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1604| 1604 | Italy [anatomy] | Italian anatomist Hieronymus Fabricius of Acquapendente publishes De formata foetu/On the Formation of the Fetus, the first important study of embryology, in which the placenta is identified for the first time. | | 1604 | Italy [physics] | The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei discovers a law of falling bodies, proving that gravity acts with the same strength on all objects, independent of their mass. | | 1604 | England [solo and chamber music] | The English composer John Dowland publishes Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans, works for lute, viols, and violins. | | 14 January - 16 January 1604 | UK [political events] | King James I of England and Archbishop John Whitgift hold the Hampton Court Conference to reconcile differences between Puritans and Anglican bishops. Attended by the bishops and leading Puritans it is intended to settle doctrine and practice. Though the king refuses to consider changes to these, he supports the request for a new translation of the Bible (published in 1611), Jesuits are expelled from England, and some changes are made to the Book of Common Prayer. | | 18 August 1604 | UK, Habsburg Monarchy, Spain, United Netherlands [treaties] | A peace is signed between England, Spain, and the archdukes, allodial rulers of the Spanish Netherlands; King James I of England will give no further aid to the United Netherlands, will work to promote its submission to Spain and the archdukes, and will permit recruitment for the Spanish Habsburg Army of Flanders. England receives various trading privileges but undertakes not to trade in the West Indies. | | 17 October 1604 | UK [health and medicine] | King James I writes his Counterblast to Tobacco, condemning the increasingly popular habit of smoking in Britain. It is published anonymously. He also imposes a heavy duty on the importing of tobacco. |
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| The same fleet, as we were informed, after the King of Mombaza was reduced, was to burn and ruin Zeila, in revenge of the death of two Portuguese Jesuits who were killed by the King in the year 1604. From the first settlement of this ancient province of the French, in 1604, until the present time, its people could scarcely ever know what kingdom held dominion over them. In 1604 an ecclesiastical conference accepted a suggestion, approved by the king, that a new and more accurate rendering of the Bible should be made. |