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The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06: (From Barbarossa to Dante) — Dante Alighieri — John Shaqi
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06: (From Barbarossa to Dante)

Dante Alighieri · en
_Founding of the Mongol Empire by Genghis Khan
  (A.D. 1203),
  HENRY H. HOWORTH                                     103

_Venetians and Crusaders Take Constantinople_
_Plunder of the Sacred Relics (A.D. 1204),
  EDWIN PEARS                                          121

_Latin Empire of the East_
_Its Foundation and Fall (A.D. 1204-1261)_,
  W.J. BRODRIBB
  SIR WALTER BESANT                                    140

_Innocent III Exalts the Papal Power (A.D. 1208)_,
  T.F. TOUT                                            156

_Signing of Magna Charta (A.D. 1215)_,
  DAVID HUME                                           175

_The Golden Bull, "Hungary's Magna Charta," Signed
  (A.D. 1222)_,
  E.O.S.,                                              191

_Russia Conquered by the Tartar Hordes_
_Alexander Nevski Saves the Remnant of His People
  (A.D. 1224-1262)_,
  ALFRED RAMBAUD                                       196

_The Sixth Crusade_
_Treaty of Frederick II with the Saracens
  (A.D. 1228)_,
  SIR GEORGE W. COX                                    208

_Rise of the Hanseatic League (A.D. 1241)_,
  H. DENICKE                                           214

_Mamelukes Usurp Power in Egypt (A.D. 1250)_,
  SIR WILLIAM MUIR                                     240

_The "Mad Parliament"_
_Beginning of England's House of Commons
  (A.D. 1258)_,
  JOHN LINGARD                                         246

_Louis IX Leads the Last Crusade (A.D. 1270)_,
 JOSEPH FRANÇOIS MICHAUD                               275

_Height of the Mongol Power in China (A.D. 1271)_,
  MARCO POLO                                           287

_Founding of the House of Hapsburg (A.D. 1273)_,
  WILLIAM COXE                                         298

_Edward I Conquers Wales (A.D. 1277)_,
  CHARLES H. PEARSON                                   316

_Japanese Repel the Tartars (A.D. 1281)_,
  EDWARD H. PARKER
  MARCO POLO                                           327

_The Sicilian Vespers (A.D. 1282)_,
  MICHELE AMARI                                        340

_Expulsion of Jews from England (A.D. 1290)_,
  HENRY HART MILMAN                                    356

_Exploits and Death of William Wallace, the "Hero of
  Scotland" (A.D. 1297-1305)_,
  SIR WALTER SCOTT                                     369

_First Great Jubilee of the Roman Catholic Church
  (A.D. 1300)_,
  FERDINAND GREGOROVIUS                                378

_Universal Chronology (A.D. 1162-1300)_,
  JOHN RUDD                                            385


ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME VI

_Tragic death of Thomas A Becket at the altar of the
Cathedral of Canterbury (page 26),_
Painting by Albert Dawant.                    Frontispiece

_The lust of the army spared neither maiden nor the
virgin dedicated to God_, Painting by E. Luminais.     128

_King Edward I fulfils his promise of giving the
Welsh "a native prince; one who could not speak
a word of English"_, Painting by Ph. Morris.           324