Events

• Advanced glaciers in Dauphine Savoy and .

Africa

• At the end of the 16th century, the Royaume of Loango (Right Bank of the River Congo) is released from the supervision of the empire Kongo and becomes primarily an exporting shopping mall of copper and the slaves.
• At the end of the 14th century, the sovereign of the Mali maintains its authority on a very reduced territory.
• Conversion of kings of the Barguirmi to the Islam.

America

• Brazil: Beginning of the Bandeiras , great forwardings which inside will seek gold and the Indians to reduce them in slavery. The base of the will bandeïras was São Paulo, small village with 1000 meters of altitude in the coastal crystalline solid mass with the height of São Vicente.

Asia

• At the end of the 16th century, the Kazakh people , born from the interbreeding between Mongolian and Turks, is divided into three hordes: the Small Horde (between the river the Ural and the Sarysou), the Average Horde and the Large Horde (on the Tchou and the Ili).

Economy & company

• Plague in Europe. Bad harvests (1590 - 1602). Retreat of the rural population (1590 - 1599).

• Price stability in Europe (1590 - 1610), which reached their secular maximum (multiplied by 3,5 compared to 1500).
• Series of banking bankruptcies in Italy (1590 - 1610): Banco di Santo Spirito with Rome, Sant' Ambrogio with Milan…

• Dutch Trade in the Mediterranean (cereals of the Baltic , wood of Norway, produced Eastern).

• Maximum of money exports of America towards the Europe (1590 - 1600).

• Thanks to the dynamism of the capital, the Paris basin sees developing under Henri IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV of great agricultural domains (up to hundred ha or more). Their owners-rassembleurs (noble, clerks, officers, merchants) yawn them with large-scale farmer, known under the denomination of “receivers of seigniory” or “cock of village”. They reach a good productivity, although lower than their congeneric British of the basin of London of cattle Ovin and manure in sufficient quantity. Rural real wages, after its collapse of the 16th century, cease to decrease to increase a little under Louis XIII and Louis XIV.

Significant characters

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• the Dutch inventors Hans and Zacharias Jansen undoubtedly invent the optical Microscope.
• possible Invention in Italy of the Telescope.
• Venice authorizes the purchase of boats abroad: between 1590 and 1616, 11 come from Holland, 7 of Patnos, 4 of the Black Sea, one of Constantinople, one of the Basque Country, one of Gibraltar.
• With the Netherlands, generalization of the flute ( Vlieboot ) for the Atlantic trade , lighter, handy commercial vessel, assembled by a reduced crew and entirely devoted to freight.

Simple: 1590s