Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Lazar Liveanu and PG Distributed Proofreaders Note: Italics: _ Bold: % %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 XII_ %The National Alumni% 1905 %CONTENTS% VOLUME XII _An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_ CHARLES F. HORNE _Louis XIV Establishes Absolute Monarchy (A.D. 1661)_ JAMES COTTER MORISON _New York Taken by the English (A.D. 1664)_ JOHN R. BRODHEAD _Great Plague in London (A.D. 1665)_ DANIEL DEFOE _Great Fire in London (A.D. 1666)_ JOHN EVELYN _Discovery of Gravitation (A.D. 1666)_ SIR DAVID BREWSTER _Morgan, the Buccaneer, Sacks Panama (A.D. 1671)_ JOHANN W. VON ARCHENHOLZ _Struggle of the Dutch against France and England (A.D. 1672)_ C.M. DAVIES. _Discovery of the Mississippi La Salle Names Louisiana (A.D. 1673-1682)_ FRANCOIS XAVIER GARNEAU _King Philip's War (A.D. 1675)_ RICHARD HILDRETH _Growth of Prussia under the Great Elector His Victory at Fehrbellin (A.D. 1675)_ THOMAS CARLYLE _William Penn Receives the Grant of Pennsylvania Founding of Philadelphia (A.D. 1681)_ GEORGE E. ELLIS _Last Turkish Invasion of Europe Sobieski Saves Vienna (A.D. 1683)_ SUTHERLAND MENZIES _Monmouth's Rebellion (A.D. 1685)_ GILBERT BURNET _Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (A.D. 1685)_ BON LOUIS HENRI MARTIN _The English Revolution Flight of James II (A.D. 1688)_ GILBERT BURNET H.D. TRAILL _Peter the Great Modernizes Russia Suppression of the Streltsi (A.D. 1689)_ ALFRED RAMBAUD _Tyranny of Andros in New England The Bloodless Revolution (A.D. 1689)_ CHARLES WYLLYS ELLIOTT _Massacre of Lachine (A.D. 1689)_ FRANCOIS XAVIER GARNEAU _Siege of Londonderry and Battle of the Boyne (A.D. 1689-1690)_ TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT _Salem Witchcraft Trials (A.D. 1692)_ RICHARD HILDRETH _Establishment of the Bank of England (A.D. 1694)_ JOHN FRANCIS _Colonization of Louisiana (A.D. 1699)_ CHARLES E.T. GAYARRE _Prussia Proclaimed a Kingdom (A.D. 1701)_ LEOPOLD VON RANKE _Founding of St. Petersburg (A.D. 1703)_ K. WALISZEWSKI _Battle of Blenheim (A.D. 1704) Curbing of Louis XIV_, SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY _Union of England and Scotland (A.D. 1707)_ JOHN HILL BURTON _Downfall of Charles XII at Poltava (A.D. 1709) Triumph of Russia_ K. WALISZEWSKI