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1563
 
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The Northern Seven Years' War breaks out between Denmark and Sweden     
c. 1564
 
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The bishop of Transylvania, Ferenc Dávid, preaches that only God the Father is divine, launching the Unitarian faith       
1564
 
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Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months      
1564
 
   
Gabriele Fallopia invents the condom      
Swiss peasant family with 15 children


Wellcome Library, London
c. 1565
 
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder depicts biblical events taking place among the peasants of the Netherlands countryside     
Pieter Brueghel the Elder Adoration of the Kings (detail) 1564
National Gallery, London

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1565
 
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Mary Queen of Scots marries her Catholic cousin, Henry Darnley       
1566
 
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Mary Queen of Scots' secretary, David Rizzio, is dragged from her presence and stabbed to death       
1566
 
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Mary Queen of Scots' husband Darnley is treacherously involved in the murder of her secretary, Rizzio        
1566
 
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The mathematician, astrologer and alchemist John Dee moves to a house in Mortlake on the site of the building now known as the Queen’s Head See in Google maps   
1567
 
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The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588