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| 1550 |
| | | Pierre de Ronsard publishes the first four books of his Odes | |
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| 1564 |
| | | Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months | |
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| 1567 |
| | | The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588 | |
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| 1572 |
| | | Luis de Camoëns publishes The Lusiads, the poem which becomes Portugal's national epic | |
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| 1581 |
| | | Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic | |
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| 1582 |
| | | The 18-year-old William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway in Stratford-upon-Avon | |
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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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| 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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| 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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