Events from 1580

Case of Sutton's Hospital - corporation can act through agents, establishing principle of corporate representation

Montaigne's 'Of Cannibals' essay - Based on conversations with Brazilian Tupinambá - 'I find nothing barbarous...except that each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice'

St. Charles Borromeo during Milan plague - Personally ministers to sick, sells possessions - Processes barefoot with rope around neck doing penance for city

Peak Jesuit influence in Counter-Reformation (1580s-1590s) - Recover Poland, parts of Germany - Protestant alarm: 'They have stolen our method of education and improved it'

Aleppo-Basra overland route revives - avoiding Portuguese naval power, caravans bring spices through Syria to Mediterranean