PEACH

History

1610

Population: 541 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Perez de Guta (war novel), John Fletcher (pastoral drama), Ben Johnson The Alchemist (comedy), Shakespeare A Winter's Tale,
Art includes El Greco "The Opening of the Fifth Seal", Reubens "Raising of the Cross"
Music includes Michael Praetorius collection of 1244 hymns, Lodovico Grossi de Viadana "Symphonies"
Finance: Dutch East India Company introduces term "share"
Religion: St. Francis de Sales founds Order of Visitation nuns with Mme. De Chantal
Catholic League formed in Europe to answer Protestant Union of 1608
Science: Jean Beguin writes first textbook on chemistry
Galileo observes Jupiter's moons and views stars
Thomas Harriot discovers sunsopts
Nicholas Pierese discovers Orion nebula
Technology: John Speed collects maps of Great Britain
Deaths: Artist Michelangelo da Carvaggio, Painter Adam Elsheimer, Henry of Navarre (IV) of France assassinated, German Elector Palatine Frederick IV, Jesuit Robert Persons, Microscope inventor Zacharias Janssen

General: Formation of African Republic of Salè to 1627
South: Founding of Portuguese settlement at Cape coast
West: Kanem-Bornu in W Central Africa enjoys alliance with Ottomans and receives firearms, training and camels

General: Tea introduced into Europe by Dutch East India Company
England: Ben Johnson becomes Englands unofficial Poet Laureate
Prince Henry made prince of Wales
Great Contract – James I receives annual income of 200,000 pounds
Arabella Stuart – pretender to English throne – imprisoned for marrying William Seymour
James I prorogues Parliament – Parliament reassembles
John Cowell's Interpreter burnt by hangman for enhancing power of the crown
Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham found Wadham College at Oxford
France: Henry IV assassinated – son Louis XIII (age 9) with mother Queen Maria de' Medici as regent but Cardinal Richelieu holds real power (period of confusion)
The Stationers' Company begins sending copy of every book printed in England to Bodlein Library at Oxford
German States: German Elector Palatine Frederick IV dies – son Frederick V rules to 1623
Hungary: Elizabeth Bathory of Transylvania/Hungary arrested for bathing in the blood of virgins
Italian States: Academy of Poetry founded at Padua
Galileo made philosopher and mathematician to Cosimo de Medici of Tuscany
Russia: Czar Vasili Shuisky (Basil Shruisky) deposed – Russian throne offered to Vladislav son of Sigismund III of Poland
Spain: Spain expels Muslims and Jews which hurts commerce