1550
– 1600
|
Political
& Diplomatic |
Intellectual
& Cultural |
Social
& Economic |
|
Philip
II of Spain |
Golden
Age of Spanish Literature |
Putting
Out System |
|
Bloody
Mary |
Peace
of Augsburg 1555 |
Commercial/Price
Revolution |
|
Elizabeth
I |
John
Knox & Reform in Scotland |
Witchcraft
Persecution begins |
|
Turk
defeat at Lepanto |
Wars
of Religion in France |
Crop
Rotation |
|
Spanish
Armada 1588 |
MontaigneÕs
Essays |
|
|
Henry
of Navarre |
St.
BartÕs Massacre 1572 |
|
|
Catherine
de Medici |
Edict
of Nantes 1598 |
|
|
|
Duke
of Alba |
|
|
|
1559
Act of Supremacy |
|
|
|
1563
39 Articles |
|
|
|
Brahe Kepler |
|
EuropeÕs population experienced a drop in this
period. About 20% lived in
cities. They were mostly manual
labor. Crime increased and the
poor could not afford to live. The
nuclear family continued in the
west while in the east the extended family was the rule. Aristocratic women
married young, common women married later. Generally, upper class women had 8-9, lower
class 6-7 live births. Childhood
did not exist—children worked.
No mandatory schooling. Leisure was usually communal---carnivals,
charivari.