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Sep 1, 1501
The world has a population of around 435 million – about one-fourteenth today's population of 6.4 billion.
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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.
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Apr 2, 1550
Jews were expelled from Genoa Italy
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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.
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Sep 1, 1571
Returned to Scotland
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Sep 1, 1572
Married Elizabeth Sterling
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began to work on logarithms
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi expands his rule to all of Japan.
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His work, “A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John” was published
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The Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.
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Church authorities in Rome burn Hebrew books
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The Dutch defeat a Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
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Henry IV of France, a progressive king who is religiously tolerant, is assassinated by François Ravaillac, who is unbalanced and highly religious.
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His work, Description of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithm ws publilshed
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John Napier died
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Napier developed a mechanical method for performing multiplication and division. This method was know as napiers bones
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His work, Study of Divining Rods was published
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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.
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the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms was published
