History's greatest hits
Subtitle: famous events we should all know more about
By: Joseph Cummins
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Diego, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781607108634
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: World history; Anecdotes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The Ancient World, 250 BC-500 AD; title: 218 BC : Hannibal Crosses the Alps; title: 44 BC: The Assassination of Julius Caesar; title: 476 AD: The Fall of the Roman Empire; title: 2. The Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1000-1500; title: 1066 : The Battle of Hastings; title: 1095-1291 : The Crusades; title: 1215 : Magna Carta; title: 1347-1349 : The Black Death; title: 1415 : The Battle of Agincourt; title: 1431 : The Execution of Joan of Arc; title: 1478-1530 : The Spanish Inquisition; title: 1492 : Columbus Arrives in the Americas; title: 3. The Early Modern Era, 1500-1900; title: 1588 : The Defeat of the Spanish Armada; title: 1666 : The Great Fire of London; title: 1759 : The Battle of Quebec; title: 1776 : Washington Crosses the Delaware; title: 1789 : The Storming of the Bastille; title: 1815 : The Battle of Waterloo; title: 1845-1849 : The Irish Potato Famine; title: 1854 : The Charge of the Light Brigade; title: 1863 : The Gettysburg Address; title: 1876 : Custer's Last Stand; title: 4. A World at War, 1900-1950; title: 1915 : The Battle of Gallipoli; title: 1916 : The Battle of the Somme; title: 1917 : The October Revolution; title: 1929 : The Wall Street Crash; title: 1940 : The Battle of Britain; title: 1941 : The Attack on Pearl Harbor; title: 1944 : D-Day; title: 1944 : The Battle of the Bulge; title: 1945 : The Bombing of Hiroshima; title: 5. The Cold War and Beyond, 1950-2001; title: 1962 : The Cuban Missile Crisis; title: 1963 : The Assassination of President Kennedy; title: 1967 : The Six-Day War; title: 1968 : The Tet Offensive; title: 1969 : The First Moon Landing; title: 1989 : The Fall of the Berlin Wall; title: 2001 : 9/11.