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Italy becaomes a major manufaturing center for fireworks.
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Henry VII arranges fireworks for wedding with Elizabeth of York and become more commonly used to impress guest.
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The invention of the firework allowed chemist to control fire, so at the coronation parade for Anne Boleyn there was a papier-mache dragon that belched fire.
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In Emgland, fireworks were becoming very popular, and colonists brought them to America.
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Europeans chemist mixed different metals with the gunpowder to make the fireworks colorful.
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There was a major increase in injuries, cause by fireworks, so the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise supported legislation limiting noise.
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The first firework was made by gunpowder stuffed in bamboo, then set to explode. The explosion was ment to make a loud enough sound to scare off evil spirts