wiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
Jan 10, 1550
1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
Jan 22, 1575
English Queen Elizabeth I grants composers Thomas Tallis & William Byrd music press monopoly
English explorer John Mildenhall leaves Aleppo with a caravan of 600 people bound for Lahore - one of the first Englishmen to reach India overland
Prince Frederick Henry is appointed Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel
Dutch Stadtholder William II and Amsterdam reach an accord about a standing army
Don Carlos de Gurrea becomes Spanish land guardian of Southern Netherlands