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garians.
coast.
1544 Gricon League joins Swiss Confederacy.
France at war with England and Spain.
"English take fortress of Smerwick, in
Sir Walter Raleigh executed.
1442
trian Hapsburgs.
Ireland, from Italians, and butcher 700
Matthias II., of Hungary, abdicates; ac-
cession of Ferdinand II.
1448
Battle of Nissa; Turks again defeated.
Birth of Vasari, painter; died 1571.
Birth of Tintoretto, painter; died 1594.
English invasion of France under Henry
prisoners.
Australian coast surveyed by Zeachen
1445
Birth of Leonardo da Vinci.
VIII.
Birth of Alexander, of Sterling; died
and others.
1447
The Arabian Nights issued (?).
1513
Navarre annexed to Spain.
Birth of Tasso; died 1595.
University of Konigsberg founded by
1581
1582
Campian's Jesuit conspiracy suppressed.
Sante Fe, New Meico, founded by Es-
1619
Kepler's Laws published.
Nicholas V. Pope.
England invades France.
1640.
Battle of Guinegate or Spurs; French
Execution of Barneveldt, Holland.
Duke of Gloucester murdered.
The Cforzas at Milan.
defeat.
Duke Albert.
1545 Ivan IV. crowned by the Patriarch.
The Dutch visit India and establish a
1449
Alphonso V. at Aragon.
Scotland invades England.
Battle of Flodden Field; Scots defeated.
Pope Paul III. erects Parma and Pla-
centia into a Duchy.
1583
Birth of Hugo Grotius; died 1645.
pejo.
1620
united East India Company.
Battle of Prague; defeat of Hungarian
1450
Peacock's "Repressor."
1584 William of Orange assassinated.
Jack Cade's insurrection.
Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Darien,
and discovers the Pacific ocean.
Ascham "Toxophilus."
Council of Trent.
Henry III. killed by Jacques Clement;
Protestants.
Puritans arrive at Plymouth.
Early English ballads.
first of Bourbon line.
1451
Birth of Dunbar; died 1530.
Leo X., Pope, encourages literature and
1546 Death of Martin Luther.
accession of Henry IV., of Navarre,
"Great Patent" to Virginia company is-
the arts.
France concludes peace with England.
Expedition of Amidas and Barlow to
Dutch vessels with first negro slaves
sued.
1452
University of Glasgow founded.
Earl Douglas murdered by James II.
1514 Wolsey's power begins in England.
The Archduchy of Austria created, with
1515
Battle of Marignano.
Assassination of Beaton, regent of Scot-
land.
America.
1585 Southern provinces of Holland subdued
enter James River.
Francis I. defeats the Italians, Swiss and
1546-'52 Charles V., of Germany, makes war
by the Duke of Parma.
1621
Navarre annexed to France.
Spain and Holland at War,
1453
sovereign power, by Frederick III.
Constantinople captured by Mohammed
Germans.
IL .; End of the Eastern Empire.
Maximillian I. secures the Hungarian
on the Protestants, who are assisted
succession.
later by Henry II.
Treaty of Peace between Holland and
Philip IV. King of Spain.
The Dutch West India Company formed.
End of the French and English wars.
Francis I. becomes King of France.
1547 Earl of Surrey, England, executed.
England.
Death of Henry VIII.
Failure of Raleigh's Roanoke Island set-
tlements.
1623
Lord Bacon impeached and overthrown.
The Mazarin Bible issued.
Seldon and Pym imprisoned.
1455-'71 War of the Roses, between Henry VI.
First English prose history.
Birth of St. Theresa; died 1582.
Edward VI. reigns under protectorship
of the Duke of Somerset.
1586
Davis Strait discovered by Davis.
Battle of Zutphen.
1693
Birth of Moliere; died 1673.
and the Duke of York, afterwards Ed-
1516
Death of Ferdinand, King of Spain.
ward IV.
Battle of St. Albans.
Rule of Cardinal Ximenes.
Henry II. King of France. -
Charles I. King of Spain.
Battle of Pinkey.
Sir Philip Sydney killed.
