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THE DIVINE HISTORY OF JESUS CHRIST

READING HALL

THE DOORS OF WISDOM

THE CREATION IF THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING GENESIS

 

 

BIOHISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD CIVILIZATION

BIOGRAPHYCAL UNIVERSAL LIBRARY

 

ANCIENT HISTORY:

ANCIENT WORLD PEOPLE & CLASSICAL AGE

BIOHISTORY:

LIFE AND TIMES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD CIVILIZATION. FIRST MILLENNIUM OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA

MEDIEVAL HISTORY:

THE PEOPLE OF THE MEDIEVAL AGES AND THE CRUSADERS

MODERN HISTORY:

LIVES AND TIMES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE MODERN AGES

   

 

THE PYRAMID BUILDERS

ZOSER - (SNEFRU) - CHEOPS - Djedefre - CHEPHREN -MYCERINUS

At the earliest period of which we have any historical records it would appear that the city of Kish exercised a suzerainty over Sumer. Here there ruled at this time a king named Mesilim, to whom Lagash, and probably other great cities in the south, owed allegiance. During his reign a certain Lugal-shag-engur was patesi of Lagash, and we have definite record that he acknowledged Mesilim's supremacy. For a votive mace-head of colossal size has been found at Tello, which bears an inscription stating that it was dedicated to Ningirsu by Mesilim, who had restored his great temple at Lagash during the time that Lugal-shag-engur was patesi of that city. 

EANNATUM

WHEN the patesiate of Lagash passed from Akurgal to his son Eannatum we may picture the city-state as owing a general allegiance to Akkad in the north. Nearer home, the relations of Lagash to Umma appear to have been of an amicable character. Whatever minor conflicts may have taken place between the two cities in the interval, the treaty of Mesilim was still regarded as binding, and its terms were treated with respect by both parties. The question whether Eannatum, like Akurgal, had had some minor cause of disagreement with the men of Umma at the beginning of his reign depends upon our interpretation of some broken passages in the early part of the text engraved upon the Stele of the Vultures.

URAKAGINA

 A small tablet in the Louvre mentions together certain men of Erech, of Adab and of Ninni-esh, and, when Lugal-zaggisi enumerates the benefits he had conferred on the cities of Southern Babylonia over which he ruled, he mentions Umma and Ninni-esh together, after referring to Erech, Ur, and Larsa. We may, therefore, conclude with some probability that the city in which lli was at this time acting as priest was situated not far from Umma. It was under the control of Lagash, and doubtless formed part of the empire which Eannatum had bequeathed to his successors upon the throne. 

LUGALZAGESI

Lugal-zaggisi, the conqueror of Lagash, is mentioned by name in the document from which our knowledge of the catastrophe is derived. The unknown writer that composition, as we have already seen, assigns to him the title "patesi of Umma", and, had we no other information concerning him, we might perhaps have concluded that his success against the ancient rival of his own city was merely an isolated achievement. In the long-continued struggle between these neighbouring states Umma had finally proved victorious, and the results of this victory might have been regarded as of little more than local importance.

 

SARGON I

The name of Sargon of Agade, or Akkad, bulks largely in later Babylonian tradition, and his reign has been regarded by modern writers as marking the most important epoch in the early history of his country. The reference in the text of Nabonidus to the age of Naram-Sin has caused the Dynasty of Akkad to be taken as the canon, or standard, by which to measure the relative age of other dynasties or of rulers whose inscriptions have from time to time been recovered upon various early Babylonian sites.

RIMUSH & MANITUSHU

The next two kings of Agade and successors to the empire of Sargon were his two sons, Rimush and Manishtusu, who reigned, according to the king-list, in reverse order of age, for that authority assigns nine years to Rimush, and afterwards fifteen to Manishtusu, who is said to have been the elder brother of his predecessor; but it must be added that there are variants of the lengths of reigns. Both kings seem to have begun with campaigns against rebels, involving expeditions into the lands east of the Tigris and into Elam, but it is Manishtusu who, in one of his monuments, refers to 'all the lands. . .

NARAM SIN

Manishtusu, according to an omen, was murdered in a palace conspiracy, and was succeeded by his son, Naram-Sin, destined to become the second of a pair whom later history ever regarded as the greatest figures in its annals. Because of this likeness Naram-Sin was known afterwards as the son of Sargon; if the word is pressed it is incorrect for the king-list rightly calls him son of Manishtusu. His reign was long and, until its closing years, glorious. But our information upon it is of varying authenticity, depending for the greatest part upon much later tradition.  Of his own inscriptions, which were certainly many and informative, and of the sculptures which illustrated his campaigns and triumphs, very little has survived. By chance he has fared scantily even in the copies of these monuments at Nippur which are comparatively informative about the wars of his grandfather. 

SHARKALISHARRI

But if Naram-Sin ended his life with a realm not much impaired, there were already signs of decay, and ample presages of the troubles which were to burst upon his son. Elam under Kutik-In-Shushinak was growing independent and almost defiant, and the wild men of the Zagros were poised to swoop upon the wealthy land which they saw protected only by a weakening arm. The old king died at length after a reign of thirty-seven years, and left this menacing situation to his son Shar-kali-sharri. Whether he was the eldest is not known, but another son of Naram-Sin bore the significant name of Bin-kali-sharri, the two brothers thus standing in a relation which among the old Sumerian dynasts would have marked a king and his son destined to reign after him. But Shar-kali-sharri was to have no successor, at least not from the old family of Sargon.

UR BAU

It will be remembered that under Shargon and Naram-Sin a certain Lugal-ushumgal was patesi of Lagash, and that the impressions of his seals have been recovered which he employed during the reigns of these two monarchs. The names of three other patesis of Lagash are known, who must also be assigned to the period of the Dynasty of Akkad, since they are mentioned upon tablets of that date. These are Ur- Babbar, Ur-E, and Lugal-bur; the first of these appears to have been the contemporary of Naram-Sin, and in that case he must have followed Lugal-ushumgal. As to Ur-E and Lugal-bur, we have no information beyond the fact that they lived during the period of the kings of Akkad. A further group of tablets found at Tello, differentiated in type from those of the Dynasty of Akkad on the one hand, and on the other from tablets of the Dynasty of Ur, furnishes us with the names of other patesis to be set in the period before the rise of Ur-Engur. Three of these, Basha-mama, Ur-mama, and Ug-me, were probably anterior to Ur-Bau, 

GUDEA

This remarkable man came to the patesi-ship in the most troubled period of the history of Sumer. His date is somewhat uncertain, but he lived in all probability under the rule of the kings of Gutium, who, however, are not mentioned in the archives of his reign. From the style of the writing and the names of the months it would seem that he reigned shortly after the period of Akkad. But although the numerous monumental inscriptions of Gudea are written in old classical Sumerian, many of the inhabitants of Lagash have Semitic names, and Semitic phrases appear in the temple records. The majority of the people, the priesthood and the ruling classes are still Sumerian, but their decline before the aggressive Semite of Akkad is now apparent, and the population of Lagash has become cosmopolitan. Placed by circumstances in a position where his activity was confined to literature and architecture, Gudea exercised a profound influence upon the religion of Sumer. N

URNAMMU&SHULGI

THE real champion of Sumer and Akkad, the organizer of its most brilliant period, was Ur-Engur (Ur-Nammu). His name indicates that he was the devotee of an otherwise unknown goddess, Cur or Nammu. How peace was restored and the whole of western Asia subdued are related in a long panegyric found at Nippur. It refers to his military exploits as follows. “Those whom he plundered followed with him in tears ... in a place which had been unknown his ships were known”. Kish, the ancient Semitic rival of Sumer, rebelled against the Land and was conquered.

