CHRONOLOGY

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1498—1589 House of Valois—Orleans.

1517 Europeans enter China,

1519—56 Charles V (Emperor).

1522—1603 Buddhist age in Japan.

1526 First battle of Panipat: Babur establishes Mughal

Empire.

1533—84 William the Silent (Orange).

1534 Henry VIIFs Act of Supremacy.

1549 St. Xavier in Japan.

1557—1707 Akbar to death of Aurangzeb.

1579 Europeans in Canton.

1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada.

1592 Japanese invade Korea*

1598 Hideyoshi Japanese jingo died.

1598 Edict of Nantes.

1598—1610 Henry IV (France).

1603—1616 lyeyasu.

1603 Death of Queen Elizabeth.

1603—1868 Tokugawa Shogunate.

1605 Death of Akbar.

1613 Rise of Romanoffs.

1614 Christianity proscribed in Japan.
1618—48 Thirty years' war.

1619—37 Emperor Ferdinand II.

1620 May Flower " Pilgrim Fathers."

1622—73 Moliere.

1623 Massacre of Amboyna.

1624—42 Louis XIIL

Cardinal Richelieu.

1632 Battle of Lutzen.

Gustavus Adolphus defeated Wallenstein.

1637 The English at Canton.

1638 Persecution of Christians in Japan.
1640—88 Frederick the Great Elector.
1643—1715 Louis XIV.

1643—1661 Cardinal Mazarin.

1644^-1912 Ching or Manchu Dynasty.

1646—80 Shivaji.

1648 Treaty of Westphalia.