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1585| 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. | | 1585 | Italy [painting] | Italian artist Veronese (Paolo Caliari) completes his frescoes in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doge's Palace in Venice, Italy. One of the best-known images is The Triumph of Venice. | | 24 April 1585 | Papal States, Italy [political events] | Felice Peretti is elected Pope Sixtus V, following the death of Gregory XIII on 10 April. He is pope until 1590. | | 19 May 1585 | Spain, England [political events] | English shipping in Spanish ports is confiscated, serving as a declaration of war on England; Queen Elizabeth I of England launches a counter-embargo and orders reprisals. | | 7 July 1585 | France [treaties] | Henri, Duke of Guise, at the head of the Catholic League, forces King Henry III of France and his mother Catherine de' Medici into signing the Treaty of Nemours, in which he capitulates to their demands for revoking all toleration of the Huguenots (French Protestants), and recognizing Cardinal Charles de Bourbon as his successor, rather than the Protestant king Henry of Navarre; this provokes the War of the Three Henries. | | 9 September 1585 | France [births and deaths] | Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal et duc de Richelieu, (‘Cardinal Richelieu’), chief minister (1624–42) to King Louis XIII of France, who defeated the Habsburg hegemony in Europe, born in Richelieu, Poitou, France (–1642). |
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