 

PATRIARCH ABRAHAM 2100-2000 BC

The materials for the facts of the life of Abraham are found in Holy Scripture, in the Book of Genesis, and in some of the later writings. I have taken it for granted that these statements are authentic, and have not thought it necessary to follow Ewald and his school in distinguishing the various authors of them, assigning this to the Book of origins, and that to the First narrator, and that to the Second, and so on. Nor have I esteemed the details thus given as accretions that have grown up round a great central figure in the lapse of centuries, the outcome of hero-worship, the result of a natural desire to accumulate on a great forefather anything that would tend to elevate his personal character or exalt the favour with which he was regarded by God. The narrative appears to me to be, consistent, derived doubtless from different sources, but worked up by the compiler into a fairly complete biography, which, taken in conjunction with hints afforded by the later Scriptures, leaves on the mind a finished picture of the Father of the Faithful. 

PATRIARCH ISAAC. 2100-2000 BC

This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,  and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. The Lord said to her,

PATRIARCH JACOB. 2000-1900 BC

Jacob’s early life was the usual life of a Bedouin boy, the son of a great sheikh, who was half agriculturist half nomad. He would be much with the cattle. As his father roamed over the Negeb from one place to another, according to the season of the year, or according to the reports which he received of the condition of the pasturage in this or that district, Jacob and Esau would accompany him, and would become familiar with all the ordinary routine of the pastoral life, with the feeding and the folding, the careful watching by night, the less anxious tending during the day, the exposure to heat and cold, the encounters with ravenous beasts, the occasional brush with marauders from a hostile tribe.

HAMMURABI (2131-2081)

The military successes of Hammurabi fall within two clearly defined periods, the first during the five years which followed his sixth year of rule at Babylon, and a second period, of ten years' duration, beginning with the thirteenth of his reign. On his accession he appears to have inaugurated the reforms in the internal administration of the country, which culminated towards the close of his life in the promulgation of his famous Code of Laws; for he commemorated his second year as that in which he established righteousness in the land. The following years were uneventful, the most important royal acts being the installation of the chief-priest in Kashbaran, the building of a wall for the Gagum, or great Cloister of Sippar, and of a temple to Nannar in Babylon. But with his seventh year we find  his first reference to a military campaign in a claim to the capture of Erech and Nisin.

SHAMSHI ADAD I. 1813-1791

SCARCELY thirty years ago the figure of Hammurabi, the unifier of Babylonia, still stood out in striking isolation. In fact, at the time he ascended the throne another centralized empire already occupied the whole of northern Mesopotamia: it was the personal creation of Shamshi-Adad I, to whom recent discoveries have made it possible to give his place in history.Whereas Hammurabi had inherited a considerable territory from his father, Shamshi-Adad had more modest beginnings. He belonged to one of the numerous nomad clans which had infiltrated into Mesopotamia after the break-up of the Third Dynasty of Ur. His father, Ila-kabkabu, ruled over a land bordering on the kingdom of Mari, with which he had come into conflict. It is not well known what happened next. According to one version, the authenticity of which is not certain, Shamshi-Adad made his way into Babylonia, while his brother succeeded to Ila-kabkabu. Later on he seized Ekallatum; the capture of this fortress, on the left bank of the Tigris, in the southern reaches of the lower Zab, laid the gates of Assyria open to him.

ZIMRILIN OF MARI. 1779- 1757 BC

Like Shamshi-Adad, Iakhdunlim, his unsuccessful opponent at Mari, was a Western Semite whose forebears had abandoned the nomadic life in order to settle in the Euphrates valley. Basically, Zimrilim’s kingdom was made up of the middle Euphrates and Khabur valleys. To the south it cannot have reached farther than Hit. To the north it undoubtedly included the mouth of the Balikh, but beyond that it is uncertain whether there lay territories directly dependent on Mari and administered by district governors, or simply more or less autonomous vassal princedoms. In his attempts to expand Zimrilim directed the best part of his efforts towards the 'High Country', that is to say Upper Mesopotamia, which in those days was split up into numerous little states. In particular the region, bordering on the upper Khabur, which at Mari was called Idamaraz, appears to have been under his control all the time. 

 

HATSHEPSUT. 1479-1457

The close of the reign of Thutmose I is involved in deep obscurity, and there is no reconstruction without its difficulties. The traces left on temple walls by family dissensions are not likely to be sufficiently conclusive to enable us to follow the complicated struggle with entire certainty three thousand five hundred years later. The current verdict of historians has long been that Thutmose II, a feeble and diseased son of the old Pharaoh, followed at once upon his father's demise. His brief reign is of such slight consequence, however, that its exact place in the transition from Thutmose I to Hatshepsut and Thutmose III is not of great importance. Hatshepsut’s partisans were not able to crown their favorite without a difficult struggle with a third Thutmose. He was the son of an obscure concubine named. Isis, and there is some uncertainty whether the first or the second Thutmose was his father. It is probable that he married Hatshepsut, thus gaining a valid title to the throne. 

THUTMOSE III. 1457-1425

THE peaceful and unmilitary Nile of Hatshepsut, falling as it did early in Egypt’s imperial career in Asia, was followed by serious consequences. Not having seen an Egyptian army for many years, the Syrian dynasts grew continually more restless. The king of Kadesh, once probably the suzerain of all Syria and Palestine, had stirred all the city-kings of northern Palestine and Syria to accept his leader ship in a great coalition, in which they at last felt themselves strong enough to begin open revolt. “Behold from Yeraza (in northern Judea) to the marshes of the earth (i.e. the upper Euphrates), they had begun to revolt against his majesty”. In these words the annals of Thutmose III

AMENHOTEP III . 1390-1353

 He was but the great-grandson of Thutmose III, but with him the high tide of Egyptian power was already slowly on the ebb, and he was not the man to stem the tide. Nevertheless in the administration of his great empire Amenhotep III began well. Toward the close of ins fourth year trouble in Nubia called him south. After defeating the enemy decisively somewhere above the second cataract, Amenhotep marched southward for a month, taking captives and spoil as he went. It is difficult to determine the exact limit of his southern advance. In the land of Karoy, with which the reader is now acquainted as the region about Napata, he collected great quantities of gold for his Theban buildings, and at Kebehu-Hor, or the “Pool of Horus” he erected his tablet of victory, but we are unable to locate the place with certainty. It was certainly not much in advance of the frontier of his father. This was the last great invasion of Nubia by the Pharaohs.

