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1596| 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. | | 1596 | South America, Central America [transport] | The first wheeled vehicles are introduced to the New World by Spanish colonists. | | 28 January 1596 | Panama, England [births and deaths] | Sir Francis Drake, most famous English admiral of the Elizabethan Age, circumnavigator of the globe, dies at sea off Puerto Belo, Panama (c. 50). | | March - July 1596 | France [French Wars of Religion (1562–80)] | Jean Louis de Nogaret de la Valette, Duke of Epernon and former favourite of the late king Henry III of France, submits to King Henry IV; with the death of Jacques de Savoie, Duke of Nemours, in July, the Rhône Valley is secured for Henry, though Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, remains hostile in the Alps. | | 31 March 1596 | France [births and deaths] | René Descartes, French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, considered to be the founder of modern philosophy, whose best-known work is Discours de la méthode/Discourse on Method (1637), born in La Haye, Touraine, France (–1650). | | 16 May 1596 | United Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, England, France, Spain [treaties] | The Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, Advocaat of Holland, mediates in the formation of a triple alliance against Spain; England, France, and the United Netherlands sign a formal treaty at Greenwich, London, England, against their mutual enemy. |
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