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16th Century Timeline

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






2. Henry VIII dies in the Palace of Whitehall on 28 January at the age of 55.






3. 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






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5. Yermak Timofeyevich conquers the Siberia Khanate on behalf of the Stroganovs.






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7. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






9. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






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






11. The Ottomans defeat the Mamluks and gain control of Egypt - Arabia - and the Levant.






12. Poland is invaded by Tatars from the Crimean Khanate.






13. First reported African slaves in The New World






14. The Mali Empire is defeated at the Battle of Jenn






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






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






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






18. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






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






20. 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.






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






22. After building fortifications at Tuen Mun - the Portuguese attempt to invade Ming Dynasty China - but are expelled by Chinese naval forces.






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






24. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






25. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






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






28. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






29. With the Peace of Cateau Cambr






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






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






32. Songhai forces sack the Malian capital of Niani






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






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37. 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.






38. Publication in Venice of Delle Navigiationi et Viaggi (terzo volume) by Giovanni Battista Ramusio - secretary of Council of Ten - with plan La Terra de Hochelaga - an illustration ofIndian village Hochelaga. See






39. Rising of the North in England.






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






41. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






42. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






43. The Austrians defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Vienna.






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






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






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






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






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






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