Gallus, nephew of Constantine, behead- ed, i. 516
Gama, Vasco de, voyage of, ii. 492. Games, public, of Greece, i. 65, 237. Gassendi, principles of, ii. 487. Gauls, customs of the, i. 22; their ir- ruptions into Italy, 347; capture Rome, 348; new war, 349; their manners and laws, ii. 63, 64; super- stitions, 34.
Gelimer, king of the Vandals in Africa, ii. 24.
Gelon, king of Syracuse, i. 360. Genghis Khan subdues the descend- ants of Mahmoud in Hindostan, ii.
Genoese and Venetians, power of the, ii. 176.
Genucius, Roman tribune, i. 324, 331. Genseric establishes the Vandal power in Africa, ii. 18.
Gentoo race, the, ii. 336.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, ii. 169, 245. George, elector of Hanover, becomes king of England, ii. 462.
Georgia, in America, when settled, ii. 316.
Germany, governed by the descendants
of Charlemagne, ii. 86, 89; emperors Lewis and Charles the Bald, 74, 88; Charles le Gros, 90; Conrad, and Henry the Fowler, 100; Otho of Saxony, 100; Otho the Great, empe- ror of the Romans, 100, 101; Otho II., Conrad, Henry III., succeed, 101, 102; Otho III., 123; quarrel be- twixt the emperors and the popes, 127, 130; Henry IV., reign of, 127; he is excommunicated, 127; Rodolph, duke of Suabia, slain by Godfrey, 123: Conrad, Henry V., and Frederick Barbarossa, 129; Henry VI. gains the kingdom of Naples and Sicily, 130; reign of his son Frederick II., 151; interregnum, 152; rise of the house of Hapsburgh, 176; Rodolph, 176; Henry VII. claims dominion over Italy, 182; Lewis of Bavaria, 182; Charles IV., 182; the German empire and Spanish monarchy under Charles V., 278, 290; the thirty years' war, 450, 453. Gnostics, the, 11. 5.
Gods, heathen, Egypuan, Greek, and Roman, i. 61.
Godfrey of Bouillon, king of Jerusalem, ii. 123, 154 et seq. Gondebald, expedition of the Burgun- dian prince, 1. 39, 57. Gonsalvo of Cordova, the general of
Gothic architecture, i. 228.
Goths, their conquests in the Roman empire, ii. 13; their conquest of Athens, 13; invasion of the Pelo- ponnesus, 13; origin of the Celtic and Gothic nations, 27; their man- ners after the conquest of Italy, 37,
Governments, origin and distinctions of, i. 19.
Gower's poems, ii. 250.
Gracchi, sedition of the, i. 385, 423. Gracchus, Sempronius, defeats the Car- thaginians, i. 375.
Granicus, battle of the, i. 181. Gratian, the emperor, ii. 8. Greece, fabulous and early times of, i. 7, 51, 112; advantage of the Am- phyctionic council, 57; savage tribes, 51, 58; civilization, 57; mythology, 60; games and contests, 65; pertec- tion of the Hellenic language, 58; antiquities and literature, 68; com- putation of its history, 72; navigation, and navies, 73; colonies in Asia Mi nor, Sicily, Magna Græcia, el; com- parison of Athens and Sparta, Jes; high character above that of Persia, 137; renown in the age of Pericles, 142; luxury and concomitant decline, 168; liberty overthrown by king Philip, 169, 176; popular cry for liberty on the death of Alexander, 201; republics of Sparta and Athens, 214; influence of its philosophy and arts upon its conqueror Rome, 212; agriculture, 223; commerce not en- couraged, 223; architecture, 225; drama, 244, 251.
Greece, the Gothic invasion of, ii. 13. Greek and Latin churches, their sepa ration, ii. 95.
Gregory II., pope, ii. 182.
pope, ii. 87, 92. pope, ii. 123. VII., deposed, ii. 128.
IX., the pope, his arrogance
Guatimozin, the emperor of Mexico, ii 310, 311.
Guebres of Persia, i. 125; ii. 54. Guelphs and Ghibellines, wars of the ii. 151.
Gustashp, king of Bactriana, i. 121. Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden his wars with Ferdinand II. of Ger many, ii. 451; killed at Lutzen, 451 Guise, the dukes of, ii. 362, 372.
