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16th Century Timeline

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






2. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






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






4. Spanish expedition commanded by Magellan and Elcano first to circle Earth






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






6. The French defeat an Imperial






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






8. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






9. Songhai forces sack the Malian capital of Niani






10. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






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






12. Guido de Bres draws up the Belgic Confession of Protestant faith.






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






14. Morisco Revolt in Spain.






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






16. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






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






19. First reported African slaves in The New World






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. The Edict of Nantes ends the French Wars of Religion.






28. Mary - Queen of Scots - is imprisoned by Elizabeth I.






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






30. Mughal Empire - founded by Babur - rulesIndia until 1857.






31. Spain repulses the English Armada.






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






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






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






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






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






37. Spanish






38. With the Peace of Cateau Cambr






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






40. Barbary pirates led by Hayreddin Barbarossa raid Provence and Toulon in southern France.






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






42. Mir Chakar Khan Rind leaves Baluchistan and settled in Punjab.






43. Affair of the Placards






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






45. The Polish






46. Spanish expedition commanded by Magellan and Elcano first to circle Earth






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






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






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






50. The Portuguese mariner Jorge







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