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English: A montage of notable events in the 1600s: The beginning of the Edo period in Japan with the Tokugawa shogunate 1603; Henry Hudson sailing Halve Maaen on the Hudson River 1609; the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in England in 1605; the Time of Troubles in Russia 1598-1613; William Shakespeare who wrote some of his most famous plays during this decade.