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Births[]
- William Shakespeare, English playwright.
- Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher.
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- 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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