1560s

1560s

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.


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