II., emperor of Germany, defeats the elector palatine, king of Bohemia, at Prague, the thirty years' war, ii. 451; death of, 452.
III., of Germany, ii. 452. king of Hungary and Bohe- mia, ii. 280, 285; succeeds to the empire of Germany, 287.
of Arragon, and Isabella, ii. 215; state of Spain on their acces- sion, 318; gain possession of an em- pire in America, 304, 313. Ferrara, duke of, ii. 282.
Fine arts, their affinity, i. 224; superi- ority of Greece acknowledged by Rome, 225.
Fire-worship, i. 121.
Flamininus, T. Quinctius, conquers Greece, i. 211. Flodden, the field of, ii. 237. Floridas, the, ii. 316. Fohi, ii. 354.
Formosus, pope, ii. 99, 101.
France-the Gauls attack Rome, i. 347, 348, 349; they are conquered by C. J. Cæsar, 404; customs and religion, ii. 34, 64; age of Clovis and the Frank monarchs, 36, 46; Frank laws, 45; the Frank monarchy, 56, 68; Pharamond, 56; the Merovingian race, 56; Clovis embraces Christian- ity, 57; division of the monarchy, Dagobert, Sigibert, Clovis II., and the Mayors of the Palace, 58; Pepin d'Heristal, 58; Charles Martel, 58; Chilperic, 58; Saracens destroyed, 59; king Pepin, 59; Carloman, 59; Frank customs, 59; the Carlovin- gian dynasty, 60; the Champ de Mars, 61; Pepin succeeded by Charlemagne, 70; manners, 61; Salic laws, 62; system of cli- entela and patrons, 64; the feu- dal system, 64, 69; conquests of Charlemagne, 70; crowned emperor of the West, 73; Louis le Débon-
naire, 74, 88; manners of the age of Charlemagne, 78; customs, 80; Lou- is, king of Bavaria, 86, 88; Charles le Chauve, 87; hereditary peers, 89; their castles, 89; Norman invasions, 89; Charles le Gros, 90, 99; Eudes or Odo, 91; the dukes of Normandy, 112, 113; William's conquest of Eng- land, 116; duke Robert, his eldest son, 132, 135; Hugh Capet founds a new dynasty, 122; the good king Robert, 123; Philippe the First ex- communicated, 123; interests of Ar- thur of Brittany aided by Philippe Auguste, who invades England, 143, 146; the French crusaders under Louis VII., 159; reigns of Philippe le Bel and Philippe le Long, 177; the Knights Templars persecuted, 179; battle of Cressy, king Charles le Bel, 197; king John taken by the Black Prince at Poictiers, 199; this king's good faith, 199; Charles le Sage, 199; Charles VI., 203; Henry V. of England is declared regent at Paris, 205; Charles VII. recovers his kingdom by the aid of Joan of Arc, 206; the dukes of Brit- tany and Burgundy, 213; Louis XI., tyrannical reign of, 213; Charles VIII. marches into Italy and takes Naples, 215; his return to France, 215; reign of Louis XII., 220; Fran- cis I., 243, 281; Henry II., 362; Francis II. espouses Mary queen of Scots, 373; civil wars, the dukes of Guise, 373; Charles IX., 373; mas- sacre of the Huguenots, 375; Henry III. 376; assassinated, 377; Henri le Grand, 377; his death, 381; Louis XIII., 442; Richelieu, 443; reign of Louis XIV., 453; revocation of the edict of Nantes, 462; death of Louis, 468; the constitution of the ancient monarchy, 469; poets of France, 494.
Francis I. of France, ii. 277; interview with Henry VIII., 279; taken pris- oner by Charles V., 281; league with Soliman, 282.
II. of France, ii: 372. Franks, i. 10; cruelty exercised against the, 509; their power, ii. 45. Frederic, duke of Saxony, rejects the empire of Germany, ii. 278; taken prisoner by Charles V. in the battle of Mulberg, 286; anecdote, 286, protection to Luther, 292; Frederic II., emperor of Germany, 151. Fronde, the, faction in France, ii. 454. Furce Caudinæ, Roman disgrace, a the, i. 353.
Gainas, the Goth, ii. 14. Galba, emperor, i. 488.
Galerius, i. 507; rules in conjunction with Constantius, 508.
Galileo, discoveries and system of, ii.
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. 335.
Genoese and Venetians, power of the,
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.
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, 128; 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, ii. 5.
Gods, heathen, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman, i. 61.
Godfrey of Bouillon, king of Jerusalem, ii. 128, 154 et seq. Gondebald, expedition of the Burgun- dian prince, i. 39, 57. Gonsalvo of Cordova, the general of
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; perfec- 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, 81; com- parison of Athens and Sparta, 108; 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.
IV., pope, ii. 87, 92. V., pope, ii. 123. VII., deposed, ii. 128.
IX., the pope, his arrogance
ii. 152. 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
Hamilcar Barcas, i. 371. 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, i. 358. Hapsburgh, Rodolph, count of, elected emperor of Germany, ii. 175. Harmodius and Aristogiton, i. 111. Haroun Alraschid, the caliph, ii. 57, 98. 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 I., king of England, ii. 135.
