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||1580: Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
||1580: Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth. Pic.


||1679: A fierce fire consumed the Stellaburgum — Europe’s finest observatory, built by the pioneering astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the city of Danzig, present-day Poland, decades before the famous Royal Greenwich Observatory and Paris Observatory existed.  
||1679: A fierce fire consumed the Stellaburgum — Europe’s finest observatory, built by the pioneering astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the city of Danzig, present-day Poland, decades before the famous Royal Greenwich Observatory and Paris Observatory existed.  

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