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The Catholic Church declared Queen Elizabeth I a heretic thus excommunicating her and any that obeyed her orders.
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Targeted assassinations against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion.
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Sir Francis Drake began his sail with five different vessels on December 13, 1577. Only one of the five made it to the end of the voyage. He returned home on September 26, 1580 with many riches from around the world.
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Mary Queen of Scots is executed at the Tower of London after being implicated in the Babington Plot.
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The Roanoke Colony, also know as the Lost Colony, was established by Sir Walter Raleigh
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After her death James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England.
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During performance of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII", a staged canon fire ignited a fire and burned the Globe Theater to the ground.
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He is then succeeded by King Charles I.
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The Puritan parliament orders a ban on theaters and closes all of the playhouses.
