Founding of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England.
Shakespeare performs in his own plays at the new Globe theatre, London.
1599. Essex sent to Ireland to crush the rebellion there; he treats with
the rebel leader.
Attempt of Sigismund Vasa to establish Catholicism in Sweden; he loses
the crown.
1600. Establishment of the English East India Company.
Invasion and occupation of Savoy by the French; marriage of Henry IV
with Marie de' Medici.
Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as an obstinate heretic.
1601. Suppression of the rebellion in Ireland; complete tranquillity
restored by Mountjoy, Elizabeth's general.
Commencement of the siege of Ostend by Archduke Albert of Austria.
Enactment of the earliest "poor law in England."
1602. Beheading of the Due de Biron for conspiring against King Henry
IV.
Failure of the Duke of Savoy in an attempt to seize Geneva.
Attempted settlement of Bartholomew Gosnold on the coast of
Massachusetts.
1603. Death of Queen Elizabeth; James VI of Scotland succeeds as James
I, King of Great Britain.
"DOWNFALL OF IRISH LIBERTY." See X, 299.
Committal to the Tower of Sir Walter Raleigh, on a charge of conspiring
to place Arabella Stuart on the English throne.
Publication of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_. See "CULMINATION OF DRAMATIC
LITERATURE IN 'HAMLET,'" X, 287.
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