New Hampshire first settled.
Birth of Beaumont; died 1616.
First edition of Shakespeare's works.
1624
Richelieu's reforms,
begins with the
1456 Battle of Belgrade; Turks repulsed by
Hungarians.
Accession of the House of Austria.
Death of Victoria Colonna; born 1490.
1587 Prince Maurice becomes Stadtholder of
Holland.
1457
Frederick III. divides Austria with his
1517
Turks gain Egypt.
The Smalcadic war.
finances.
Europeans first obtain a footing in China.
Birth of Cervantes: died 1616.
1548 Hall's Chronicle issued.
Execution of . Mary Queen of Scots at
England declares war with Spain.
Selim I. defeats Mamelukes and adds
Frotheringay Castle.
1625
Prince Frederick Henry reigns in Hol-
relatives.
land.
1458
Pius II. Pope at Rome.
1460
Birth of Skelton; died 1528.
Egypt to the Ottoman Empire.
1549 Execution of Lord Seymour, England:
Luther begins the work of reformation
arrest of his brother, the Duke of Som-
1588
Assassination of the Duke of Guise and
Accession of Ferdinand III., of Hungary.
The Turks conquer Greece.
in Germany.
1550 John Knox's Scotch reformation.
erset.
his brother, by order of the King.
Destruction of the Spanish Armada off
Accession of King Charles I., of Eng-
Edward IV. deposes Henry VI. of Eng-
Udal, earliest English comedy.
the English coast.
land; he marries Princess Henrietta
1461
land.
Fernando de Cordova discovers the Mex-
Birth of Coke; died 1634.
1590
Battle of Ivry. .
Maria, of France.
Louis XI. King of France.
ican coast.
Huguenot uprising.
1462
Ivan, the Great, of Russia, founds the
Luther translates and publishes the Bible
1551
Wilson's Art of Rhetoric published.
Henry IV. defeats the League.
Barnevaldt, grand, Pensionary. of Hol-
1626
Death of Lord Bacon.
and Liturgy in German.
1627
War of the Mantuan succession, in Italy.
1463
modern Russian Empire.
Turkish war with Venice.
1518
Birth of Surrey; died 1547.
1552 The Book of Common Prayer published
in England.
Grijalva penetrates into Yucatan, and
1592 Sigismund, of Poland, in Sweden.
1591
land.
Birth of Herrick; died 1674.
Delaware settled by Swedes and Finns.
Cardinal Richelieu's scheme for coloniz-
Close of Austria's war with Frederick
Duke of Somerset beheaded."
ing Canada.
1464 "League of the Public Good," formed by
III.
Metz successfully defended by the Duke
1519
names it New Spain.
Cortez lands in Mexico.
of Guise.
Birth of Quarles; died 1644.
The company of one hundred associates
Charles I., of Spain, elected Emperor of
Close of religious war in Germany by
1593
Birth of Gassendi; died 1655.
Henry IV. adopts the Catholic faith.
formed.
the nobles, against Louis.
Germany as Charles V.
1520 "Field of the Cloth of Gold" meeting of
the Peace of Passan.
War between England and France.
Birth of Erasmus; died 1536.
1468 The Coventary mysteries.
1467
Massacre of Cazan, Russia.
1594
Birth of Shirley; died 1666.
1595
Shakespeare's poems first issued.
1628
Birth of Brossnet; died 1704.
The Duke of Buckingham assassinated.
1470-'92 Lorenzo de Medici flourished.
Francis I. with Henry VIII.
1471 League of Italian cities against the
Balboa
Birth of Sir Walter Raleigh; died 1618.
Straits.
passes
through Magellen's
1553 Mary Tudor, daughter of Catherine of
1596 Capture of Cadiz by Essex.
University of Barcellona founded.
Rochelle surrenders after a memorable
siege.
Turks.
1521
Battle of Razau; Russia defeats Poland.
Aragon, succeeds Edward, July 6.
Lady Jane Gray proclaimed Queen of
1597
Birth of Descartes; died 1650.
Bacon's essays published.
Petition of Right, England.
