_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)_, 310 SAMUEL R. GARDINER _Cervantes' Don Quixote Reforms Literature (A.D. 1605)_, 325 HENRY EDWARD WATTS _Earliest Positive Discovery of Australia (A.D. 1606)_, 340 LOUIS BECKE WALTER JEFFERY _Settlement of Virginia (A.D. 1607) Charter under which America was Colonized_, 350 R. R. HOWISON _Founding of Quebec (A.D. 1608) Champlain Establishes French Power in Canada_, 366 H. H. MILES _Universal Chronology (A.D. 1558-1608)_, 387 JOHN RUDD LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME X PAGE _Murder of the favorite, Rizzio, at the feet of Mary Stuart, by her husband and associate conspirators (page 56)_, Frontispiece Painting by Eug. Siberdt. _Catharine de' Medici, accompanied by her suite, issues from the gate of the Louvre the morning after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew_, 142 Painting by Ed. Debat-Ponsan. AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT EVENTS (AGE OF ELIZABETH AND PHILIP II) CHARLES F. HORNE