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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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