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16th Century Timeline

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






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






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5. The Battle of Orsha halts Muscovy's expansion into Eastern Europe.






6. Guido de Bres draws up the Belgic Confession of Protestant faith.






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






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






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






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






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






12. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






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






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






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






17. The Battle of Diu marks the beginning of Portuguese dominance of the Spice trade.






18. Foundation of the Sultanate of Sennar by Amara Dunqas - in what is modern Sudan






19. 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.






20. Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between South Carolina and Newfoundland - Ismail I - the founder of Safavid dynasty - dead and Tahmasp I became king.






21. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






22. The 9 years old Taizi - Zhu Yijun ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty - known as Wanli Emperor.






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






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






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






26. Akbar the Great defeats the Sultan of Bengal at the Second battle of Panipat






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






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






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






31. Mir Chakar Khan Rind leaves Baluchistan and settled in Punjab.






32. Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






33. Pope Pius V completes the Holy League as a united front against the Ottoman Turks.






34. Poland is invaded by Tatars from the Crimean Khanate.






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






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






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






38. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






39. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






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






41. The reign of Abbas I marks the zenith of the Safavid dynasty.






42. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






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






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






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






46. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






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






48. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






49. Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca - the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.






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