II., king of England, ii. 138;
III. of England, ii. 151, 184. IV. of England, ii. 202; death,
V. of England, successful wars in France, ii. 204, 205.
VI. of England, ii. 205; marries Margaret of Anjou, 223; opposed by Richard, duke of York, origin of the factions of the White and Red Roses, 224; 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, 226; death of the earl, 226; death of prince Edward, 227; the deposed king is murdered by Richard of Glou- cester, 227.
VII. defeats and slays king Richard III., ii. 228. his union with the heiress of York, and his wise government, 228.
VIII. of England, the affair of Guienne, ii. 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, 281; refutation of Luther, 293; affairs of religion, 300
II. of France, ii. 286, 372. III. of France, ii. 376. IV. of France, ii. 377; gains the battles of Arques and Ivry, 378; peace of Vervins, 379.
II., emperor of Germany, ii.
VII., emperor of Germany, ii.
182. of Transtamare usurps the king- dom of Castile, ii. 217. 65
Heptarchy, or Saxon Kingdoms in Britain, ii. 19, 106. Heracleidæ, return of the, i. 72, 80, 85. Heraclius reigns at Constantinople, ii. 26.
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. 252.
History, Universal, the author's plan, i. 1 et seq. History elucidated by tumuli, cairns, stones, or columns, i. 27. Holbein, Hans, paintings of, ii. 324. Homer, his perfection of language, i. 59, 65; poem ascribed to, 76, 238, 240.
Horace, opinion upon, i. 435. Horatii and Cuiratii, mortal contest of the, i. 294.
Horatius Cocles, heroism of, i. 311. Roman consul, i. 338, 339. Hottentots, drawings found in their caves, i. 26.
Huguenots persecuted by Louis XIV., their churches destroyed, ii. 462. Hungarians, their wars, ii. 100. Huns, the, invade the Roman Empire ii. 13; under Attila, 18. Huss, John, ii. 183, 293.
James I. of Scotland, his education while detained a prisoner in England, ii. 232; murdered in a convent near Perth, 233; his poem of "Christ Kirk of the Green," 250.
II. stabs William, earl of Doug. las, ii. 234; killed at the siege of Roxburgh by the bursting of a can non, 235.
III., his quarrels with his nobles, ii. 235; his death when flying from his son, 236.
IV., ii. 237; killed in the battle of Flodden, 237.
V., king of Scotland defeated by the English, ii. 240.
James VI. of Scotland, and I. of Eng-| land, ii. 389; succeeds to the crown of England, 395; gunpowder trea- son, 396.
II. of England, ii. 423; flight to France, 426.
Janus, temple at Rome, i. 294; tem- ple closed in time of peace, 371, 492.
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. 183.
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; Alexander 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, i. 68.
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, vide 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. 218.
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- ylæ, 133; aid the Athenians, 136; rebellion of the Helots, 140; war against Athens, 141, 146; the Pelo- | ponnesian war, 148; 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 andˇlit- erature, 423, 436.
Langton, John, archbishop of Canter- bury, ii. 147.
Laocon, sculpture, i. 234.
Lartius, first Roman dictator, i. 313. Latins, the, i. 284, 295, 301; complete defeat by Torquatus, 353. Laud, archbishop, ii. 403.
Liberius, minister of Odoacer, ii. 39. Licinius made Cæsar, i. 509; his death, 509.
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, i 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. 284. Lucanus, Ocellus, philosopher, i. 265. Lucretius, Catullus, and Tibullus, i. 434, 435.
Laws, ancient, most severe, i. 22; his- tory is the interpreter of, 24; ancient form, 25; recorded in poems, 27; Egyptian, 37; Lacedæmonian, 84, 98; 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-Lucullus marches against Mithridates cial combats, 45, 79; laws of the and Tigranes, i. 396; recalled after Anglo-Saxons, 110, 111. victory, 397. Leleges, a Greek people, i. 52. Lentulus, Publius, a rebellious prætor, i. 399.
Leo the Isaurian, the iconoclast, ii. 82. IV., pope, ii. 98.
condition of Rome under pope,
X., pope, ii. 253, 279; sale of in- aulgences, 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., 208. Leopold, archduke of Austria, ii. 180. Leovigildus and Ervigius, their Visi- gothic code, ii. 43. Lepanto, battle of, ii. 329.
taste and example of, i.
445. Lusignan, Guy of, ii. 159. Luther, Martin, reformation of, ii. 291 Lutzen, battle of, ii. 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, 208, 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, i. 396; a triumvir, 417. Macbeth, death of, ii. 188.
Leuctra, battle of, i. 163.
Lewes, battle of, i. 186.
Lewis of Bavaria, emperor of Germa- ny, ii. 86, 89, 176, 182.
Macedonia, reigns of Perdiccas, i. 165- and of Philip, 168, 177.
& Roman province, i. 211. Magellan, navigator, i. 59.
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