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1550| 1547–1552 | Russia, Central Asia [wars] | Tsar Ivan IV (‘the Terrible’) of Russia mounts two unsuccessful assaults on Kazan before taking the city and deposing its khan, beginning the Russian conquest of the Tatar lands. | | 1550–1600 | North America, South America, Europe [trade] | New agricultural products are exchanged between the New and Old Worlds. The Spanish introduce potatoes, tomatoes, quinine, cocoa, tapioca, and tobacco to Europe. From Europe, the New World gains barley, oats, rye, sugar cane, cattle, pigs, poultry, rabbits, and horses. | | 1550 | Portugal, Japan [trade] | The Portuguese establish their first trading post in Japan at Hirado, near Nagasaki. | | 1550 | Italy [art] | The Italian artist and art historian Giorgio Vasari publishes Vite dei più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e archittetti/Lives of the Most Excellent Artists, Sculptors, and Architects – a history of Italian Renaissance art from Giotto to his own day. An enlarged edition appears in 1568. | | 1550 | Scotland [births and deaths] | John Napier (or Neper), Scottish mathematician and theologian who developed the concept of logarithms, born in Merchiston Castle, near Edinburgh, Scotland (–1617). | | c. 1550 | England [cricket] | An English court case of 1598 refers to ‘crickett’ being played at the ‘Free School’ at Guildford, Surrey, at this time. It is the first certain reference to cricket. | | 7 February 1550 | Papal States, Italy [political events] | After a very long conclave, Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, co-president of the Council of Trent, is elected as Pope Julius III, the successor to Pope Paul III, who died on 10 November 1549. | | 29 March 1550 | England, France, Scotland [treaties] | By the Peace of Boulogne, England returns the northern French port of Boulogne to France four years earlier than specified in the 1546 Peace of Ardres, for 400,000 crowns, and withdraws from Scotland; King Henry II of France, now free to oppose the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, has a free hand there. |
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