William Caxton establishes first English
Massachusetts Bay settled.
printing-press.
Martin Luther excommunicated at the
Battle of Tewkesbury.
Diet of Worms.
England, July 10, but relinquishes the
Conquest of Mexico by Cortez.
Restores the Roman Catholic religion in
title.
1598
Death of Philip II., of Spain
Philip III. King; he banishes 300,000
Elliot sent to the Tower of London.
Birth of John Bunyan; died 1688.
Warwick, king-maker.
Moors from Spain by A. D. 1610.
1629
English seize French possessions in Can-
Birth of Durer, painter; died 1528.
Henry VIII. styled the "Defender of the
Faith" by the Pope.
England.
Trade between England and Russia be-
The Netherlands ceded to Austria.
Edict of Nantes in favor of Protestants,
Champlain made prisoner and . sent to
ada.
1473 Birth of Copernicus.
Birth of . Michael Angelo, architect and
France and Spain at war.
gun by the "Russian Company."
England.
sculptor: died 1556.
1522 Cortez made governor of Mexico by
Charles V.
Servetus burnt by Calvin.
by Henry IV.
1474
Birth of Ariosto; died 1533.
First Scotch invasion of England.
Birth of Hooker; died 1600.
Irish rebellion of O'Niel, or Tyrone; de-
feat of the English at Blackwater.
Charter granted to Massachusetts Bay
Birth of Spenser; died 1599.
Company.
Ferdinand II., of Aragon, marries Isa-
bella, of Leon and Castile.
1554 Lady Jane Gray and Lord Guilford Dud-
Henry IV. commissions De la Roche to
Edict of Restitution.
1475
Edward IV. invades France.
1523
The Louvre, Paris, commenced.
Italian League against Francis I.
Clement VII. Pope at Rome.
ley beheaded.
conquer Canada, in which he fails.
1630 The city of Boston founded.
Ivan introduces cannon and firearms
Mary marries Philip of Spain.
The race of Ruric, who had governed
Russia for 700 years, becomes extinct.
Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in-
Birth of Sir Philip Sydney; died 1586.
vades Germany.
into Russia.
Berner's Froissart.
Birth of Sir John Fortescue.
Honduras conquered by the Spaniards.
Verazzani's discoveries in North Amer-
Persecution of Protestants in England.
1599
Bodleian founded.
Appenzel joins the Swiss Cantons.
1631
Treaty of Cherasco, between Louis_of
Siberia discovered.
Birth of Vandyck, painter; died 1641.
France and Victor Amadeus I., of Sa-
1477 Russian war with Tartars.
1476
Battle of Murten.
ica.
Wyatt's insurrection suppressed in Eng-
land.
Birth of Velasquez, painter; died 1660.
voy.
Artois and Burgundy united to France
Birth of Rousard; died 1586.
1632
Birth of Dryden; died 1700.
Charter of Maryland granted to Lord
by Maximillian's marriage.
1524 Settlement of New France (Canada).
Battle of Pavia.
1555
The English martyrs, Latimer, Ridley,
Birth of Titian, painter; died 1576.
1525
Francis I. defeated and taken prisoner
Rogers, and Cranmer burned at the
stake.
Canada restored to the French by treaty
olics.
Baltimore, and settled by Irish Cath-
Duke of Clarence murdered.
1479 Union of Aragon and Castile, under
1478
by Charles V.
Ferdinand and Isabella.
Peasants' War in Germany.
Philip II. rules in Holland.
Religious peace of Augsburg.
of St. Germain.
Albert of Brandenburg embraces Luth-
Bale's "King John" issued.
The Cavalier Poets.
Great invasion of Russia by Tartars.
1480
eranism and becomes Duke of East
Birth of Lock; died 1704.
Mongolian power in Russia destroyed.
Prussia and Fief of Poland.
1556 Charles, of Spain and Germany, retires
to a monastery.
1633
Modern History.
Champlain returns to Canada with new
1481
Mohammed II. takes Otranto.
settlers.
