The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09

Chapter 3

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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

_Cortes 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'AUBIGNE

_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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