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Events relating to europe
Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, is settled by the first English colonists in America – with disastrous results
The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America
Anthony Babington is involved in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth and place Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne
Mary Queen of Scots, implicated in the Babington plot, is beheaded in Fotheringay castle
Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
Venice opens the first modern bank (the Banco della Piazza di Rialto) for safe deposits and credit transfers
A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement
Virginia Dare becomes the first English child to be born in America, on Roanoke Island
Francis Drake sails into a crowded Cadiz harbour and destroys some thirty Spanish ships
Nicholas Hilliard paints the delightful miniature known simply as Young Man among Roses
The House of Orange becomes the leading family of the new Dutch republic
Seven provinces of the northern Netherlands consider themselves a new republic - the United Provinces
The more nimble English fleet destroys the galleons of the Spanish Armada, introducing a new kind of naval warfare
The tactics used against the Armada reveal that the sailing ships themselves have become fighting machines, as men-of-war
An English clergyman, William Lee, develops the world's first industrial machinery, to knit stockings
Royal (or real) tennis is so popular in France that there are now said to be 250 courts in Paris alone
Serfdom is introduced in Russia by Boris Godunov, whose measures tie the peasants to the land
An English ship, the first to arrive at Roanoke Island since 1587, finds no remaining trace of the settlers or their settlement
English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene
Zacharias Janssen, a spectacle maker in the Dutch town of Middelburg, creates the first microscope
The dome of St Peter's is finished, completing nearly a century of construction on Europe's largest church
After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III
Henry IV becomes a Catholic so as to secure Paris and the throne of France
Willem Barents sets off on the first of his three expeditions to find a passage to the east through the waters north of Russia
The writings of Matteo Ricci introduce Kung Fu Tzu to Europe under a Latin version of his name - Confucius
