NE

_Harvey Discovers the Circulation of the Blood (A.D. 1616)_, 50
THOMAS H. HUXLEY

_The "Defenestration" at Prague (A.D. 1618)_
_The Thirty Years War_, 62
SAMUEL R. GARDINER
CHARLES F. HORNE

_The First American Legislature (A.D. 1619)_, 76
CHARLES CAMPBELL

_Introduction of Negroes into Virginia (A.D. 1619)_
_Spread of Slavery and Cultivation of Tobacco_, 81
CHARLES CAMPBELL
JOHN M. LUDLOW

_English Pilgrims Settle at Plymouth (A.D. 1620)_, 93
JOHN S. BARRY

_The Birth of Modern Scientific Methods (A.D. 1620)_
_Bacon and Descartes_, 116
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

_Siege of La Rochelle (A.D. 1627)_
_Richelieu Rules France_, 129
ANDREW D. WHITE

_The Great Puritan Exodus to New England_
_The Founding of Boston (A.D. 1630)_, 153
JOHN G. PALFREY

_Triumph and Death of Gustavus Adolphus at Luetzen (A.D. 1632)_, 174
BENJAMIN CHAPMAN

_Recantation of Galileo (A.D. 1633)_, 184
SIR OLIVER LODGE

_The Educational Reform of Comenius (A.D. 1638)_, 192
SIMON SOMERVILLE LAURIE

_The First Written Free Constitution in the World (A.D. 1639)_
_Earliest Union among American Colonies (A.D. 1643)_, 205
GIDEON H. HOLLISTER
JOHN MARSHALL

_Abolition of the Court of Star-chamber (A.D. 1641)_
_The Popular Revolt against Charles I_, 215
HENRY HALLAM
LORD MACAULAY

_The Founding of Montreal (A.D. 1642)_, 232
ALFRED SANDHAM

_Presbyterianism Established_
_Meeting of the Westminster Assembly (A.D. 1643)_, 238
DAVID MASSON

_Masaniello's Revolt at Naples (A.D. 1647)_, 253
ALFRED VON REUMONT

_The Peace of Westphalia (A.D. 1648)_
_The War of the Fronde_, 285
ARTHUR HASSALL

_Religious Toleration Proclaimed in Maryland (A.D. 1649)_, 303
G. L. DAVIS

_The Great Civil War in England_
_The Execution of Charles I (A.D. 1649)_, 311
LORD MACAULAY
CHARLES KNIGHT

_Cromwell's Campaign in Ireland (A.D. 1649)_, 335
FREDERIC HARRISON

_Moliere Creates Modern Comedy (A.D. 1659)_, 347
HENRI VAN LAUN

_Cromwell's Rule in England_