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16th Century Timeline

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1. Leonardo da Vinci dies of natural causes at May 2.






2. Spain repulses the English Armada.






3. Rhodes falls to the Ottoman Turks of Suleiman the Magnificent.






4. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






5. Henry VIII crush the French at the Battle of the Spurs.






6. Brielle is taken from Habsburg Spain by Protestant Watergeuzen in the Capture of Brielle - in the Eighty Years' War.






7. Treaty of Zaragoza defined the antimeridian of Tordesillas attributing the Moluccas to Portugal and Philippines to Spain.






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






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






10. 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.






11. Morisco Revolt in Spain.






12. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






13. The Battle of Flodden Field in which invading Scots are defeated by Henry VIII's forces.






14. Sultan Selim I ('The Grim') orders the massacre of Shia Muslims in Anatolia.






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






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17. Yermak Timofeyevich conquers the Siberia Khanate on behalf of the Stroganovs.






18. During his reign - Akbar expands the Mughal Empire in a series of conquests.






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






20. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






21. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






22. Portuguese establishes Recife in Pernambuco - north-east of Brazil.






23. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






24. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






25. Brielle is taken from Habsburg Spain by Protestant Watergeuzen in the Capture of Brielle - in the Eighty Years' War.






26. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






27. Korea - with the help of Ming Dynasty China - repels two Japanese invasions.






28. Elizabeth Tudor becomes Queen Elizabeth I at age 25.






29. Massacre of Wassy and Battle of Dreux in the French Wars of Religion.






30. Spanish navigator Vicente Y






31. Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






33. The Ottomans defeat the Kingdom of Hungary at the Battle of Moh






34. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






35. Guru Nanak The beginning and spreading of the 5th largest Religion in the World Sikhism.






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






37. Rhodes falls to the Ottoman Turks of Suleiman the Magnificent.






38. Battle of Talikota fought between the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar and the Deccan sultanates.






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






40. Emperor Charles V decisively dismantles the Schmalkaldic League at the Battle of M






41. Imam Ahmad Gragn defeats the Ethiopian Emperor Dawit II in the Battle of Shimbra Kure - the opening clash of the Ethiopian






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






43. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






45. in the Eighty Years' War the capital of Zeeland - Middelburg declares for the Protestants.






46. The first recorded epidemic of smallpox in the New World occurs on the island of Hispaniola and decimates the native Ta






47. The Long War between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Turks.






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50. After 45 years' reign - Jiajing Emperor died in theForbidden City - Longqing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.