Years 1560
Events
- Cooling of the climate of 1560 with 1600.
- Beginning of the wars of religion in France.
- Beginnings of the rebellions with the Seventeen provinces of the Netherlands Habsbourg, release of the Eighty Year old War officially in 1568.
- Strike of the Dîme S in France during the years 1560 by the peasants huguenots and more generally by the dissatisfied villagers.
- Decline of the production of Toulouse Pastel (1560 - 1600).
Demography
- Stabilization of the population and the product gross agricultural in Europe.
- the European population reaches its level of 1340. It is stabilized (1560 - 1740) by the evolution of the matrimonial habits (female celibacy, delay of the age of the marriage, rejection of the natural children).
- the France account approximately 20 million inhabitants, including 85 to 90% the rural ones. Paris reached 300 000 inhabitants. Rouen 70 000. The full number of the townsmen of the cities of more than 2000 inhabitants does not exceed 2 million (2,5 at the most).
- the English population doubles between 1560 and 1660.
Significant characters
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Michel-Angel (death in 1564)
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
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Edition of the first treaty of geometry in Polish language.
Simple: 1560s
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