Kraak ware
Export blue-and-white carried on Portuguese carracks; Delft potters copied it
- Style
- Ming and Qing Porcelain — Thin white porcelain painted in cobalt and enamels: the first global brand, carried across the seas
- Century
- 16th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — Barma and Postnik · Tented Churches · Moscow, Red Square
- c. 1600 Hamlet — William Shakespeare · London
- c. 1571–1585 Fatehpur Sikri · Mughal Art · Fatehpur Sikri
- 1568–1575 Selimiye Mosque — Mimar Sinan · Classical Ottoman Architecture (Sinan) · Edirne
- 1573–1813 Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral · Latin American Baroque · Mexico City
- c. 1574 Ramcharitmanas — Tulsidas · Ayodhya
- 1565 The Hunters in the Snow — Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Northern Renaissance · Brussels
- c. 1565–1572 Humayun's Tomb — Mirak Mirza Ghiyas · Mughal Art · Delhi
What was happening in the world
- 1569 Union of Lublin
- 1582 Gregorian calendar
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto