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1560
 
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Tobacco is grown in Europe's physic gardens for its medicinal qualities       
1560
 
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A year after Mary has become queen of France, her husband Francis II dies      
1561
 
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Mary Queen of Scots returns from France to Edinburgh, and to an inevitable clash with John Knox       
1563
 
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Philip II begins construction of the palace and monastery known as the Escorial       
Escorial, near Madrid
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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