Produced by David Kline, Jared Ryan Buck and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY, EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D. ASSOCIATE EDITORS CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. JOHN RUDD, LL.D. _With a staff of specialists_ _VOLUME 1_ The National Alumni COPYRIGHT, 1905, By THE NATIONAL ALUMNI CONTENTS VOLUME I _General Introduction_ _An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_ CHARLES F. HORNE _Dawn of Civilization_ (_B.C. 5867_) G.C.C. MASPERO _Compilation of the Earliest Code_ (_B.C. 2250_) HAMMURABI _Theseus Founds Athens_ (_B.C. 1235_) PLUTARCH _The Formation of the Castes in India_ (_B.C. 1200_) GUSTAVE LE BON W.W. HUNTER _Fall of Troy_ (_B.C. 1184_) GEORGE GROTE _Accession of Solomon_ _Building of the Temple at Jerusalem_ (_B.C. 1017_) HENRY HART MILMAN _Rise and Fall of Assyria_ _Destruction of Nineveh_ (_B.C. 789_) F. LENORMANT AND E. CHEVALLIER _The Foundation of Rome_ (_B.C. 753_) BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR _Prince Jimmu Founds Japan's Capital_ (_B.C. 660_) SIR EDWARD REED THE "NEHONGI" _The Foundation of Buddhism_ (_B.C. 623_) THOMAS W. RHYS-DAVIDS _Pythian Games at Delphi_ (_B.C. 585_) GEORGE GROTE _Solon's Early Greek Legislation_ (_B.C. 594_) GEORGE GROTE _Conquests of Cyrus the Great_ (_B.C. 550_) GEORGE GROTE _Rise of Confucius, the Chinese Sage_ (_B.C. 550_) R.K. DOUGLAS _Rome Established as a Republic_ _Institution of Tribunes_ (_B.C. 510-494_) HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL _The Battle of Marathon_ (_B.C. 490_) SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY _Invasion of Greece by Persians under Xerxes_ _Defence of Thermopylae_ (_B.C. 480_) HERODOTUS _Universal Chronology_ (_B.C. 5867-451_) JOHN RUDD LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME I _Sphinx, with Great and Second Pyramids of Gizeh_ (_page 12_) Frontispiece From an original photograph. _The Rosetta Stone, and Description_ Facsimile of original in the British Museum. _The Sabine Women_--_now mothers_--_suing for peace between the combatants_ (_their Roman husbands and their Sabine relatives_) Painting by Jacques L. David. THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS * * * * * General Introduction