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1568| 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. | | 1568–1571 | Spain [political events] | The Moriscos (nominally converted Muslims) revolt in Granada, Spain, against the anti-Arab decree of 1 January 1567 and the depredations of the Monfís (bandits of the sierras). Iñigo López de Mendoza, Marquis of Mondéjar, subdues the initial revolt by February 1569, but atrocities and robbery by his troops stimulate continued resistance. | | 23 March 1568 | France [treaties] | The Treaty of Longjumeau, signed by Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, against the advice of his fellow Huguenot (French Protestant) Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, ends the Second War of Religion in France; confirming the concessions of the 1563 Treaty of Amboise, it effects no more than a truce; King Charles IX pays off the German Protestant forces employed by the Huguenots. | | 25 April 1568 | Holy Roman Empire, Spanish Netherlands [Dutch Revolt (1598–1609)] | A German force in the pay of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, and led by Jean de Montigny, lord of Villers, is destroyed by the Spanish Habsburg forces at Dalheim in Limburg, the Netherlands, in a major setback to William's plans for a concerted Protestant attack on the Spanish authorities. Calvinist terrorists in Flanders (called the ‘Bosgeuzen’, or ‘ Wood Beggers’) have been rounded up in February. | | September 1568 | France [French Wars of Religion (1562–80)] | After Catherine de' Medici and the Guise faction have the religious toleration (granted by the treaties of Amboise and Longjumeau) rescinded, the Huguenots (French Protestants) mobilize in the Midi, as far as Beaujolais; the Third War of Religion in France breaks out in Périgord, Quercy, and Guyenne. | | 9 November - 28 December 1568 | Japan [political events] | Having swept aside Kitabatake, Miyoshi, and Rokkaku opposition, the Japanese military ruler Oda Nobunaga enters Kyoto at the head of his army, where he installs Ashikaga Yoshiaki as shogun (military ruler) on 28 December. |
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