SUPPILULIUMAS. 1368-1328. The Hittite

The inactivity of the Egyptians in Syria made it possible for Tushratta to remain on friendly terms with Amenophis III during all of the latter's reign. During the later part of Tushratta’s reign, good relations with Egypt became more and more a necessity, because a powerful personality had in the meantime ascended the Hittite throne and had initiated a period of Hittite renascence.Probably not long after the events which brought Tushratta to the throne of Mitanni (c. 1385), a shift of rulership also took place in the Hittite country. Under Tudkhaliash III the previously mighty kingdom had shrunk into insignificance from which it had only partially recovered before the king's death. If some of the lost territory, especially along the eastern border had been regained, this had been due to the military leadership of the king's son, Shuppiluliumash. Upon his father's death Shuppiluliumash became king as the next in line. The ambitions which must have spurred Shuppiluliumash from the outset made him cast his eyes almost automatically upon Syria, where earlier Hittite kings had won glory. Hence an armed conflict with Tushratta became inevitable. It was postponed for some time only because Shuppiluliumash had to reorganize his homeland before he could think of embarking on a war of conquest in Syria.

ASHUR-UBALLIT(1365-1330 ) ENLIL-NIRARI (1330-1319 ) ARIK-DEN-ILI (1319–1308 )

The restorer of the power of Assyria was, beyond doubt, Ashur-uballit who was destined to become a leading figure of his day, but he has told us nothing to the purpose about himself. Half-a-dozen short inscriptions concern the repair of two temples and some work upon a well in his city of Ashur, no more than the least distinguished of his predecessors. The Assyrian kings had not yet learned the art of appending to their building-inscriptions those notes of contemporary events which were soon to expand themselves into the detailed annals of later reigns. A first mention of the great king’s deeds is made, in his own family, by his great-grandson, looking back over the glories of his line and taking Ashur-uballit as the inaugurator of these. In the general documentation of his age he makes a better appearance, though sometimes anonymously. His own most interesting relics are two letters found in distant Egypt among the celebrated archive of Amarna.

AKNATON. 1353-1338

The reign of Akhnaton, for seventeen years Pharaoh of Egypt (from B.C. 1375 to 1358), stands out as the most interesting epoch in the long sequence of Egyptian history. We have watched the endless line of dim Pharaohs go by, each ht momentarily by the pale lamp of our present knowledge, and most of them have left httle impression upon the mind. They are so misty and far off, they have been dead and gone for such thousands of years, that they have almost entirely lost their individuality. We call out some royal name, and in response a vague figure passes into view, stiffly moves its arms, and passes again into the darkness. The Tomb of Queen Tiy, in which lay the mummy believed to be that of Akhnaton, was discovered in January, 1907, during the excavations which were being conducted by Mr. Theodore M. Davis in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes.

MURSHILISH II (1321-1295) MUWATALLISH II (1295-1272)

Immediate successor to Shuppiluliumash was his son Arnuwandash. The potentially dangerous situation created by the death of the conqueror was aggravated by the circumstances that the new king was seriously ill and, therefore, could not demand the authority which was needed. Syria, on possession of which the Hittite claim for world leadership rested, was naturally the critical danger spot. Arnuwandash made haste to confirm his brother Piyashilish as king of Carchemish and also appointed him to the position of the tuhkantis (a high rank in the government). He was apparently the mainstay of Hittite domination in the provinces south of the Taurus, and is known from then on by the (Hurrian) name Sharre-Kushukh. With some justification one may consider it fortunate that the reign of Arnuwandash was only of short duration. Murshilish, a younger son of Shuppiluliumash, who now assumed kingship, was still very young but in the full possession of his powers. He proved himself an extremely able and energetic ruler.

RAMSES II. 1303-1212

When Ramses II ascended the throne the Hittites had remained in undisputed possession of their Syrian conquests for probably more than twenty years since the attempt of Seti I to dislodge them. The long peace had given their king, Mutallu, an opportunity, of which he made good use, to render their position in Syria impregnable. Advancing southward, up the valley of the Orontes, he had seized Kadesh, the centre of the Syrian power in the days of Thutmose III, which, we remember, had given him more trouble and held out with more tenacious resistance than any other kingdom in Syria. We have already seen the strategic importance of the district, an importance which was quickly grasped by the Hittite king, who made the place the bulwark of his southern frontier. Ramses’s plan for the war was like that of his great ancestor, Thutmose III. He proposed first to gain the coast, that he might use one of its harbors as a base, enjoying quick and easy communication with Egypt by water. Our sources tell us nothing of his operations on the first campaign, when this purpose was accomplished.

MERNEPTAH & RAMSES III (1213-1156)

The death of Ramses II was not followed by any disturbance in the Asiatic dominions in so far as we can see. The northern border in Syria was as far north as the upper Orontes valley, including at least part of the Amorite country in which Merneptah had a royal city bearing his name, probably inherited from his father and renamed. With the Hittite kingdom he enjoyed undisturbed peace, doubtless under the terms of the old treaty, negotiated by his father forty-six years before. Indeed, Merneptah sent shiploads of grain to the Hittites to relieve them in time of famine. By the end of his second year, however, he had reason to rue the good-will shown his father's ancient enemy. Among the allies of the Hittites at the battle of Kadesh there were already maritime peoples like the Lycians and Dardanians. In some way Merneptah discovered that the Hittites were now involved in the incursions of these people in the western Delta in alliance with the Libyans. In the year three (about 1223 BC) the Pharaoh found widespread revolt against him in Asia: Askalon at the very gates of Egypt, the powerful city of Gezer at the lower end of the valley of Aijalon, leading up from the sea-plain to Jerusalem; Yenoam, given by Thutmose III to Amon two hundred and sixty years before; some of the tribes of Israel and all western Syria-Palestine as far as it was controlled by the Pharaoh all these rose against their Egyptian overlord. 

TIGLATH PILESER I1114 –1076 BC

TIGLATH PILESER I (about 1120 BC) was the grand monarch of western Asia in his day, and the glory of his achievements was held in memory in Assyria for ages after. It is fitting that one who wrought such marvels in peace and war should have caused his deeds to be written down with care and preserved in more than one copy. To his gods he ascribed the credit of his works. Their names, a formidable number, stand at the very head of the chief written memorials of his reign. Here are Asshur, the ancient patron deity of his land, "the great lord, the director of the hosts of the gods," and Bel also, and Sin, the moon god; Shamash, the sun god; Adad, the god of the air, of storms, of thunder, and rain; Ninib, "the hero"; and, last of all, the goddess Ishtar, "the firstborn of the gods", whose name was ever to resound and be hallowed in the later history of Nineveh. With so great a pantheon had the people of Assyria already enriched themselves.

