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Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci becomes a missionary to China and works to promote Christianity. In 1601 he founds a mission in Beijing.
Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur of Morocco begins his twenty-five-year reign, expanding Moroccan control of North Africa, after defeating a Portuguese force under Sebastian.
Fez is captured from the Portuguese by Murad III.
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