Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. [Illustration: The Imperial Austrian Councillors are thrown out of the window of the castle of the Hradschin, at Prague, by the enraged Bohemian Deputies, thus precipitating the Thirty Years' War Painting by Vacslav Brozik] 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 XI_ [Illustration: Decorative] The National Alumni COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE NATIONAL ALUMNI CONTENTS VOLUME XI PAGE _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