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May 18th 1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe
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Jan 29th 1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed
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April 23rd 1597- William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance.
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Jul 23rd 1599 - Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings
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Nov 8th 1602 - The Bodleian Library at Oxford University, England is opened
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Nov 1st 1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented
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Apr 12th 1606 - England adopts the Union Flag, replaced in 1801 by current Union Flag/Union Jack
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Oct 12th 1609 - Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice" published in London
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Jun 29th 1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burns down
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Oct 29th 1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England
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May 17th 1620 - First merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)




Oh yeah, there was also some stuff about a boat called the Mayflower setting sail for someplace called the 'New World' in 1620. No idea what that's all about
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