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* [[Mongols]], led by [[Altan Khan|Anda]], burn the suburbs of [[Peking]] in [[Ming dynasty|China]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=J.|title=History of the World|url=https://archive.org/details/penguinhistoryof00robe_0|url-access=registration|publisher=Penguin|year=1994|isbn=9780140154955 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year 1913 |date=1913 |publisher=Kelley & Walsh |location=Shanghai |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LYGkRge3i3oC&dq=great+wall+of+china+%221544%22&pg=PA92 |access-date=23 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* After being asked by [[Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]], [[botanist]] [[Luca Ghini]] comes to the [[University of Pisa]] as the chair of [[botany]], where he had the year prior established the [[Orto botanico di Pisa]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=ENGELHARD |first1=DIETRICH VON |title=LUCA GHINI (1490-1556) IL PADRE FONDATORE DELLA BOTANICA MODERNA NEL CONTESTO DEI RAPPORTI SCIENTIFICI EUROPEI DEL SEDICESIMO SECOLO |journal=Ann. Mus. Civ. Rovereto |date=2011 |volume=27 |pages=227–246 |url=http://www.museocivico.rovereto.tn.it/UploadDocs/4355_art08_vonengelhardt.pdf |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Storia |url=https://www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/storia-orto/ |website=Orto e Museo Botanico |access-date=23 September 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[Rat]]s make their first appearance in [[South America]], arriving in Peru with the species [[black rat]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Donaldson |first1=Henry Herbert |title=The Rat: Reference Tables and Data for the Albino Rat (Mus Norvegicus Albinus) and the Norway Rat (Mus Norvegicus) |date=1915 |publisher=Wistar Institute Press |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U10vIOxNCL0C&q=%221544%22 |access-date=23 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] explorers encounter the island of [[Taiwan]], and call it ''Ilha Formosa'' ("Beautiful Island").<ref>{{cite conference |url=https://www.nssa.us/journals/pdf/NSSA_Proceedings_2021_Spring.pdf#page=164 |title=Voyages to Ilha Formosa: A Multicultural Perspective |last1=Shen |first1=Virginia |date= 2021|page=163 |conference=National Technology and Social Science Virtual Conference}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Chow |first1=P. |title=The "One China" Dilemma |date=28 April 2008 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-61193-1 |page=38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ctLGAAAAQBAJ&dq=taiwan+Ilha+Formosa+%221544%22&pg=PA38 |access-date=23 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
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