Frederick IV., of Nurenberg, purchases
1526 Ferdinand I. unites Bohemia and Hun-
Philip II. King of Spain.
gary to Austria.
Battle of Lutzen; victory and death of
Brandenburg from Sigismund.
Pizarro discovers the coast of Quito.
Ferdinand, his brother, succeeds in Ger-
Gustavus Adolphus.
1482
Ivan assumes the title of the Czar of
.many.
Russia.
Selim I. defeats the Hungarians.
1634 French Academy established by Riche-
Birth of Raphael, painter; died 1520.
Mongol dynasty founded in India.
Reign of Akbar, the greatest sovereign
Tyndale's new Testament published.
of Hindoostan.
1600 Maurice, of Holland, invades Flanders.
1557 Spain at war with France.
The Dutch East India Company char-
Spain at war with France, which is in-
lieu
1483
Birth of Stephen Hawes; died 1512.
Edward V. made King of England; April
1527
Germans capture Rome.
Papal war.
Battle of St. Quentin; Philip gains a
tered with a capital of $360,000.
vaded.
8 murdered in the Tower.
Insurrection of Moriscoes suppressed, in
decisive victory.
Chauvin's trading voyages to Tadoussac,
Assassination of Wallenstein.
Alva takes Rome.
Birth of the painter, Rembrandt; died
Canada.
Richard III. usurps the throne, June 25.
1635
Ship money levied in England.
Charles VIII. King of France.
Spain.
1558 Calais retaken by the French.
Connecticut settlements at Hartford,
Birth of Luther; died 1546.
Death of Machiavelli.
Windsor and Weathersfield.
Birth of Camoens; died 1579.
Mary, of Guise, in Scotland, marries the
Dauphine.
Birth of Claude Lorraine, painter; died
1669.
Rogers Williams driven from Massachu-
1484
Spain invaded by Turks; first auto da
Sackville, earliest dramatist, born.
Elizabeth accedes to English throne, No-
Portuguese introduce tobacco into In-
1682.
setts, settles in Rhode Island.
fe at Seville.
1528
Narvaez's expedition to Florida coast.
vember 17.
Death of Champlain.
1485 Bosworth Field.
Constable Bourbon at Rome.
Re-establishes the Church of England.
1601 Execution of the Earl of Essex, Febru-
dia.
The "Tulip mania" prevails in Holland.
August 22, death of Richard I.
James V., of Scotland, reigns.
Francis II. King of France.
1636
University of Utrecht founded.
Henry VII. crowned.
1486 Henry marries Elizabeth, daughter of
1529
Birth of P. Veronese, painter; died 1588.
1559
Treaty of Cateau-Cambreris signed.
ary 25.
William Cecil Secretary in England.
1637
Claius' play of Creation.
Pequod Indian war in Connecticut.
Edward IV.
Diet at Spiers, Germany.
Alleged discovery of Australia by Portu-
B. Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope.
Turks invade Austria.
1560 Charles IX. King of France; regency of
France and Spain sign treaty of peace at
1602 Siege of Geneva, Switzerland; Charles
guese.
Gov. De Montmagny arrives in Canada.
The Island of Montreal settled.
1487
The Court of the Star Chamber insti-
Catherine de Medici.
Cambria.
The Geneva Bible issued.
of Savoy defeated.
Hampden's trial in England respecting
tuted in England.
Provence joined to France.
1530
Sir Thomas More, Chancellor.
Champlain's first expedition to the St.
"ship money."
The Augsburg Confession published.
Birth of Southwell; died 1596.
Lawrence.
Prynne fined by Star Chamber.
1488
War between Russia and Sweden.
Persecution of Protestants begun in
Harvard College founded.
The Yeoman of the Guard organized in
Persecution of Protestants begun
France.
in
Spain.
1603
Death of Queen Elizabeth; accession of
1561 Birth of Bacon; died 1626.
James IV., of Scotland, to English
Crown, as James I.
First settlement at Brooklyn, Long
Island.
1490
England.
Leonardo da Vinci, painter, flourished.
Fall and death of Cardinal Wolsey.
