Births
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William Shakespeare, English playwright.
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Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher.
Events and Trends
★ In 1565, the city of
St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish admiral
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on
August 28 in modern-day
Florida. The city is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental
United States.
★ In 1566, widespread Protestant
iconoclasm in
the Netherlands led to the start of the
Eighty Years' War.
★ In 1569, the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was founded.
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