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_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

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