So I get to write the 1600th post as well, eh?

06.12.05, 20:30

So, what happened in 1600?

Well, in England, the following things happened:

1. The Earl of Essex got de-earled for mucking about in Ireland
2. The East India Company got its Royal Charter
3. Earth's magnetism discovered by William Gilbert
4. A chap called Will Kemp morris danced all the way from London to Norwich
5. William Shakespeare wrote 3 plays; to wit: Henry V, As you like it, and
Much Ado about 0.

What about Poland, what happened in Poland in 1600?
    • ianek70 Re: So I get to write the 1600th post as well, eh 07.12.05, 11:23
      Scotland, AD 1600.

      1. New Year is celebrated on Jan 1st for the first time (previously on March
      25th)
      2. In August, the Gowrie Conspiracy culminates in a series of bloody murders,
      bringing to an end the Age of Plots and Conspiracies (1584 - 1600).
      3. Hallowe'en passes off without incident. Or fun, which has recently been
      banned and the only entertainment now available to most people is drinking and
      rumpy-pumpy. On the bright side, since nobody is allowed to dress up, real
      witches are now more easy to identify. And burn.
      4. Nov 19th. The future King Charles I is born in Dunfermline.
      5. December. A sudden light snowfall probably causes transport chaos.
      • usenetposts Re: So I get to write the 1600th post as well, eh 08.12.05, 15:24
        That was informative, thanks for that. Still waiting for what happened in
        Poland in 1600, though...
        • nasza_maggie Re: So I get to write the 1600th post as well, eh 08.12.05, 16:52
          www.zum.de/whkmla/region/eceurope/nobrep.html
          Over the 15th and 16th century, Poland had extended it's territory toward the
          Baltic sea. The Estates of (West) Prussia had accepted Polish sovereignty in
          1454, the Duchy in Prussia in 1525, the Estates of Livonia in 1561, the Duchy
          of Courland in 1561, the city of Riga in 1582. West Prussia was integrated into
          Poland within a century, providing the crucial link to the sea. The other
          areas, including the cities of Danzig, Thorn and Elbing (Parts of West Prussia)
          remained autonomous and essentially German in character, and turned protestant
          while Poland after the counterreformation was staunchly catholic. They had
          become Polish because the prospects of preserving their autonomy and identity
          had been best under a Polish king.
          Estonia, for centuries part of Livonia, had opted for the King of Sweden as
          their protector; stretches of western Estonia had become Danish. In Livonia
          there was a desire for reuniting Estonia with Livonia and Poland's new King,
          Sigismund III. Wasa, designated successor to Sweden's throne, on the occasion
          of his coronation (1587) promised to reunify (Swedish) Estonia with Livonia and
          place it under Polish sovereignty. In 1592 his father died, and Sigismund was
          also crowned King of Sweden. He delivered on his promise, ceding Estonia to
          Poland in 1600. Sigismund's position as King of Sweden was everything but
          secure. He was a Catholic King of a Lutheran country, and the Swedes, fearing
          that he might call in the Jesuits, deposed him the same year (1600). The
          cession of Estonia was never realized. The Swedes elected another Wasa king, a
          Lutheran, of course. But Sigismund, who continued to rule in Poland, never gave
          up his claim on Sweden's throne. From now on, Poland and Sweden were
          archenemies.
          In Russia, Czar IVAN THE TERRIBLE had died in 1584. Russia under him had been a
          threat to it's neighbours; now it was in a state of confusion. There were those
          pretending to be Ivan's (deceased) son Demetrius, and Russia's BOJARS
          (nobility) formed factions supporting various candidates. The two false
          Demetrii called in Polish noblemen for help; another candidate for the throne,
          WASSILY SHUISKY, called the Swedes in for help. Now a faction of the Bojars
          offered the crown to Wladislav, son of King Sigismund III. The Polish army
          defeated the Swedes and their allies, and entered Moscow in triumph (1610).
          However, Sigismund claimed the Czar's crown for himself. Russia's Bojars
          demanded him to convert to the Russian Orthodox Church and to move his
          residence to Moscow. Sigismund, a staunch Catholic, did not want to givbe in on
          these points. In 1612, the Poles were expelled by a national Russian revolt;
          the Russians crowned Michael Romanow Czar. In 1619, Russia and Poland signed
          the PEACE OF DEULINO, in which Poland recognized the new Russian dynasty,
          Russia ceded the territories of Smolensk, Severia, Chernigov and other
          stretches previously Lithuanian. In 1634, Wladislav renounced his claim to
          Russia's throne.

          Between 1592 and 1600 there had been a DYNASTIC UNION between Poland and
          Sweden. Between 1610 and 1612 there had been an even shorter opportunity to
          establish another Dynastic Union uniting Poland-Lithuania and Russia. Both
          failed because the question of confession could not be resolved. If Poland had
          stuck to it's pre-Counterreformation policy of TOLERANCE, history might have
          followed a different path.
          Late in the 16th century, VODKA was produced in large quantities (from rye),
          and it would become a major export item.
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