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1597

Bali discovered by Dutch explorer Cornelis Houtman...which was a surprise to the natives of Bali who always knew it was there.

Bali

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1596

First water closet (toilet), by Sir John Harrington, is installed in a manor near Kelston

UK

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1595

Group of pupils of Edinburgh High School barricade themselves in because of a dispute about holidays. When adults break in, pupil William Sinclair shoots city bailie John McMorane dead. Boys are arrested but acquitted later

UK

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1594

February 27 - Henry IV is crowned King of France at Rheims

France

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1593

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May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. England.

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1591

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Murder of Dimitri, son of the Tsar.
Boris Godunov is elected Tsar.
Russia.

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1589..

2.8.1589: Assassination of Henry III.
During the siege of Paris the Dominican Monk Jacques Clément stabbed the French king Henry III. The royal servants executed the assassin, who was a supporter of the Roman Catholic Holy League. With the murder of Henry III the last king of the House of Valois died, his successor Henry IV from Navarra established the Bourbon dynasty. Henry III was voted king of Poland in 1574 and had received the French crown in 1572. After concessions to the Huguenots in the Peace Treaty of Beaulieu (1576), Spain had concluded a secret contract with the Holy League of Péronne to prevent a Protestant succession.

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1588

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May 28 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel (it will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).

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1587

February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she is implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

UK

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1585

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Beginning of the Eighth War of Religion in France (also known as the War of the Three Henrys).