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World

Population: 489 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Cicero Opera onmia, Robert Recorde,
Art includes Sebastiano Serlio "Tratto di Architettura", Titian "King Francis I"
Geography: First map of Flanders by Gerardus Mercator
Medicine: Vesalius begins to draw and show actual cadavers
Religion: First Catholic humnal created
Pope Paul III prohibits enslavement of Indians and excommunicates slave traders
Pope Paul III receives report on state of Church
Science: Niccolo Fontana called Tartaglia initiates the science of ballistics
Paracelsus writes manual of astrology "Grosse Astronomie"
Niccolo Tartaglia compiles Nova Scientia and describes trajectories of projectiles and heavenly bodies
Deaths: Composer Paul Hofhaimer, Satirist Thomas Murner, Robert Aske (executed for treason), Queen Jane Seymour, Alessandro de' Medici Duke of Florence the illegitimate son of a Medici pope – assassinated

General: Pope Paul III prohibits enslavement of Indians and excommunicates slave traders

England: Pilgrimage of Grace and other northern uprisings put down – Robert Aske sentenced to death for treason and executed
Death of Queen Jane Seymour after birth of Prince Edward (later Edward VI)
Italian States: Sansovino creates façade of Doge's Palazzo loggietta in Venice
First music conservatories created in Naples for boys and Venice for girls
Alessandro de' Medici assassinated and Cosimo I named Grand Duke of Tuscany