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| c. 1564 |
| | | The bishop of Transylvania, Ferenc Dávid, preaches that only God the Father is divine, launching the Unitarian faith | |
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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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| 1570 |
| | | Pope Pius V excommunicates the English queen, Elizabeth I, causing a severe crisis of loyalty for her Catholic subjects | |
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| 1572 |
| | | A massacre of French Protestants, known as the Huguenots, begins in Paris on St Bartholomew's Day | |
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| 1579 |
| | | The Union of Arras and the Union of Utrecht split the Netherlands into Catholic and Protestant camps | |
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| 1580 |
| | | The first Jesuit missionaries arrive in England, with Edmund Campion among their number | |
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| c. 1585 |
| | | Catholics are now the martyrs in England, their numbers almost matching the Protestant martyrs of the previous reign | |
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| c. 1590 |
| | | Arjan, the fifth Sikh guru, builds many gurdwaras and commences the holy city of Amritsar | |
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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 |
| | | The Edict of Nantes secures the civil rights of France's Protestants, the Huguenots | |
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