The fourth and fifth are not of a political character at all; though more important in our story than any political event. First of these last two, because it came first in time, though I am not sure whether we should rate it first in importance, is the application of steam power to the working of machinery. The second is the discovery of evolution, with all that the word implies, and its turning of men's eyes with glad hope towards a splendid future for human life on the earth, instead of a despairing regret for a vainly imagined splendour in the past. {243} INDEX ABOLITIONISTS, and Anti-Abolitionists, 212, 213 Abraham, Plains of, 133 Abyssinia, 223 Act of Settlement, the, 109, 115 Act of Supremacy, the, 49, 61 Afghanistan, 32 _et passim_, 104, 226, 227, 228 Africa, 4 _et passim_, 218 _et seq._ Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of, 114, 119 Akbar, Grand Mogul, 34, 67 Alaska, 182 Algiers, 45, 219, 223 Alsace, 206 Alva, Duke of, 57 Angola, 223 Anne, Queen, 101, 109, 110 Anne Boleyn, 47 Appomatox, 214 Assam, 208 Atlantis, 9 Aurungzeb, 104 Austerlitz, battle of, 171 Australia, 237 _et seq._ BALKAN States, the, 182 Barbadoes, 81 Bastille, the, 158 Batavians, the, 155 Bavaria, Elector of, 118 Beluchistan, 227 Bengal, 103, 104 Bermuda, 81 Bismarck, 205, 206 Blake, Admiral, 90 Boers, the, 221 Boer War, the great, 222 Bombay, 103, 104 Boston, U.S.A., 139, 141 Bourbons, the, 58, 60 Boyne, the, battle of, 100 Brahmans, the, 27 Brandenburg, Elector of, 112 Brazil, Emperor of, 208 Bristol, 107 Buddha, 22, 28, 29 Buddhism, 25 _et seq._ Bunker's Hill, battle of, 142 Burgoyne, General, 143 Burma, 208 CABOT, Sebastian, 11, 12 Calais, lost to England, 59 Calcutta, 104 Calendar Stone, the, 17 Calicut, 3, 4 Calvin, 58, 64 Cameroons, the, 224 Carolina, 102 Cashmere, 225 Catherine of Aragon, 41, 47 Catholic League, the, 73 Cavaliers, the, 84 _et seq._ Charles I., 65, 84, 85 Charles II., 94, 95 Charles V., 38 _et seq._ Charles XII., of Sweden, 112, 113 Chatham, Lord, 142, 143 Children of the Sun, the, 18 China, 19 _et seq._, 228 _et seq._ Clive, 131 Cloth of Gold, Field of, 39 Columbus, 1 _et seq._, 9 Commonwealth of Australia, 239 Confucius, 20, 21 Condé, Prince, 74, 81 Congo, the, 223 Congress, in America, 139 Constantinople, 36 _et passim_ Continental system, the, 173 Copenhagen, battle of, 171 Cornwallis, Lord, 143 Corsica, 119 Cortez, 10 Covenanters, the, 85 Crimean War, 203 Cromwell, Oliver, 65 et seq., 84 _et seq._ Cromwell, Richard, 92 Cromwell, Thomas, 48 Cuba, 216 Culloden, battle of, 120 Cumberland, Duke of, 120 DA GAMA, Vasco, 1 _et seq._ Daimios, the, 26, 230 Dannoura, battle of, 26 Darwin, 193 Declaration of Independence, 143 Declaratory Act, 140 Dettingen, battle of, 118 Diet of Worms, the, 44 Directory, the, 164 Drake, Sir Francis, 63, 88 Dual Control, the, 219 Dupleix, 124, 131 EAST India Company, 225 _et seq._ Edict of Nantes, 59