VOLUME X

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An Outline Narrative of the Great Events,[xiii]
CHARLES F. HORNE
England Loses Her Last French Territory (A.D. 1558)
Battle of St. Quentin,[1]
CHARLES KNIGHT
Reign of Elizabeth (A.D. 1558-1603),[8]
HENRY R. CLEVELAND
John Knox Heads the Scottish Reformers (A.D. 1558),[21]
P. HUME BROWN
THOMAS CARLYLE
Mary Stuart: Her Reign and Execution (A.D. 1561-1587),[51]
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
Founding of St. Augustine (A.D. 1565)
Massacre of the Huguenots in America,[70]
GEORGE R. FAIRBANKS
Revolt of the Netherlands against Spain
Rise of the Gueux or Beggars (A.D. 1566),[81]
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Lepanto: Destruction of the Turkish Naval Power (A.D. 1571),[100]
SIR WILLIAM STIRLING-MAXWELL
Massacre of St. Bartholomew (A.D. 1572),[119]
HENRY WHITE
ISAAC D'ISRAELI
JNO. RUDD
Heroic Age of the Netherlands (A.D. 1573)
Siege of Leyden,[145]
THOMAS HENRY DYER
Search for the Northwest Passage by Frobisher (A.D. 1576),[156]
GEORGE BEST
Building of the First Theatre in England (A.D. 1576)[163]
KARL MANTZIUS
Cossack Conquest of Siberia (A.D. 1581),[181]
NIKOLAI M. KARAMZIN
First Colony of England Beyond Seas (A.D. 1583),[198]
MOSES HARVEY
Assassination of William of Orange (A.D. 1584)
Division of the Netherlands,[202]
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY
Naming of Virginia: First Description of the Indians
The Lost Colony (A.D. 1584),[211]
ARTHUR BARLOW
R. R. HOWISON
Drake Captures Cartagena
He "Singes the King of Spain's Beard" at Cadiz (A.D. 1586-1587),[230]
JULIAN CORBETT
Defeat of the Spanish Armada (A.D. 1588),[251]
SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY
Henry of Navarre Accepts Catholicism
He is Acknowledged King of France (A.D. 1593),[276]
MAXIMILIEN DE BÉTHUNE, DUC DE SULLY
Culmination of Dramatic Literature in Hamlet (A.D. 1601),[287]
JAMES O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS
Downfall of Irish Liberty
"Flight of the Earls" (A.D. 1603),[299]
JUSTIN M'CARTHY
The Gunpowder Plot (A.D. 1605),[310]
SAMUEL R. GARDINER
Cervantes' Don Quixote Reforms Literature (A.D. 1605),[325]
HENRY EDWARD WATTS
Earliest Positive Discovery of Australia (A.D. 1606),[340]
LOUIS BECKE
WALTER JEFFERY
Settlement of Virginia (A.D. 1607)
Charter under which America was Colonized,[350]
R. R. HOWISON
Founding of Quebec (A.D. 1608)
Champlain Establishes French Power in Canada,[366]
H. H. MILES
Universal Chronology (A.D. 1558-1608),[387]
JOHN RUDD