1491 Charles VIII. marries Anne of Brittany.
Reformation makes great progress
in
Mary Stuart reigns in Scotland.
Religious wars in France.
Union of England and Scotland, March 4.
1638
New Haven colony founded.
First peace between the Iroquois and
Switzerland.
1562
Massacre- of Protestants at Vassy. .
1604 First settlements in Nova Scotia by
Alexander VI. Pope.
Acadians.
Canada.
Sevnigorod defeats and annihilates the
Italy conquered by Charles V.
Huguenots defeated at Dreux by Guise.
Port Royal, on Bay of Fundy, founded.
Turks defeat Persians, and take Bagdad.
1492 Columbus sails from Spain, August 3,
Tartars.
1531
Russia makes peace with the Tartars.
League of Smalkald formed by Protes-
Russia and Sweden unite against Poland.
Port Royal, Carolinas, founded by Hu-
Hampton Court Conference.
Solemn League and Covenant between
and discovers America, October 12;
tant princes.
First European Colony in South Amer-
1563
guenots.
1605 Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot to blow
England and Scotland.
1606
up Parliament.
Van Tromp, of Holland, captures two
discovers Cuba, October 28; Hayti, De-
Guise killed at the siege of Orleans.
1639
Great fire in Constantinople.
Spanish fleets.
cember 6.
Ferdinand conquers Grenada and de-
San Vincente founded.
ica.
Temporary peace with the Huguenots.
Pacification of Dunse.
Royal printing press established in
The Escurial Palace of Spain founded.
Matins at Moscow.
Demetrius, a pretended son of Ivan, and
Withdrawal of English army from Scot-
stroys the Moorish power in Spain.
Tusser's Bucolics issued.
France ..
Birth of Drayton; died 1631.
many Poles massacred.
Henry sells the sovereignty of France.
VII.
Elliot's "Governor" issued.
Liberty of worship given to Protestants,
First printing press in America.
land.
Cesar Borgia poisons Pope Alexander
1532
Death of Zwingle; born 1484.
1564 Maximillian II. King of Germany.
in Austria, by peace of Vienna.
Birth of Racine; died 1699.
John of Braganza drives Spaniards from
Warbeck's insurrection; quelled in 1498.
France annexes Brittany.
Florida colonized by Huguenots.
Birth of Shakespeare; died 1616;
Australia observed by the Dutch.
1640
Spanish persecution of the Jews.
Conquest of Peru begins.
Calvin at Geneva.
Birth of Galileo; died 1640.
Silk and other manufactures introduced
Portugal.
The Tuileries, Paris, begun.
into France.
Portugal wins its independence.
1493
Treaty of Barcelona, between France
Beginning of the Long Parliament.
and Spain.
1533
Ivan I., Czar, noted for his cruelty.
1565
Mantua ceded to the Emperor of Austria.
First American book issued.
League between Russia and Denmark.
Henry divorces Catherine, and marries
Philip establishes the Inquisition in Hol-
Mary Queen of Scots marries Lord Darn-
land
Anne Boleyn
1607
Birth of Corneille; died 1684.
Settlement of Jamestown, Va., by Lord
1641 Earl of Stafford beheaded.
Birth of Correggio, painter; died 1534.
de la wasz
Judgment against Hampden annulled.
1494 Charles VII. invades Italy and conquers
Birth of Montague; died. 1592.
St. Augustine, Florida, founded by Mel-
ley.
1608
Quebec founded Dy Champlain.
Ulster rebellion in Ireland; massacre of
Naples.
The Hotel de Ville, Paris, founded.
Lollards persecuted in England.
1534
The Anabaptist war; they capture Mun-
endez.
John Sigismund created Elector of Bran-
English.
Poynings' Act in Ireland.
1566 Confederacy
of
"Guenx"
(beggars)
denburg and Duke of Prussia.
1495
1642
Fort St. George built at Madras.
Death of Galileo and Richelieu.
1496 Naples lost to Charles.
Henry VIII. is styled "Head of the
ster.
against Philip's cruelty.
Ulster settlements made by the English.
