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16th Century Timeline

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






2. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






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






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






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






6. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






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






8. Drake's royal reception after his attacks on Spanish possessions - influences Philip II of Spain to build up the Spanish Armada. English ships in Spanish harbours are impounded.






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






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






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






12. Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Netherlands.






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






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






15. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






17. William Tyndale's partial translation of the Bible into English is published - which would eventually be incorporated into the King James Bible.






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






19. The Battle of Flodden Field in which invading Scots are defeated by Henry VIII's forces.






20. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






21. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






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






23. The Ottoman fleet of Kemal Reis defeats the Venetians at the Second Battle of Lepanto.






24. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






25. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






26. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






27. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






28. Morisco Revolt in Spain.






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






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






31. Ivan the Terrible orders the massacre of inhabitants of Novgorod.






32. 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.






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






34. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






35. The Battle of Flodden Field in which invading Scots are defeated by Henry VIII's forces.






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






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






38. Russia descends into anarchy during the Time of Troubles.






39. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






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






42. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






43. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






44. Imam Ahmad Gragn defeats the Ethiopian Emperor Dawit II in the Battle of Shimbra Kure - the opening clash of the Ethiopian






45. Mughal Empire - founded by Babur - rulesIndia until 1857.






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






47. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






48. Spain defeats France at the Battle of Cerignola. Considered to be the first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms.






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






50. With the Peace of Cateau Cambr