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The British East India Company was founded.
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The crowns of England and Scotland were united under King James VI of Scotand.
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The Gunpowder Plot, to blow up the British Parliament, is aborted and Guy Fawkes executed.
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Don Quixote by Cervantes is published.
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Australia is spotted by Europeans for the first time by a Dutch East India Company crew.
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The first permanent English colony in Northamerica is founded in Jamestown, Virginia.
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Caravaggio died.
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The Romanov start ruling the country.
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Both Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died.
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The Massachussets Coast is reached by the Mayflower Pilgrims.
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Cardinal Richelieu centralizes the power in France.
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The Dutch founded New Amsterdam, later taken and renamed as New York by the British.
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The Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome is finished.
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The last uro dissapears.
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Galileo Galilei is judged by the Inquistion.
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Charles I is beheaded by Cromwell, and the Civil War is over.
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Black Plague in Seville.
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Ireland is conquered by the dictator Cromwell.
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'Las Meninas' was painted by Velazquez.
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The dodo is extinguished.
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Black Death in London.
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London was destroyed by the Great Fire.
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By terms of the Peace of Lisbon, Portugal is reckoned independent from Spain.
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Moliere dies.
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The Ottoman-Russian wars are started.
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The laws of motion and gravity are developed by Isaac Newton.
