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Ingpen, Robert R.
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Encyclopedia of events that changed the world : eighty turning points in history / Robert Ingpen & Philip Wilkinson.
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Ingpen, Robert R.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Studio, 1991.
Subjects
Chronology, Historical.
ISBN:
0670841412 (hbk.)
9780670841417
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256 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 32 cm.
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 These 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.
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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.
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