 

GIDEON (1252-1152)

Gideon, with whose biography and achievements we are now concerned, was a native of the plain of Esdraelon. His birth­place is called Ophrah. Two villages bearing this name are mentioned in the Old Testament There was an Ophrah, belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, now known as El Taiybeh —a group of hamlets “perched aloft on a dark conical hill, like the villages of the Apennines.” But the Ophrah in which the future deliverer of Israel was born, nestled on slopes south ot the town of Jezreel, and connecting with Mount Gilboa. No trace of it remains; except for its connection with Gideon, it would have been wholly undistinguished and unknown.

 

DEBORAH (1200-1124) JEPHTHAH (?), SAMSON (1118-1058)

Deborah is the typical prophetess of the northern tribes; Gideon is the great head of the central tribes; Jephthah is the pride of the land beyond the Jordan; Samson is the ideal of joyous strength, striving at unequal odds against Philistine ascendancy in the west.

 

SAMUEL AND SAUL

1110-1007

 

 

KING DAVID

1040-970 BC

 

KING SOLOMON

970-931

PROPHET ELIJAH

900-849

 

ASSUR-NAZIR-PAL

885-860 BC

SHALMANESER III

(859-824 BC)

SHAMSHI ADAD V (823-811 BC), ADAD NIRARI III (811 BC-783 BC), SHALMANESER IV (782-773), ASSURDAN III (772-755), ASSUR NIRARI III (754-745)

PROPHET ISAIAH

740-681 BC

PIANKHI, KING OF NUBIA

(B.C 741-712)

SARGON OF ASSYRIA

722-705 B. C.

SENNACHERIB

(705-681 BC)

ESARHADDON

(681–669 BC)

 

ASSHURBANIPAL

668–627 B. C.

SOLON

640-560 BC

NABOPOLASSAR, 626 - 605 B. C.

AND

NEBUCHADREZZAR II, 605 - 562 B. C.

 

 

DANIEL,

HIS LIFE AND TIMES

THALES OF MILETUS

624 - 546 BC

 

MILTIADES

555 - 489 BC

 

CONFUCIUS

551–479 BC

 

DARIUS I THE GREAT,

550–486 BC

HERACLITUS

540-480

   

 

THEMISTOCLES

524–459 BC

 

XERXES

518 – 465 

 

CIMON,

510– 450 BC

 

PERICLES

495 - 429 BC

HERODOTUS

484 – c. 425 

   

SOCRATES

470-399

AGESILAUS

444-360

PLATO

428-347

PELOPIDAS

420-364 BC

TIMOLEON,

390-336 BC

ARISTOTLE

384 – 322 BC

DEMOSTHENES

384-322 B.C

PHILIP II OF MACEDON & ALEXANDER THE GREAT

382–323 BC

DIONYSIUS THE SECOND & TIMOLEON

367 - 330

AGATHOCLES

361-289

 

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

356-323

CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA

324-293

ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS

310-230

ASOKA

304–232

 

 

HOUSE OF SELEUCUS

321-63

THE HOUSE OF PTOLEMY

331-30 BC

THE MACCABEES

168-37

HANNIBAL

247-181

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CLEOPATRA VII

MARC ANTONY

AUGUSTUS.

LIFE AND TIMES OF OCTAVIUS CAESAR

B.C. 63— A.D. 14)

 

PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO 70-19A.D.

 

Among biographical commonplaces one frequently finds the generalization that it is the provincial who acquires the perspective requisite for a true estimate of a nation, and that it is the country-boy reared in lonely communion with himself who attains the deepest knowledge of human nature. If there be some degree of truth in this reflection, Publius Vergilius Maro, the farmer’s boy from the Mantuan plain, was in so far favored at birth. It is the fifteenth of October, 70 b. c., that the Mantuans still hold in pious memory: in 1930 they will doubtless invite Italy and the devout of all nations to celebrate the twentieth centenary of the poet’s birth.

A.D.

ANTONINUS PIUS

86-161

On September 19th, 86 A.D., when the Emperor Domitian was consul for the 12th time and Cornelius Dolabella for the 1st time, there was born at a country house near Lanuvium a child who was destined to become Emperor fifty-two years afterwards. His name according to Capitolinus was Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Antoninus; Eutropius calls him Fulvius, but an inscription shows that Fulvus is the correct form of the name. The same inscription adds to him the name of Arrius which is found also in Capitolinus.

LUCIUS SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS

146-211

From the year of his birth to that of his accession Septimius may be said to have lived the ordinary life of the provincial Roman of the upper classes. His ancestors had belonged to the equestrian order, but two of his great-uncles (on his father's side) had been consulars. A maternal uncle, one Fulvius Pius, seems to have incurred the censure of Pertinax during the latter’s governorship of Africa. In this same province, on the 11th of April, 146, was born, of parents whose names Spartian gives as Geta and Fulvia Pia, the future Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus. His birthplace was Leptis Magna.

CONSTANTINE THE GREAT

272-337

THE catastrophe of the fall of Rome, with all that its fall signified to the fifth century, came very near to accomplishment in the third. There was a long period when it seemed as though nothing could save the Empire. Her prestige sank to the vanishing point. Her armies had forgotten what it was to win a victory over a foreign enemy. Her Emperors were worthless and incapable. On every side the frontiers were being pierced and the barriers were giving way.

JULIAN THE APOSTATE

331-363

It is not too much to say that Julian's personal motives, qualities and aims, all-decisive as they were in determining the character of the great reaction which history must always couple with his name, would remain a riddle, had no notices of his early years survived. The thoughts, training and experiences of Julian's boyhood and youth shed floods of light upon his subsequent career: they convert a historical surprise and crux into a consequent and little complicated narrative.

SAINT AMBROSE

340-397

It is the year AD 340. Twenty-eight years have passed since Constantine the Great saw, as he declared, in vision the symbol of the Crucified, and was bidden to hope for victory, temporal and eternal, through Him alone; twenty-eight years since the tyrant Maxentius lost his power and his life at the Milvian bridge; twenty-seven since Constantine’s second edict, dated not from Rome, but from Milan, released the Christians from the fear of persecution, and launched the Cross on an unimpeded career of conquest.

SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

347-407

In Strido, then, a suburban village of Aquileia, about the year 346 a.d., Constans ruling the Empire of the West from Milan, and Constantius, in Constantinople, ruling the Empire of the East, was born Eusebius Hieronimus Sophronius, commonly known to us by the modern form of his second name, Jerome, the first, and the most learned and eloquent, of the Fathers of the Latin Church.

