A Short History of the World - H. G. Wells (top inspirational books .TXT) 📗

Rome. Chosroes II began to reign.   610.    Heraclius began to reign.   619.    Chosroes II held Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus, and armies on Hellespont. Tang dynasty began in China.   622.    The Hegira.   627.    Great Persian defeat at Nineveh by Heraclius. Tai-tsung became Emperor of China.   628.    Kavadh II murdered and succeeded his father, Chosroes II.      Muhammad wrote letters to all the rulers of the earth.   629.    Muhammad returned to Mecca.   632.    Muhammad died. Abu Bekr Caliph.   634.    Battle of the Yarmuk. Moslems took Syria. Omar second Caliph.   635.    Tai-tsung received Nestorian missionaries.   637.    Battle of Kadessia.   638.    Jerusalem surrendered to the Caliph Omar.   642.    Heraclius died.   643.    Othman third Caliph.   655.    Defeat of the Byzantine fleet by the Moslems.   668.    The Caliph Moawija attacked Constantinople by sea.   687.    Pepin of Hersthal, mayor of the palace, reunited Austrasia and Neustria.   711.    Moslem army invaded Spain from Africa.  

715.    The domains of the Caliph Walid I extended from the Pyrenees to China.   717-18.    Suleiman, son and successor of Walid, failed to take Constantinople.   732.    Charles Martel defeated the Moslems near Poitiers.   751.    Pepin crowned King of the French.   768.    Pepin died.   771.    Charlemagne sole king.   774.    Charlemagne conquered Lombardy.   786.    Haroun-al-Raschid Abbasid Caliph in Bagdad (to 809).   795.    Leo III became Pope (to 816).   800.    Leo crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the West.   802.    Egbert, formerly an English refugee at the court of Charlemagne, established himself as King of Wessex.   810.    Krum of Bulgaria defeated and killed the Emperor Nicephorus.   814.    Charlemagne died.   828.    Egbert became first King of England.   843.    Louis the Pious died, and the Carlovingian Empire went to pieces. Until 962 there was no regular succession of Holy Roman Emperors, though the title appeared intermittently.   850.    About this time Rurik (a Northman) became ruler of Novgorod and Kieff.   852.    Boris first Christian King of Bulgaria (to 884).   865.    The fleet of the Russians (Northmen) threatened Constantinople.   904.    Russian (Northmen) fleet off Constantinople.   912.    Rolf the Ganger established himself in Normandy.   919.    Henry the Fowler elected King of Germany.   936.    Otto I became King of Germany in succession to his father, Henry the Fowler.   941.    Russian fleet again threatened Constantinople.   962.    Otto I, King of Germany, crowned Emperor (first Saxon Emperor) by John XII.   987.    Hugh Capet became King of France. End of the Carlovingian line of French kings.   1016.    Canute became King of England, Denmark and Norway.   1043.    Russian fleet threatened Constantinople.   1066.    Conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy.   1071.    Revival of Islam under the Seljuk Turks. Battle of Melasgird.   1073.    Hildebrand became Pope (Gregory VII) to 1085.   1084.    Robert Guiscard, the Norman, sacked Rome.   1087-99.   Urban II Pope.   1095.    Urban II at Clermont summoned the First Crusade.   1096.    Massacre of the People’s Crusade.   1099.    Godfrey of Bouillon captured Jerusalem.   1147.    The Second Crusade.   1169.    Saladin Sultan of Egypt.   1176.    Frederick Barbarossa acknowledged supremacy of the Pope (Alexander III) at Venice.   1187.    Saladin captured Jerusalem.   1189.    The Third Crusade.   1198.    Innocent III Pope (to 1216). Frederick II (aged four), King of Sicily, became his ward.   1202.    The Fourth Crusade attacked the Eastern Empire.   1204.    Capture of Constantinople by the Latins.   1214.    Jengis Khan took Pekin.   1226.    St. Francis of Assisi died. (The Franciscans.)   1227.    Jengis Khan died. Khan from the Caspian to the Pacific, and was succeeded by Ogdai Khan.   1228.    Frederick II embarked upon the Sixth Crusade, and acquired Jerusalem.   1240.    Mongols destroyed Kieff. Russia tributary to the Mongols.  

