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16th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






6. Leonardo da Vinci dies of natural causes at May 2.






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






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






9. Catherine de' Medici instigates the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre which takes the lives of Protestant leader Gaspard de Coligny and thousands of Huguenots. The violence spreads from Paris to other cities and the countryside.






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






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






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






13. The French defeat an Imperial






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






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






16. Mary Tudor becomes the first queen regnant of England.






17. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






18. Battle of Talikota fought between the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar and the Deccan sultanates.






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20. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






21. Rising of the North in England.






22. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






23. Guru Nanak The beginning and spreading of the 5th largest Religion in the World Sikhism.






24. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






25. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






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






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28. The Protestant Reformation begins when Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses in Saxony.






29. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






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






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






32. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






41. Affair of the Placards






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






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






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






45. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






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






47. Portuguese missionaries Jos






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






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