Events

• the barbaresque corsairs operate more and more in the north of the Adriatique.

• Balthazar Gerard assassinates Guillaume Ier of Orange-Nassau to the Prinsenhof of Delft the July 10th 1584.

Economy & company

• the Maghreb: Development of the Mitidja, which produces for a town of growing Algiers, cattle, milk and butter, broad beans, chick-peas, lenses, melons, cucumbers, poultries, pigeons, corn and barley. It exports wax, leathers and silk.

• Degradation of the economic situation in France. The investors ignore the activities at the risk, like the maritime trade, become less lucrative, to place their money in the ground rent or movable. The destruction and plunderings of people of war or the bands of brigands worsen the situation. The troop movements support the propagation of the epidemics. The rents crumble and the prices fly away.

• One notes for the period 1580 - 1600 compared to the years 1550 - 1570 a fall of the Dîme S and products of the tenant farming of approximately a third for the areas of North, of a fifth or a quarter in the Paris region, from 35 to 43% in the areas of Center-Is (Burgundy, Auvergne, Lyonnais) and of the Mediterranean South.

• Crisis in the exploitation of the mines of Iron of the Erzberg of Styrie, close to Leoben after the departure of the Protestants driven out by the Counter-Reformation (1580 - 1650).

• the Hungary, country primarily agrarian and mining, is the first world meat exporter (200  000 oxen in 1580). It exports also skins, copper, wine and cereals.

Demography

• Less than 2 million Indians to the Mexico.
• the France account 19,3 million inhabitants (current borders).

Culture

• the Elzevier, printers with Leyde, print more than 2000 titles between 1580 and 1652.
• Eight printing works with Cracow. The first printers are Germans, like the Ungler, Wietor and the brothers Szarffenberg.

Significant characters

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Simple: 1580s