E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 26337-h.htm or 26337-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/3/3/26337/26337-h/26337-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/3/3/26337/26337-h.zip) THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS VOLUME IX A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY. EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS. AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D. ASSOCIATE EDITORS CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. JOHN RUDD, LL.D. With a staff of specialists VOLUME IX [Illustration: Henry VIII, during the festivities at Guines--"The Field of the Cloth of Gold"--in courtly dance with one of the French Queen's ladies-in-waiting Painting by Adolph Menzel] The National Alumni Copyright, 1905, by The National Alumni CONTENTS VOLUME IX PAGE _An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_, xiii CHARLES F. HORNE _Luther Begins the Reformation in Germany (A.D. 1517)_, 1 JULIUS KOESTLIN JEAN M. V. AUDIN _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