Habeas Corpus Act, ii. 422, 431
Hannibal, his alliance with Philip II., i. 210; account of this Carthaginian leader, 359; he besieges Saguntum, 371; character by Livy, 371; cross- es the Alps, 373; gains numerous battles in Italy, 373; approaches Rome, 374; indulges at Capua, 375; is worsted by Fabius Cunctator and Claudius Nero, 377; is routed at Za- ma by Scipio Africanus, 377. Hanno, voyage of, 1. 355. Hapsburgh, Rodolph, count of, elected emperor of Germany, ii. 175. Harmodius and Aristogiton, i. 111. Haroun Alraschid, the caliph, ü. 57, 99. Helen, the fair Grecian, ii. 76. Hellespont, bridge of Xerxes across the, i. 131.
Helots of Laconia, slaves, i 95. Helvetic republic, ii. 179. Henry 1, king of England, ii. 135.
II., king of England, ii. 135;
III. of England, ii. 151, 1×4. IV. of England, ii. 202; death,
V. of England, successful wars in France, i. 201, 2 5.
VI. of England, ii. 215; marries Margaret of Anjou, 223; opposed by Richard, duke of York, origin of the factions of the White and Red Roses, 221; defeat of Margaret, 225; the king imprisoned, 225; his queen vic- torious. 225; defeated at Towton, 225; Henry dethroned, 226; restor- ed by the earl of Warwick, 225; death of the earl, 226; death of prince Edward, 227; the deposed king is murdered by Richard of Glou-
VII. defeats and slays king Richard III, 22; his union with the heiress of York, and his wise government, 224,
VIII of England, the affair of Guienne, n. 233; gives his sister Mary in marriage to Louis XII. of France, 223; takes part with Charles V., 279; league with Francis, and war with Charles, 21; refutation of i Luther, 23; affairs of religion, 300 et seq
II. of France, ii. 2-6, 372. III of France, u. 376 IV. of France, ii. 377; guns the battles of Arques and Ivry, 37~; peace of Vervins, 379.
il, emperor of Germany, ii.
VII, emperor of Germany, ii.
of Transtamare usurps the king- dom of Castile, u. 217.
Heptarchy, or Saxon Kingdoms in Britain, ii. 19, 106.
Heracleida, return of the, i. 72, 80, 85. Heraclius reigns at Constantinople, ii.
Heraclitus, doctrines of, i. 266. Herculaneum, paintings in, i. 233. Hercules, history of, i. 79.
son of Alexander, i. 195; death of, 204.
Herod the tetrarch, i. 492. Herodotus, the history of, i. 252. Heroes and demigods, i. 30. Hesiod, poems of, i. 59, 241. Hiero, king of Syracuse, i. 267. Hieroglyphics, use of, i. 26, 29. Hilderic dethroned by Gelimer the Vandal, ii. 24.
Hindoos, account of the, ii. 333, 335. Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus, i. 110 death, 111.
Hippias rules at Athens, i. 111; ex-
pelled, 111; repairs to Darius, 112, 127.
Hispaniola, or St. Domingo, ii. 305, 308. Historians of Greece, account of the, i.
History, Universal, the author's plan, i. 1 et seq..
History elucidated by tumuli, cairns, stones, or columns, 1. 27. Holbein, Hans, paintings of, ii. 324. Homer, his perfection of language, i. 59, 65; poem ascribed to, 76, 235, 240.
Horace, opinion upon, i. 435. Horatu and Cuirati, mortal contest of the, 1204.
Horatius Cocles, heroism of, i. 311. , Ronan consul, i. 338, 339. Hottentots, drawings found in their
Huguenots persecuted by Louis XIV., their churches destroyed, ii. 462. Hungarians, their wars, ii. 190. Huns, the, invade the Roman Empire 1. 13, under Attila, 18. Huss, John, ii. 1-3, 203.
James I. of Scotland, his education while detained a prisoner in England, in 282, murdered in a convent near Perth, 23. his poem of Christ Kirk of the Green," 250,
I stabs Wiliam, earl of Doug. las, n. 24; killed at the siege of Roxburga by the bursting of a can non, 255.
HII, his quarrels with his nobles, i. 235, his death when flying from his son, 233
IV, à 997; kuled in the battle of Flodden, 27.
V, king of Scotland defeated by the English, u. 247.
Japan discovered by the Portuguese, ii. 350; empire of, 350, 351. Jason and the Argonauts, i. 69, 71. Iceland, account of the writers of, ii. 28, 31.
Icilius, tribune of the Roman people, i. 329, 336.
Idolatry, its possible origin, i. 29.
