Test your basic knowledge |

16th Century Timeline

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






2. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






3. Mughal leader Akbar reconciles the Muslim and Hindu factions by marrying into the powerful Rajput Hindu caste.






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






5. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






6. Birth of Ren






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






8. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






9. Gonzalo Jim






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






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






12. Pomponio Algerio - radical theologian - is executed by boiling in oil as part of the Roman inquisition.






13. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






14. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






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






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






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






19. The Hospitallers defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Malta (1565).






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






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






22. Est






23. Rising of the North in England.






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






25. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






26. Miguel L






27. Affair of the Placards






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






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






30. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






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






32. Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica.






33. King Afonso I of Kongo wins the battle of Mbanza Kongo - resulting in Catholicism becoming Kongo's state religion.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






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






43. After a siege of 4 months the Siege of Leiden ends in a comprehensive Dutch victory.






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






45. The French defeat an Imperial






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






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






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






49. The Muscovy Company is the first major English joint stock trading company.






50. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.