PEACH

History

1605

Population: 541 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote part I, George Chapman All Fooles (comedy), Samuel Daniel (tragedy), Michael Drayton (poems), Ben Johnson (tragedy), Shakespeare King Lear and Macbeth, Sir Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning, Justus Lipsius (organization of states),
Art includes Annibale Carracci (frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese),
Music includes Thomas Luis de Victoria, John Dowland, Monteverde (fifth book of madrigals)
Medicine: Gaspard Bauhin writes about modern anatomy
Religion: Death of Pope Clement VIII – Alessandro de' Medici elected Pope Leo XI – dies – Camillo Borghese elected Pope Paul V
Deaths: Moghul emperor Akbar the Great, Pope Clement VIII, Pope Leo XI, Polish hero Jan Zamoyski, Naturalist Ulissi Aldovandi, Tsar Boris Godunov, Tsar Fedor II of Russia (murdered)

Belgium: Abraham Verkoeven publishes Nieuwe Tijdenghen (New Tidings) issued in Antwerp - first newspaper in world
England: Gunpowder plot fails (Guy Fawkes blowing up parliament with 35 barrels of gunpowder) – Guy executed next year
Start of "Catholic Myth" in England - fifth column conspiracy of pope attempting to overthrow England
James I wanted to get rid of Geneva Bible because of disrespect for royalty
Puritans want Church of ENgland purged from all vestiges of Catholicism
Incorporation of Butcher's and Shipwright's Companies in London
English government farms all customs revenue to a London consortium of merchants for an annual rent
German States: First permanent German theater in Cassel
Holy Roman Empire: Stephen Bocsaki made Prince of Transylvania
Italian States: Biblioteca Alglica becomes first public library in Rome
Russia: End of Boris Godunov's reign in Russia – succeeded by son Fydor II – "False Dmitri" reenters Moscow – Fydor assassinatrd and Dimitri crowned Czar