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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1543 | - 1543: Polish scholar Nicholas Copernicus postulates that the earth revolves around the sun
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| 2 | 1547 | - 1547: Ivan IV "the Terrible" crowned as Czar of Russia
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| 3 | 1556 | - 1556: Akbar the Great becomes Moggul emperor of India, continues wars of conquest until 1605
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| 4 | 1558 | - 1558: Queen Elizabeth ascends the throne and rules to 1603
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| 5 | 1570 | - 1570: Japan permits visits of foreign ships
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| 6 | 1580 | - 1580: Francis Drake circumnavigates globe, knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1581
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| 7 | 1582 | - 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar
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| 8 | 1588 | - 1588: Defeat of the Spainish Armada by the English
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| 9 | 1590 | - 1590: Galileo experiments with falling objects
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| 10 | 1600 | - 1600: English East India Comapny established
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| 11 | 1603 | - 1603: Shakespeare's Hamlet
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| 12 | 1605 | - 1605: Cervantes's Don Quixote de la Mancha, the first modern novel
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| 13 | 1607 | - 14 May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia established as first permanent English colony, Pochantas saves life of John Smith
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| 14 | 1609 | - 1609: Galileo makes first astronomical observations with a telescope, sees the moons of Jupiter in 1610
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| 15 | 1614 | - 1614: John Napier discovers logarithms
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| 16 | 1620 | - 1620: Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth Rock in America on the Mayflower
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| 17 | 1630 | - 1630: Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1540 - 1631 (~ 91 years)