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1592| 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. | | 1590–1600 | China, Ming Empire [wars] | The Chinese warlord Yang Yinglong maintains his rebellion against Ming imperial forces in the Huguang–Sichuan–Guizhou border region of China until veterans of the war in Choson (modern Korea) under Li Hualong annihilate the insurgents. | | 30 January 1592 | Papal States, Italy [political events] | Ippolito Aldobrandini becomes Pope Clement VIII, succeeding Innocent IX who died on 30 December 1591. | | 15 July 1592 | Japan, Korea [wars] | Invading Japanese forces under Konishi Yukinaga defeat the remnants of the royal Choson (Korean) army at the Taedong River and capture Pyongyang. However, guerrilla resistance stiffens and the control of the Japanese over most of the country is nominal as they await an order to invade China. | | 13 September 1592 | France [births and deaths] | Michel de Montaigne, French writer, creator of the essay as a literary genre, dies (59). | | 27 November 1592 | Sweden, Poland-Lithuania [political events] | King John III of Sweden dies; he is succeeded by his son Sigismund III Vasa, Catholic king of Poland, as King Sigismund I. The Lutheran clergy and nobility prepare to resist any attempts at re-Catholicization. | | 3 December 1592 | Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire [political events] | When Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma and Habsburg governor of the Spanish Netherlands, dies before his uncle King Philip II of Spain can sack Him, having failed to subdue the revolutionary regime of the United Netherlands in the north, he has, however, succeeded in reconquering the southern Netherlands (modern Belgium) for Spain and Catholicism. Ernst, archduke of Austria, is eventually appointed governor in his place. |
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