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16th Century Timeline

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






2. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






3. The Austrians defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Vienna.






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






5. Spanish conquistador Miguel L






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






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






8. The southern part (historical core) of the Kingdom of Navarre is invaded by Castile and Aragon.






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






10. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






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






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






13. The French defeat an Imperial






14. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






15. William Tyndale's partial translation of the Bible into English is published - which would eventually be incorporated into the King James Bible.






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






17. 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.






18. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






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






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






21. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






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






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






24. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






25. John Stow reports 10 -675 plague deaths in London - a city of approximately 200000 people.






26. Spanish navigator Vicente Y






27. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






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






29. The Ottoman fleet of Kemal Reis defeats the Venetians at the Second Battle of Lepanto.






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






31. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






32. Mary Tudor becomes the first queen regnant of England.






33. Mir Chakar Khan Rind captured Delhi with Emperor Humayun.






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






35. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






36. Henry VIII dies in the Palace of Whitehall on 28 January at the age of 55.






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






38. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






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






40. An Algerian military campaign by Charles V of Spain (Habsburg) is unsuccessful.






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






42. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






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






44. 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.






45. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






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






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






48. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed at the Battle of Alcazarquivir.






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






50. Elizabeth Tudor is born.