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1567| 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. | | 1567 | England [Christianity] | Separatist congregations (Puritans who seek to separate from the Church of England) meet secretly in London, England. | | 1567 | Russia [political events] | The Russian tsar Ivan IV (‘the Terrible’) gains his epithet when, after hearing of plots by boyars (aristocratic landowners), he allocates half of Russia to an oprichnina (a separately administered royal territory) and unleashes his royal bodyguard, the oprichniky, on the boyars, the church, and the populace. | | 1567 | England [plays] | The play Ralph Roister Doister, written by the English dramatist and schoolmaster Nicholas Udall in the 1550s, is published. It is the earliest known original English comedy. | | May 1567 | Italy [births and deaths] | Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer, key developer of secular music and particularly of opera as a musical genre with works such as Orfeo/Orpheus (1607), born in Cremona, Italy (–1643). | | 15 June - 17 June 1567 | Scotland [political events] | The Scottish nobility, outraged by Mary Queen of Scots's marriage to the Earl of Bothwell, who is widely regarded as a murderer and usurper, rises and defeats a loyalist army at Carberry Hill. Mary is taken captive, and imprisoned in Lochleven Castle, Fife, on 17 June. Bothwell escapes to Norway. | | 5 September 1567 | Holy Roman Empire, Spanish Netherlands [political events] | A fortnight after arriving in Brussels, the Netherlands, at the head of 10,000 Spanish and Italian veterans, the captain general Ferdinand, Duke of Alva (or Alba), establishes the Council of the Troubles, a tribunal controlled by Spanish officials to eradicate Protestant heresy and Netherlands autonomy. Its terrorist methods lead to its nickname the ‘Council of Blood’. | | 29 September 1567 | France [French Wars of Religion (1562–80)] | Huguenot (French Protestant) forces under Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, fail in their attempt to seize the young French king Charles IX and his mother Catherine de' Medici at Meaux, France; the royal family, guarded by Swiss mercenaries, flees to Paris, France, which the Huguenots besiege. Many provincial towns are once again under Protestant control. |
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