History
 

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World

General

Population: 496 Million*
  • Entertainment: Writers include John Heywood The Four P's, Konrad von Gesner Biblioteca universalis, Benvenuto Cellini (autobiography)
    Art includes Lorenzo Lotto "Apollo Sleeping", Titian "Pietro Aretino",
  • Mathematics: Geronimo Cardano works out Scipione del Ferro's equations for third and fourth degree
    Girolamo Cardono introduces negative numbers into European mathematics
  • Religion: Start of Council of Trent – Counter-Reformation begins – reform under Jesuits
  • Technology: Claude Garamond designs antique typography
  • Deaths: Composer John Taverner, Duke of Orleans - thirs don of King Francis I, Historian Antonio de Guevara, Artist Hans Valdung-Grien

Americas

  • Cuba: Typhus
  • Peru: Potosí silver mines open for Spanish production

Europe

  • General: Truce of Adrianople between Charles V, Ferdinand of Austria, and Suleiman I
  • Italian States: Italy and Catholic reform
    Stage comedians create a new type of improvised theatrical entertainment in northern Italy
    Palladio creates Palazzo Thiene in Vicenza
    First European botanical garden in Padua
    Creation of Duchy of Parma in Italy

Middle East

  • Ottoman Empire: Truce of Adrianople between Charles V, Ferdinand of Austria, and Suleiman I



 
 
 
 
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