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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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