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

_John Law Promotes the Mississippi Scheme (A.D. 1716)_, 1 LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS

_Prince Eugene Vanquishes the Turks_ _Siege and Battle of Belgrad (A.D. 1717)_, 16 PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY

_Bursting of the South Sea Bubble (A.D. 1720)_, 22 LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS

_Bach Lays the Foundation of Modern Music (A.D. 1723)_, 31 HENRY TIPPER

_Settlement of Georgia (A.D. 1732)_, 44 WILLIAM B. STEVENS

_Rise of Methodism (A.D. 1738)_ _Preaching of the Wesleys and of Whitefield_, 57 WILLIAM E.H. LECKY

_Conquests of Nadir Shah_ _Capture of Delhi (A.D. 1739)_, 72 SIR JOHN MALCOLM

_First Modern Novel (A.D. 1740)_, 100 EDMUND GOSSE

_Frederick the Great Seizes Silesia (A.D. 1740)_ _Maria Theresa Appeals to the Hungarians_, 108 WILLIAM SMYTH

_Defeat of the Young Pretender at Culloden (A.D. 1746)_ _Last of the Stuarts_, 117 JUSTIN McCARTHY

_Benjamin Franklin Experiments with Electricity (A.D. 1747)_, 130 JOHN BIGELOW AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

_Voltaire Directs European Thought from Geneva (A.D. 1755)_, 144 JOHN MORLEY GEORGE W. KITCHIN

_Braddock's Defeat (A.D. 1755)_, 163 WINTHROP SARGENT GEORGE WASHINGTON CAPTAIN DE CONTRECOEUR

_Exile of the Acadian Neutrals (A.D. 1755)_, 181 WILLIAM H. WITHROW

_Clive Establishes British Supremacy in India_ _Black Hole of Calcutta: Battle of Plassey (A.D. 1756)_, 185 SIR ALEXANDER J. ARBUTHNOT

_Seven Years' War (A.D. 1756-1763)_ _Battle of Torgau_, 204 WOLFGANG MENZEL FREDERICK THE GREAT

_Conquest of Canada_ _Victory of Wolfe at Quebec (A.D. 1759)_, 229 A.G. BRADLEY

_Usurpation of Catharine II in Russia (A.D. 1762)_, 250 W. KNOX JOHNSON

_Conspiracy of Pontiac (A.D. 1763)_, 267 E.O. RANDALL

_American Colonies Oppose the Stamp Act (A.D. 1765)_ _Patrick Henry's Speech_, 299 JAMES GRAHAME GEORGE BANCROFT

_Watt Improves the Steam-engine (A.D. 1769)_, 302 FRANÇOIS ARAGO

_First Partition of Poland (A.D. 1772)_, 313 JAMES FLETCHER

_The Boston Tea Party (A.D. 1773)_, 333 GEORGE BANCROFT

_Cotton Manufacture Developed (A.D. 1774)_, 341 THOMAS F. HENDERSON

_Intellectual Revolt of Germany_ _Goethe's_ Werther _Arouses Romanticism (A.D. 1775)_, 347 KARL HILLEBRAND

_Pestalozzi's Method of Education (A.D. 1775)_, 364 GEORGE RIPLEY

_Universal Chronology (A.D. 1716-1775)_, 379 JOHN RUDD

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