 

ATTILA

KING OF THE HUNSAND HIS PREDECESSORS

JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA

482-565

CASSIODORUS Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus

485-585

ISIDORE OF SEVILLE

560-636

Li SHI MIN

Founder of the tang dynasty

The significance of the life and achievements of Li Shih-Min, who reigned from A.D. 626-49 as the emperor T’ai Tsung of the T’ang dynasty, cannot be appreciated without some knowledge of the age which immediately preceded his birth. It is necessary to paint, as a background to his life, a picture of sixth-century China, its social organisation and the political trends which dominated

 

675-754

SAINT CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

700-781

LIFE OF ST. WALBURGE.

ENGLAND

724-802

LIFE OF ALCUIN

748-814

CHARLEMAGNE.

THE HISTORY OF THE FRANKS

763-809

HARUM AL-RASHID, CALIPH OF BAGDAD

801-865

ANSKAR,

THE APOSTLE OF THE NORTH

806-882

HINCMAR

841-870

SAINT EDMUND King And Martyr

   

848-899

ALFRED THE GREAT (Thomas Hughes)

Alfred the West Saxon King of the English(Dugald Macfadyen )

d. 877?

The life of Saint Neot

 

ENGLAND

995-1035

CANUTE THE GREAT

and the rise of Danish imperialism during the Viking age

 1015 –1085

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HILDEBRAND

POPE GREGORY VII

 

1016-1154

ROGER OF SICILY

 

1046-1115

MATILDA OF TUSCANY

1080–1134

SAINT NORBERT

 

GERMANY

1094-1148

SAINT MALACHY O'MORGAIR

 

IRELAND

1118-1170

THOMAS A BECKET

 

ENGLAND

1122-1190

BARBAROSSA

1132-1144

THE LIFE AND MIRACLESOF ST WILLIAM OF NORWICH

ENGLAND

1135–1140

SAINT HUGH OF LINCOLN

CHURCH

1133-1189

HENRY II, King

ENGLAND

1137-1226

LOUIS VII - PHILIPE AUGUSTE - LOUIS VIII

FRANCE

1138-1193

SALADIN

THE FAL OF THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM

1150-1228

ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY

CHURCH

1157-1199

RICHARD

THE LION HEART

1160-1216

POPE INNOCENT III THE GREAT

       

1162-1227

Life And Times Of Chingis Khan

   

1165-1223

PHILIP II AUGUSTUS

FRANCE

1167-1216

JOHN LACKLAND, King

 

ENGLAND

1170-1221

St. DOMINIC Founder Of The Friars Preachers

 

SPAIN

1182-1226

St FRANCIS OF ASSISI

 

ITALY

1188-1252

HISTOIRE
DE
BLANCHE DE CASTILLE

1191-1231

SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA

 

ITALY

1192-1280

ALBERT THE GREAT

 

GERMANY

1194-1250

FREDERICK II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR

 

GERMANY

1194-1253

SAINT CLARE OF ASSISI

 

ITALY

1195-1231

SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA

ITALY

1207-1231

SAINT ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, DUCHESS OF THURINGIA

 

HUNGARY

1208-1265

SIMON DE MONFORT, earl of Leicester

 

ENGLAND

1208-1276

The life and times of James the First, the Conqueror, king of Aragon, Valencia, and Majorca

   

1216-1377

ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY III TO THE DEATH OF EDWARD III

1213-1276

JAMES I king of Aragon 1 // JAMES I king of Aragon 2

 

SPAIN

1214-1270

LOUIS IX, King

 

FRANCE

1216-1227

POPE HONORIUS III

 

CHURCH

1218-1273

RHODOLPH OF HABSBURG

 

GERMANY

1239-1307

EDWARD THE FIRST

 

ENGLAND

1265-1321

DANTE ALIGHIERI

 

ENGLAND

1270 -1305

WILLIAM WALLACE

 

1274-1329

ROBERT THE BRUCE

 

SCOTLAND

1276-1352

ROBERT THE WISE and his heirs

 

ITALY

1293-1381

JAN VAN RUYSBROEK

 

BELGIUM

1312 – 1377

The history of the life and times of Edward the Third : V1

The history of the life and times of Edward the Third : V2

 

ENGLAND

1325–1382

Joanna I of Naples

 

ITALY

1330-1376-

A History Of The Life Of Edward The Black Prince :V 1

A history of the life of Edward the Black Prince, and of various events connected therwith, which occurred during the reign of Edward III, King of England :V 2

 

ENGLAND

1336–1405

Tambourlaine (Tamerlane or Timur) the Conqueror

 

Uzbekistan

1340-1399

JOHN OF GAUNT

duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester, seneschal of England

 

1347-1380

CATHERINE OF SIENA atherine of Siena and her companions-v1 //// St Catherine of Siena V2

ITALY

1363-1429

Jehan Gerson

   

1366-1440

HUBERT van EYCK & JAN van EYCK

 

HOLLAND

1369-1415

JOHN HUS

 

CZECH REP.

1375–1447

Cardinal Beaufort

 

ENGLAND

1377-1446

BRUNELLESCHI

 

ITALY

1380-1444

ST BERNARDINE OF SIENA

 

ITALY

1384-1440

ST. FRANCES OF ROME

 

ITALY

1386-1456

Saint John Capistran

 

ITALY

1391-1447

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester

 

ENGLAND

1394-1460

PRINCE

HENRY THE NAVIGATOR

KING OF PORTUGAL

800-1397

THE EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY

HARALD HAARFAGR . ERIC BLOOD-AXE AND BROTHERS . HAKON THE GOOD . HARALD GREYFELL AND BROTHERS . HAKON JARL . OLAF TRYGGVESON .JARL ERIC AND SVEIN . OLAF THE SAINT . MAGNUS THE GOOD . OLAF THE TRANQUIL, MAGNUS BAREFOOT, AND SIGURD THE CRUSADER . MAGNUS THE BLIND, HARALD GYLLE . HAKON THE OLD.

1399-1413

History of England under Henry the Fourth

 

ENGLAND

1387-1422

The reign of Henry the Fifth / VOL I.1413-1415.--VOL II. 1415-1416. --V. III. 1415-1422 /

 

ENGLAND

1401-1466

FRANCESCO SFORZA

1405-1464

POPE PIUS II the humanist pope

CHURCH

1412-1431

JOAN OF ARC_ THE MAID

FRANCE

1413-1422


HENRY THE FIFTH :

KING OF ENGLAND, LORD OF IRELAND, AND HEIR OF FRANCE.

