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After that Donne begins to question his faith
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Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome.
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The Elizabethan Poor Law is passed. People are made to pay a rate to support the poor.
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Seventeen-year-old Anne More was Lady Egerton's niece. Her father, Sir George More has Donne thrown to Fleet Prison for some weeks.
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At the age of 69, Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
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James dislikes England's Puritans but he agrees to their request for an official translation of the Bible -- to be known as the Authorized King James Bible -- in place of three other versions: the Geneva Bible, the Great Bible (an English language translation authorized by Henry VIII) and the (Anglican) Bishop's Bible.
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The Gunpowder plot, a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
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Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
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Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland. About ninety followers left Ireland for mainland Europe. It followed their defeat by England in the Nine Years' War and marked the end of the Gaelic political order.
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Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
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The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
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The Authorized King James Version is an English translation by the Church of England of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.
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The first barrels of cured tobacco reach England from the colony of Virginia. By 1617 ships will be carrying 50,000 pounds of cured tobacco annually from Virginia to England. Smoking will become a fad in England, with King James describing it as "loathsome," harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs.
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William Shakespeare dies.
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Jamestown massacre: Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
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