Excerpt from Hand-Book of Chronology and History: The World's Progress, a Dictionary of Dates; With Tabular Views of General History, and a Historical Chart The alphabetical part of the volume gives, in most cases, more full and ample references to the same historical facts; but still the whole work is but an index to the sources of knowledge - a Diction ary of Dates. It has been planned so as to facilitate access to the largest amount of useful information in the smallest possible compass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.