1560s
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Events and Trends
- In 1564 William Shakespeare was born.
- In 1565 St. Augustine is founded by the Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on August 28 in modern-day Florida. The city is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
- In 1566, widespread Protestant iconoclasm in the Netherlands signifies the start of the Eighty Years' War.
- In 1569 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is foundedbs:1560te
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