Volume 10 — 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