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| 1573 |
| | | William of Orange declares himself a Calvinist and assumes the leadership of the united provinces of the Netherlands | |
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| 1573 |
| | | Oda Nobunaga takes power into his own hands, after ruling for a while through the Ashikaga shogun | |
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| 1575 |
| | | Stefan Báthory, prince of Transylvania, is elected king of Poland | |
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| 1580 |
| | | A Spanish army marches into Portugal to claim the crown for the king of Spain, Philip II | |
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| 1586 |
| | | Anthony Babington is involved in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth and place Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne | |
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| 1587 |
| | | Mary Queen of Scots, implicated in the Babington plot, is beheaded in Fotheringay castle | |
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| 1587 |
| | | 16-year-old Abbas I, subsequently one of the greatest of shahs, inherits the throne of Persia | |
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| 1588 |
| | | The House of Orange becomes the leading family of the new Dutch republic | |
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| 1593 |
| | | Henry IV becomes a Catholic so as to secure Paris and the throne of France | |
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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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