PEACH

History

1550

Population: 500 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Pierre de Ronsard Odes, Olaus Petrie (earliest Swedish stage play), Giovanni Francesco (fairy tales), Nicholas Udall (earliest English comedy Ralph Rosier Dosier), Thomas Cranmer (defense of Catholic Sacrament),
Art includes Benvenuto Cellini sculpture "Perseus", Lorenzo Lotto "A Nobleman in His Study", Michelangelo "Deposition from the Cross", Titian (portrait of daughter Lavinia), Giorgo Vasari "Lives of the Artists",
Music includes John Marbeck writes first musical setting of English liturgy
Fashion: Start of early Baroque
Mathematics: G.D. Rhaeticus creates trigonomic tables
Religion: Cardinal Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte becomes Pope Julius III (Possibly gay – has 17-year old friend appointed cardinal)
Science: Siegmund von Herberstein writes about fossils
Technology: Sealing wax first used

Brazil: Portuguese establish colonies in Brazil
First slave-worked sugar plantations established
Mexico: Doña Luisa de Olveros reportedly kills her children and was hung in Mexico – her ghostly cries are La Llorona (The Wailing Woman)
North America: Spanish bring first beef cattle to North America

England: Sir William Cecil made English secretary of State
Duke of Somerset deposed, replaced by John Dudley the Earl of Warwick who names self Duke of Northumberland
First written reference to game of cricket (creag) in young Edward VI's wardrobe accounts
Mary, Edward, and Elizabeth gather – and Protestant/Catholic feud rises between 13 year old King Edward and 34 year old half-sister Mary – Mary gets HRE into mix
Plague in England to 1566
St. Peter's of Westminster has funds appropriated to pay for repairs of St. Pauls Cathedral – literally robbing Peter to pay Paul
Finland: Helsinki founded by Swedes
Holy Roman Empire: HRE Charles V bans books by Protestants
Italian States: Palladio creates Palazzo Chiericati and Villa Rotunda in Vicenza
Game of billiards played for first time in Italy
Spain: Spainish power begins to peak