Japanese tempura came from Portugal.
The Portuguese reached Japan in 1543 and brought battered fried food — and the Japanese word "pan" for bread is Portuguese too.
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- 1543 · 1547 Ivan IV was crowned tsar in 1547, four years after Copernicus published that the Earth goes round the Sun.
- 1543 Legend says Copernicus saw his great book on the day he died.
- 1543 1543 overturned ideas about both the heavens and the body.
- 1545 · 1571 Silver from Potosí (1545) made the Spanish peso the first truly global currency: from 1571, Manila galleons carried it across the Pacific to China.
- 1545 · 1615 Spanish still says "worth a Potosí" for something priceless.
- 1547 Ivan IV's nickname Grozny meant 'formidable' or 'awe-inspiring' rather than 'terrible' in the modern sense; the English word 'terrible' once meant the same, but its sense has drifted.