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16th Century Timeline

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1. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






3. The Nanban trade period begins after Portuguese traders make contact with Japan.






4. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






5. The Battle of Orsha halts Muscovy's expansion into Eastern Europe.






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






7. At least two thousand converted Jews are massacred in a Lisbon riot.






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






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






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






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






12. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






13. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






14. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






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






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






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






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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. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






22. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






23. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






24. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






25. The 9 years old Taizi - Zhu Yijun ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty - known as Wanli Emperor.






26. The Ottomans defeat the Kingdom of Hungary at the Battle of Moh






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






28. The Sweating sickness epidemic hits Tudor England.






29. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






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






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






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






33. First reported African slaves in The New World






34. War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII is allied to the Emperor - while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French.






35. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






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39. The Ottomans capture Massawa - all but isolating Ethiopia from the rest of the world.






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






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






43. The Nanban trade period begins after Portuguese traders make contact with Japan.






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






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






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






48. Abbas I moved Safavids capital from Qazvin to Isfahan in 1598.






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






50. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.