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
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)