1420-1498

TOMAS DE TORQUEMADA

 

SPAIN

       

1423-1483

LOUIS XI

FRANCE

1428-1471

RICHARD NEVILLE Earl of Warwick

 

ENGLAND

1430-1482

MARGARET OF ANJOU, QUEEN OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE V1

 

MARGARET OF ANJOU, QUEEN OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE V1

1433-1477

CHARLES THE BOLD. VOLUME 1 //

 

CHARLES THE BOLD. VOLUME 2

1436-1517

Cardinal XIMENEZ

 

SPAIN

1449-1492

THE LIFE OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI,

A.D. 1449-1492,

CALLED THE MAGNIFICENT.

1451 - 1504

ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC

QUEEN OF SPAIN

1436-1517

Cardinal XIMENEZ

 

SPAIN

1442-1587

MARY, QUEEN OF THE SCOTS

 

SCOTLAND

1463 -1509

CATHERINA SFORZA

1485-1535

CATHERINE OF ARAGON

1486-1534

CHAUTANYA AND HIS AGE

 

INDIA

1489-1556

THOMAS CRANMER

ENGLAND

1490-1555

BISHOP HUGH LATIMER

ENGLAND

1498-1574

GIOVANNI DE MEDICI & COSIMO I, GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY

ITALY

1504-1572

PIUS V

CHURCH

1514-1572

JOHN KNOX

SCOTLAND

1519-1589

CATHERINE DE MEDICIS V1

CATHERINE DE MEDICIS V2

1519-1605

THEODORE BEZA

 

GERMANY

1442-1587

MARY QUEEN OF THE SCOTS

 

SCOTLAND

1542-1605

AKBAR THE GREAT MOGHUL

 

INDIA

1442-1481

EDWARD IV king of England and of France and lord of Ireland v 1

   
 

EDWARD IV king of England and of France and lord of Ireland v 2

   

1443-1513

POPE JULIUS II

1444-1510

SANDRO BOTTICELLI

 

ITALY

1451-1506

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, "COLON"

 

SPAIN

1452-1485

RICHARD III

 

ENGLAND

1452-1498

GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA

 

ITALY

1452-1519

LEONARDO DA VINCI

 

ITALY

805-1456

KINGS OF MEDIEVAL HUNGARY .

ARPAD (805-907). ST. STEPHEN (997-1038). ST. LADISLAS (1077-1095). COLOMAN (1095-1116). (Stephen II, 1116-1131; Béla II or Bela the Blind, 1131-1141; Géza II, 1141-1161) KING BELA III (1173-1196). BELA IV (1335-1370). ANDREW III (1290—1301). LOUIS THE GREAT (1344-1382). JOHN HUNYADI, (1406 – 1456) REGENT OF HUNGARY

1455-1529

PETER VISCHER

1458-1464

POPE PIUS II

1459-1519

MAXIMILIAN I

Holy Roman Emperor

1459-1534

POPES ADRIAN VI

&

CLEMENT VII

1460–1524

THOMAS LINACRE

PHYSICIAN TO KING HENRY VIII. THE TUTOR AND FRIEND OF SIR THOMAS MORE,
AND THE
FOUNDER OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN LONDON.

1467-1519

JOHN COLET

 

ENGLAND

1471-1530

CARDINAL WOLSEY

 

ENGLAND

1472-1529

WANG YANG MIN

1474-1539

ISABELLA D'ESTE, marchioness of Mantua

CR.ORG

ITALY

1474-1566

Bartolome de LAS CASAS

 

SPAIN

1475 1497

BEATRICE D'ESTE

1475 - 1519

THE LIFE OF

VASCO NUÑEZ DE BALBOA SPANISH

HEROE

1475-1564

Michelangelo Buonarroti-1 // Michelangelo Buonarroti-2

   

1478-1535

SAINT THOMAS MORE

 

ENGLAND

1480-1530

PRINCESS MARGUERITE OF AUSTRIA

 

AUSTRIA

1480-1547

Saint Gaetan Founder Of The Order Of Théatins

 

AUSTRIA

1480-1521

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

FERDINAND MAGELLAN is one of those who, as Robert Browning says, are named and known by that moment’s feat, and though that feat took three years in the doing, he is still a man of one achievement. Magellan’s feat, in itself, was a supreme achievement: he was the first person in the world who demonstrated not by theory, but in terms of ships actually sailing on the sea, that this world is round (or thereabouts), and that by sailing out beyond the known ultimate of the West, a voyager will arrive at the known ultimate of the East.

1483-1530

BABAR

THE GREAT MOGHUL

1483-1546

MARTIN LUTHER

 

GERMANY

1485-1509

KING HENRY VII

1485-1547

HERNAN CORTÉS Conqueror of Mexico

 

SPAIN

1486-1533

CHAITANYA and his age

 

INDIA

1488-1576

TITIAN

 

ITALY

1490-1553

RABELAIS

 

FRANCE

1490-1555

HUGH LATIMER

ENGLAND

1491-1556

SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

SPAIN

HENRY VIII.1491-1545

FRANCIS I. 1494-1547

SULEIMAN. 1494-1566

CHARLES V.1500-1558

565-1533

HISTORY OF THE LIVES AND EMPIRE OF THE ELEVEN INCAS

MANCO CCAPAC . SINCHI ROCCA . LLOQUI YUPANQUI . MAYTA CCAPAC . CCAPAC YUPANQUI . INCA ROCCA . TITU CUSI HUALPA . VIRACOCHA . PACHACUTI YUPANQUI . TUPAC YUPANQUI . HUAYNA CCAPAC . HUASCAR, AND ATAHUALPA.

 

 

 

1495-1507

LIFE AND TIMES OF CARDINAL XIMENEZ

 

SPAIN

1495-1549

Clement Marot VOLUME I / Clement Marot VOLUME 2

 

FRANCE

1497-1543

HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER

GERMANY

 

 

 

1500-1571

BENVENUTO CELLINI ////// AUTOBIOGRAPHY

 

ITALY

1508-1556

HUMAYUN

 

INDIA

1508-1580

ANDREA PALLADIO

   

1510- 1590

AMBROISE PARE

   

1514-1572

JOHN KNOX

   

1515-1582

SAINT TERESA

 

SPAIN

1517-1572

PETER RAMUS and the educational reformation of the sixteenth century

   

1518-1543

Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman

   

1519-1589

CATHERINE DE MEDICIS Volume 1 // Catherine de Medicis Volume 2

 

FRANCE

1519-1605

THEODORE BEZA.

