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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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| 1590 |
| | | The dome of St Peter's is finished, completing nearly a century of construction on Europe's largest church | |
|  | St.Peter's
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| c. 1590 |
| | | Queen Elizabeth I instals in Richmond Palace a flushing water closet (or toilet) recently invented by Sir John Harington | |
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| 1591 |
| | | Queen Elizabeth I grants Jane Lovell, widow of John, the ongoing rights to his offices in Richmond Palace | |
|  | Grant by Elizabeth I to Jane Lovell, 1591
Richmond Local Studies
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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
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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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