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1597| 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. | | 1597 | Persia, Central Asia, Safavid Empire [wars] | Shah Abbas I the Great of Safavid Persia's new Ghulam army (comprising slave Circassian and Georgian converts) defeats the Uzbekhs to secure the disputed province of Khorasan (in modern Afghanistan). He makes Esfahan his new capital, building magnificent new palaces and mosques and encouraging carpet manufacture. | | 1597 | England [philosophy] | English statesman and writer Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, publishes Essays: Civil and Moral, his first book of essays. A second, enlarged edition appears in 1612. | | 1597 | England [songs] | The English composer John Dowland publishes his first Book of Songs and Ayers. | | March - August 1597 | United Netherlands, Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire [Dutch Revolt (1598–1609)] | Count Maurice of Nassau, stadtholder (provincial executive officer) of the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel, with a small and highly mobile army, takes many towns on the eastern frontiers of the United Provinces from the Spanish Habsburgs, including Rheinfelden and Moers on the River Rhine and Lingen on the River Ems. |
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Abbas I, the Great
Acuña, Cristóval de
Ammerbach, Elias Nikolaus
Bodley, Thomas
Drayton, Michael
East, Thomas
Gabrieli, Giovanni
Gosswin, Antonius
Herrera, Fernando de
Holborne, Anthony
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Kieft, Willem
Lindner, Friedrich
Loewenberg, Alfred
Mazzocchi, Virgilio
Morley, Thomas
Norris, John
O'Byrne, Fiach MacHugh
Pace, Pietro
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| The death of his only son, Hamnet, in 1596, must have been a severe blow to him, but he obtained from the Heralds' College the grant of a family coat of arms, which secured the position of the family as gentlefolks; in 1597 he purchased New Place, the largest house in Stratford; and later on he acquired other large property rights there. Problemata (with writings of other philosophers), 1597, 1607, 1680, 1684, etc. |