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1595| 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. | | 1595 | England [poetry] | An Apologie for Poetrie (often entitled The Defence of Poetry) by the English poet Philip Sidney is published posthumously. | | 1595 | England [poetry] | The English poet Edmund Spenser publishes Amoretti, a sonnet sequence, ‘Epithalamion’, an ode on marriage, and ‘Colin Clout's Come Home Again’, an autobiographical poem. | | c. 1595 | England [poetry] | The English poet John Donne writes many of his best-known poems over the next five or six years, including ‘Go and Catch a Falling Star’, ‘The Canonization’, ‘Thous Hast Made Me’, and ‘Death Be Not Proud’. | | 16 January 1595 | Ottoman Empire [political events] | The Ottoman sultan Murad III dies; he is succeeded by his son Mehmed III, though Mehmed's mother Safiye Sultan continues to hold much of the power in the Porte. | | 17 January 1595 | France, Spain [wars] | King Henry IV of France declares war on Spain, King Philip II of Spain having tried to enforce the claims of a Spanish pretender to the French throne. | | September 1595 | Poland [births and deaths] | Wladyslaw IV Vasa, King of Poland 1632–48, who secured Poland against the Russians and Ottomans, born in Kraków, Poland (–1648). | | 25 October - 27 October 1595 | Ottoman Empire, Wallachia, Transylvania, Habsburg Monarchy [Habsburg–Ottoman Wars (1525–1718)] | The allied forces of Sigismund Báthory and Michael the Brave, Princes of Transylvania and Wallachia, destroy the Ottoman army in Wallachia at Giurgiu, on the River Danube, and expel them from the province. Their Habsburg imperial allies capture the fortress of Gran (Esztergom) in Hungary. |
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