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c. 1585
 
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The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America      
1586
 
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Anthony Babington is involved in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth and place Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne       
1587
 
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Mary Queen of Scots, implicated in the Babington plot, is beheaded in Fotheringay castle        
Mary's last letter, 1587
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1587
 
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Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama       
1587
 
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Venice opens the first modern bank (the Banco della Piazza di Rialto) for safe deposits and credit transfers      
1587
 
    
A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement       
1587
 
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Virginia Dare becomes the first English child to be born in America, on Roanoke Island      
1587
 
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Francis Drake sails into a crowded Cadiz harbour and destroys some thirty Spanish ships       
1587
 
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Nicholas Hilliard paints the delightful miniature known simply as Young Man among Roses    
1587
 
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16-year-old Abbas I, subsequently one of the greatest of shahs, inherits the throne of Persia