CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE END OF THE YEAR, 1858.

QUEENS OF ENGLAND SINCE THE CONQUEST.

HOUSE OF SAXONY IN CONNECTION WITH THE CROWN OF

GREAT BRITAIN.

PRELATES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

CHRONOLOGICAL VIEW OF THE FORMATION OF THE DIOCESES

OF THE PROVINCES OF CANTERBURY AND YORK.

GENERAL INDEX.

N.B.-AT THE END OF EACH CENTURY WILL BE FOUND LISTS OF
CONTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS, CONTEMPORARY RULERS OF NON-REGAL
STATES, ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND YORK, AND MEN OF
LEARNING, GENIUS, STATESMEN, WARRIORS, &c.

SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

A.D.

1501 Alexander I., Prince of Livonia, ascends the throne of Poland.

Henry VII. made the Emperor Maximilian a present of £10,000 rather than engage himself against the Turks, and sent him and his son the order of the Garter. Arthur, Prince of Wales, is married to Katharine of Arragon, November 6th.

Henry Dene, Archbishop of Canterbury. He had been successively Abbot of Lanthony, Chancellor of Ireland, Bishop of Bangor, Bishop of Sarum, and Lord Chancellor of England.

Capua taken by assault (July 25th) and sacked by the
French. Frederic, King of Naples, deprived of his
throne. The kingdom of Naples divided between
Ferdinand of Spain and Louis XII. Ferdinand took
Calabria and Apulia, and Louis the rest of the Neapolitan
dominions, with the title of King of Naples and
Jerusalem.

Maximilian concluded a treaty at Trent (December 13th)
with the Cardinal d'Amboise, minister of Louis XII.
Lucretia Borgia married to Alfonso of Este, the son of
Ercole, Duke of Ferrara.

The Portuguese establish themselves upon the coast of
Malabar.

Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt.

1502 Philibert de Chalons, Prince of Orange.

Arthur, Prince of Wales, died at Ludlow Castle, (April 2nd) and was buried in Worcester cathedral.

Marriage, by proxy, of James IV. of Scotland with Margaret of England, daughter of Henry VII. Perpetual peace concluded between England and Scotland. This event put an end (a hundred years after) to the international wars which had previously devastated Britain. Berwick finally ceded to England this year.

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A.D.

1502 Ismail Shah ascends the Persian throne.

Adrian Castello made Bishop of Hereford. This prelate
excited the envy of Cæsar Borgia, who endeavoured to
poison him, but who with his own father, Pope Alexander
V., partook of the fatal draught which they had prepared
for the bishop, and thus became victims of their own
murderous plot.

William Warham consecrated Bishop of London.
The Electors of Germany assembled at Gelnhausen (July
2nd), where they formed the celebrated union. They
renewed their union at Frankfort, (November) 1503.
Revival of Literature and study of the Classics in Germany.
St. Helena discovered by the Portuguese; the Dutch
settling there, were expelled by the English.
It was
given to the East India Company by Charles II. The
East India fleet supply themselves here with fresh water.
Napoleon I. resided at St. Helena from October 16th,
1815, to the time of his death, May 5th, 1821.

Sebastian Cabot returned from his discoveries to the
North-west, and brought over some of the natives
clothed in skins.

1503 Pope Alexander killed by accidentally taking poison, which he had prepared for one of his cardinals.

Pius EEE, raised to the popedom by the intrigues of
Julian de Rovere. He grants a dispensation for the
marriage of Prince Henry with his late brother's wife,
the Princess of Wales, which takes place 1504.
The Princess Margaret makes her entry into Edinburgh
on the ninth of August, and is married the next day to
King James by the Archbishop of Glasgow.

The Duke de Nemours defeated at Cerignola, which
terminated the French power in Naples, April 28th.
Gonsalvo de Cordova entered the city of Naples with
his victorious army, and from this time the crown of
Naples became united with that of Spain.

Pius died, having been pope only twenty-six days.
Cardinal Julian de Rovere elected to the Popedom as
Julius II. Julius organised the league of Blois with
Louis and Maximilian for the dismemberment of the
Venetian territories.

Elizabeth of York died, February 15th.

1501 Isabella of Spain died.

Washington Irving says she was the most beautiful of historical characters, and the purest, and one of the most enlightened sovereigns who ever sat upon a throne.