History
 

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World

General

Population: 490 Million*
  • Entertainment: Writers include Marot Thirty Psalms of David, Paul Tebhun (early German verse drama), Melanchthon (ethics)
    Art includes Titian "The Urbino Venus"
  • Geography: Mercator uses name America for first time – also N America
  • Deaths: Artist Albrecht Altdorger,

Americas

  • Colombia: Bogota founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada

Asia

  • India: Ottoman naval expedition attacks Portuguese possessions in India - Portugese defeat the attack by Ottoman and Gujarati forces

Europe

  • General: Truce of Nice between France and Spain
  • England: Destruction of relics and shrines in southern England and Thomas a Becket's shrine at Canterbury
    English begin keeping records of births deaths and marriages
  • German States: Calvin is expelled from Geneva and settles in Strasbourg
  • Italian States: Palladio creates Villa Godi in Lonedo
    Mt. Vesuvius erupts forming new crater
  • Scotland: James V of Scotland marries Mary of Guise

Middle East

  • General: Ottoman Turks overrun Red Sea coast of Arabia
  • Ottoman Empire: Ottomans defeat Christian fleet at Prevesa



 
 
 
 
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