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World

General

Population: 494 Million*
  • Medicine: Andreas Vesalius improves modern anatomy
  • Religion: Pope Paul III establishes Inquisition in Rome
    Council of Trent outlines Catholic beliefs, sets up seminaries, and disciplines priests
    Dominican cardinals try heretics with no legal counsel
  • Science: Fuchs publishes book naming 500 plant species
    Copernicus prints findings – publisher adds preface stating that the sun-centered model was not to be taken literally
  • Deaths: James V of Scotland, Artist Dosso Dossi, Poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, Execution of Queen Catherine Howard, Dutch painter Barend van Orley, Explorer Hernando de Soto

Africa

  • General: Spanish monarch Charles V outlaws slavery of Native Americans – increase in African slavery follows

Americas

  • General: Spanish monarch Charles V outlaws slavery of Native Americans – increase in African slavery follows
  • North America: Cabrillo claims California and discovers San Diego bay
    De Soto dies and is buried in the Mississippi
    Coronado returns to Mexico from northern trip
    Cabrillo and Ferrelo explore West coast

Asia

  • India: St. Francis Xavier arrives at Goa as Jesuit missionary
  • Japan: Antonio da Mota enters Japan as first European - Portuguese traders on Tanegashima

Europe

  • England: Scots defeated by English at battle of Solway Moss
    Queen Catherine Howard executed
    Magdalen College in Cambridge founded
    Lord John Russell made Lord Privy Seal
    Henry VIII becomes King of Ireland
  • German States: Heavy taxes on drinks in Bavaria
  • Ireland: Ireland made a separate kingdom with Henry VIII as King
  • Italian States: Pope Paul III establishes Inquisition in Rome
    U of Pisa refounded by Cosimo I de Medici
  • Scotland: Death of James V of Scotland - suppressor of Protestantism
    Mary Queen of Scots ascends throne six days after her birth with regent Earl of Arran James Hamilton
  • Spain: Spanish monarch Charles V outlaws slavery of Native Americans – increase in African slavery follows
    Spain passes laws to stop forced labor - unenforceable



 
 
 
 
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