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1555| 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. | | 1555 | France [magic and the occult] | The French astrologer Michel de Nostradame publishes his Centuries, a book of predictions for the next 500 years. | | 1555 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) paints Saint George and the Dragon. | | 1555 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Sofonisba Anguissola (one of the few women artists of the period) paints Portrait of the Artist's Three Sisters and their Governess. | | c. 1555 | Netherlands [painting] | The Dutch artist Pieter Breughel (the Elder) paints The Fall of Icarus. | | 9 April 1555 | Papal States, Italy [political events] | The Italian churchman Marcello Cervini is elected as Pope Marcellus II following the death of Pope Julius III on 23 March. | | 23 May 1555 | Rome [Catholicism] | The Italian churchman Gian Pietro Carafa is elected Pope Paul IV following the death of Pope Marcellus II. He is pope until 1559. | | 25 September 1555 | Holy Roman Empire [political events] | The Diet (legislative assembly) of Augsburg promulgates the religious Peace of Augsburg. The religious affiliations of Germany are to be decided on the principle of Curia Regis: the population must follow the religion of their ruler, or emigrate. Citizens of imperial free cities are granted freedom of conscience, as are knights, towns, and clerical territories Protestant before 2 August 1552. Any bishops subsequently converting must abandon their lands. Though none of this applies to Protestants other than Lutherans, and though it is intended as a provisional settlement, it endures until 1618. |
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