Table of Contents for the Story of the World III

Table of Contents
Dates & Events Covered

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (final order, but copy might change slightly)

CHAPTER ONE: A WORLD OF EMPIRES

The “Holy Roman Empire”
The Riches of Spain

CHAPTER TWO: PROTESTANT REBELLIONS

The Dutch Revolt
The Queen Without a Country

CHAPTER THREE: JAMES, KING OF TWO COUNTRIES

James and His Enemies
King James’s Town

CHAPTER FOUR: SEARCHING FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE

The French in the New World
Henry Hudson’s Quest

CHAPTER FIVE: WARLORDS OF JAPAN

Hideyoshi, Japan’s Great Leader
The First Tokugawa Ruler

CHAPTER SIX: NEW COLONIES IN THE NEW WORLD

Strangers and Saints in Plymouth
The Dutch in the New World

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY

Tobacco—and Unwilling Colonists
Queen Nzinga of Angola

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE MIDDLE OF THE EAST

The Persian Puzzle
The Ottoman Turks

CHAPTER NINE: THE WESTERN WAR

The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648

CHAPTER TEN: FAR EAST OF EUROPE

Japan’s Isolation: Closed Doors in the East
The “Foreign Conquest” of China: The Rise of the Manchu

CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MOGHUL EMPERORS OF INDIA

World Seizer, King of the World, and Conqueror of the World
Aurangzeb’s Three Decisions

CHAPTER TWELVE: BATTLE, FIRE AND PLAGUE IN ENGLAND

Charles Loses His Head
Cromwell’s Protectorate
Plague and Fire

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE SUN KING

The Sun King of France

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE RISE OF PRUSSIA

Frederick, The First Prussian King

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A NEW WORLD IN CONFLICT

War Against the Colonies: King Philip’s War
War Against the Colonies: Louis XIV Saves New France
William Penn’s Holy Experiment

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE WEST

The Universal Laws of Newton and Locke
Scientific Farming

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: RUSSIA LOOKS WEST

Peter the Great
Peter’s Port to the West

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: EAST AND WEST COLLIDE

The Ottomans Look West–Twice

CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE ENGLISH IN INDIA

The Indian Empire Falls Apart
The Shopkeepers’ Invasion

CHAPTER TWENTY: THE IMPERIAL EAST

Emperor Chi’en-lung’s Library
The Land of the Dragon

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: FIGHTING OVER NORTH AMERICA

Three Pointless Wars
The Seven-Year War

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: REVOLUTION!

Discontent in the British Colonies
The American Revolution

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: THE NEW COUNTRY

The American Constitution
The First American President

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: SAILING SOUTH

Captain Cook Reaches Botany Bay
The Convict Settlement

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: REVOLUTION GONE SOUR

The Storming of the Bastille
The Reign of Terror

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: CATHERINE THE GREAT

Princess Catherine Comes to Russia
Catherine the Great

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: A CHANGING WORLD

Steam and Coal in Britain
Cotton and Guns in America

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: CHINA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

The Kingdom at the Center of the World
The Rise of the Opium Trade

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: THE RISE OF BONAPARTE

Napoleon Comes to Power
The Emperor Napoleon

CHAPTER THIRTY: FREEDOM IN THE CARIBBEAN

The Haitian Revolt

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: A DIFFERENT KIND OF REBELLION

The World of the Factories
The Luddites

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: THE OPENED WEST

Lewis and Clark Map the West
Tecumseh’s Resistance

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: THE END OF NAPOLEON

Napoleon’s Wars (and 1812 Too)
Waterloo!

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: FREEDOM FOR SOUTH AMERICA

Simón Bolívar: The Liberator
Freedom, But Not Unity

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE

The Cry of Delores
The Republic of Mexico

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: THE SLAVE TRADE ENDS

The Work of the Abolitionists

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: TROUBLED AFRICA

The Zulu Kingdom
The Boers and the British

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: AMERICAN TRAGEDIES

The Trail of Tears
Nat Turner’s Revolt

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: CHINA ADRIFT

The First Opium War

CHAPTER FORTY: MEXICO AND HER NEIGHBOR

Remember the Alamo
The Mexican-American War

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: NEW ZEALAND AND HER RULERS

