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World

Population: 485 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Chaucer (posthumously) and Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid accidently in the collection, Rabelais' Pantagruel, Robert Estienne (Stephanus) first Latin-English dictionary, Machiavelli Il Principe (posthumous)
Art includes Cranach The Payment, Hans Holbein the Younger (settles in England)
Science: German botanist Otto Brunfels publishes "Book of Herbs"

Brazil: Sugar cane first cultivated in Brazil
Panama: Pizarro leaves Panama for Peru
Peru: Francisco Pizarro invades and destroys Inca empire in Peru as Huascar defeated – Pizarro takes Atahualpa captive

England: English clergy submit to Henry VIII
Sir Thomas More resigns over divorce - Thomas Cranmer named replacement archbishop of Canterbury
France: Reformation in France under Calvin
Catherine de Medici marries French King Henry II
Germany: Religious Peace of Nuremberg – Protestants allowed to practice religion freely
Holy Roman Empire: Turks re-invade Austria
Hungary: Suleiman I invades Hungary – attack on Carinthia and Croatia repelled
Scotland: Court of Session created

Ottoman Empire: Suleiman I invades Hungary – attack on Carinthia and Croatia repelled
Turks re-invade Austria