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| 1595 |
| | | The first Dutch expedition round the Cape reaches Java and secures trading agreements | |
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| 1596 |
| | | Tycho Brahe enters the service of the emperor Rudolf II in Prague, where he invites Johannes Kepler to join him | |
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| 1596 |
| | | Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin begins work classifying 6000 plants on a new binomial system of nomenclature | |
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| 1596 |
| | | A flush toilet is illustrated in an English pamphlet, The Metamorphosis of Ajax by John Harrington | |
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| 1597 |
| | | Dafne is performed in Florence, becoming the first example of a new art form - opera | |
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| 1598 |
| | | A manuscript, the Guildford Book of Court, uses the word 'creckett' for a game played in a Guildford school | |
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| 1598 |
| | | Shah Abbas builds up Isfahan as a spectacular new capital of the Persian empire | |
|  | Friday Mosque, Isfahan
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| 1598 |
| | | James VI of Scotland argues in an anonymous book that kings, appointed by God, are above human law | |
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| 1598 |
| | | The Edict of Nantes secures the civil rights of France's Protestants, the Huguenots | |
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| 1599 |
| | | The Globe, where many of Shakespeare's plays are first performed, is built on Bankside in London | |
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