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c. 1565
 
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder depicts biblical events taking place among the peasants of the Netherlands countryside     
Pieter Brueghel the Elder Adoration of the Kings (detail) 1564
National Gallery, London

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1565
 
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Mary Queen of Scots marries her Catholic cousin, Henry Darnley       
1566
 
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Mary Queen of Scots' secretary, David Rizzio, is dragged from her presence and stabbed to death       
1566
 
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Mary Queen of Scots' husband Darnley is treacherously involved in the murder of her secretary, Rizzio        
1566
 
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The mathematician, astrologer and alchemist John Dee moves to a house in Mortlake on the site of the building now known as the Queen’s Head See in Google maps   
1567
 
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The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588      
1567
 
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Darnley is murdered, almost certainly at the instigation of Mary Queen of Scots' lover, Bothwell, whom she marries just three months later        
1567
 
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The duke of Alba introduces a reign of terror in the Spanish Netherlands, by means of a tribunal known as the Council of Blood      
1567
 
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A casket of letters seems to incriminate Mary Queen of Scots herself in the murder of her husband, Darnley        
1567
 
  
The events of this year give the Protestant nobility the occasion and opportunity of deposing Mary Queen of Scots