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Антология содержит: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbarossa to Dante) The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Days (1910-1914)
Revolt against Henry III in Paris; "Day of the Barricades."
1589.
End of the Valois line in France; inauguration of the Bourbon dynasty.
Invention of the stocking-knitting frame by Lee, of Cambridge, England.
1590.
Battle of Ivry; Henry IV defeats the Catholic League; he lays siege to Paris, which is relieved by the Duke of Parma.
Establishment of the first paper-mill in England.
Publication of three books of Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Arcadia of Sidney, and part of Marlowe's Tamburlane.
1591.
Elizabeth sends an army to assist Henry IV in France; it besieges Rouen; it is relieved by Parma.
1592.
Introduction of the sale of books at the fair of Leipsic.
Building of the Théâtre Français at Paris.
Abolishment of Episcopacy and establishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland.
1593.
"Henry of Navarre Accepts Catholicism." See x, 276.
Severe enactments against the recusants in England.
Conformation to Catholicism by Henry IV; Pope Clement VIII refuses to absolve him. The Parliament of Paris declares against foreign interference and female succession.
Publication of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.
1594.
Jesuits expelled Paris.
Coronation of Henry IV at Chartres; Paris opens its gates to him.
1595.
Declaration of war against Spain by Henry IV.
1596.
Crushing defeat of the Austrians by the Turks in Hungary.
Writing of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.
Capture of Cadiz by Essex and Howard.
1597.
Rebellion in Ireland of Tyrone.
Abolition of the Hanseatic League's privileges in England.
1598.
Toleration granted to the Huguenots.
Treaty of Vervins, securing peace between France and Spain.
Founding of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England.
Shakespeare performs in his own plays at the new Globe theatre, London.
1599.
Essex sent to Ireland to crush the rebellion there; he treats with the rebel leader.
Attempt of Sigismund Vasa to establish Catholicism in Sweden; he loses the crown.
1600.
Establishment of the English East India Company.
Invasion and occupation of Savoy by the French; marriage of Henry IV with Marie de' Medici.
Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as an obstinate heretic.
1601.
Suppression of the rebellion in Ireland; complete tranquillity restored by Mountjoy, Elizabeth's general.
Commencement of the siege of Ostend by Archduke Albert of Austria.
Enactment of the earliest "poor law in England."
1602.
Beheading of the Due de Biron for conspiring against King Henry IV.
Failure of the Duke of Savoy in an attempt to seize Geneva.
Attempted settlement of Bartholomew Gosnold on the coast of Massachusetts.
1603.
Death of Queen Elizabeth; James VI of Scotland succeeds as James I, King of Great Britain.
"Downfall of Irish Liberty." See x, 299.
Committal to the Tower of Sir Walter Raleigh, on a charge of conspiring to place Arabella Stuart on the English throne.
Publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet. See "Culmination of Dramatic Literature in 'Hamlet,'" x, 287.
A French colony founded at Port Royal, Acadia; now Nova Scotia.
1604.
Conference at Hampton Court between English prelates and Puritans, James I presiding.
Ostend surrenders to the Spanish general, Spinola.
1605.
Detection of the Gunpowder Plot. See "The Gunpowder Plot," x, 310.
Publication of Bacon's Advancement of Learning.
Cervantes' Don Quixote, Part I, published. See "Cervantes' 'Don Quixote' Reforms Literature," x, 325.
Death of the Russian Czar, Boris Godunoff; Fedor, his son, is dethroned; his successor being the first Pseudo-Demetrius. This impostor pretended to be Demetrius, a son of Ivan IV, who was put to death by Boris Godunoff in 1591.
Battle of Bassorah; defeat of the Turks by Abbas the Great, of Persia.
1606.
A patent granted to the London and Plymouth companies for the purpose of American colonization.
Dethronement of the first Pseudo-Demetrius; he is slain; Shinski succeeds as Basil V.
Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese. See "Earliest Positive Discovery of Australia," x, 340.
1607.
Naval victory of the Hollanders over the Spaniards off Cape St. Vincent.
Foundation of Jamestown, Virginia. See "Settlement of Virginia," x, 350.
1608.
Ireland secures an improved government from James I; the forfeited lands in Ulster are offered to Protestant settlers.
Foundation of Quebec by the French. See "Founding of Quebec," x, 366.
Formation of the Evangelical Union by the Protestant German states.
END OF VOLUME X
Footnotes
SPAIN AND GREAT BRITAIN
1 (return)
See Battle of St. Quentin, page 1.
2 (return)
See England Loses Her Last French Territory, page 1.
3 (return)
See Reign of Elizabeth, page 8.
4 (return)
See John Knox Heads the Scottish Reformers, page 21.
5 (return)
See Mary Stuart: Her Reign and Execution, page 51.
6 (return)
See Massacre of St. Bartholomew, page 119.
7 (return)
See Henry of Navarre Accepts Catholicism, page 276.
8 (return)
See Rise of the Gueux or Beggars, page 81.
9 (return)
See Siege of Leyden, page 145.
10 (return)
See Assassination of William of Orange, page 202.
11 (return)
See Earliest Positive Discovery of Australia, page 340.
12 (return)
See Founding of St. Augustine, page 70.
13 (return)
See Lepanto: Destruction of the Turkish Naval Power, page 100.
14 (return)
See Cervantes' Don Quixote Reforms Literature, page 325.
15 (return)
See Cossack Conquest of Siberia, page 181.
16 (return)
See Search for the Northwest Passage by Frobisher, page 156.
17 (return)
See First Colony of England beyond Seas, page 198.
18 (return)
See Naming of Virginia: The Lost Colony, page 211.
19 (return)
See Drake Captures Cartagena: He "Singes the King of Spain's Beard" at Cadiz, page 230.
20 (return)
See Defeat of the Spanish Armada, page 251.
21 (return)
See Building of First Theatre in England, page 163.
22 (return)
See Culmination of Dramatic Literature in Hamlet, page 287.
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