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| 1 | 1577 | |
| 2 | 1578 | |
| 3 | 1582 | |
| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1584 | |
| 6 | 1585 | |
| 7 | 1586 | |
| 8 | 1587 | |
| 9 | 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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| 10 | 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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| 11 | 1590 | |
| 12 | 1592 | - 1592: England - Plague in London and provincial towns
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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 1594 | |
| 15 | 1596 | |
| 16 | 1597 | |
| 17 | 1600 | - 1600: England - William Gilbert, in De Magnete, held that the earth behaves like a giant magnet with its poles near the geographic poles. He coined the word electrica (from the Greek word for amber, elektron), and distinguished electricity from magnetism.
- 1600: London, England - Population of London about 200,000
- 1600: Sicily - The blood orange is believed to have developed by natural mutation
- 1600: England - The British East India Company was incorporated by royal charter. It was created to compete in the East Indian spice trade.
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| 18 | 1601 | - 1601: England - Poor Law Act passed, prompted by three successive poor harvests resulting in demonstrations by starving peasants; codifies previous measures, differentiates between able-bodied and weak unemployed; town councils began to tax citizens to pay for alms
- 1601: England - Essex attempts rebellion, and is executed
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| 19 | 1602 | |
| 20 | 1603 | |
| 21 | 1604 | |
| 22 | 1605 | |
| 23 | 1606 | |
| 24 | 1607 | |
| 25 | 1608 | |
| 26 | 1609 | |
| 27 | 1610 | - 1610: Kracow, Poland - Community Regulations of stated that bagels were to be given as a gift to women in childbirth.
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| 28 | 1611 | - 1611: England - James I's authorized version of the Bible is completed; English and Scottish Protestant colonists settle in Ulster
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| 29 | 1612 | |
| 30 | 1614 | |
| 31 | 1615 | - 1615: England - The first tea is imported to the west
- 1615: Japan- Furuta Oribe died. His original name was Furuta Shigenari. He was a Japanese master of the tea ceremony who studied under Sen Riky. His ideas influenced the tea ceremony, teahouse architecture, tea-garden landscaping and even flower arrangement.
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| 32 | 1616 | |
| 33 | 1617 | - 1617: England - The first one way streets were established in London. Seventeen one way streets were created to regulate 'disorder and rude behaviour of Carmen, Draymen, and others using Cartes'.
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| 34 | 1618 | |
| 35 | 1620 | |
| 36 | 1621 | |
| 37 | 1622 | - 1622: England - James I dissolves Parliament for asserting its right to debate foreign affairs
- 1622: England - Weekly News, first English newspaper, published.
- 1622: England - Commission to enquire into decline of woollen trade
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| 38 | 1623 | |
| 39 | 1624 | |
| 40 | 1625 | |
| 41 | 1626 | - 1626: England - Francis Bacon died. An English statesman, philosopher and author of Novum Organum, a work on scientific inquiry, he died after having stuffing a dressed chicken with snow to see how long the flesh could be preserved by the extreme cold. He caught cold and died from complications about a month later.
- 1626: England - A large Codfish, split open at a Cambridge market, is found to contain a copy of a book of religious treatises by John Frith.
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| 42 | 1627 | - 1627: England - William Harvey was able to confirm his observation that the blood circulates throughout the body, which he inferred from the structure of the venal valves. The following year, in Exercitatio Anatomica, he published these conclusions as well as a description of the heart as a mechanical pump.
- 1627: Warsaw, Poland - The last known living ancestor of all modern domestic cattle (the aurochs) was killed by a poacher
- 1627: England - John Ray (Wray) was born. A leading 17th century English naturalist and botanist. He contributed to the advancement of taxonomy, and established the species as the basic unit of taxonomy.
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| 43 | 1628 | |
| 44 | 1629 | |
| 45 | 1630 | |
Aft 1576 - 1632 (< 54 years)