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An outbreak of plague in Europe spreads to England and kills more than twenty thousand inhabitants of London.
Hawkins introduces the sweet potato from North America into Europe; the following year he returns to London from North America with a shipload of tobacco.
Francesco de' Medici becomes the ruler of Florence.
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