John, king of France, taken prisoner by the Black Prince, ii. 199.
king of England, ii. 145. Cassimer, king of Poland, abdica- tion, ii. 456.
of Austria, Don, defeats the Turks at Lepanto, ii. 329.
duke of Braganza, king of Portu gal, ii. 448.
VIII., pope, ii. 96. XXII., the pope, ii. 182. XXIII, the pope, ii. 1e3.
Ionia, i. 127.
Ionian cities, i. 81.
Jomsburgers, courage of the, ii. 31 Ionic dialect, i. 240.
Joseph, emperor of Germany, ii. 466.
Jehan Shah, father of Aurengzebe, ii. Josephus, narrative of, i. 185, 200.
Jehoiakim, king, i. 114. Jerome of Prague, ii. 184. Jerusalem, conquest by Nebuchadnez- zar, i. 115: it is besieged by the Romans, 492; city and temple de- stroyed by Titus, 492; it is rebuilt under the name of Elia Capitolina, 497; the modern town is taken by Abubeker, the caliph, ii. 54; the Crusades under Richard Cœur de Lion and Godfrey, king of Jerusalem, 144, 154; the city taken by the Christians, 158.
Jews, their early history, i. 4. Jewish laws, i. 22, 23.
Iliad, supposition respecting the, i. 62. Inachus, i. 49.
India, or Hindostan, historical notice of, ii. 333; Darius Hystaspes, i. 117; ii. 333; Álexander the Great, 334; au- thority of Seleucus in India, 334; its commerce possessed by the Egyp tians, 334; the Mahometan invaders, 335; the Mogul empire, 335; Au- rengzebe, 335; Tamerlane, 336; the Gentoos or Hindoos, 336; religion of Brama, 336; castes, 336; customs, 337; commerce of the ancients with, 334.
English empire in, established by the East India Company of Mer- chants, ii. 337. Indus, the river, ii. 336.
Inheritance and division of estates, i. 24.
Innocent II., the pope, ii. 136.
III., the pope, receives from John of England his kingdom, and restores it, ii. 147, 174.
IV., the pope, ii. 175.
Joshua, wars of, i. 21. Ipsus, battle of, i. 205.
Ireland, account of the nation, of its princes, and its conquests by Henry II. and Strongbow, earl of Pembroke, ii. 141 et seq.; the Danes, 141; the great rebellion, 404.
Irene, reign and exile of the empress, ii. 72.
Ishmaelites, descended from Abraham and Hagar, ii. 54.
Isis and Oziris, i. 18.
Isabella of Castile, her marriage with Ferdinand of Arragon, ii. 215, 218. Issus, battle of, i. 182.
Italian sect of philosophy, ii. 265. Italy, kingdom of Odoacer the Heruli- an, ii. 20; of Theodoric the Ostro- goth, 22; Athalaric-Theodatus- Belisarius takes Rome, 24; Totila captures and rebuilds Rome, 25; gov- erned by Narses, 25; kingdom of the Lombards, 60, 72; Charlemagne, emperor of Rome, 73; Bernard, king of Italy, 74; Louis and Lotharius, emperors of the West, 86, 89; Ar- nold, or Arnulf, 99; Lewis is suc ceeded by the emperor Conrad, 100 (for the emperors, ride Germany); Otho the Great deposes pope John XII., 101; state of Rome, 153; cities of Genoa, Venice, and Pisa, 166; state of Italy, 214; invasions of the French, 215.
Juba, king of Mauritania, i. 411, 412. Judea, Nebuchadnezzar's conquest of, i. 412.
Jugurtha, wars of, i. 389.
Julian the apostate, i. 517; ii. 7. Julius II., pope, ii. 221, 253, 300, 492.
Inquisition, horrors of the Spanish, ii. Jupiter Capitolinus, temple at Rome, i.
Justin, reign of, ii. 25.
Justinian, character of, ii. 24; his wars in Italy, 24, 25; his code and pan- dects, 43
Kepler, astronomer, ii. 488.
Lacedæmon, or Sparta, its Dorian pos- sessions, i. 56; the Heracleida were its kings, 80; the republic, 84 et seq.; tactics, 96; authority in Greece, 109; Cleomenes dethrones Hippias of Athens, 111; Spartans at Thermop- yle, 133; aid the Athenians, 136; rebellion of the Helots, 140; war against Athens, 141, 146; the Pelo- ponnesian war, 143; paramount in Grecian affairs, 152; at war against Artaxerxes, 159; league against this republic, 160; war against Thebes, 161, 167; city is attacked by Epami- nondas, 166. Vide Lycurgus, Greece, &c.
