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English rule is firmly established in Ireland, weakening the power of the Irish Parliament, by Poyning's Law (Statute of Drogheda).
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas, by which they agree not to encroach on territories controlled in the parts of the world demarcated by a line west of the Cape Verde Islands. Spain gets the west and Portugal the east; other European nations ignore the agreement.
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