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16th Century Timeline

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






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






4. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






6. The Shaanxi Earthquake in China is history's deadliest known earthquake.






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






8. Gonzalo Jim






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






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






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






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






13. The 'great plague' afflicts various parts of Tudor England.






14. The Union of Arras unifies the southern Netherlands - a foundation for the later states of the Spanish Netherlands - the Austrian Netherlands and Belgium






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






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






17. Francis Drake circles the world.






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






19. Morisco Revolt in Spain.






20. Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca - the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.






21. Portuguese missionaries Jos






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24. After 200 years - the Kingdom of England loses Calais to France.






25. Spanish navigator Vicente Y






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






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






28. Spanish expedition commanded by Magellan and Elcano first to circle Earth






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






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






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






32. Hern






33. Affair of the Placards






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






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






36. Portuguese navigator Pedro






37. Henry VIII crush the French at the Battle of the Spurs.






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






39. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






40. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






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






42. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






43. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






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






45. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






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






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






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49. The Shaanxi Earthquake in China is history's deadliest known earthquake.






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