|  | Year | Event(s) | 
| 1 | 1568 | Bottled beer invented in London.
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| 2 | 1569 | Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection.
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| 3 | 1589 | Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine.
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| 4 | 1590 | Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
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| 5 | 1593 | Galileo invents a water thermometer.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1608 | Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
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