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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1564 | |
| 2 | 1565 | |
| 3 | 1567 | |
| 4 | 1568 | |
| 5 | 1569 | |
| 6 | 1575 | - 1575: England - English trade booms (to 1585)
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| 7 | 1576 | - 1576: Arcitic - Frobisher and Locke search unsuccessfully for Northwest Passage (to 1578)
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| 8 | 1577 | |
| 9 | 1578 | |
| 10 | 1582 | |
| 11 | 1583 | - 1583: England - Cesalpino, in De Plantis, classified plants with seeds according to the number, position, and shape of the parts of their fruit.
- 1583: Italy - Galileo Galilei discovered by experiment that the oscillations of a swinging pendulum took the same amount of time regardless of their amplitude.
- 1583: Munster, Ireland - Colonised by English
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| 12 | 1584 | |
| 13 | 1585 | |
| 14 | 1586 | |
| 15 | 1587 | |
| 16 | 1588 | - Jun 1588: England - Spanish Armada - 60,000 troops, 30,000 sailors, 77,000 tons of shipping - sails against England, battle lasts one week, decimated by English then by gales
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| 17 | 1589 | - 1589: England - William Lee develops the first knitting machine.
- 1589: France - Catherine de Medici, wife of King Henry II of France died.She is sometimes called the 'mother of French haute cuisine' because the Italian chefs she brought with her from Florence had a strong influence on the development of French cuisine. One of the things they brought with them was ice cream.
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| 18 | 1590 | |
| 19 | 1592 | - 1592: England - Plague in London and provincial towns
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| 20 | 1593 | - 1593: Italy - Galileo invents a water thermometer.
- 9 Aug 1593: England - Izaak Walton was born. He is mainly known for The Compleat Angler, or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, which is one of the most frequently published books in English literature. It is a literary discourse on the pleasures of fishing.
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| 21 | 1594 | |
| 22 | 1596 | |
| 23 | 1597 | |
Abt 1564 - 1597 (~ 33 years)