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1571| 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. | | 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. | | 1569–1573 | England, Ireland [wars] | James Fitzmaurice attempts to raise Ireland in Catholic rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I of England and the ‘Plantations’ (English colonies) in his native Munster and Leinster. Though the resistance succeeds in ejecting the colonists, he eventually surrenders to John Perrot, the English lord deputy of Ireland. | | 1571 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) paints Crowning with Thorns. | | 1571 | Italy [philosophy] | The Italian physician and botanist Andrea Cesalpino publishes Quaestionum peripateticarum/Peripatetic Investigations in Venice, Italy, a work of Aristotelian natural philosophy. | | 27 January 1571 | Persia [births and deaths] | 'Abbas I the Great, Shah of Persia 1588–1629, who expelled the Ottomans and Uzbekhs from Persia, born (–1629). | | August 1571 | Spain [political events] | Under Don John of Austria, half-brother of King Philip II of Spain, royal troops finally eliminate the guerrilla resistance of the Moriscos (nominally converted Muslims) of Granada, Spain. The Moriscos are deported and settled across Castile amongst ‘Old Christian’ village neighbours. | | 27 December 1571 | Germany [births and deaths] | Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, who discovered the elliptical nature of orbits, born in Weil der Stadt, Württemberg (now Germany) (–1630). |
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