The Ascendency in Athens of Pericles (445 B.C.); the Fall of the Persian Empire (330 B.C.); the Death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.); the Reduction of Greece to a Roman province, and the Ruin of Carthage (146 B.C.); the Battle of Actium (31 B.C.); Birth of Christ, 14th year of Augustus; Commencement of the Middle Ages; Ruin of the Roman Empire by the Barbarians; Clovis, ruler of Gaul; the Flight of Mahomet; Charlemagne, Emperor of the West; Treaty of Verdun; the Crusades (1096-1291); Employment of Cannon at Crécy; Invention of Printing; Taking of Constantinople by Mahomet II.; Discovery of America by Columbus; Copernican System published; Accession of Leo X. as Pope; the Reformation of Luther; Publication of Bacon's "Novum Organon"; Publication of Descartes's "Discourse on Method"; the Peace of Westphalia; Reign of Louis XIV. at its Height, and Peace of Nimeguen; Publication of Newton's Theory of Gravitation; Watt's Invention of the Steam-Engine; Independence of the United States; Coup d'état of 10th Brumaire; Waterloo, and Congress of Vienna; Introduction of Railroads into England; First Attempt at Electric Telegraphy in France; Africa traversed by Livingstone (1852-1854); Publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species"; Opening of the Suez Canal; Proclamation of the German Empire; Congress of Berlin.
The Nuttall Encyclopædia: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge[1] is a late 19th-century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. James Wood, first published in London in 1900 by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.
WikipediaEditions were recorded for 1920, 1930, 1938 and 1956 and was still being sold in 1966. Editors included G. Elgie Christ and A. L. Hayden for 1930, Lawrence Hawkins Dawson for 1938 and C. M. Prior for 1956.[2]
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