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16th Century Timeline

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






2. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






3. Foundation of the Sultanate of Sennar by Amara Dunqas - in what is modern Sudan






4. Portuguese navigator Pedro






5. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






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






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






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






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






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






11. Rhodes falls to the Ottoman Turks of Suleiman the Magnificent.






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






13. After heavy losses on both sides the Siege of Haarlem ends in a Spanish victory.






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






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






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






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






18. After 45 years' reign - Jiajing Emperor died in theForbidden City - Longqing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






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






21. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






22. Edward VI becomes King of England and Ireland on 28 January and is crowned on 20 February at the age of 9.






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






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






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






26. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






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






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






30. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. After the Siege of Antwerp - many of its merchants flee to Amsterdam.According to Luc-Normand Tellier - 'At its peak - between 1510 and 1557 - Antwerp concentrated about 40% of the world trade...It is estimated that the port of Antwerp was earning th






38. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






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






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






41. The Battle of Chaldiran - the Ottoman Empire gains decisive victory against Safavid dynasty.






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






43. Livonian War between Poland - Grand Principality of Lithuania - Sweden - Denmark and Russia.






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






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






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






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






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






49. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






50. A period of drought - with famine in all of Spain.