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1544

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World

General

Population: 495 Million*
  • Entertainment: Writers include Matteo Bandello (lyric poetry)
  • Mathematics: Michael Stifel writes "Arithmetica integra"
  • Religion: Pope Paul III calls general council for 1545 in Trent
  • Science: Georg Agricola initiates study in physical geology
    Luca Ghini publishes first herbarium
    Sebastian Munster writes "Cosmographia generalis"
  • Deaths: Poet Clement Marot, Composer Benedictus Ducis

Americas

  • Peru: Silver mines in Potosi Peru discovered

Europe

  • General: Henry VIII and Charles V invade France
    Treaty of Crepy between France and Spain
  • The "Mary Rose" sinks
  • England: St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London refounded
    Line of succession named – Edward, Mary, then Elizabeth
  • France: Italian painter Francesco Primaticcio works at Fontainebleau
  • German States: University of Konigsberg founded
  • Hungary: Typhus in Hungary decimates Imperial army
  • Sweden: Act of hereditary settlement fixes Swedish succession in male line



 
 
 
 
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