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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 BETHUNE, 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)_,