Nostradamus Publishes Les Propheties
1555
The French astrologer Michel de Nostredame published the first edition of his Centuries, nearly a thousand ambiguous quatrains predicting future calamities. Catherine de Medici summoned him to court for consultations. For the next four hundred and fifty years, every catastrophe would be tortured into his rhyme scheme by hopeful interpreters.
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Also in 1555 (4 other events on record)
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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