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1566| 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. | | 1566–1570 | England [banking and finance] | The English financier Thomas Gresham builds a ‘Bourse’ for the money market in London, England, which receives a charter as the Royal Exchange the year after its completion. | | 7 January 1566 | Papal States, Italy [political events] | Antonio Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V, succeeding Pius IV who died on 9 December 1565. | | 19 June 1566 | Scotland, England [births and deaths] | James VI of Scotland (1567–1625) and I of England (1603–1625), son of Mary Queen of Scots, born in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland (–1625). | | 5 September 1566 | Hungary, Ottoman Empire [births and deaths] | Suleiman I (‘the Magnificent’ or ‘the Law Giver’), Ottoman sultan 1520–1566, whose reign saw imperial expansion in Europe and the Middle East, and major achievements in Ottoman administration and culture, dies near Szigetvár, Hungary, shortly after he directed his forces in the capture of the fortress of Szigetvár, Hungary, and having brought the Ottoman Empire to its apogee (71). | | 5 September 1566 | Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Hungary [political events] | Following the death of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent, he is succeeded by his son, Selim II the Drunkard. |
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