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The tinderbox provides a new way of making fire - with just flint, steel and tinder
Spanish galleons assemble each year at Portobelo to deliver European goods and to ship home the metals of Latin America
Pierre de Ronsard publishes the first four books of his Odes
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The rich deposits of iron in the Weald are mined more effectively than previously and bring new prosperity to Surrrey for a century or more until the mines are worked out
Mary I succeeds to the English throne, and devotes her energies to the restoration of the Catholic faith
Mary I causes grave offence in England by her marriage to the Catholic heir to the king of Spain
Thomas Wyatt raises a Protestant rebellion in Yorkshire and marches south in a failed attempt to depose the English queen, Mary I
Mary I arrests her younger sister Elizabeth under suspicion of complicity in the Wyatt Rebellion, but she can find no proof
The Muscovy Company is granted a monopoly by the crown to trade with Russia, as the first of the English chartered companies
The Peace of Augsburg achieves a compromise which for a while solves the religious tensions deriving from the Reformation
Civil war within India enables Humayun to win a battle at Sirhind and recover the Mughal throne
The Protestant martyrs, though few in number, ensure the reputation of Bloody Mary in English history
Charles V abdicates, handing the Netherlands and Spain to his son Philip and the title of Holy Roman emperor to his brother Ferdinand
Humayun dies and Akbar, the greatest of the Mughal emperors, inherits the throne at the age of thirteen
The division by Charles V of his territories means that there are now two Habsburg empires, Austrian and Spanish
Sinan completes his masterpiece, the mosque of Suleiman I in Istanbul
The Portuguese establish a trading post on Macao, a small peninsula off the south coast of China
Elizabeth I succeeds peacefully to the throne of England, after the turmoil of Mary's Catholic reign
William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, becomes Elizabeth's principal secretary - and remains in the post for forty years
Mary Queen of Scots marries the heir to the French throne, who a year later succeeds as Francis II
With its strong French connection, the Scottish royal name of Stewart begins to be spelt Stuart (there being no 'w' in native French words)
John Knox returns to Scotland from Geneva and inspires the Protestants to march on Edinburgh
A national synod of France's Protestants, the Huguenots, is convened in Paris
A book to teach good handwriting is published by Gianfrancesco Cresci, with examples engraved on copper plates
