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Date 1558 - 1603
Location United Kingdom
Context history of United Kingdom

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Elizabeth I
Mary I
defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I knighting Francis Drake
Learn about Renaissance tragedy from William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Julius Caesar
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