How to Remember History: A Method of Memorizing Dates, With a Summary of the Most Important Events of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE. SOME years ago I was conducting a Teachers' Institute in Washington County, Maryland, when one of the teachers in attendance proposed to explain his method of teaching history in connection with chronology. The explanation was given at some length, and a class of children who had been taught after this method was introduced and made a very creditable exhibition of their attainments. I was so much pleased with the system that I determined to try it in the State Normal School, in which the author of this volume was at that time the teacher of history. The experiment was eminently successful and the method was permanently continued. On Miss Conser's leaving the State Normal School I requested her, as a parting contribution to the profession of which she had been for years a distillgl1ished ornament, to prepare an outline of history and chronology on this plan for publication. The period from the eleventh to the nineteenth century, inclusive, was at first selected

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CONTENTS; I-INTRODUCTORY Cn,'PTER DISCOVERY O~; AMERICA AND THE TRA~SITION P~lll0D t I; II-CUART OF THE SIXn:>:>lTlt CENTURY; TI r-CIl~ONOLOGY OF THE S,XTEENTH CE~TURY 13; IV-IhsT01lICAL SKETCHI'5 • 14-38; I The Rise of Russia; • ~["Jern England Henry VI!; 3 AmeTican Discoveries; Florida The P3cific The Mississippi; 4 Cun~llest of ~!exico; S Firsl Voyge around Ihe World; 6 Liberntion of Sweden_; , Maccblavel1i; 8 England unuer lIenry V Ill; English Reformation, Wolsey, Sir; TbOn1:lS 1Io']ore; 9 Copernicus,; 10 l' r ance umlcl' Fnncis 1; II Edward VI Mary,; 12 Germanyand Spain under ChaTles V; 13 Tile Rise of the Dutch Republic,; The leonoela,s !;iege of Leyden; Willi,m of Or~nge; 14 The OUow-an Empire; Soliman nattle of Lepanto; 15 St Uartholomew; 16 Portugal; 17· M>ry, Queen of Scot,; 18 Henry III or Fronce; 19, Spain under Philip 11; :10 Edmund Spenser; V-ENGLISH LIFE nURI~G THE SIXTEF~TII CB~'; VII-CIIRO: