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World

Population: 511 Million*

Entertainment: Art includes Pieter Brueghel "Christ Carrying the Cross" (and son born)
Music includes one of Andrea Amati's first violins made
Exploration: John Hawkins leaves on second voyage to New World
Medicine: Bartolommeo Eustachio creates "Opuscula anatomica"
Religion: Council of Trent's "Professio Fidei" confirmed by Pope Pius IV
Scot's Psalter written
Index librorum prohibitorum published after receiving papal approval
Science: Andreas Vesalius has death sentence commuted by making pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Births: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Galileo Galilei
Deaths: Religious reformer John Calvin, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Physician and artist Andreas Vesalius, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I

General: Peace of Troyes ends war between England and France
England: Robert Lord Dudley made Earl of Leicester
English Merchant Adventurers Company granted new royal charter
Horse-drawn coach introduced in England from Holland
Plague outbreak
France: Catherine de' Medici presents son Charles IX to his subjects on three-month tour of France
Philibert Delorme begins work on the Tuileries in Paris
Holy Roman Empire: Death of Ferdinand I the HRE succeeded by son Maximilian II to 1576
Italian States: Philip Neri founds Congregation of the Oratory in Rome
Jacopo Tintoretto paints for the Scuola di San Rocco
Poland: Counter Reformation begins in Poland
Russia: Ivan IV of Russia forced to withdraw from Moscow regarding power struggle against boyars - reign of terror begins