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1590 - 16001595 Shakespeare writes Romeo & Juliet 1601- 16101601 English Poor Law Act passed First use of fruit juice as a preventative for scurvy by James Lancaster East India Company founded 1603 March 24: Death of Elizabeth I: union of Scottish and English crowns
– under King James VI of Scots and I of England (d. 1625) 1605 Gunpowder plot 1606 April 12: Adoption of Union Jack as the flag of "Great
Britain" The London Company chartered to colonise Virginia 1607 Flight of the Earls – leading Ulster families go into exile 1610 James VI & I established the Episcopal Church in Scotland- Presbyterians
persecuted and many of their records lost |
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