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World History Timeline - 1590
Prime Minister Toyotomi (rich citizen) Hideyoshi unites Japan and moves the capital to Edo.
The compound microscope is invented by Zacharias Janssen of Denmark, which pioneers the study of microorganisms.
Edmund Spenser of England writes the great poetic epic The Faerie Queen.
William Shakespeare of England presents his first play, King Henry VI, in London.
Non-Catholic Henry IV secures the French throne and lays siege to Paris, starving 13,000 inhabitants of the city.
The English colony on Roanoke Island is found to have mysteriously disappeared, with only the word Croatan left as a clue.
French mathematician Francois Viete, the father of algebra, introduces the use of letters into mathematics.
Japan's dictator Hideyoshi invades Korea, but the Japanese fleet is ravaged by a Chinese ironclad.
Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei moves from Pisa to Padua after being criticized for his proposition that matter falls at a constant rate regardless of weight.
England's prolific playwright William Shakespeare writes The Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of Verona, King John, and Love's Labours Lost.
Henry IV of France becomes Catholic in order to satisfy his country's cry for a Catholic King saying Paris is worth a mass.
The key trading agency called Dutch East India Company is formed after Lisbon closes the spice market to the English and Dutch.
Ottoman Sultan Murad III dies after fathering 102 children and is succeeded by his son Mohammed III, who kills his brothers and murders his father's concubines.
Sir Francis Drake of England dies on his ship in the West Indies.
A traveling German notes the blackness of England's Queen Elizabeth's teeth, which leads to the first recorded connection between tooth decay and sugar.
Henry IV issues the Edict of Nantes, which permits the Huguenots to practice Protestantism and attempts to mitigate religious intolerance.
Despite Japanese dictator Hideyoshi's attempts to remove Christian missionaries, many remain; his death leaves Japan in disarray.
Spanish poet Lope de Vega pens Arcadia.
In China, playwright Tan Xiansu writes The Peony Pavilian, and Ben Jonson of England pens Every Man in His Humours.
English playwright William Shakespeare writes Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice.
Irishmen Hugh Roe O'Donnell and Hugh O'Neill petition Spain's King Phillip II for help in gaining political and religious freedom from England.
The great scientist Francis Bacon of England publishes Essays.
The tomato arrives in England.
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