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Table of Contents:
Introduction; Special feature - before history began; 2500 BC The birth of history; 1250 BC Israelites return to Canaan; 1250 BC The sack of Troy; 1190 BC Egypt defeats the invaders; 1000 BC The birth of Hinduism; 539 BC The fall of Babylon; 528 BC The birth of Buddhism; 480 BC The Battle of Salamis; 326 BC Alexander the Great; 204 BC The Great wall of China; 44 BC The murder of Julius Caesar; Special feature - the seven wonders of the ancient world; The Crucifixion; 312 The conversion of Constantine; 410 The sack of Rome; 622 The birth of Islam; 800 Charlemagne's coronation; 1066 The Battle of Hastings; 1095 The first Crusade; 1206 Genghis Khan's conquests; 1215 Magna Carta; 1347 The Black Death; 1431 Joan of Arc burnt at the stake; Special feature - the arts of the Renaissance; 1453 The fall of Constantinople; 1492 Columbus reaches America; 1517 Martin Luther's challenge; 1519 Cortes meets Montezuma; 1526 The birth at Mughali India; 1547 Ivan the Terrible's rule; 1572 St Bartholomew's Day; 1588 Defeat of the Armada; Special feature - the World of the Theatre; 1610 The discoveries of Galileo; 1618 The defenestration of Prague; 1620 The voyage of the Mayflower; 1649 The execution of Charles I; 1661 Louis XIV, the "Sun King"; 1683 Turks at the gates of Vienna; 1703 The building of St Petersburg; 1756 The Black Hole of Calcutta; 1757 The Battle of Leuthen; Special feature - the Industrial Revolution; 1759 The fall of Quebec; 1768-71 Captain Cook's voyage; 1776 Declaration of Independence; 1789 The fall of the Bastille; 1805 America's West explored; 1812 The retreat from Moscow; 1819 The Battle of Boyaca; 1827 The birth of photography; 1831 Faraday's electric dynamo; 1838 The Battle of Blood River; Special feature - the transport revolution; 1846 The first anaesthetics; 1848 The Communist Manifesto; 1851 The Great Exhibition; 1855 Japan meets the West; 1857 The siege of Lucknow; 1859 Darwin's Origin of Species; 1860 The unification of Italy; 1862 The American Civil War; 1871 The Paris Commune; 1871 Stanley finds Livingstone; 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn; 1892 Ellis Island opened; Special feature - arts for a new century; 1900 The Boxer Rebellion; 1901 Marconi's first message; 1905 The first powered flight; 1905 Russia's "Bloody Sunday"; 1908 The model T Ford; 1915 The Suffragettes' first martyr; 1914 Assassination at Sarajevo; 1916 The Easter Rising in Dublin; 1916 The Battle of the Somme; 1917 The Russian Revolution; Special feature - the golden years of Hollywood; 1928 The discovery of penicillin; 1929 The Wall Street Crash; 1932 The golden years of radio; 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor; 1934 The Long March. (Part contents)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780276421051
  • Publisher: Reader's Digest
  • Publisher Imprint: Reader's Digest
  • Height: 276 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 213 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0276421051
  • Publisher Date: 03 Dec 1993
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1914 gr


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