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16th Century Timeline

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1. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






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






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






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5. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






6. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






7. The southern part (historical core) of the Kingdom of Navarre is invaded by Castile and Aragon.






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






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






10. Due to high debts - Habsburg Spain declares bankruptcy. Philip II of Spain had to declare four state bankruptcies in 1557 - 1560 - 1575 and 1596.






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






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






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






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






15. William Tyndale's partial translation of the Bible into English is published - which would eventually be incorporated into the King James Bible.






16. Wang Yangming - the Chinese philosopher and governor of Jiangxi province - describes his intent to use the firepower of the fo-lang-ji - a breech-loading Portuguese culverin - in order to suppress the rebellion of Prince Zhu Chen-hao.






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






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






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






20. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






21. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






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






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






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






26. The French defeat an Imperial






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






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






29. Battle of Sekigahara in Japan. End of the Warring States period and beginning of the Edo period.






30. Treaty of Zaragoza defined the antimeridian of Tordesillas attributing the Moluccas to Portugal and Philippines to Spain.






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






32. The Ottoman Empire wrests Eastern Anatolia from the Safavids after the Battle of Chaldiran.






33. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






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






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






36. Francis Drake circles the world.






37. Treaty of Zaragoza defined the antimeridian of Tordesillas attributing the Moluccas to Portugal and Philippines to Spain.






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






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






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41. 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.






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






43. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






44. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






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






46. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






47. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






48. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






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






50. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.







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