Ladislaus, king of Poland, his perfidy and defeat, ii. 208, 209.
Lama, the Great, of Thibet, ii. 332. Language, Hellenic, i. 58; Carthagin ian 359; the Latin language and lit- erature, 423, 436.
Langton, John, archbishop of Canter- bury, ii. 147.
Laocon, sculpture, i. 234.
Lartius, first Roman dictator, i. 313. Latins, the, i. 254, 25, 301; complete defeat by Torquatus, 353. Laud, archbishop, ii. 403.
Laws, ancient, most severe, i. 22; his- tory is the interpreter of, 24; ancient forin, 25; recorded in poems, 27; Egyptian, 37; Lacedæmonian, 84, 9, Athenian, 100; the Roman, of the Twelve Tables, 331; Papirian code, 332; of the Visigoths, ii. 43, 46; the Justinian code, 43; the lex talionis, 45; the Salic and Ripuari- an laws, 63; of the Gauls, 64; judi- cial combats, 45, 79; laws of the Anglo-Saxons, 110, 111. Leleges, a Greek people, i. 52. Lentulus, Publius, a rebellious prætor, 1. 399.
Leo the Isaurian, the iconoclast, ii. 82. IV., pope. ii. 9.
condition of Rome under pope,
ii. 92. — X., pope, ii. 253, 279; sale of in- dulgences, 291; era of perfection for the arts of painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture, 317, 492. Leonidas, devoted valor of, i. 132; over- throws Agis IV., 20×
Leopold, archduke of Austria, ii. 1×0. Leovigildus and Ervigius, their Visi- gothic code, n. 43 Lepanto, battie of, ii. 329.
Liberius, minister of Odoacer, ii. 39. Licinius made Cæsar, i. 509; his death,
Stolo, husband of Fabia, i. 349 Liguria, return of the captives, ii. 39. Literature, review of, to the 18th cen- tury, ii. 243, 254, 492. Livius Andronicus, poet, i. 250. Livy, the Historian, i. 339, 433. Llewellyn, prince of Wales, ii. 187. Locke, John, writings of, ii. 491. Locri, the, i. 86.
Lodbrog, king Regner, song of, ii. 32. Logic and metaphysics, teachers of, i 274; ii. 486, 491.
Lombards, kingdom of the, ii. 25; their laws, 46; the kingdom overthrown, 61; extinguished, 72. Longueville, duke of, ii. 454. Lotharingia, or Loarrine, ii. 89. Louis. (For the succession of kings, vide France.)
XI., ii. 213, 214. XII., ii. 217. XIII., ii. 442, 449.
le Grand, i. 14; marriage of, ii. 455; purchases Dunkirk, 457; Span- ish claim, 458; takes Strasburg, 461; obtains possession of Luxembourg, 461; affair of Algiers and Tunis, 462; persecution of the Huguenots, 462; defeats William of Orange, 463; aids the Pretender, 466; his death, 468.
XIV., writers and poets of the age of, ii 498. Loyola, Ignatius, founder of the order of the Jesuits, ii. 2×4. Lucanus, Ocellus, philosopher, i. 265. Lucretius, Catullus, and Tibullus, i. 434, 435.
Lucullus marches against Mithridates and Tigranes, i. 396; recalled after victory, 397.
Lusignan, Guy of, ii. 159.
Luther, Martin, reformation of, ii. 291. Lutzen, battle of, in 451. Luxembourg, the duke of, ii. 463. Luxor, ruins at, i. 40, 42. Lycophron of Pheræ, i 170. Lycurgus, laws and institutions of, i. 83, 97, 20, 214; he carries the Iliad in- to Greece, 239.
Lydia conquered by Cyrus, i. 127. Lysander, victory of, i 152. Lysias, the orator, i 154.
Lysimachus, king of Macedonia, i. 196. Lysippus, statuary to Alexander, i. 235.
Lepidus, defeat of, 1.396, a triumvir, 417. Macbeth, death of, ii. 198.
Leuctra, battle of, 1. 163.
Lewes, battle of, 1. 186.
Lewis of Bavaria, emperor of Germa
ny, u 86, 80, 176, 1:2.
Macedonia, reigns of Perdiccas, i. 165. and of Philip, 168, 177.
-, a Roman province, i. 211. Magellan, navigator, i. 59.
Magi of Persia, i. 122. Magna Charta, ii. 148, 187. Magnentius assassinates the emperor Constans, i. 516.
