Timeline: Jaques des Arts: Our Family History

1561 - 1562 (~ 0 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1561	1561—1561: Spire of St Paul's, highest in England, destroyed by fire 1561—1561: The first coins produced by machinery (known as a 'mill') rather than by hand, but it was a slow process and did not replace hand struck coinage until new machinery was introduced in 1663
2	1562	1562—1562: Earliest English slave-trading expedition, under John Hawkins - between Guinea and the West Indies