[Game] Count to 10,000

[The Investigator]

1576 -  Rudolf II becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

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1577 Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

[The Investigator]

1578 - The Ottoman Empire conquers Abkhazia

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1579 Sir Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I. With an English claim here and in Newfoundland, it becomes the basis for English colonial charters which will claim all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from "sea to sea." Drake's claim is called "Nova Albion" (New England), and subsequent maps will show all lands north of New Spain and New Mexico under this name.

[The Investigator]

1580 - Juan de Garay founds Buenos Aires.

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1581 The Parliament of England's Act against Reconciliation to Rome imposes heavy fines for practicising Roman Catholicism

[The Investigator]

1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar

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1583 The world's oldest, intact, still-surviving amusement park, Dyrehavsbakken, is founded.

[The Investigator]

1584 - Death of Ivan the Terrible

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1585 Pope Sixtus V succeeds Pope Gregory XIII as the 227th pope.

[The Investigator]

1586 - The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan.

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1587 Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary is implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of Elizabeth's privy council, Mary is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle.

[The Investigator]

1588 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Spain heading for the English Channel

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1589 King James VI of Scotland, the future James I of England, marries Anne of Denmark.

[The Investigator]

1590 - Urban VII succeeds Sixtus V as the 228th pope; he dies of malaria twelve days later, and is replaced by Gregory XIV .