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16th Century Timeline

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1. Portuguese navigator Pedro






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






3. Hern






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






5. Valladolid debate concerning the existence of souls in Amerindians






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






7. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






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






9. Spain repulses the English Armada.






10. The Sweating sickness epidemic hits Tudor England.






11. Sack of Rome - which is considered the end of the Italian Renaissance.






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






13. Edward VI becomes King of England and Ireland on 28 January and is crowned on 20 February at the age of 9.






14. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






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






16. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






17. Valladolid debate concerning the existence of souls in Amerindians






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






19. With the Peace of Cateau Cambr






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






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






22. Spanish navigator Vicente Y






23. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






26. Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






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






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






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






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






32. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






33. 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.






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. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






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






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






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






39. Battle of the Shirts in Scotland. The Frasers and Macdonalds of Clan Ranald fight over a disputed chiefship; reportedly - 5 Frasers and 8 Macdonalds survive.






40. in the Eighty Years' War the capital of Zeeland - Middelburg declares for the Protestants.






41. Safavid dynasty reunified Iran and ruled over it until 1736. Safavids adopt a Shia branch of Islam.






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






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






44. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






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






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






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






48. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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






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