1241.    Mongol victory in Liegnitz in Silesia.   1250.    Frederick II, the last Hohenstaufen Emperor, died. German interregnum until 1273.   1251.    Mangu Khan became Great Khan. Kublai Khan governor of China.   1258.    Hulagu Khan took and destroyed Bagdad.   1260.    Kublai Khan became Great Khan.   1261.    The Greeks recaptured Constantinople from the Latins.   1273.    Rudolf of Habsburg elected Emperor. The Swiss formed their Everlasting League.   1280.    Kublai Khan founded the Yuan dynasty in China.   1292.    Death of Kublai Khan.   1293.    Roger Bacon, the prophet of experimental science, died.   1348.    The Great Plague, the Black Death.   1360.    In China the Mongol (Yuan) dynasty fell, and was succeeded by the Ming dynasty (to 1644).   1377.    Pope Gregory XI returned to Rome.   1378.    The Great Schism. Urban VI in Rome, Clement VII at Avignon.   1398.    Huss preached Wycliffism at Prague.   1414-18.   The Council of Constance.      Huss burnt (1415).   1417.    The Great Schism ended.   1453.    Ottoman Turks under Muhammad II took Constantinople.   1480.    Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow, threw off the Mongol allegiance.   1481.    Death of the Sultan Muhammad II while preparing for the conquest of Italy.   1486.    Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope.   1492.    Columbus crossed the Atlantic to America.   1498.    Maximilian I became Emperor.   1498.    Vasco da Gama sailed round the Cape to India.   1499.    Switzerland became an independent republic.   1500.    Charles V born.   1509.    Henry VIII King of England.   1513.    Leo X Pope.   1515.    Francis I King of France.   1520.    Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan (to 1566), who ruled from Bagdad to Hungary. Charles V Emperor.   1525.    Baber won the battle of Panipat, captured Delhi, and founded the Mogul Empire.   1527.    The German troops in Italy, under the Constable of Bourbon, took and pillaged Rome.   1529.    Suleiman besieged Vienna.   1530.    Charles V crowned by the Pope.      Henry VIII began his quarrel with the Papacy.   1539.    The Society of Jesus founded.   1546.    Martin Luther died.   1547.    Ivan IV (the Terrible) took the Title of Tsar of Russia.   1556.    Charles V abdicated. Akbar, Great Mogul (to 1605). Ignatius of Loyola died.   1558.    Death of Charles V.   1566.    Suleiman the Magnificent died.   1603.    James I King of England and Scotland.   1620.    Mayflower expedition founded New Plymouth. First negro slaves landed at Jamestown (Va.).   1625.    Charles I of England.   1626.    Sir Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam) died.   1643.    Louis XIV began his reign of seventy-two year’s.   1644.    The Manchus ended the Ming dynasty.   1648.    Treaty of Westphalia. There-by Holland and Switzerland were recognized as free republics and Prussia became important. The treaty gave a complete victory neither to the Imperial Crown nor to the Princes.  

   War of the Fronde; it ended in the complete victory of the French crown.   1649.    Execution of Charles I of England.   1658.    Aurungzeb Great Mogul. Cromwell died.   1660.    Charles II of England.   1674.    Nieuw Amsterdam finally became British by treaty and was renamed New York.   1683.    The last Turkish attack on Vienna defeated by John III of Poland.   1689.    Peter the Great of Russia. (To 1725.)   1701.    Frederick I first King of Prussia.   1707.    Death of Aurungzeb. The empire of the Great Mogul disintegrated.   1713.    Frederick the Great of Prussia born.   1715.    Louis XV of France.   1755-63.   Britain and France struggled for America and India. France in alliance with Austria and Russia against Prussia and Britain (1756-63); the Seven Years’ War.   1759.    The British general, Wolfe, took Quebec.   1760.    George III of Britain.   1763.    Peace of Paris; Canada ceded to Britain. British dominant in India.   1769.    Napoleon Bonaparte born.   1774.    Louis XVI began his reign.   1776.    Declaration of Independence by the United States of America.   1783.    Treaty of Peace between Britain and the new United States of America.   1787.    The Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia set up the Federal Government of the United States. France discovered to be bankrupt.   1788.    First Federal Congress of the United States at New York.   1789.    The French States-General assembled. Storming of the Bastille.   1791.    Flight to Varennes.   1792.    France declared war on Austria. Prussia declared war on France. Battle of Valmy. France became a republic.   1793.    Louis XVI beheaded.   1794.    Execution of Robespierre and end of the Jacobin republic.   1795.    The Directory. Bonaparte suppressed a revolt and went to Italy as commander-in-chief.   1798.    Bonaparte went to Egypt. Battle of the Nile.