1354)_, 147 JOSEPH VON HAMMER-PURGSTALL

_Conspiracy and Death of Marino Falieri at Venice (A.D. 1355)_, 154 MRS. MARGARET OLIPHANT

_Charles IV of Germany Publishes His Golden Bull (A.D. 1356)_, 160 SIR ROBERT COMYN

_Insurrection of the Jacquerie in France (A.D. 1358)_, 164 SIR JOHN FROISSART

_Conquests of Timur the Tartar (A.D. 1370-1405)_, 169 EDWARD GIBBON

_Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages (A.D. 1374)_, 187 J. F. C. HECKER

_Election of Antipope Clement VII Beginning of the Great Schism (A.D. 1378)_, 201 HENRY HART MILMAN

_Genoese Surrender to Venetians (A.D. 1380)_, 213 HENRY HALLAM

_Rebellion of Wat Tyler (A.D. 1381)_, 217 JOHN LINGARD

_Wycliffe Translates the Bible into English (A.D. 1382)_ 227 J. PATERSON SMYTH

_The Swiss Win Their Independence Battle of Sempach (A.D. 1386-1389)_ 238 F. GRENFELL BAKER

_Union of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (A.D. 1397)_, 243 PAUL C. SINDING

_Deposition of Richard II Henry IV Begins the Line of Lancaster (A.D. 1399)_, 251 JOHN LINGARD

_Discovery of the Canary Islands and the African Coast Beginning of Negro Slave Trade (A.D. 1402)_, 266 SIR ARTHUR HELPS

_Council of Constance (A.D. 1414)_, 284 RICHARD LODGE

_Trial and Burning of John Huss The Hussite Wars (A.D. 1415)_, 294 RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

_The House of Hohenzollern Established in Brandenburg (A.D. 1415)_, 305 THOMAS CARLYLE

_Battle of Agincourt English Conquest of France (A.D. 1415)_, 320 JAMES GAIRDNER

_Jeanne d'Arc's Victory at Orleans (A.D. 1429)_, 333 SIR EDWARD S. CREASY

_Trial and Execution of Jeanne d'Arc (A.D. 1431)_, 350 JULES MICHELET

_Charles VII Issues His Pragmatic Sanction Emancipation of the Gallican Church (A.D. 1438)_, 370 W. HENLEY JERVIS RENE F. ROHRBACHER

_Universal Chronology (A.D. 1301-1438)_, 385 JOHN RUDD

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