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★21 Mar 1556
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, one of the founders of Anglicanism, was burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for heresy.

★03 Apr 1559
Henry II of France and Philip II of Spain signed a treaty to end the Italian War of 1551–1559.

★17 Aug 1560
The Scottish Parliament approved a Protestant confession of faith to initiate the Scottish Reformation and disestablish Catholicism as the national religion.

★04 Jun 1561
The spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London was destroyed by fire, probably caused by lightning.

★12 Jul 1561
Saint Basil's Cathedral, located at the geographic center of Moscow, was consecrated.

★28 Jan 1568
Delegates of the Three Nations of Transylvania adopted the Edict of Torda, allowing local communities to freely elect their preachers in an unprecedented act of religious tolerance.

★01 Apr 1572
Spanish general and governor Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba lost his glasses in the town of Brielle, enabling sea beggars to move in.

★25 Jan 1573
Sengoku period: The forces of Takeda Shingen defeated those of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Mikatagahara, north of Hamamatsu, Mikawa Province, Japan.

★01 Dec 1577
Elizabeth I of England's principal secretary and spymaster Francis Walsingham was knighted.

★15 May 1602
English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold led the first recorded European expedition to visit Cape Cod in present-day Massachusetts.

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