[Game] Count to 10,000

[Spock]

1591 Pope Innocent IX succeeds Pope Gregory XIV as the 230th pope.

[The Investigator]

1592 - Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope.

[Spock]

1593 The Long War breaks out in Hungary, between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.

[The Investigator]

1594 -  Saint Hyacinth [s:1r8ai3vd]Bucket[/s:1r8ai3vd] is canonized.

[Spock]

1595 Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's Richard II.

[The Investigator]

1596 - Archbishop John Whitgift begins building his hospital at Croydon.

[Spock]

1597 Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

[The Investigator]

1598 - Philip III of Spain starts to rule.

[Spock]

1599 The first performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Globe Theatre in London, is reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter the Younger.

[The Investigator]

1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[Spock]

1601 Possible first performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet

[The Investigator]

1602 - Bartolomew Gosnold becomes the first European at Cape Cod.

[Spock]

1603 Queen Elizabeth I of England dies at Richmond Palace and is succeeded by her cousin's grandson, King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England. James I is crowned as King of England in Westminster Abbey.

[The Investigator]

1604 - Supernova 1604 is observed

[Spock]

1605 Pope Leo XI succeeds Pope Clement VIII as the 232nd pope. Pope Paul V succeeds Pope Leo XI as the 233rd pope