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World

Population: 542 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Cervantes Don Quixote part II, George Chapman (translation of Homer's Odyssey, Samuel Coster (farce), George Ruggle (farce about Cambridge), William Camden (Elizabeth I), Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne (Huguenot-inspired history) - banned in Paris, Antoine de Montchretien (mercantilism)
Art includes Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini "Amalthea", Domenichino "Scenes from the Life of St. Cecilia", Reubens "The Battle of the Amazons"
Religion: Jesuits count 13,112 members
Pope Clement VIII gives papal approval of coffee
Science: Galileo Galilei faces Inquisition for first time
Deaths: Novelist Mateo Aleman, Marguerie de Valois, Lady Arabella Suart (in Tower of London), Scientist Giambattista della Porta

General: Manchus unite under Nurhachi and begin the conquest of then ailing Ming empire in China
China: Tribes in Northern China form military organizations called Manchus to 1620
India: English fleet defeate Portuguese off coast of Bombay
Japan: Start of persecution of Christians
Moluccas: (Spice Islands off Japan) Dutch seize Moluccas from Portuguese

General: Exchange of Bourbon and Hapsburg brides at Burgos – Louis XIII marries Anna of Austria and Philip of the Asturias marries Elizabeth of Bourbon
England: Inigo Jones becomes England's chief architect
Merchant Adventurers granted monopoly for export of English cloth
George Villiers becomes James' favorite
Burning Fever (Hot Ague?) outbreak
Construction of the Bodleian Library at Oxford begins
France: French States General dismissed with promises of reforms
Salomon de Brosse works on Palais de Luxembourg in Paris
German States: Frankfurter OberpostamtsZeitung founded by Egenolph Emmel
Holland: By now Dutch have reclaimed over 70,000 acres of farmland from the sea
Holy Roman Empire: Peace of Tyranu – emperor Matthias recognizes Bethlen Gabor as Prince of Transylvania – confirms treaty with Turks
Italian States: Adriano Banchieri founds Accademia dei Filomusi in Bologna