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| 1588 |
| | | Seven provinces of the northern Netherlands consider themselves a new republic - the United Provinces | |
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| 1588 |
| | | The more nimble English fleet destroys the galleons of the Spanish Armada, introducing a new kind of naval warfare | |
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| 1588 |
| | | The tactics used against the Armada reveal that the sailing ships themselves have become fighting machines, as men-of-war | |
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| 1589 |
| | | An English clergyman, William Lee, develops the world's first industrial machinery, to knit stockings | |
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| c. 1590 |
| | | Royal (or real) tennis is so popular in France that there are now said to be 250 courts in Paris alone | |
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| c. 1590 |
| | | Serfdom is introduced in Russia by Boris Godunov, whose measures tie the peasants to the land | |
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| 1590 |
| | | An English ship, the first to arrive at Roanoke Island since 1587, finds no remaining trace of the settlers or their settlement | |
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| c. 1590 |
| | | Arjan, the fifth Sikh guru, builds many gurdwaras and commences the holy city of Amritsar | |
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| 1590 |
| | | English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene | |
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| 1590 |
| | | Zacharias Janssen, a spectacle maker in the Dutch town of Middelburg, creates the first microscope | |
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