Volume Ix

PAGE An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, xiii CHARLES F. HORNE

Luther Begins the Reformation in Germany (A.D. 1517), 1 JULIUS KOESTLIN JEAN M. V. AUDIN

Negro Slavery in America Its Introduction by Law (A.D. 1517), 36 SIR ARTHUR HELPS

First Circumnavigation of the Globe (A.D. 1519) Magellan Reaches the Ladrones and Philippines, 41 JOAN BAUTISTA ANTONIO PIGAFETTA

The Field of the Cloth of Gold (A.D. 1520), 59 J. S. BREWER

Cortés Captures the City of Mexico (A.D. 1521), 72 WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT

Liberation of Sweden (A.D. 1523), 79 ERIC GUSTAVE GEIJER

The Peasants' War in Germany (A.D. 1524), 93 J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNÉ

France Loses Italy (A.D. 1525) Battle of Pavia, 111 WILLIAM ROBERTSON

Sack of Rome by the Imperial Troops (A.D. 1527), 124 BENVENUTO CELLINI T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE

Great Religious Movement in England Fall of Wolsey (A.D. 1529), 137 JOHN RICHARD GREEN

Pizarro Conquers Peru (A.D. 1532), 156 HERNANDO PIZARRO WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT

Calvin is Driven from Paris (A.D. 1533) He Makes Geneva the Stronghold of Protestantism, 176 A. M. FAIRBAIRN JEAN M. V. AUDIN

England Breaks with the Roman Church (A.D. 1534) Destruction of Monasteries, 203 JOHN RICHARD GREEN

Cartier Explores Canada (A.D. 1534), 236 H. H. MILES

Mendoza Settles Buenos Aires (A.D. 1535), 254 ROBERT SOUTHEY

Founding of the Jesuits (A.D. 1540), 261 ISAAC TAYLOR

De Soto Discovers the Mississippi (A.D. 1541), 277 JOHN S. C. ABBOTT

Revolution of Astronomy by Copernicus (A.D. 1543), 285 SIR ROBERT STAWELL BALL

Council of Trent and the Counter-reformation (A.D. 1545) 293 ADOLPHUS W. WARD

Protestant Struggle against Charles V The Smalkaldic War (A.D. 1546), 313 EDWARD ARMSTRONG

Introduction of Christianity into Japan (A.D. 1549), 325 JOHN H. GUBBINS

Collapse of the Power of Charles V (A.D. 1552) France Seizes German Bishoprics, 337 LADY C. C. JACKSON

The Religious Peace of Augsburg (A.D. 1555) Abdication of Charles V 348 WILLIAM ROBERTSON

Akbar Establishes the Mogul Empire in India (A.D. 1556), 366 J. TALBOYS WHEELER

Universal Chronology (A.D. 1517-1557) 385 JOHN RUDD

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