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| 1587 |
| | | Mary Queen of Scots, implicated in the Babington plot, is beheaded in Fotheringay castle | |
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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 |
| | | Venice opens the first modern bank (the Banco della Piazza di Rialto) for safe deposits and credit transfers | |
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| 1587 |
| | | A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement | |
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| 1587 |
| | | Virginia Dare becomes the first English child to be born in America, on Roanoke Island | |
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| 1587 |
| | | Francis Drake sails into a crowded Cadiz harbour and destroys some thirty Spanish ships | |
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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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| 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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| 1588 |
| | | Seven provinces of the northern Netherlands consider themselves a new republic - the United Provinces | |
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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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| c. 1590 |
| | | Royal (or real) tennis is so popular in France that there are now said to be 250 courts in Paris alone | |
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| c. 1590 |
| | | Serfdom is introduced in Russia by Boris Godunov, whose measures tie the peasants to the land | |
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| c. 1590 |
| | | Arjan, the fifth Sikh guru, builds many gurdwaras and commences the holy city of Amritsar | |
|  | Amritsar
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| 1590 |
| | | English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene | |
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| 1590 |
| | | Zacharias Janssen, a spectacle maker in the Dutch town of Middelburg, creates the first microscope | |
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| 1590 |
| | | The dome of St Peter's is finished, completing nearly a century of construction on Europe's largest church | |
|  | St.Peter's
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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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| 1593 |
| | | Henry IV becomes a Catholic so as to secure Paris and the throne of France | |
|  | Henri IV, Paris
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| 1594 |
| | | Willem Barents sets off on the first of his three expeditions to find a passage to the east through the waters north of Russia | |
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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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| 1595 |
| | | A year after Mercator's death, his son publishes a bound collection of his maps with the title Atlas, or Cosmographic Meditations | |
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| 1595 |
| | | The first Dutch expedition round the Cape reaches Java and secures trading agreements | |
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| 1596 |
| | | Tycho Brahe enters the service of the emperor Rudolf II in Prague, where he invites Johannes Kepler to join him | |
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| 1596 |
| | | Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin begins work classifying 6000 plants on a new binomial system of nomenclature | |
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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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| 1597 |
| | | Dafne is performed in Florence, becoming the first example of a new art form - opera | |
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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 |
| | | Shah Abbas builds up Isfahan as a spectacular new capital of the Persian empire | |
|  | Friday Mosque, Isfahan
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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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| 1598 |
| | | The Edict of Nantes secures the civil rights of France's Protestants, the Huguenots | |
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