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1552| 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. | | 4 April 1552 | Holy Roman Empire, France [wars] | Maurice, Elector of Saxony, and Albert Alcibiades II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, leading the German Protestant armies, in concert with King Henry II of France in Lorraine, against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, take Augsburg, the largest and richest German city. | | July - August 1552 | Holy Roman Empire [treaties] | Archduke Ferdinand I of Austria, king of the Romans (the German king), organizes a princely peace congress at Passau; in the eventual treaty the Lutherans are granted free exercise of their religion in Germany, annulling the Augsburg Interim of 1548; John Frederick of Saxony and Philip of Hesse are released from imprisonment; and, on the insistence of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, a diet is to be called to make a permanent settlement. | | 29 December 1552 | France [births and deaths] | Henri I de Bourbon, second Prince of Condé, French Huguenot leader, born in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, France (–1588). |
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