Church"; authority of the Pope of
Murder of Rizzio, by Darnley, March 9.
Birth of John Milton; died 1674.
Charles I. attempts to seize members in
Spain accrues to Austria by the marriage
of Philip I. with the heiress of Ara-
Rome abolished in the kingdom.
1567
Religious wars resumed in France;
1609 Truce of Antwerp; independence of
the House.
Huguenots defeated at St. Denis ..
united provinces of Holland.
Civil war in England.
gon and Castile.
Cartier's expedition to the Gulf of the
1497 Cabot discovers Labrador, June 26; and
Alva enters the Netherlands.
Battle of Edgehill, Oct. 23.
St. Lawrence.
Moriscoes expelled from Spain by Philip
Rebellion of Fitzgerald in Ireland.
Assassination of Darnley, Feb. 10; Mary
The Douay Bible first issued.
III.
Tasman coasts, South Australia and Van
Diemans Land explored.
surveys Hudson's Bay, July 3.
accused of connivance.
Mary marries Brothwell, May 15; abdi-
Peace between Spain and the Dutch.
Hobb's Leviathan published.
1498 Louis XII. King of France.
Foundation of Jesuit order.
1499 The French unite with Venice and seize
1535
Comeggio died; born 1493.
Execution of Sir Thomas More, in Eng-
cates in favor of her son.
Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River.
Birth of Newton; died 1727.
land.
1568
James VI., Earl of Murray, regent.
Champlain's discoveries in Canada.
First ferry between New York and
Battle of Lepanto; victory of the Turks.
Milan.
Mary escapes from prison, is defeated
Virginia obtains a new charter.
Brooklyn established.
Mohammedans expelled from Spain.
Cartier's second
voyage, enters and
names the St. Lawrence, ascends the
by Murray, at Langside, May 13, and
Hawkins at Mogul Court.
1643
Accession of Louis XIV., the Great, in
Swiss Confederacy independent.
river as far as present site of Montreal
seeks shelter in England.
King James drives the Irish from Ul-
Regency of Anne of Austria, and ascend-
France.
Perkin Warbeck executed.
Mendoza founds Buenos Ayres, and con-
Bishop's Bible issued.
ster and divides the land between Eng-
land and Scotland.
ency of Mazarin.
1500 Pinzon discovers Brazil, January 26.
Cabral, the Portuguese, lands in Brazil,
quers adjacent country.
1569
Huguenots defeated at Jarnac and Mou-
1610
"King James' Version" of the Bible
Battle of Chalgrove, June 18, and New-
California supposed to have been discov-
contour.
bury, Sept. 20.
1501 Brasle and Schaffhausen join the Swiss
May 3.
1670
Rebellion of Moriscoes, in Spain, but
completed.
ered by an expedition fitted out by
down.
Henry IV. of France assassinated; Marie
Covenant approved by Parliament.
Turrene on the Rhine.
Confederation.
Cortez under Grijalva.
de Medici Regent.
Cromwell, vicar-general in England.
Ivan massacres 25,000 persons at Novgo-
rod, Russia.
Louis XIII. King of France.
Torricelli's Barometer.
Negro slaves imported into Hispaniola.
1644 Battle of Marston Moor; victory of
1502
Spanish Moors compelled to adopt Chris-
Suppression of monasteries in England.
Hungary definitely annexed to Austria.
1611
The Palais-Royal, Paris, built.
Cromwell.
Columbus sails on his fourth voyage and
tianity.
Coverdale's Bible issued.
Mendoza erects the first Mexican mint
Murray murdered; Lennox
becomes
The title of Baronet created by James I.
regent.
Champlain returns to America, founds
Second battle of Newbury, Oct. 27.
Montreal, and is in supreme command
Charter granted to Rhode Island.
discovers various isles on the coast of
1536 Suppression of the Anabaptists, 920
Birth of Kepler; died 1630.
in Canada.
Honduras, and explores the coasts of
death of John of Leyden.
Spain allied with Venice and the Pope
Indian massacre in Virginia.
