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| 1588 |
| | | The more nimble English fleet destroys the galleons of the Spanish Armada, introducing a new kind of naval warfare | |
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| 1588 |
| | | The tactics used against the Armada reveal that the sailing ships themselves have become fighting machines, as men-of-war | |
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| 1589 |
| | | An English clergyman, William Lee, develops the world's first industrial machinery, to knit stockings | |
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| 1590 |
| | | An English ship, the first to arrive at Roanoke Island since 1587, finds no remaining trace of the settlers or their settlement | |
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| 1590 |
| | | English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene | |
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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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| 1596 |
| | | A flush toilet is illustrated in an English pamphlet, The Metamorphosis of Ajax by John Harrington | |
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| 1598 |
| | | A manuscript, the Guildford Book of Court, uses the word 'creckett' for a game played in a Guildford school | |
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| 1598 |
| | | James VI of Scotland argues in an anonymous book that kings, appointed by God, are above human law | |
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| 1599 |
| | | The Globe, where many of Shakespeare's plays are first performed, is built on Bankside in London | |
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