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World

Population: 541 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Lope de Vega Comedias (in 15 volumes), John Marston (tragicomedy), Shakespeare Othello and Measure for Measure, Robert Cawdrey A Table Alphabetical, Jacques August de Thou (11-volume history), King James I Counterblast to Tobacco
Art includes Caravaggio "The Deposition" in the Vatican, Karel van Mander (art history)
Music includes Orlando di Lasso (516 motets posthumous), Negri (writes about dance technique)
Religion: Hampton Court Conference tries to iron out differences between Puritans and Church
Science: Kepler writes about optics
Deaths: Playwright Edward de Vere (possible Hamlet writer),

General: Peace between England and Spain - Somerset House Peace Conference
Spanish capture Ostend from Dutch after 3.5 year siege
England and France sign commercial treaty
England: First parliament under James I meets
Richard Bancroft the Bishop of London elected Archbishop of Canterbury
U of Oxford and U of Cambridge given parliamentary representation (until 1948)
Company of Musicians oncorporated in London
Britain and Scotland unite – British Parliament starts immediately offending Scotland – James proposes that the new union be named Great Britain – Ministers of Parliament offended for fear of new rule resulting in dictatorship, new flag “Union Jack (James)” symbols, etc.
King James bans Jesuits
End of season of plague
France: French East India Company founded
Hungary: Protestant Hungarians support Ottoman protégé Stephen Bocskay, forcing Habsburgs to abandon Transylvania
Russia: "False Dmitri" claimant to Russian throne defeated by Czar Boris Godunov – "Time of Troubles" to 1613
Tomsk Siberia founded by Russian Cossacks
Sweden: Sigismund III of Sweden finally deposed – uncle Charles IX assumes title of king