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musicians and intellectuals gather in Count Giovanni de Bardi's camerata (salon)
They gathered to discuss and experiment with music drama. It is during this period that opera is born. Jacopo Peri's Dafne, the first Italian opera, is produced in 1598 and Euridice in 1600. -
Disappearance of the Roanoke colony
The Roanoke colony officially disappears in 1590 and nobody knows to where! -
The death of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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American Revolution
The American Revolution started when the thirteen colonies decided to break away from England!