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

• Michel-Angel (death in 1564)

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Edition of the first treaty of geometry in Polish language.

Simple: 1560s