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* Carnival – [[Jacopo Peri]]'s ''[[Dafne]]'', the earliest known modern opera, is premièred at the [[Palazzo Corsini, Florence]].<ref>[[Ottavio Rinuccini]]'s libretto survives complete but only fragments of the music are known.</ref>
* [[Pentecost]] – [[Calvinist]] congregations in [[Zurich]] introduce music into their services.<ref>{{cite book|first=Diarmaid|last=MacCulloch|author-link=Diarmaid MacCulloch|title=Silence: A Christian History|location=London|publisher=Allen Lane|year=2013|isbn=9781846144264}}</ref>
* The [[Parliament of England]] passes the [[Vagabonds Act 1597|Vagabonds Act]], that allows [[Penal transportation|transportation]] of convicts to colonies.
* Illustrations of [[Ottoman Turks|Ottoman Turkish]] and European riflemen, with detailed illustrations of their firearms, appear in Zhao Shizhen's book ''Shenqipu'' in this year, during the [[Ming Dynasty]] of China.
* The Spanish establish themselves in [[El Piñal]], a trading port on the coast of China in the [[Pearl River Delta]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Denis Crispin Twitchett|author2=John King Fairbank|author3=Frederick W. Mote|title=The Cambridge History of China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVhvh6ibLJcC&pg=PA349|year=1978|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-24333-9|page=349}}</ref>
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