Volume 7 of the Great Events of World History, featuring: DANTE COMPOSES THE "DIVINA COMMEDIA", by Richard Church THIRD ESTATE JOINS IN THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE, by Henri Martin WAR OF THE FLEMINGS WITH PHILIP THE FAIR OF FRANCE, by Eyre Crowe FIRST SWISS STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY, by F. Baker BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN, by Andrew Lang EXTINCTION OF THE ORDER OF KNIGHTS TEMPLARS & THE BURNING OF GRAND MASTER MOLAY, by F.C. Woodhouse & H. Milman JAMES VAN ARTEVELDE LEADS A FLEMISH REVOLT & EDWARD III OF ENGLAND ASSUMES THE TITLE OF KING OF FRANCE, by Francois Guizot BATTLES OF SLUYS AND CRÉCY, by John Froissart MODERN RECOGNITION OF SCENIC BEAUTY & THE CROWNING OF PETRARCH AT ROME, by Jacob Burckhardt RIENZI'S REVOLUTION IN ROME, by R. Lodge BEGINNING AND PROGRESS OF THE RENAISSANCE, by John Symonds THE BLACK DEATH RAVAGES EUROPE, by J. Hecker & Giovanni Boccaccio FIRST TURKISH DOMINION IN EUROPE, by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall CONSPIRACY AND DEATH OF MARINO FALIERI AT VENICE, by Margaret Oliphant CHARLES IV OF GERMANY PUBLISHES HIS GOLDEN BULL, by Robert Comyn INSURRECTION OF THE JACQUERIE IN FRANCE, by John Froissart CONQUESTS OF TIMUR THE TARTAR, by Edward Gibbon DANCING MANIA OF THE MIDDLE AGES, by J. Hecker ELECTION OF ANTIPOPE CLEMENT VII & THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT SCHISM, by Henry Milman GENOESE SURRENDER TO VENETIANS, by Henry Hallam REBELLION OF WAT TYLER, by John Lingard WYCLIFFE TRANSLATES THE BIBLE INTO ENGLISH, by J. Paterson Smyth THE SWISS WIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE, by F. Baker UNION OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY, by Paul Sinding DEPOSITION OF RICHARD II & HENRY IV BEGINS THE LINE OF LANCASTER, by John Lingard DISCOVERY OF THE CANARY ISLANDS AND THE AFRICAN COAST & THE BEGINNING OF NEGRO SLAVE TRADE, by Arthur Helps COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE, by Richard Lodge TRIAL AND BURNING OF JOHN HUSS & THE HUSSITE WARS, by Richard Trench THE HOUSE OF HOHENZOLLERN ESTABLISHED IN BRANDENBURG, by Thomas Carlyle BATTLE OF AGINCOURT & THE ENGLISH CONQUEST OF FRANCE, by James Gairdner JEANNE D'ARCS VICTORY AT ORLEANS, by Edward Creasy TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF JEANNE D'ARC, by Jules Michelet CHARLES VII ISSUES HIS PRAGMATIC SANCTION, by W.H. Jervis & R.F. Rohrbacher