The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10

by Unknown

The National Alumni

COPYRIGHT, 1905,
By THE NATIONAL ALUMNI

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CONTENTS

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

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME X

• page
• Murder of the favorite, Rizzio, at the feet of Mary Stuart, by her husband and
  associate conspirators (page 56),[Frontispiece]
• Painting by Eug. Siberdt.
• Catharine de' Medici, accompanied by her suite, issues from the gate of the
  Louvre the morning after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew,[142]
• Painting by Ed. Debat-Ponsan.