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1575| 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. | | 1575 | England [fiction] | The English poet George Gascoigne publishes Posies, a selection of his works. It contains the play Jocasta, the second tragedy in English blank verse, paraphrased from the Phoenissae by the Greek dramatist Euripides, and ‘Certain Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse’, the earliest critical essay of its kind in English literature. | | 15 February 1575 | France [political events] | King Henry III of France marries Louise de Vaudémont of Lorraine, thus allying himself with the Catholic House of Guise against the Huguenot (French Protestant) and Politique (moderate Catholic) parties. | | 15 August - 17 August 1575 | France [French Wars of Religion (1562–80)] | Francis, Duke of Alençon, the brother and heir to King Henry III of France, escapes from court to declare himself, at Dreux on 17 August, in league with Henri I de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, the Huguenot (French Protestant) leader, and the Palatine Calvinist army under Johann Casimir, invading from Germany. | | 8 November 1575 | France [French Wars of Religion (1562–80)] | Francis, Duke of Alençon, Politique (moderate Catholic) heir to the French throne, negotiates a truce with his brother King Henry III through their mother Catherine de' Medici at Marigny. He is granted the duchy of Anjou and garrisons in Berry, Poitou, and Saintogne; his Huguenot (French Protestant) allies are to retain the concessions of the 1573 Peace of Boulogne and are allowed to keep their army, under Henri I de Bourbon, at Mézières. |
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