[caption id=“attachment_2529” align=“alignleft” width=“337”] Tulip fields in the Netherlands[/caption] In the year 1560, Denmark buys the Estonian island of Saaremaa (Apr 15), Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto in the Battle of Okehazama (Jun 12), the Treaty of Edinburgh is signed, and thus ends the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland (Jul 9), the Roman Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in Scotland (Aug 17), Eric XIV becomes King of Sweden upon the death of his father Gustav Vasa (Sep 29). Also, the first tulip bulb is brought from Turkey to the Netherlands, Jean Nicot introduces tobacco in the form of snuff to the French court, the great age of piracy in the Caribbean starts around this time – and all these fine people were born: 1560-xxxx Anthonie Duyck* Grand Pensionary of Holland/journal writer -Den Haag (1629/c.69) 1560-0101 Hugh Myddelton* clothmaker/ mine-owner/banker - Wales (1631/71) 1560-0129 Scipione Dentice* keyboard composer - Naples (1633/73) 1560-0625 Wilhelm_Fabry* surgeon – Hilden, Germany (1634/73) 1560-0807 Elisabeth Báthory* serial killer – Nyírbátor, Kingdom of Hungary (1614/54) 1560-0819 James Crichton* polymath - Clunie, Pertshire, Scotland (1582/21) 1560-0825 Park Jin* naval commander - Korea (1597) 1560-0919 Thomas Cavendish* explorer/privateer - Trimley St Martin,  Suffolk, England (1592/31) 1560-1010 Jacobus Arminius* theologian - Oudewater, Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire (1609/49) 1560-1103 Annibale Carracci* painter - Bologna, Italy (1609/48) 1560-1203 Jan Gruter* philologist/scholar/ librarian - Antwerp, Ducy of Brabant (1627/66) Updated 30.8.2021-1 Search for another year here