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1563
 
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The Northern Seven Years' War breaks out between Denmark and Sweden     
c. 1564
 
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The bishop of Transylvania, Ferenc Dávid, preaches that only God the Father is divine, launching the Unitarian faith       
1564
 
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Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months      
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        
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