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| 1576 |
| | | James Burbage builds London's first theatre and calls it the Theatre | |
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| 1577 |
| | | Domenikos Theotokopoulos moves to Spain, where he becomes known as El Greco | |
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| 1581 |
| | | The first dramatic ballet, the Balet Comique de la Reine, is presented during French wedding festivities | |
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| c. 1585 |
| | | The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America | |
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| 1587 |
| | | Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama | |
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| 1587 |
| | | Nicholas Hilliard paints the delightful miniature known simply as Young Man among Roses | |
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| 1588 |
| | | 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 | |
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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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| 1597 |
| | | Dafne is performed in Florence, becoming the first example of a new art form - opera | |
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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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