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16th Century Timeline

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1. Francisco Pizarro leads the Spanish conquest of theInca Empire.






2. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






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






5. 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.






6. Birth of Ren






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






8. Pomponio Algerio - radical theologian - is executed by boiling in oil as part of the Roman inquisition.






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






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






12. 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.






13. Francisco Pizarro leads the Spanish conquest of theInca Empire.






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






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






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






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






18. Grand Prince Ivan the Terrible is crowned tsar of (All)Russia - thenceforth becoming the first Russian tsar.






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






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






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






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






23. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






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






25. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






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






27. AmericanIndians kill Spanish missionaries in what would later be Jamestown - Virginia.






28. Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556).






29. The Hospitallers defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Malta (1565).






30. Portuguese missionaries Jos






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






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






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






34. Spanish






35. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






36. In Mali - Moroccan forces of the Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire at the Battle of Tondibi.






37. The Polish






38. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






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






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






41. Spain repulses the English Armada.






42. The French defeat an Imperial






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






44. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






45. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






47. Spain repulses the English Armada.






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






49. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






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