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1588
 
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The House of Orange becomes the leading family of the new Dutch republic       
1588
 
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The shogun's Tea Master awards a gold seal with the one word raku ('felicity') to a beautiful bowl, thus naming Japan's most famous ware      
1588
 
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Seven provinces of the northern Netherlands consider themselves a new republic - the United Provinces      
1588
 
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The more nimble English fleet destroys the galleons of the Spanish Armada, introducing a new kind of naval warfare      
Letter from Drake describing the Armada campaign
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1588
 
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The tactics used against the Armada reveal that the sailing ships themselves have become fighting machines, as men-of-war      
1589
 
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An English clergyman, William Lee, develops the world's first industrial machinery, to knit stockings       
c. 1590
 
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Royal (or real) tennis is so popular in France that there are now said to be 250 courts in Paris alone      
c. 1590
 
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Serfdom is introduced in Russia by Boris Godunov, whose measures tie the peasants to the land       
1590
 
  
An English ship, the first to arrive at Roanoke Island since 1587, finds no remaining trace of the settlers or their settlement     
c. 1590
 
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Arjan, the fifth Sikh guru, builds many gurdwaras and commences the holy city of Amritsar       
Amritsar
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