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 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS Book vl, 1470 to 1660 GUIDING DATES Death of Charles the Bold. 1477 Union of Spanish Crowns. 1479 Tudor Dynasty. . . 1485 Conquest of Granada. . 1492 Discovery of America. . 1492 Charles vn. invades Italy. 1495 Da Gama sails to India. 1498 Accession of Charles v. . 15 19 Conquest of Mexico. . 15 19 Diet of Worms. . . 1521 Peasants' War. . -1524 Babar 1525 Protest of Speier. . 1529 Conquest of Peru. . 1532 Calvin in Geneva. . 1536 Order of Jesuits. . . 1540 Schmalkaldic War. . 1 547 Peace of Augsburg. -1555 Akbar 1556 Accession of Philip 11. . 1556 Huguenot Wars begin. 1562 Close of Council of Trent. 1563 Alva in the Netherlands. 1568 Revolt of the Netherlands. 1572 St. Bartholomew. . .1572 Union of Utrecht Death of Mary Stuart Spanish Armada. Accession of Henry IV. in France .... Edict of Nantes. Crowns of England and Scotland united Colony of Virginia Dutch Republic established Thirty Years' War begins. Richelieu's Ascendency be- gins Rise of Wallenstein. Gustavus Adolphus in Germany. Accession of the Great Elector in Brandenburg. 1640 English Civil War begins. 1642 Mazarin succeeds Richelieu 1642 Accession of Louis xiv. Treaty of Westphalia. Commonwealth in England Treaty of the Pyrenees Restoration in England 1579 1587 1588 1589 1603 1606 1609 1618 . 1624 . 1626 . 1630 1643 1648 1649 1659 1660 LEADING NAMES Ferdinand of Aragon— Isabella of Castile — Maximilian of Austria — Savonarola — Erasmus — Luther — Zwingli — Calvin — Leo X. — Clement VII.— Christopher Columbus— Vasco da Gama— Cortes— Pizarro— Drake— Charles V.— Francis I.— Henry VIII. -Philip II.— Elizabeth— Catherine de Medici— Henry IV.— William of Orange- Suleiman the Magnificent— Frederick, Elector Palatine— James I.— Ferdinand II. — Wallenstein — Gustavus Adolphus — Richelieu — Mazarin— Cromwell— Babar a — Akbar. 1 286 1 See Chapter xxm.