THE COUNSELLOR OF THE FRENCH REFORMATION

1522-1534

ADRIAN VI AND CLEMENT VII

CR.ORG

ROME

1523-1574

MARGARET OF FRANCE, DUCHESS OF SAVOY

FRANCE

1522-1590

CHRISTINA OF DENMARK DUCHESS OF MILAN AND LORRAINE

 

DENMARK

1526-1581

SAINT LOUIS BERTRAND

   

1527-1598

PHILIP II OF SPAIN

1530-1584

IVAN IV THE TERRIBLE

 

RUSSIA

1533-1584

WILLIAM OF ORANGE

 

NETHERLANDS

1442-1587

MARY QUEEN OF THE SCOTS

 

SCOTLAND

1542-1605

AKBAR, THE GREAT MOGUL

 

INDIA

1546-1601

TYCHO BRAHE

 

DENMARK

1547-1578

Don John of Austria_v1 // Don John of Austria_v2

 

SPAIN

1550-1568

SAINT STANISLAS KOSTKA

   

1550-1614

SAINT CAMILLUS OF LELLIS

   

1551-1589

HENRY III of France

 

FRANCE

1553-1610

HENRY IV KING OF FRANCE

 

FRANCE

1559-1614

ISAAC CASAUBON

 

SWITZERLAND

1564-1642

GALILEO GALILEI

 

ITALIA

1564-1616

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

 

ENGLAND

1568-1591

ALOYSIUS GONZAGA

   

1573-1642

MARIE DE MEDICIS

1577-1640

PETER PAUL RUBENS

 

BELGIUM

1580-1654

ST PETER CLAVER

   

1580-1661

MASSAOIT of the Wampanoags

 

USA

1581-1613

THOMAS OVERBURY

 

ENGLAND

1583-1646

ALEXANDER HENDERSON

 

SCOTLAND

1585-1642

CARDINAL RICHELIEU

 

FRANCE

1590-1676.

LADY ANNE CLIFFORD COUNTESS OF DORSET. PEMBROKE & MONTGOMERY

 

ENGLAND

1594-1632

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS:

THE NORTHERN HURRICANE

(KING 0F SWEDEN)

1602-1661

MAZARIN

 

FRANCE

1604-1683

ROGER WILLIAMS

 

USA

1606-1669

REMBRANDT

 

HOLLAND

1608-1674

JOHN MILTON

 

ENGLAND

1611-1648

BARON DE RENTY

   

1618-1707

AURANGZIB

 

INDIA

1622-1673

MOLIERE

LIFE AND WORK

1624-1702

HENRI MARIE BOUDON

   

1624-1691

GEORGE FOX, THE QUAKER

ENGLAND

1632-1677

SPINOZA, Benedictus de

 

HOLLAND

1633-1703

SAMUEL PEPYS

   

1644-1718

WILLIAM PENN

   

1650-1722

JOHN CHURCHILL Duke of Marlborough V1 // John Churchill,V2 //

 

ENGLAND

1651-1719

JOHN BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE : founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

 

FRANCE

1661-1731

DANIEL DEFOE

 

ENGLAND

1672-1725

PETER THE GREAT

 

RUSSIA

1682-1718

CHARLES XII, King

 

SWEDEN

1683-1737

QUEEN CATHERINE THE ILLUSTRIOUS

   

1685-1712

MARIE ADELAIDE of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy

 

FRANCE

1692-1752

BISHOP JOSEPH BUTLER

ENGLAND

1706-1790

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

USA

1707-1778

CARL LINNAEUS

father of modern taxonomy

1715-1707

ELIZABETH CHRISTINE ,

WIFE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT OF PRUSSIA

1721-1808

DAVID ZEISBERGER, Western pioner and apostle of the Indians

 

USA

1723-1792

JOSHUA REYNOLDS

   

1724-1804

IMMANUEL KANT

 

PRUSSIA

1728-1779

CAPTAIN JAMES COOK

 

1729-1796

CATHERINE II

 

RUSSIA

1733-1815

CARSTEN NIEBUHR

 

GERMANY

1741-1822

ALI TEBELENI Pasha_The Lion Of Jannin

 

ALBANIA

1743-1826

THOMAS JEFFERSON

 

USA

1743-1803

LOUIS CLAUDE DE SAINT MARTIN

   

1745-1797

OLAUDAH EQUIANO

   

1747-1792

JOHN PAUL JONES

   

1747-1813

ROSE BERTIN

THE CREATOR OF FASHION AT THE COURT OF MARIEANTOINETTE

 

1749–1806

CHARLES JAMES FOX

 

ENGLAND

1749-1832

Johann Wolfgang GOETHE

GERMANY

1756-1791

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART

 

AUSTRIA

1757-1835

Gilbert du Motier, MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

 

FRANCE

1757-1804

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

 

USA

1758-1794

MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE

 

FRANCE

1759-1794

G.J. DANTON

 

FRANCE

1759-1805

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

 

GERMANY

1763-1830

KING GEORGE IV

 

ENGLAND

D.1764

YUSUF KHAN: THE REBEL COMMANDANT

 

INDIA

1766-1817

MADAME DE STAEL

 

FRANCE

1766-1844

JOSEPH BONAPARTE, KING OF NAPLES AND ITALY

 

FRANCE

1767-1815

JOAQUIM MURAT

 

FRANCE

1767-1848

JOHN QUINCI ADAMS

 

USA

1767-1838

BLACK HAWK, of the Sauk Tribe

 

USA

1768-1813

TECUMSEH, SHAWANOE INDIAN

   

1769-1821

NAPOLEON

1769-1815

MARSHAL NEY

   

1769-1837

ANNA MARIA TAIGI

   

1770-1827

Ludwig van

BEETHOVEN

1770-1827

GEORGE CANNING

 

ENGLAND

1774-1849

Life Of Cardinal Mezzofanti

   

1777-1825

ALEXANDER I, EMPEROR

 

RUSSIA

1777-1849

MADAME RÉCAMIER

 

FRANCE

1782-1862

MARTIN VAN BUREN

 

USA

1778-1837

Gustavus IV Adolphus, King V1 // Gustavus IV Adolphus, King V2

 

SWEDEN

1788-1824

LORD BYRON

 

ENGLAND

1790-1881

SHARPE SAMUEL

   

1792-1858

GULAB SINGH Founder of Kashmir

 

INDIA

1792-1868

ROSSINI

 

ITALY

1796-1859

HORACE MANN

   

1797-1876

LEON PAPIN DUPONT

   

1797-1877

ADOLPHE THIERS

 

FRANCE

1797-1888

WILLIAM I, EMPEROR OF GERMANY AND KING OF PRUSSIA

   

1798-1866

HOMAS HODGKIN

ITALY AND HER INVADERS

(AUTHORS)

1799-1845

THOMAS HOOD

   

1801-1890

CARDINAL NEWMAN

ENGLAND

1802-1885

VICTOR HUGO

 

FRANCE

1803–1882

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

USA

1806-1873

JOHN STUART MILL

   

 

Gustavus Adolphus : surnamed The Great, King

 

SWEDEN

1808-1892

Cardinal Manning archbishop of Westminster -1 // CardinalManning 2 /

 

ENGLAND

1809-1854

JEAN BAPTISTE MOUARDD

   

1809-1865

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

 

USA

1809-1849

EDGAR ALLAN POE

 

USA

1810-1903

Pope LEO XIII

 

