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16th Century Timeline

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1. Machiavelli writes The Prince - a treatise about political philosophy






2. Crimean Tatars attack and sack Moscow - burning everything but the Kremlin.






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






4. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






5. The Spanish-led Holy League navy destroys the Ottoman Empire navy at the Battle of Lepanto.






6. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






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






8. Spanish conquistador Miguel L






9. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






10. Emperor Charles V decisively dismantles the Schmalkaldic League at the Battle of M






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






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






13. Safavid dynasty reunified Iran and ruled over it until 1736. Safavids adopt a Shia branch of Islam.






14. 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.






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






16. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






17. Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Netherlands.






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






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






20. Sack of Rome - which is considered the end of the Italian Renaissance.






21. Ethiopian/Portuguese troops decisively defeat the Muslim army at the Battle of Wayna Daga; Imam Ahmad Gragn killed.






22. The Polish






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






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






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






26. First reported African slaves in The New World






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






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






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






31. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






32. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






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






35. Spanish conquistadores apprehend the lastInca leader Tupak Amaru at Vilcabamba - Peru - and execute him in Cuzco.






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






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






38. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






39. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






40. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






41. Spanish navigator Andres de Urdaneta discovers the maritime route from Asia to the Americas across the Pacific Ocean - also known as the tornaviaje.






42. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






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






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






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






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






48. Affair of the Placards






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






50. Publication in Venice of Delle Navigiationi et Viaggi (terzo volume) by Giovanni Battista Ramusio - secretary of Council of Ten - with plan La Terra de Hochelaga - an illustration ofIndian village Hochelaga. See