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16th Century Timeline

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






2. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. Rising of the North in England.






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. Russia descends into anarchy during the Time of Troubles.






14. Copernicus writes Commentariolus - and moves the sun to the center of the solar system.






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






16. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






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






18. The Ottomans defeat the Kingdom of Hungary at the Battle of Moh






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






20. War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII is allied to the Emperor - while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French.






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






22. Francis Drake circles the world.






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






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






25. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






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






27. The Ottomans capture Massawa - all but isolating Ethiopia from the rest of the world.






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






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






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






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






32. The Union of Utrecht unifies the northern Netherlands - a foundation for the later Dutch Republic.






33. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






35. By winning the Battle of Okehazama - Oda Nobunaga becomes one of the pre-eminent warlords of Japan






36. Valladolid debate concerning the existence of souls in Amerindians






37. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






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






39. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






40. Leonardo da Vinci dies of natural causes at May 2.






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






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






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






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






45. Est






46. During his reign - Akbar expands the Mughal Empire in a series of conquests.






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






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






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






50. Ivan the Terrible orders the massacre of inhabitants of Novgorod.