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Date |
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| 1 | 1568 | - 1568: Bottled beer invented in London.
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| 2 | 1569 | - 1569: Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection.
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| 3 | 1589 | - 1589: Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine.
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| 4 | 1590 | - 1590: Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
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| 5 | 1593 | - 1593: Galileo invents a water thermometer.
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| 6 | 1603 | - 1603: James I. Ruler of England 1603-1625. House of Stuart: Son of Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter of James IV and Margaret. First to call himself King of Great Britain. This became official with the Act of Union, 1707.
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1564 - Abt 1607 (~ 42 years)