CHRONOLOGY.
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A.M. A. D.
by Janies Clement, a Jacobin monk. Before heexpires lie nominates the king of Navarre for hissuccessor, who takes the name of Henry IV. andwas the first of the House of Bourbon.
5594 1590 Henry IV. of France gains the battle, of Ivri against
the Duke of Mayence, and lays siege to Paris.Urban VII. succeeds Sixtus V. in the popedom ; butonly holding it 12 days, Urban VII. is succeededby Gregory XIV.
5595 1591 The English take several Spanish ships, in one of
which were found 22,000 indulgences for theSpaniards of America.
Innocent IX. succeeds to the papal see.
5596 1592 Sir Walter Raleigh sets sail for America, and takes a
Spanish carrac with five decks that was returning'from the Indies richly laden, worth 150,000/.Clement VIII. succeeds Innocent IX. in the pope-dom.
O 11 Sept. 6, the Thames was dried up at London sothat a man might ride through it.
5598 1594 lloderigo Lopez and his accomplices put to death for
an attempt to poison queen Elizabeth.
Henry IV. king of France, becomes master of Paris,March 22, and in the following year declares waragainst Spain.
5600 1596 Calais and Ardres taken by the Spaniards.
Philip II. of Spain makes another effort to conquerEngland, and fits out a fleet for that purpose ; buthis fleet is dispersed by a tempest.
5601 1597 Prince Maurice defeats the Spaniards at the battle of
Turnbout. But, on the other side, HermandTelles Portocarrero surprises Amiens, in January.Amiens is retaken by the French in September.
5602 1598 A peace concluded at Vervins between the French
and Spaniards. -
Edict of Nantz, by which the Protestants have thefree exercise of their religion in France.
5603 1599 A rebellion, in Munster under the earl of Tir-
Oen.
5604 1600 The East-India Company is founded by queen Eli-
zabeth, and invested with large privileges.
Pope Clement VIII. sends two briefs into England,one addressed to the Romish clergy, and theother to the people ; in which he forbids them toacknowledge, after the death of Elizabeth, anyprince who would not swear to support the po-pish religion with all his might.
5605 1601 The siege of Ostend is begun, in which Sir Francis
Vere, the governor, and the English troops signa-lize themselves.
Tir-Oen the Irish rebel general, is totally defeated,which quashes the rebellion in Ireland.
5607 1603 Elizabeth dies, March 24, and is succeeded in the
kingdom of England by James VI. of Scotland,in whom the two crowns of England and Scotlandwere united.
The manufacture of glass first introduced into France.A plague raged so violently this year in England,that there died of it in London 30,578 persons.
5608 1604 The English king issues out a proclamation com-
manding all Jesuits and popish priests to leave thekingdom.
Ostend is taken by the Spaniards, September 20,after a siege of three years and three months.James I. of England takes the title of king of GreatBritain.
5009 1605 Pope Clement VIII. dies ; he is succeeded by Leo
XI., who dying fourteen days after, hath for hissuccessor Paul V.
A proclamation is issued out by the British king,ordering the Jesuits and seminary priests immedi-ately to depart out of England.
The horrid popish gunpowder plot, designed to blowup the king and his parliament, discovered, No-vember 4.vol. 1 .—no. 48.
A. M. A. D.
5609 1605 About this time coaches came to be in common use
in England.
5610 1606 Pope Paul V. sends a brief, forbidding the English
Catholics to take the oath of allegiance, Oct. 21.5612 1608 This year, in the annals of France, is called the
Great W inter ; all the rivers were frozen so as tobear carriages, the vines were killed, and thewalnut-trees were frozen to their very roots.
The Puritans are persecuted by archbishop Bancroft,which occasions great numbers of them to go andsettle in Virginia.
The invention of the telescope.
5614 . 1610 Henry IV. the French king, assassinated by Ravail-
lac, May 3.
5615 1611 The present translation of the Bible into English
finished.
5617 1613 The cities of Osnabruck, Magdebourg, and Gucsne,
take fire and are reduced to ashes.
A great hail falls in France, in some places to thedepth of twelve feet.
5618 1614 Napier invents the logarithms.
5620 1616 Tlie Prince of Conde arrested and put into the bas-
tille.
5621 1617 Marshal Ancre is assassinated, and his body dragged
through the streets of Paris.
5622 1618 Troubles begin to arise in Bohemia on account of
religion; the Protestants resolving to take uparms, the emperor Matthias raises an army in theImw Countries.
5624 1620 Frederic V. king of Bohemia, entirely defeated by
the imperial army at the battle of Prague.
King James of England solicits, in vain, LouisXIII.in behalf of the Huguenots, who were much per-secuted in France.
5625 1621 Two parties are formed in England, one for the king,
and (he other for the people, which gives rise tothe names of Whigs and Tories.
Dissensions between tiie British kine and his parlia-ment.
The Puritans in England side with the people, andthe Arminians declare for the king.
Gregory XV. succeeds Paul V. in the popedom.
5626 1622 King James of England shews great favour to the
Catholics.
Victory of the Poles over the Turks, by w hich theyobtained a free trade in Turkey.
5627 1623 Pope Urban VIII. succeeds Gregory XV.
5628 1624 The Hollanders dispossess the English of their settle-
ment at Amboyna in the East Indies.
5629 1625 King James I. dies, March 27, in the 60th year of his
age, after having reigned 22 years and three days,and been king of Scotland 59 years. He is suc-ceeded by his son Charles I.
A great plague in London of which 34,517 personsdied in the course of this year.
The cities of Salamanca anu Seville in Spain over-whelmed by a great inundation.
Bagdad besieged by the Turks.
5630 1626 Cardinal Richelieu, after a long siege, takes posses-
sion of Rochelle.
A dreadful plague at Lyons in France.
5632 1628 George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, assassinated at
Portsmouth by lieutenant John Felton, Aug. 23.Rochelle taken by the king of France, Oct. 20.
5634 1630 Prince Charles, afterwards Charles II. king of Eng-land, born, May 29.
5637 1633 Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, slain at the
battle of Lutzen, Nov. 6.
5638 1634 Battle of Nordlinguen, in which the Suedes are de-
feated.
5639 1635 Thomas Parr, aged 152 years, is presented to
Charles I. anti tlies soon atter. He lived in tenreigns, viz. those of Edward IV., Edward V.,Richard III., Henry VII., Henry VIII. EdwardVI., Mary, Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I.9 H King