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The States General merged rival Dutch trading companies into one chartered company with a monopoly on Asian trade, which dominated the spice trade for much of the seventeenth century.
James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland; the two kingdoms shared a monarch but kept separate parliaments, laws and churches until 1707.
Most Puritan demands were rejected, minor changes were made to the Prayer Book, and a new English translation of the Bible was authorised.
The plot failed; its leaders were killed or executed, anti-Catholic laws were tightened, and 5 November became a national day of thanksgiving.
A printed weekly of foreign news appeared in Strasbourg, the model for the newspapers that spread across Europe in the following decades.
The earls never returned; their lands were declared forfeit to the crown, leading directly to the Plantation of Ulster.
Despite famine, disease and war with the Powhatan, Jamestown survived to become the first permanent English settlement in North America and the capital of Virginia until 1699.
Quebec became the first permanent French settlement in the St. Lawrence valley and the capital of New France until the British conquest of 1759-1763.
No passage to Asia was found, but Hudson's reports of a rich fur country led to Dutch trade on the river and the colony of New Netherland.
Around 300,000 Moriscos were deported, mostly to North Africa; Valencia and Aragon suffered severe population and economic losses.
A large Protestant settler population was established in Ulster, reshaping its landownership, towns and religion and creating divisions that lasted into modern times.
The last great imperial mosque of the Ottoman classical age, still an active mosque and one of Istanbul's most famous landmarks.