Self-denying ordinance, England.
the islands; discovers and names Por-
Anne Boleyn beheaded; Henry marries
Issue of the English Bible, "King James'
to Bello, November 2.
Jane Seymour.
against the Turks.
Battle of Lepanto; Turkish power crip-
Version."
Birth of William Penn: died 1718.
1503 Reign of Montezuma in Mexico.
The Portuguese granted Macao, Chins.
1645
Archbishop, Land beheaded, Jan. 10.
Louis XII., of France, invades Spain.
The Boulevards, Paris, commenced.
Carr, afterwards Somerset, favorite in
1537
English suppression of the monasteries
Moscow, Russia, burned by the Tartars.
pled.
Lennox murdered; Mar becomes regent.
1612
England.
Battle of Naseby, June 14; decisive de-
Portuguese in India.
Mathias becomes Emperor of Germany.
feat of royalists.
Birth of Wyatt; died 1542.
Death of Jane Seymour.
457%
Rebellion of William of Orange against
English factories established in India.
Battle of Philiphaugh; Montrose defeat-
Pilgrimage of Grace.
Philip's tyranny.
Virginia receives a third charter.
ed by Cromwell.
Birth of Mendoza, historian; died 1575.
Death of Prince Henry.
Alexis, called the Father of his country,
1504 Death of Queen Isabella of Spain.
1539
Adoption of the six articles, Englano.
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, France,
1613 Accession of the Romanof: Dynasty in
Czar of Russia.
Brazil explored by Americus Vespucius.
First edition of Cromwell's Bible p20-
Columbus, worried by the machinations
lished:
August 24.
Henry of Navarre marries Marguerite,
Russia.
Cranmer's Anglican Liturgy.
of Valois.
Michael Fedorvoitz Czar.
Champlain explores the Ottawa River.
1646
Royal Society of England founded.
Charles I. seeks refuge in Scotland, and
of his enemies, returns to Spain, No-
'vember 7.
1540
Execution of Cromwell.
Canada.
is surrendered to the Parliament.
1505 Birth of John Knox; died 1572.
Greece subjected to the Ottoman Eni
Birth of Inigo Jones; died 1652.
Accession of Henry III., of France, the
pire.
last of the Valois.
The Overbury murder, England.
Louis XIII. assumes the exercise of the
1647
Birth of Leibnitz; died 1716.
Conversion of Indians in Canada to Chris-
1506 Death of Columbus, May 20; he was
Henry VIII. marries Annie of Cleves,
Birth of Ben Jonson; died 1637.
Government.
1648
tianity.
treated with the basest ingratitude by
the Spanish Government.
January 6; divorced July 9; married
Princess Elizabeth, of England, marries
Switzerland's independence acknowl-
Buchanan born; died 1582.
Catherine Howard, August 8.
1575 Elizabeth, of England, declines the sov-
Treaty of Westphalia.
Rule of Charles V., of Spain, in Hol-
James V., of Scotland, dies.
ereignty of Holland.
Birth of Guido Reni, painter; died 1642.
Frederic, Elector of Palatine.
1576 Ghent pacified.
New Amsterdam, now New York, built
Holland, given up by Spain, becomes a
edged.
land.
Mary proclaimed Queen of Scots; ro-
1614 English defeat Portuguese in Bombay.
gency of Cardinal Beaton.
republic.
Birth of Francis Xavier; died 1552.
Yucatan discovered by Solis and Pinzon.
Birth of Gascoigne; died 1577.
Provinces in Holland unite against
by the Dutch."
Smith explores the New England coast.
End of the thirty years' war between
Birth of Gilbert (magnetism); died 1603.
Accession of Rudolph II., of Germany.
Spain.
Dutch settlements in New Jersey.
Catholics and Protestants.
1508 League of Cambray, between Louis XII.
Pomerania, and other territory, annexed
and Maximillian, against Venice.
Orellana sails down the Amazon to the
sea.
Frobisher enters San Francisco Bay.
The Holy Catholic League organized.
1615
Napier's Logarithms.
Villier's, Duke of Buckingham, favorite.
to Prussia.
Civil wars of the Froude.
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