PEACH

History

1542

Population: 494 Million*

Medicine: Andreas Vesalius improves modern anatomy
Religion: Pope Paul III establishes Inquisition in Rome
Council of Trent outlines Catholic beliefs, sets up seminaries, and disciplines priests
Dominican cardinals try heretics with no legal counsel
Science: Fuchs publishes book naming 500 plant species
Copernicus prints findings – publisher adds preface stating that the sun-centered model was not to be taken literally
Deaths: James V of Scotland, Artist Dosso Dossi, Poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, Execution of Queen Catherine Howard, Dutch painter Barend van Orley, Explorer Hernando de Soto

General: Spanish monarch Charles V outlaws slavery of Native Americans – increase in African slavery follows

General: Spanish monarch Charles V outlaws slavery of Native Americans – increase in African slavery follows
North America: Cabrillo claims California and discovers San Diego bay
De Soto dies and is buried in the Mississippi
Coronado returns to Mexico from northern trip
Cabrillo and Ferrelo explore West coast

India: St. Francis Xavier arrives at Goa as Jesuit missionary
Japan: Antonio da Mota enters Japan as first European - Portuguese traders on Tanegashima

England: Scots defeated by English at battle of Solway Moss
Queen Catherine Howard executed
Magdalen College in Cambridge founded
Lord John Russell made Lord Privy Seal
Henry VIII becomes King of Ireland
German States: Heavy taxes on drinks in Bavaria
Ireland: Ireland made a separate kingdom with Henry VIII as King
Italian States: Pope Paul III establishes Inquisition in Rome
U of Pisa refounded by Cosimo I de Medici
Scotland: Death of James V of Scotland - suppressor of Protestantism
Mary Queen of Scots ascends throne six days after her birth with regent Earl of Arran James Hamilton
Spain: Spanish monarch Charles V outlaws slavery of Native Americans – increase in African slavery follows
Spain passes laws to stop forced labor - unenforceable