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1602
 
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The Dutch East India Company is founded, with a tax-free monopoly of the eastern trade for twenty-one years      
1603
 
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Geneva wins independence from the duchy of Savoy, in the treaty of St Julien, after repelling a midnight assault on the city      
1603
 
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The warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu is awarded the title of shogun, beginning nearly three centuries of the Tokugawa shogunate       
1603
 
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James VI of Scotland inherits peacefully the crown of his English cousin Elizabeth, and becomes James I of England       
1603
 
   
The accession of James I and VI to the throne of England brings the union of the crowns of England and Scotland      
1604
 
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The British king James I launches a blistering attack on the smoking of tobacco, which he considers a loathsome custom       
1604
 
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The first false Dmitry marches into Russia with a Polish army to claim the throne      
1604
 
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Annibale Carracci completes an influential ceiling fresco in the Farnese palace in Rome       
1604
 
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James I commissions the Authorized version of the Bible, which is completed by forty-seven scholars in seven years       
1604
 
    
William Shakespeare's name appears among the actors in a list of the King's Men       
List of the King's Men in 1604, including Shakespeare
National Archives, Kew