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| 1 | 1555 | - 1555: England - Protestants are persecuted and about 300, including Archbishop Cranmer, are burned at the stake
- 1555: England - Michel de Notredame or Nostradamus published his book of prophecies Centuries Asrtologiques and Excellent er Moult Utile Opuscule a tous necessaire qui desirent avoir connaissance de plusieurs exq uises recettes ('An excellent and most useful little work essential to all who wish to become acquainted with some exquisite recipes').
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| 2 | 1558 | - 1558: France - Philip drags England into war with France, Calais is lost; Mary I dies of dropsy, leaving no heir
- 1558: England - Elizabeth I, ruler of England to 1603. House of Tudor: Daughter of Henry VIII, by Anne Boleyn.
- 1558: England - William Cecil (later Lord Burghley), the Queen's closest advisor, assists Elizabeth in passing laws making monarch head of Church, making English prayer book only one, and generally laying foundations of Church of England as known today
- 5 Mar 1558: England - Francisco Fernandes supposedly introduced smoking tobacco to Europe.
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| 3 | 1559 | |
| 4 | 1560 | |
| 5 | 1561 | |
| 6 | 1562 | |
| 7 | 1563 | - 1563: England - The Thirty-nine Articles, which complete establishment of the Anglican Church
- 1563: England - Statute of Artificers: planned recruitment and control of labour and wages
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| 8 | 1564 | |
| 9 | 1565 | |
| 10 | 1567 | |
| 11 | 1568 | |
| 12 | 1569 | |
| 13 | 1575 | - 1575: England - English trade booms (to 1585)
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| 14 | 1576 | - 1576: Arcitic - Frobisher and Locke search unsuccessfully for Northwest Passage (to 1578)
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| 15 | 1577 | |
| 16 | 1578 | |
| 17 | 1582 | |
| 18 | 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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| 19 | 1584 | |
| 20 | 1585 | |
| 21 | 1586 | |
| 22 | 1587 | |
| 23 | 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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| 24 | 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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| 25 | 1590 | |
| 26 | 1592 | - 1592: England - Plague in London and provincial towns
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| 27 | 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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| 28 | 1594 | |
| 29 | 1596 | |
| 30 | 1597 | |
| 31 | 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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1555 - 1600 (45 years)