1594| 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. | | 1594 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) completes his painting The Last Supper. | | 22 March 1594 | France [political events] | King Henry IV of France enters Paris, France. Though resistance to his rule continues for some years in the provinces, and popular rebellion against noble and royal exactions is fiercer than ever, the country gradually submits to him as the Catholic League withers. |
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