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| 1 | 1553 | - Mary I. Ruler of England 1553-1558. House of Tudor: Daughter of Henry VIII, by Catherine of Aragon.
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| 2 | 1558 | - Elizabeth I. Ruler of England 1558-1603. House of Tudor: Daughter of Henry VIII, by Anne Boleyn.
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| 3 | 1568 | - Bottled beer invented in London.
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| 4 | 1569 | - Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection.
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| 5 | 1589 | - Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine.
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| 6 | 1590 | - Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
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| 7 | 1593 | - Galileo invents a water thermometer.
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| 8 | 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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| 9 | 1608 | - Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
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| 10 | 1620 | - The earliest human-powered submarine invented.
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| 11 | 1624 | - William Oughtred invents a slide ruler.
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| 12 | 1625 | - Charles I. Ruler of England 1625-1649. House of Stuart: Only surviving son of James I; beheaded Jan 30, 1649.
- Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
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| 13 | 1629 | - Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
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| 14 | 1636 | - W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
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| 15 | 1642 | - Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
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| 16 | 1643 | - Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
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| 17 | 1649 | - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1649-1658. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
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| 18 | 1650 | - Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
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