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French Huguenots (Protestants) are massacred at Vassy, sparking the Wars of Religion in France. A Huguenot army is defeated at the Battle of Dreux.
John Hawkins begins the English slave trade across the Atlantic; he leaves Sierra Leone in West Africa with a shipment of three hundred slaves, sailing to Hispaniola (Santo Domingo) in the Caribbean.
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