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16th Century Timeline

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1. The Ottomans defeat the Mamluks and gain control of Egypt - Arabia - and the Levant.






2. Nostradamus was born on either December 14 - or December 21.






3. King Afonso I of Kongo wins the battle of Mbanza Kongo - resulting in Catholicism becoming Kongo's state religion.






4. The Spanish-led Holy League navy destroys the Ottoman Empire navy at the Battle of Lepanto.






5. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






6. Oda Nobunaga is assassinated by his general - Akechi Mitsuhide.






7. The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Catholic Church and recognizes King Henry VIII as the head of the Church.






8. The Muscovy Company is the first major English joint stock trading company.






9. Machiavelli writes The Prince - a treatise about political philosophy






10. German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.






11. The 'great plague' afflicts various parts of Tudor England.






12. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






13. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






14. After a siege of 4 months the Siege of Leiden ends in a comprehensive Dutch victory.






15. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






16. Barbary pirates led by Hayreddin Barbarossa raid Provence and Toulon in southern France.






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18. Spain unifies with Portugal under Philip II. The struggle for the throne of Portugal ends the Portuguese Empire. The Spanish and Portuguese crowns are united for 60 years - i.e. until 1640.






19. Amazon River is encountered and explored by Francisco de Orellana.






20. Affair of the Placards






21. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






22. Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three or four years later.






23. The Shaanxi Earthquake in China is history's deadliest known earthquake.






24. Battle of Uedahara - Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan - and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.






25. Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome.






26. The Edict of Nantes ends the French Wars of Religion.






27. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






28. Philippines encountered by Ferdinand Magellan. He was later killed in battle in central Philippines in the same year.






29. At least two thousand converted Jews are massacred in a Lisbon riot.






30. Francisco Pizarro leads the Spanish conquest of theInca Empire.






31. Spanish conquistadores apprehend the lastInca leader Tupak Amaru at Vilcabamba - Peru - and execute him in Cuzco.






32. Ivan the Terrible orders the massacre of inhabitants of Novgorod.






33. Wang Yangming - the Chinese philosopher and governor of Jiangxi province - describes his intent to use the firepower of the fo-lang-ji - a breech-loading Portuguese culverin - in order to suppress the rebellion of Prince Zhu Chen-hao.






34. A period of drought - with famine in all of Spain.






35. The Nanban trade period begins after Portuguese traders make contact with Japan.






36. Ottoman navy defeats the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Djerba.






37. Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David.






38. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






39. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






40. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






41. The Union of Arras unifies the southern Netherlands - a foundation for the later states of the Spanish Netherlands - the Austrian Netherlands and Belgium






42. The Anglo-Spanish War is fought on both sides of theAtlantic.






43. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






44. Spanish navigator Andres de Urdaneta discovers the maritime route from Asia to the Americas across the Pacific Ocean - also known as the tornaviaje.






45. Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome.






46. TheInca Civil War is fought between the two brothers -Atahualpa and Hu






47. Livonian War between Poland - Grand Principality of Lithuania - Sweden - Denmark and Russia.






48. Battle of the Shirts in Scotland. The Frasers and Macdonalds of Clan Ranald fight over a disputed chiefship; reportedly - 5 Frasers and 8 Macdonalds survive.






49. Spain repulses the English Armada.






50. Catherine de' Medici instigates the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre which takes the lives of Protestant leader Gaspard de Coligny and thousands of Huguenots. The violence spreads from Paris to other cities and the countryside.