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1607

On 30 January 1607 the Bristol Channel floods resulted in the drowning of an estimated 2,000 or more people, with houses and villages swept away, farmland inundated and livestock destroyed, wrecking the local economy along the coasts of the Bristol Channel, England.

The devastation was particularly bad on the Welsh side from Laugharne in Carmarthenshire to above Chepstow on the English border. Cardiff was the most badly affected town. The coasts of Devon and the Somerset Levels as far inland as Glastonbury Tor, 14 miles from the coast, were also affected.

UK

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1606

December 26 - Shakespeare's King Lear performed in court.
Storm buries a village of St Ismail's near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Britain

Britain

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1605

November 5 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot by to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area. About 20 barrels of gunpowder were found and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I of England and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.

UK

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1604

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At Whitehall Palace in London, the William Shakespeare tragedy Othello is presented for the first time.

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1603

November 17 - Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason

UK

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1602

June - James Lancaster's East India Company fleet arrives at Achin (now Aceh), Sumatra to deal with the local ruler. Having defeated Portugal's ally, the ruler is happy to do business, and Lancaster seizes a large Portuguese Galleon and loots it.

europe

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1601

Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer

Erm Russia

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1600

Ulster chieftains with the lead of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, resist English reconquest of Ireland.

Ireland

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1599

First reported performance of Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar in London

England

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1598

Battle of Stångebro. The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles Albert. Sigismund is deposed shortly thereafter.

Sweden