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| | 1588 @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Duke Henry of Guise seizes the city, forcing King Henry III to flee. |
 | | December 23 - Henry III of France strikes his ultra-Catholic enemies, having the Duke of Guise and his brother, Cardinal Louis of Guise, killed, and holding the Cardinal de Bourbon a prisoner. |
 | | Ahmad al-Mansur, sultan of Morocco, demands that the king of Songhay give a heavy tribute in exchange of a Saharan salt, probably in an intentional provocation. |
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