Mahinoud, a Tartar, conquers a part of India, ii. 335.
Mahomet, religion of, i. 12; ii. 50, 54; precepts and laws, 51; his posterity, the Abasside, 55; splendor and power of the Mussulmans, 26, 55; the Mahometan religion spreads throughout India, 98; the Mahome- tan rule in the peninsula of India, 335; the Mogul emperors, 335.
II., Sultan, takes Constantino-
ple, ii. 210 et seq.
III., ii. 330.
IV., Sultan, ii. 459.
Mahrattas, the, of the Indian peninsula, ii. 336.
Mairan, M. de, writings of, ii. 352. Malcolm III., king of Scotland, ii. 188. Malplaquet, battle of, ii. 467. Manfred, ii. 173. Manichees, the, i. 124. Manlius, Titus, i. 353.
Mantinea, war with Tegea, i. 166; bat- tle of, 167.
Marathon, defeat of the Persians at, i. 129.
Marcellus takes Syracuse, i. 377. Marcianus, reign of, ii. 18. Mardonius, command and death of, i. 123, 136.
Marius, varied fortunes of the consul, i. 390, 392, 394.
Marlborough, duke of, ii. 464; victories of Blenheim and Ramillies, 465; Mal- plaquet, 467.
Margaret, queen of Henry VI., her spirited conduct, ii. 224.
daughter of Henry VII. mar- ried to James, king of Scotland, ii. 237.
Marian islands discovered by Magellan, ii. 59.
Marriage, and early institution of civili- zation, i. 22; customs regarding it, 23, 94.
Marriages of the Romans, i. 340. Marseilles, Druidical grove near, ii. 34. Martial, epigrammatist, i. 436. Martin V., pope, ii. 183. Mary I., persecutions of, ii. 302.
II. and William, ii. 425. —, queen of Scots, and wife of Fran- cis II., king of France, claims the English crown, ii. 382; her marriage with lord Darnley, 385; is prisoner in the castle of Lochleven, 357; her abdication, 3-9; she escapes from prison, defeat at Langside and flight to England, 389; imprisonment at Fotheringay by Elizabeth, 390; she is beheaded, 391.
Maryland settled, ii. 316. Massinissa, Numidian king, i. 382, 389 Matthias, emperor of Germany, ii. 450 Maxentius, son of Maximian, wars and rivalship with Constantine, i. 50s. Maximilian Sforza, duke of Milan, ii. 222.
I. of Germany, ii. 215, 287. II., emperor of Germany, ii. 450. Maximian, government of, i. 507; he abdicates but resumes the empire 508. Mazarin, administration of Cardinal, it 453; death of, 457.
Medals, their utility and beauty, i. 28. Medes, their first king, i. 21, 119. Media, i. 114.
Medici, family of the, ii. 214. Cosmo de', ii. 214. Peter de', ii. 215.
Medicis, Alexander of, ii. 292.
Mary of, Regent of France, ii. 442; imprisoned in the castle of Blois, 443.
Catharine of, ii. 373. Megabyzes, the Persian, i. 141. Mehegan, "Tableau de l'Histoire Uni- verselle," i. 4.
Memphis, Thebes, Thin, and Tanis, governments of ancient Egypt, i. 18. Menelaus, i. 76, 84.
Menennius, Roman consul, i. 330. Menes, Oziris, or Misraim, i. 18. Mentor, the Rhodian, i. 176.
Merovius and the Merovingian race of kings, ii. 56.
Messene, history of, i. 109, 164. Metellus defeats the Achmeans, i. 211;
triumphs in Sicily, 369; in Africa, 390. Mexico, the capital described, ii. 309; conquest of the empire, 309, picture writing of, i. 26.
Michael, the emperor, ii. 95. Miletus founded, i. 81. Military art, the, i. 74, 77, 96. Millot," Elemens de l'Histoire Génér- ale," i. 4.
Miltiades, actions of, i. 129; death, 130. Milton, English epic poet, ii. 493. Minorca and Sardinia taken by the Eng- lish, ii. 466.
Minos, king of Crete, i. 90. Mirandola, siege of, ii. 222. Mithridates, wars of, i. 212, 392, 396; death of, 397.
Mogul dynasty in India, ii. 336, Mohammed Gori rules at Benares in Hindostan, ii. 335, Monarchies, the first, i. 20. Monasteries, abolition of them in Eng land, ii. 301.
Monastic institutions, rise of, ii. 82-86
Money, iron, at Sparta, i. 92.
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