_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)_,