Research Catalog

Title

Encyclopedia of events that changed the world / Philip Wilkins, Robert Ingpen.

Author

Wilkinson, Philip, 1955-

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Viking Studio Books, 1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ingpen, Robert R.

Description

255 p. : col. ill.; 32 cm.

Summary

Looks at crucial events in the history of the world that shaped all that came afterwards, from the rise of Buddhism to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Subject

Chronology, Historical

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Asoka and the Rise of the Mauryan Empire -- Accession of the First Chinese Emperor -- Death of Julius Caesar -- Death of Jesus Christ -- The Conversion of Constantine -- Fall of Rome -- The Beginnings of Islam -- Charlemagne's Coronation -- Norman Conquest of England -- Viking Raids and Conquests -- First Crusade -- Appearance of Aquinas' Summa theologica -- Signing of the Magna Carta -- Conquests of Genghis Khan -- Marco Polo's Journey to China -- Invention of Gunpowder -- Black Death -- Battle of Orléans -- Fall of Constantinople -- Invention of Printing with Movable Type -- Columbus' Voyage to the New World -- The Spanish take Granada -- Appearance of Luther's Theses on Indulgences -- Conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortéz -- Magellan's Journey Around the World -- Publication of Machiavelli's The Prince -- Galileo's Observations with the Telescope -- Birth of William Shakespeare -- Dutch Revolt Against the Spanish -- Defeat of the Spanish Armada -- Defenestration of Prague -- Arrival of the Mayflower in America -- Execution of Charles I -- William and Mary's 'Glorious Revolution' -- Taking of Quebec -- Publication of Newton's Principia Mathematica -- Captain Cook's Voyage to Australia -- James Watt's Steam Engine -- Battle of Yorktown -- Fall of the Bastille -- Declaration of the Rights of Man -- Battle of Trafalgar -- Development of Food Canning -- Napoleon's March on Moscow -- Emergence of the South American Nations -- Invention of the Postage Stamp -- Invention of Photography -- Irish Famine -- Publication of the Communist Manifesto -- Opening of Japan to Western Trade -- Indian Rebellion Against the British -- Publication fo the Origin of Species -- American Civil War -- Foundation of the International Red Cross -- German Unification -- Lister's Development of Antiseptic Surgery -- Invention fo the Telephone -- Publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams -- Boer War -- Marie Curie's Discovery of Radium -- Wright Brothers' First Flight -- Model T Ford -- Outbreak of World War I -- Einstein's Theories of Relativity -- Russian Revolution -- Invention of Television -- Wall Street Crash -- Gandhi's Salt March -- Long March of China -- Spanish Civil War -- Bombing of Pearl Harbor -- D-Day Landings -- Invention of the Computer -- Use of the Atomic Bomb -- Founding of the United Nations -- Discovery of the Structure of DNA -- Launch of Sputnik I -- Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' Speech -- Woodstock -- Fall of the Berlin Wall -- Index.

ISBN

0670841412

LCCN

^^^91050239^

OCLC

• 23767187
• SCSB-11151855

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library