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| 1547 |
| | | Hungary is divided, by agreement between the Turkish sultan Suleiman I and the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I | |
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| 1547 |
| | | On the death of Henry VIII his 10-year-old son becomes king of England as Edward VI | |
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| 1547 |
| | | Ivan IV is crowned tsar of Russia and becomes known as Ivan the Terrible | |
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| 1547 |
| | | The first book describing the game of draughts, or checkers, is published in Spain | |
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| 1547 |
| | | John Knox is captured in St Andrews and is sent to serve in the French fleet as a galley slave | |
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| 1548 |
| | | La Paz is founded on the trade route between Lima and the newly discovered silver mines at Potosi | |
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| 1549 |
| | | Brazil becomes a Portuguese royal province, under the control of a governor general | |
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| 1549 |
| | | The first Portuguese governor general of Brazil selects Bahia (now Salvador) as his capital | |
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| 1549 |
| | | The first version of the English prayer book, or Book of Common Prayer, is published with text by Thomas Cranmer | |
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| 1549 |
| | | Joachim du Bellay publishes a manifesto for the group of new French poets who become known as the Pléiade | |
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