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16th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






5. Spanish navigator Vicente Y






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






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






11. Morisco Revolt in Spain.






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






13. Oda Nobunaga is assassinated by his general - Akechi Mitsuhide.






14. Akbar the Great defeats the Sultan of Bengal at the Second battle of Panipat






15. Mongols led by Altan Khan invade China and besiege Beijing.






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






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






18. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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






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






21. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






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






23. Spain repulses the English Armada.






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






25. Spain unifies with Portugal under Philip II. The struggle for the throne of Portugal ends the Portuguese Empire. The Spanish and Portuguese crowns are united for 60 years - i.e. until 1640.






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






33. Miguel L






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






35. Portuguese navigator Pedro






36. North African pirates enslave the entire population of the Maltese island Gozo - between 5000 and 6000 - sending them to Libya.






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






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






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






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






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






42. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed at the Battle of Alcazarquivir.






43. Gonzalo Jim






44. The Anglo-Spanish War is fought on both sides of theAtlantic.






45. The M






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






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






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






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






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