The world has a population of around 435 million – about one-fourteenth today's population of 6.4 billion.
Sep 1, 1502
Christopher Columbus begins his fourth and last journey to the Caribbean. He still believes that the islands he has found lay off the coast of India.
Apr 2, 1550
Jews were expelled from Genoa Italy
Sep 1, 1550
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John Napier was born
Sep 1, 1560
The Portuguese drive the French Huguenots from Rio de Janeiro, killing some of them. Portuguese begin building their own settlement there.
Sep 1, 1571
Returned to Scotland
Sep 1, 1572
Married Elizabeth Sterling
began to work on logarithms
Toyotomi Hideyoshi expands his rule to all of Japan.
His work, “A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John” was published
The Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.
Church authorities in Rome burn Hebrew books
The Dutch defeat a Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
Henry IV of France, a progressive king who is religiously tolerant, is assassinated by François Ravaillac, who is unbalanced and highly religious.
His work, Description of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithm ws publilshed
John Napier died
Napier developed a mechanical method for performing multiplication and division. This method was know as napiers bones
His work, Study of Divining Rods was published
Ships are carrying 50,000 pounds of cured tobacco annually from Virginia to England. Smoking has become a fad in England, with King James describing it as "loathsome," harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs.
