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16th Century Timeline

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






2. Songhai forces sack the Malian capital of Niani






3. Spain repulses the English Armada.






4. Spanish conquistador Miguel L






5. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






6. Portuguese navigator Pedro






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






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






9. Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three or four years later.






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






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12. First reported African slaves in The New World






13. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






14. 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.






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






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






18. TheInca Civil War is fought between the two brothers -Atahualpa and Hu






19. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






20. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Birth of Ren






30. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






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






32. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






33. Spain unifies with Portugal under Philip II. The struggle for the throne of Portugal ends the Portuguese Empire. The Spanish and Portuguese crowns are united for 60 years - i.e. until 1640.






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






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






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






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






38. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






39. Ottoman navy defeats the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Djerba.






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






44. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






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






46. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






48. Spanish






49. Francis Drake circles the world.






50. Affair of the Placards