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| 1592 |
| | After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III | |
| | William Shakespeare, engraving by Martin Droeshout, 1623 National Portrait Gallery, London
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| 1593 |
| | Henry IV becomes a Catholic so as to secure Paris and the throne of France | |
| | Henri IV, Paris Fotofile CG
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| 1594 |
| | Willem Barents sets off on the first of his three expeditions to find a passage to the east through the waters north of Russia | |
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| c. 1595 |
| | The writings of Matteo Ricci introduce Kung Fu Tzu to Europe under a Latin version of his name - Confucius | |
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| 1595 |
| | A year after Mercator's death, his son publishes a bound collection of his maps with the title Atlas, or Cosmographic Meditations | |
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| 1595 |
| | The first Dutch expedition round the Cape reaches Java and secures trading agreements | |
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| 1596 |
| | Tycho Brahe enters the service of the emperor Rudolf II in Prague, where he invites Johannes Kepler to join him | |
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| 1596 |
| | Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin begins work classifying 6000 plants on a new binomial system of nomenclature | |
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| 1596 |
| | A flush toilet is illustrated in an English pamphlet, The Metamorphosis of Ajax by John Harrington | |
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| 1597 |
| | Dafne is performed in Florence, becoming the first example of a new art form - opera | |
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