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16th Century Timeline

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






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






4. 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.






5. Francis Drake circles the world.






6. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






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






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






9. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. Wang Yangming - the Chinese philosopher and governor of Jiangxi province - describes his intent to use the firepower of the fo-lang-ji - a breech-loading Portuguese culverin - in order to suppress the rebellion of Prince Zhu Chen-hao.






18. Wang Yangming - the Chinese philosopher and governor of Jiangxi province - describes his intent to use the firepower of the fo-lang-ji - a breech-loading Portuguese culverin - in order to suppress the rebellion of Prince Zhu Chen-hao.






19. Brielle is taken from Habsburg Spain by Protestant Watergeuzen in the Capture of Brielle - in the Eighty Years' War.






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






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






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23. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






24. Portuguese navigator Pedro






25. The Union of Utrecht unifies the northern Netherlands - a foundation for the later Dutch Republic.






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






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






28. After a siege of 4 months the Siege of Leiden ends in a comprehensive Dutch victory.






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30. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






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33. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






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






35. Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556).






36. The Ottoman Empire wrests Eastern Anatolia from the Safavids after the Battle of Chaldiran.






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






38. 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.






39. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






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






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






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43. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






44. Akbar the Great defeats the Sultan of Bengal at the Second battle of Panipat






45. Brielle is taken from Habsburg Spain by Protestant Watergeuzen in the Capture of Brielle - in the Eighty Years' War.






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47. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






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






50. Battle of Talikota fought between the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar and the Deccan sultanates.