1560s Totally Explained

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==Births==

William Shakespeare, English playwright.
Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher.

Events and trends

First, second and third French War of Religion.

In 1565, the city of St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on August 28 in modern-day Florida. The city is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.

In 1566, widespread Protestant iconoclasm in the Netherlands led to the start of the Eighty Years' War.

In 1569, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was founded.

Suzanne Erkur manages the imperial silver mint at Kutna Hora in Bohemia.

The sweet potato first enters China from the New World of the Spanish Americas; it would come to replace rice as the major staple crop of the poor in China, and would carry a culturally negative association with poverty up until the Communist era.Further Information

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