Potatoes reach Europe
1570* · Event
Andean potato spreads from Spain to Ireland, then northern Europe; transforms agriculture, fuels population growth.
On these timelines: Master, Spain, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Around 1570
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)