Chart of Famous Characters, and Salient Points of History

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Excerpt from Chart of Famous Characters, and Salient Points of History: 2000 B. C. 1900 A. D., An Useful Index for Reference, and a Key to HistoryThis work is planned to make history more easily comprehended and therefore more interesting. It will enable a person to readily ascertain when a famous character lived, when a noted battle was fought, or the date of some other important occurrence. Many events of secondary importance have been purposely omitted, thus leaving the main incidents of history free from what might confuse.The arrangement of the work is very simple and is designed to put one on the direct track to the information desired. Its value consists not only in showing at a glance the important events that occurred during the careers of great characters, but also the predecessors, contemporaries and successors of those characters, with their correlations. The notes are brief and suggestive - they will tend to stimulate the reader to further research.The substance of history for the 3900 years is given on the first double page, and its chronological order on the second double page. A study of these will show in what part of the world activities ¿ourished at any era, and also indicate the country or power that was uppermost in the history of each epoch.The tops of the letters (on the 8 charts) comprising the name of a character are, as a rule, placed on the year of birth. For example: Lincoln was born in 1809, and met a violent death in 1865. The names without life lines on page 32 are placed when each character was about 30 years Of age.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.