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1550–1600North 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.
1554England [religious music]The English composer Thomas Tallis writes the Mass Puer natus est nobis/A Boy is Born to Us. Although he was the first English composer to write music for the Anglican liturgy, he returned to writing Masses during the reign of Mary I of England, a Catholic.
1554Italy [sculpture]Italian artist Benvenuto Cellini completes his sculpture Perseus, which is set up in a square in Florence, Italy.
c. 1554England [births and deaths]Walter Raleigh, English adventurer and colonizer of North America, born in Hayes Barton, Devon (–1618).
1554Italy [painting]The Italian artist Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) paints Danaë and Venus and Adonis.
12 February 1554England [crime and punishment]Following the dangerous Wyatt's Rebellion against Queen Mary I of England, Lady Jane Grey, titular queen of England for nine days (1553), her father (Henry, duke of Suffolk), her husband (Lord Guildford Dudley), and 46 commoners are beheaded in London, England (16).
May 1554France, Holy Roman Empire, Spanish Netherlands [Habsburg–Valois Wars (1494–1559)]King Henry II of France invades the Spanish Netherlands along the River Meuse; capturing the fortress of Marienburg, his army under Francis of Guise, Prince of Joinville, routs Habsburg imperial forces at Renty.
25 July 1554England, Spain, Naples, Italy [political events]Queen Mary I of England marries Philip of Spain (the future king Philip II) in Winchester, England. Philip is granted the kingdom of Naples by his father the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.


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Annabel Patterson's edition of the 1554 trial of Nicholas Throckmorton provides an opportunity to examine the contemporary transcript of a state trial for high treason, and to consider how treason was appropriated by later political theorists to justify the overthrow of monarchs deemed unfit to rule.
The Trial of Nicholas Throckmorton by MORE, REBECCA S. / Renaissance Quarterly
He has also supplied, in an appendix, the incipits of the Greek odes in the order in which they appear in Etienne's Editio Princeps of 1554, along with the corresponding numbers in the Teubner and Loeb editions.
Anacreon Redivivus: A Study of Anacreontic Translation in ... by Allaire, Joseph L. / Renaissance Quarterly
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