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16th Century Timeline

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1. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






2. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






3. Songhai forces sack the Malian capital of Niani






4. Portuguese navigator Pedro






5. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






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






7. 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.






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






9. The Council of Trent meets for the first time in Trent.






10. The Battle of Chaldiran - the Ottoman Empire gains decisive victory against Safavid dynasty.






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






12. The French defeat an Imperial






13. Drake's royal reception after his attacks on Spanish possessions - influences Philip II of Spain to build up the Spanish Armada. English ships in Spanish harbours are impounded.






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






15. Georgius Agricola - the 'Father of Mineralogy' - publishes his De re metallica.






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






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






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






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






20. The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent marks the zenith of the Ottoman Empire.






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






22. The Polish






23. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






24. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






25. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






26. Affair of the Placards






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. Gazi Giray leads a huge Tatar expedition against Moscow.






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






37. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






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






40. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






41. Vasco N






42. North African pirates enslave the entire population of the Maltese island Gozo - between 5000 and 6000 - sending them to Libya.






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






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






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






46. Birth of Ren






47. Mughal leader Akbar reconciles the Muslim and Hindu factions by marrying into the powerful Rajput Hindu caste.






48. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






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






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