Encyclopedia of World Events
Auteur : Robert R. Ingpen, Philip Wilkinson
Date de publication : 1991
Éditeur : Dragon's World
Nombre de pages : 256
Résumé du livre
Asoka and the rise of the Mauryan empire - Black Death - Magellan's journey around the world - Spanish Armada - Fall of the Bastille - Communist Manifesto - American Civil War - German unification - Lister's development of antiseptic surgery - Boer War - Marie Curie's discovery of radium - Einstein's theories of relativity - Atomic bomb - Structure of DNA - Fall of the Berlin wall; Launch of Sputnik 1 - Irish Famine - Model T Ford - Gandhi's Salt March - Declaration of the Rights of Man - Opening of Japan to Western trade - Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech - The Mayflower & The Pilgrim Fathers.