History
1579
General
Population: 523 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Stephen Gosson (against the theater), Thomas Lodge (Response to Gosson), Edmund Spenser The Shepherd's Calendar,
Sir Thomas North (translation of Plutarch's Lives), Paolo Paruta (historian of venice and Machiavelli), St. John of the Cross Dark Night of the Soul,
Art includes Giovanni da Bologna "Rape of the Sabines" sculpture, El Greco "L'Espolio",
- Politics: Vindiciae contra Tyrannos by George Buchanan declares rulers accountable to the people
Anon. Huguenot work establishes liberty - state power not absolute
- Deaths: Merchant and financier Thomas Gresham, Son of Emperor Charles V Don John of Austria, Duke Albert of Bavaria
Asia
- India: Father Thomas Stephens becomes first Englishman to settle in India (Goa)
Portuguese merchants set up trading station in Bengal
Europe
- General: English-Dutch military alliance signed
English Eastland Company founded for trading with Scandinavia
- England: Francis, Duke of Alençon, comes to England to try and marry Elizabeth
England creates the Baltic Company to increase trade with Balkans
- German States: Duke Albert of Bavaria dies – succeeded by Duke William V
- Holland: Signing of Union of Utrecht marks foundation of Dutch republic - united and independent of Spain
- Holy Roman Empire: Death of Don John of Austria the natural son of Emperor Charles V
- Italian States: English College removed from Rheims to Rome
Palladio creates Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza
West and Pacific
- General: Sir Francis Drake visits the coasts of Oregon and California, proclaims sovereignty of England over New Albion (CA)