The Treaty of Waitangi
The New Zealand Wars

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: THE WORLD OF FORTY-NINE

The Gold Rush
A World of Unrest

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A PARTIAL LIST OF DATES AND EVENTS COVERED IN VOLUME III

1368 The first Ming dynasty emperor rules in China
1498 John Cabot disappears in the northern Atlantic
1524 Giovanni da Verrazano first sails across the Atlantic for France
1534 Jacques Cartier’s first arrival in Canada
1553 Sebastian Cabot’s expedition sets off on the northeast route
1555 The Peace of Augsburg allows each German state to follow its own religion
Charles V relinquishes the title Holy Roman Empire
Ferdinand I, Charles’s brother, inherits Charles’s lands and title
1556 Philip II inherits the throne of Spain from his father, Charles V
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in England
1576 Englishman Martin Frobisher sails into Frobisher’s Strait
1583 Nzinga of Angola born
1587 John Davis leads an expedition to find the Northwest Passage
Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded
1588 Abbas I becomes shah of Persia
1592 Hideyoshi directs Japan’s first invasion of Korea
1598 Philip II of Spain dies
1603 Samuel Champlain’s first arrival in Canada
Elizabeth I dies and James I (James VI of Scotland) comes to the throne
Ieyasu becomes shogun of Japan
1605 Jahangir (World Seizer) becomes emperor of India
1605 Ieyasu appoints his son Hidetada as shogun
1607 Jamestown colony founded in Virginia
1607 Henry Hudson makes his first voyage to the northeast
1608 Quebec colony founded in Canada
1611 Henry Hudson is set adrift in Hudson Bay
1614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
1616 Ieyasu Tokugawa
1618 The Thirty Years’ War begins with the Bohemian revolt
1620 The Mayflower sets sail for the New World
1623 Sultan Murad IV comes to the throne of the Ottoman Empire
1623 Iemitsu becomes the third Tokugawa shogun
1625 Charles I becomes king of England
1627 Jahangir of India dies
1628 Shah Jahan (King of the World) becomes emperor of India
1629 Shah Abbas I of Persia dies
1633 Iemitsu closes the ports of Japan
1637 The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II dies
1638 Samuel Champlain dies
1641 European traders are forbidden to enter Japan
1642 Cardinal Richelieu dies
1644 Li Tzu-ch’eng enters Peking with his army
1648 The Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years’ War
1649 Charles II of England is executed
1653 Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
1658 Aurangzeb (Conqueror of the World) becomes emperor of India
Oliver Cromwell dies
1661 K’ang Hsi takes the throne of Manchu China
1663 Queen Nzinga of Angola dies
1660 Charles II is invited to return to England from exile in France.
1665 The Plague decimates London
1666 Shah Jahan of India dies
The Great Fire of London
1672 Peter the Great is born
1675 King Philip’s War begins on June 20
1678 The fighting ends in King Philip’s War
1681 The city of Philadelphia is founded in the colony of Pennsylvania
1682 Peter the Great becomes the Czar of Russia
1683 The Ottoman Turks are defeated at Vienna
K’ang Hsi adds Taiwan to the Chinese empire
1687 Isaac Newton publishes Principia Mathematica
1688 Mary and William come to the English throne in the Glorious Revolution
1689 Peter the Great takes control of his throne away from Sophia
King William’s War begins
1690 Aurangzeb gives the British permission to build Calcutta
John Locke publishes Two Treatises of Government
1696 K’ang Hsi adds Mongolia to the Chinese empire
King William’s War ends
1700 Beginning of the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden
1701 Jethro Tull invents the seed drill
Queen Anne’s War begins
1702 Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg
1703 The Tulip Period begins in the Ottoman Empire
1707 Aurangzeb of India dies and Bahadur Shah I takes the throne
1710 Crop rotation becomes widespread, thanks to Charles Townshend
1712 Bahadur Shah I of India dies
1713 Queen Anne’s War ends
1714 George Louis becomes George I of England
1715 Louis XIV dies and Louis XV becomes king of France
1719 Mohammad Shah of India comes to the throne
1722 K’ang Hsi dies
1725 Peter the Great dies.
1726 Tibet becomes part of the Chinese empire
1727 George I dies and George II becomes king of England
1730 The Tulip Period ends in the Ottoman Empire.
1735 Chi’en-lung becomes emperor of China
1739 The War of Jenkins’ Ear begins
1744 King George’s War begins
1748 Mohammad Shah of India dies
King George’s War ends.
1754 The French-Indian War begins
1756 The British capture Bengal in the Battle of Plassey
The Seven-Year War begins
1762 Catherine the Great is proclaimed empress of Russia
1763 The French-Indian and Seven-Year Wars end
1769 Chi’en-lung adds Burma to the Chinese empire
James Watts receives a patent for the steam engine
1771 James Cook maps the coast of Australia
1776 James Cook starts out on his last voyage
The North American colonies declare their independence from Great Britain
1787 The Constitutional Convention meets in Philadelphia
1789 The Estates General (representatives of France) meets in May at Versailles
The Bastille falls on July 14
1791 The Bill of Rights is added to the American Constitution
The slaves of Saint Domingue rebel
1793 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed in France
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
George Macartney visits China
1794 The Reign of Terror in France ends with Robespierre’s death
1796 Chi’en-lung of China abdicates in favor of his son
Catherine the Great of Russia dies
An imperial edict forbids importing opium to China
1797 Eli Whitney popularizes the ideas of standardization and interchangeable parts
1799 Napoleon becomes Consul
1802 Napoleon becomes Consul for life
1804 Napoleon is crowned emperor
Lewis and Clark begin their expedition
1805 Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Trafalgar
1806 Lewis and Clark return from the west
1807 Britain outlaws the slave trade
1808 Charles IV is deposed by Napoleon
The United States outlaws the slave trade
1810 Argentina declares independence
1811 Venezuela declares independence
1812 Napoleon marches into Russia
The United States declares war on Britain (“The War of 1812”)
1814 The War of 1812 ends
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
1815 Napoleon tries to regain power and is exiled to Saint Helena
1818 The Time of Troubles (mfecane) begins in South Africa
1820 The British claim the South African Cape Colony
1821 Napoleon dies
Mexico becomes independent
1824 Mexico becomes a republic
Durban is founded on the South African coast
1828 Shaka, king of the Zulu, dies
1830 The United States passes the Indian Removal Act
1831 Nat Turner’s Revolt
1833 Great Britain passes the Act of Emancipation
1843 Santa Ann declares himself dictator of Mexico
1835 The Great Trek of the Boers begins
The Second Seminole War begins in Florida
Texas declares its independence
1836 The Battle of the Alamo
1839 The Cherokee set off on the Trail of Tears
The First Opium War begins
1842 The First Opium War ends with the Treaty of Nanjing.
1845 Texas joins the United States
1846 The Mexican-American War begins
1848 The Mexican-American War ends
1849 California Gold Rush
1850 California becomes the 31st state of the United States of America

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