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16th Century Timeline

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






2. Francis Drake circles the world.






3. Capture of Buda and the absorption of the major part of Hungary by the Ottoman Empire.






4. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






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






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






7. Spain defeats France at the Battle of Cerignola. Considered to be the first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms.






8. After heavy losses on both sides the Siege of Haarlem ends in a Spanish victory.






9. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






11. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






12. Edward VI becomes King of England and Ireland on 28 January and is crowned on 20 February at the age of 9.






13. The first European diplomatic mission to Ethiopia - sent by the Portuguese - arrives at Massawa 9 April - and reaches the imperial encampment of Emperor Dawit II in Shewa 9 October.






14. 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.






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






16. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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






18. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






19. Battle of Sekigahara in Japan. End of the Warring States period and beginning of the Edo period.






20. The Protestant Reformation begins when Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses in Saxony.






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






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23. Mughal Empire - founded by Babur - rulesIndia until 1857.






24. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






25. The Elizabethan era is considered the height of the English Renaissance.






26. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






27. Plague outbreak claimed 80000 people in Elizabethan England.In London alone - over 20000 people died of the disease.






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






29. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






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






31. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






32. Valladolid debate concerning the existence of souls in Amerindians






33. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






34. Spain and Germany defeat France at the Battle of Pavia - Francis I of France is captured.






35. Fifth outbreak of sweating sickness in England. John Caius of Shrewsbury writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.






36. Abbas I moved Safavids capital from Qazvin to Isfahan in 1598.






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






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39. Due to high debts - Habsburg Spain declares bankruptcy. Philip II of Spain had to declare four state bankruptcies in 1557 - 1560 - 1575 and 1596.






40. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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






42. 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.






43. Mongols led by Altan Khan invade China and besiege Beijing.






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. The first European diplomatic mission to Ethiopia - sent by the Portuguese - arrives at Massawa 9 April - and reaches the imperial encampment of Emperor Dawit II in Shewa 9 October.






46. Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica.






47. The Ottoman Empire wrests Eastern Anatolia from the Safavids after the Battle of Chaldiran.






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






49. Fifth outbreak of sweating sickness in England. John Caius of Shrewsbury writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.






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