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1603 - Events. March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James I of England, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey June 29 - Original Globe Theatre burns July 17 or July 19 - Sir Walter Raleigh arrested for treason. July 25 - Coronation of James I of England. By some criteria this was the start of the modern Great Britain November 17 - Sir Walter Raleigh goes ...

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1526 in science 1526 - Events. January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. Peace between Francis I of France and Charles V. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy to Charles, and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan. May 22 - Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including the Pope, Milan, Venice, and Florence. July 24 - Milan is captured by the Spanish. August 29 - Battle of Mohács. The Turkish army of Sultan Suleiman I ...

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1673 - Events. January 22 - Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation March 18 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Quakers. May 17 - Trader Louis Joliet and Jesuit missionary-explorer Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. November 11- near Chocim (also spelled Khotinin the Ukraine, Lithuanian and Polish military unit ...

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James was the only child of Mary I, Queen of Scots and of her second husband, Henry Stuart, Duke of Albany, more commonly known as Lord Darnley. James was a direct descendant of Henry VII, through his great-grandmother Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII. James' mother was an insecure ruler, as both she and her husband, being Roman Catholics, faced a rebellion of Protestant noblemen. Their marriage, furthermore, was a particularly difficult one. While Mary was pregnant with James, Lord Darnley secretly allied himself with the rebels and murd ...

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