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| c. 1600 |
| | | The Yoruba develop an extensive empire centred on Oyo in southern Nigeria | |
|  | Beaded crown of a Yoruba ruler
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
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| 1603 |
| | | Geneva wins independence from the duchy of Savoy, in the treaty of St Julien, after repelling a midnight assault on the city | |
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| 1603 |
| | | The warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu is awarded the title of shogun, beginning nearly three centuries of the Tokugawa shogunate | |
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| 1603 |
| | | James VI of Scotland inherits peacefully the crown of his English cousin Elizabeth, and becomes James I of England | |
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| 1603 |
| | | The accession of James I and VI to the throne of England brings the union of the crowns of England and Scotland | |
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| 1605 |
| | | On the death of Akbar, his son Jahangir succeeds to the Mughal throne | |
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| 1605 |
| | | The Gunpowder Plot, attempting murder and treason, severely damages the Catholic cause in Britain | |
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| 1607 |
| | | The earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel sail from Ireland with their families, in the event known as the Flight of the Earls | |
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| 1607 |
| | | Colonists establish the first lasting British settlement in the new world, at Jamestown | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A shipload of Puritans, among them some of the future Pilgrim Fathers, sail from Boston in Lincolnshire to seek religious freedom in Holland | |
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