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Abbreviations:
b.  born
d.  died
fl.  flourished
r.  ruled/reigned
c.  circa (approximately)
St.  Saint
BC  before Christ
AD  Anno Domini ('in the year of our Lord' - after the birth of Christ)
UK   United Kingdom
EEC   European Economic Community
NATO   North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
UN   United Nations
USA/US   United States of America
USSR   Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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Events and Eras
Cultural Achievements,
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1600

Linköping Massacre (1600)

British East India Company founded (1600)

Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658)

Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (r.1598 - 1605)
Irina, Tsarina of Russia (r.1598)









Pope Clement VIII (r.1592 - 1605)

Moroccans capture Timbuktu (1591)

Pope Innocent IX (r.1591 - 1592)
Pope Gregory XIV (r.1590 - 1591)
Pope Urban VIII (r.1590)

Henri IV, King of France (r.1589 - 1610)

Spanish Armada defeated by English (1588)


Pope Sixtus V (r.1585 - 1590)

Theodore I, Tsar of Russia (r.1584 - 1598)

Throckmorton Plot (1583)

Gregorian Calendar introduced (1582)










Henri III, King of France (r.1574 - 1589)




Massacre of the Huguenots (1572)

Poor Law introduced in England (1572)

Pope Gregory XIII (r.1572 - 1585)

Ridolfi Plot (1571)

Battle of Lepanto (1571)








Rio de Janeiro founded (1567)

James VI, King of Scotland (r.1567 - 1625)

Caracus founded (1567)

Pope St. Pius V (r.1566 - 1572)





Wars of Religion in France (1562 - 1598)

Charles IX, King of France (r.1560 - 1574)

François II, King of France (r.1559 - 1560)

Pope Pius IV (r.1559 - 1566)

Elizabeth I (r.1558 - 1603)

England loses Calais (1557)

Peace of Augsburg (1555)

Pope Paul IV (r.1555 - 1559)
Pope Marcellus II (r.1555)

Mary (r.1553 - 1558)

Lady Jane Grey (r.1553)


Pope Julius III (r.1550 - 1555)

Edward VI (r.1549 - 1553)


Henri II, King of France (r.1547 - 1559)








Mary, Queen of Scotland (r.1542 - 1567)


Francis Drake (1540 - 1592)

Spanish conquer Incas (1539)

Bogota founded (1537)

Pilgrimage of Grace (1536)

Russia captures Astrakhan (1536)

Buenos Aires founded (1536)

Reformation in England (1534)

Society of Jesuits founded (1534)

Pope Paul III (r.1534 - 1550)

Cartagena founded (1533)

Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia (1530 - 1584) (r.1547 - 1584)


Walter Raleigh (1527 - 1618)

Battle of Mohács (1526)

Battle of Pavia (1525)

Peasant War in Germany (1524 - 1525)

Pope Clement VII (r.1523 - 1534)
Pope Adrian VI (r.1522 - 1523)

Fall of the Aztecs (1519)

1st smallpox epidemic in Caribbean (1518)

François I, King of France (r.1515 - 1547)

Battle of Flodden (1513)

James V, King of Scotland (r.1513 - 1542)

Pope Leo X (r.1513 - 1522)




Henry VIII (r.1509 - 1549)









Pope Julius II (r.1503 - 1513)
Pope Pius III (r.1503)

Golden Hoard defeated (1502)
Montezuma II (r.1502 - 1520)

Claude Lorrain (1600 - 1682)



Velázquez (1599 - 1660)

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)



Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)

Pocahontas (c.1595 - 1617)

Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665)

George Herbert (1593 - 1633)

Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)


Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)







Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)



John Ford (1586 - 1640)




Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625)
Hugo Grotius (1583 - 1645)

Willebrord Snell (1581 - 1626)
John Smith (1580 - 1631)
Pierre Vernier (1580 - 1637)
John Webster (c.1580 - 1634)

William Harvey (1578 - 1657)

Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)

Johann Valentin Andreae (?)

William Oughtred (1575 - 1660)

Caravaggio (1573 - 1610)

Inigo Jones (1573 - 1652)

John Donne (1572 - 1631)

Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)


Johann Kepler (1571 - 1630)

Tirso de Molina (c.1571 - 1648)

Thomas Middleton (c.1570 - 1627)

Guy Fawkes (1570 - 1606)

Hans Lippershey (c.1570 - 1619)

Jan Brueghel (1568 - 1625)

Claudio Monteverdi  (1567 - 1643)

Richard Burbage (c.1567 - 1619)




Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 - 1638)

Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

James Crichton (1560 - 1582)




Thomas Kyd (c.1557 - 1595)










Edmund Spenser (c.1552 - 1599)

John Napier (1550 - 1617)


Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600)

Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)

Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601)

Henry Stuart Darnley (1545 - 1567)

William Gilbert (1544 - 1603)

William Byrd (1543 - 1623)

El Greco (1542 - 1614)

St. John of the Cross (1542 - 1591)

Joseph Scaliger (1540 - 1609)









Robert Smythson (1535 - 1614)

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

David Rizzio (1533 - 1566)

Jean Bodin (1530 - 1596)

Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588)

John Dee (1527 - 1608)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525 - 1594)

Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525 - 1569)

Gabriello Falloppio (1523 - 1562)



Catherine de' Medici (1519 - 1589)

Tintoretto (1518 - 1594)

Jean Goujon (c.1515 - 1568)

St. Teresa (1515 - 1582)



Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594)

Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 1574)

Ambroise Paré (1510 - 1590)

John Calvin (1509 - 1564)

Andrea Palladio (1508 - 1580)


John Knox (c.1505 - 1572)

Thomas Tallis (c.1505 - 1585)

Nicholas Udall (1504 - 1556)

Francesco Parmgianino (1503 - 1540)

 

Microscope invented (c.1600)



Globe Theatre in London built (1599)








Remains of Pompeii discovered (1594)








Hardwick Hall built (1590)






Burghley House built (1587)





Uppingham School founded (1584)



Edinburgh University founded (1582)























Theodolite invented (1571)








Mercator projection devised (1568)

Old Curiosity Shop built (1567)

Rugby School founded (1567)











Sheep-gut condom invented (1563)























Trigonometrical tables published (1550)



















































St. Peter's, Rome built (1520)


Martin Luther nailed his theses to church door (1517)

Utopia published (1516)

Camera Obscura described by da Vinci (1515)

Hampton Court Palace built (1514)






St. Paul's School, London, founded (1509)

Althorp built (1508)

St. Peter's Cathedral, Rome, built (1506 - 1626)

Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh founded (1505)
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