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1593| 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. | | 1593 | England [poetry] | The English dramatist William Shakespeare publishes the poem ‘Venus and Adonis’. | | January 1593 | Korea, Japan, China, Ming Empire [wars] | A huge Chinese imperial army under Li Rusong enters Korea in support of the vassal Choson state; it pushes the invading Japanese forces back to Seoul. | | 9 May 1593 | Korea, China, Ming Empire, Japan [wars] | The Chinese-Japanese war in Choson (Korea) having reached stalemate in bitter fighting outside the Choson capital Seoul, Shen Weijing, the Chinese emissary, and Konishi Yukinaga, the Japanese commander, agree a ceasefire; the Japanese are to evacuate Seoul but retain a bridgehead at Pusan. | | 30 May 1593 | England [births and deaths] | Christopher Marlowe, Elizabethan poet and dramatist, who established blank verse as a dramatic medium in plays such as Dr Faustus and Tamburlaine the Great, killed in a brawl in Deptford, London, England (29). | | 25 July 1593 | France [political events] | Declaring ‘Paris vaut bien une messe’ (‘Paris is well worth a Mass’), King Henry IV of France abjures Calvinism to become a Roman Catholic, hearing Mass at St Denis. A truce with the Catholic League follows in five days, and Henry enters Paris. | | December 1593 | France [political events] | King Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, secretly (and provisionally) granting the Huguenot (French Protestant) assembly all the concessions of the various previous edicts of pacification. A further Huguenot assembly held at Sainte-Foy in June demands rights to its enforcement in the face of continued Catholic League persecution in the provinces, and full equality in public life for Huguenots. |
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