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| 1604 |
| | | James I commissions the Authorized version of the Bible, which is completed by forty-seven scholars in seven years | |
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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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| 1620 September 16 |
| | | The Pilgrims (or Pilgrim Fathers), a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world | |
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| 1634 |
| | | A Passion play is performed for the first time at Oberammergau, in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation | |
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| 1636 |
| | | Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams as a colony based on the principle of religious tolerance | |
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| 1638 |
| | | A National Covenant, first signed in an Edinburgh churchyard, commits the Covenanters to oppose Charles I's reforms of the Church of Scotland | |
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