CHURCH

1811-1832

NAPOLEON II

 

FRANCE

1812-1870

CHARLES DICKENS

 

ENGLAND

1812-1885

LADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON

 

ENGLAND

1813-1883

RICHARD WAGNER

 

GERMANY

1814-1832

MARIE EUSTELLE HARPAIN

   

1815-1898

OTTO VON BISMARCK

AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE

1816-1855

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

 

ENGLAND

1818-1901

Francesco Crispi-1 / Francesco Crispi-2 / Francesco Crispi-3

   

1819-1901

QUEEN VICTORIA

 

ENGLAND

1819-1900

JOHN RUSKIN

 

ENGLAND

1820-1910

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

 

ENGLAND

1820-1877

YAKOO BEG : ATHALIK GHAZI . AMEER OF KASHGAR

 

 

1820-1903

FANNY CROSBY

 

USA

1821-1912

CLARA BARTON founder of the American Red cross

 

USA

1822-1857

JOHN NICHOLSON Hero Of Delhi

 

IRELAND

1822-1898

MRS. ELIZABETH LYNN LINTON

 

ENGLAND

1822-1895

LOUIS PASTEUR

 

FRANCE

1822-1847

MARIE LATAS

   

1823-1861

ABDUL MEDJID, Sultan

 

Turkey

1823-1892

ERNEST RENAN

 

FRANCE

1824-1907

Lord KELVIN

 

ENGLAND

1828-1906

HENRIK IBSEN

 

NORWAY

1828-1910

TOSLTOY

   

1829-1861

THEOPHANE VERNARD

   

1830-1916

FRANCIS JOSEPH I

 

GERMANY

1831-1881

James A. Garfield

 

USA

1831-1879

JAMES CLERK MAXWEL

   

1832-1867

MAXIMILIAN I OF MEXICO

 

MEXICO

1834-1896

HEINRICH VON TREITSCHKE

 

GERMANY

1834-1902

JOHN ACTON

CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY

(AUTHORS)

1836-1914

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

 

ENGLAND

1836-1912

Lawrence Alma Tadema

   

1837-1905

TIPPOO TIB,the story of his career in Central Africa

 

TANZANIA

1837-1898

EMPRESS ELIZABETH Consort Of FRANZ JOSEPH I

 

Austria

1839-1922

GEORGE CADBURY

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abdur Rahman.1840-1901

Murad V, 1840-1904

Abdul Hamid II, 1842-1918

Haile Selassie. 1892 – 1975

 

ADMIRAL TOGO (J) 1848-1934

MEIJI, THE EMPEROR (J) 1852-1912

OSCAR WILDE (IRL)1854-1900

SUPALAYAT, THIBAW'S Queen (BURMA) 1854-1912

1833-1897

JOHANNES BRAHMS V 1

JOHANNES BRAHMS V 2

 

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (IRL) 1856-1960

THEODORE ROOSEVELT (USA) 1858-1919

AUGUSTA VICTORIA (D) 1858-1912

VENUSTIANO CARRANZA (MEX) 1859-1920

1864-1936

ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS

GREECE

 

CONAN DOYLE (UK) 1859-1930

THEODOR HERZL (H) 1860-1904

RAYMOND POINCARE (F) 1860-1934

Mahatma GANDHI (INDIA) 1869-1948

GUGLIELMO MARCONI (IT) 1874-1937

GEORGES BRAQUE (F) 1882-1963

GABRIEL CAPONE (USA) 1899-1947

MARTIN HEIDEGGER (D) 1889-1976

 

 

 

 

 

THE LIVES AND TIMES OF THE POPES (FROM SAINT PETER TO GREGORY I THE GREAT)

PAPIAS AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. A STUDY OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN THE SECOND CENTURY

HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH FROM THE APOSTOLIC AGE TO THE REFORMATION BY JAMES C. ROBERTSON

VOLUME I. A.D. 64-1517

VOLUME II. A.D. 395-814

VOLUME III. A.D 814-1046

VOLUME IV. A.D. 1046-1106

VOLUME V. A.D. 1106-1198

VOLUME VI. A. D. 1198-1303

VOLUME VII. A.D. 1303-1418

VOLUME VIII. A.D. 1418-1517

 

George Grote's History of Greece

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE CLOSE OF THE GENERATION CONTEMPORARY WITH ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

VOLUME I. Legendary Greece: FROM THE GODS AND HEROES TO THE FOUNDATION OF THE OLIMPIC GAMES (776 BC)
VOLUME II.
VOLUME III.

THE AGE OF THE DESPOTS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WESTERN COLONIES

VOLUME IV.
VOLUME V.
VOLUME VI:
VOLUME VII:
VOLUME VIII.

THE SOCRATIC AGE

VOLUME IX.

FROM THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND TO THE PEACE OF ANTALCIDAS

VOLUME X.
VOLUME XI.

B.C. 394-336. TIMOLEON THE CORINTHIAN AND PHILIPS THE MACEDON

VOLUME XII.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

 

 
HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
 

 

 

 

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Horace k. Mann

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THE POPES UNDER THE LOMBARD RULE. PART II. 657-795

THE POPES DURING THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE. Leo III to Formosus A.D. 795-891

THE POPES IN THE DAYS OF FEUDAL ANARCHY. FIRST PART. A.D. 896-999

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Horace Mann 

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A HISTORY OF THE OSMANLIS UP TO THE DEATH OF BAYEZID I

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GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS. B.C. 146 — A.D. 716


VOLUME II.
FROM A.D. 717 TO 1057

VOLUME III
FROM A.D. 1057 TO A.D. 1453


 

A History of the Popes from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome.

A.D. 1378-1525

 

MANDELL CREIGHTON

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THE GREAT SCHISM. A.D.1378-1414

THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE. A.D.1414-1418.

THE PAPAL RESTORATION. A.D. 1444—1464

THE ITALIAN PRINCES. A.D. 1454-1517.

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From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century
From the Sixth Century B. C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great
From the Mohammedan Conquest to the reign of Akbar the Great. A.D .712-1555
From the Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of the Moghul Empire
From the first European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company
The European Struggle for Indian Supremacy in the Seventeenth Century
From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time
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THE POLITICAL THEORY OF THE ROMAN LAWYERS AND CANONISTS FROM THE TENTH CENTURY TO THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

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THE POLITICAL THEORY OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

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LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANCESCO SFORZA, DUKE OF MILAN, WITH A PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ITALY

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THE LIFE OF PIZARRO, with some account of his associates in the Conquest of Peru

THE RISE OF PORTUGUESE POWER IN INDIA, 1497—1550

VASCO DA GAMA AND HIS SUCCESSORS. 1460-1580

HISTORY OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO. A.D. 1680-1888

AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE COLONIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA

The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II

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A HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD . 1815-1910 VOLUME 2

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