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- 1513 English defeat invading Scots at Battle of Flodden Field.
- 1549 John Knox appointed parish minister in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- 1551 John Dudley becomes first Duke of Northumberland.
- 1569 Earl of Northumberland rebels against Elizabeth I in the Rising of the North.
- 1597 Plague kills 340 in Newcastle.
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