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16th Century Timeline

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






2. The Ottomans defeat the Kingdom of Hungary at the Battle of Moh






3. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






11. 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.






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






13. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






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






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






16. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






17. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






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






20. Grand Prince Ivan the Terrible is crowned tsar of (All)Russia - thenceforth becoming the first Russian tsar.






21. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






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






23. Gonzalo Jim






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






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






26. Spanish navigator Andres de Urdaneta discovers the maritime route from Asia to the Americas across the Pacific Ocean - also known as the tornaviaje.






27. Amazon River is encountered and explored by Francisco de Orellana.






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






29. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






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






31. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






32. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






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






34. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






35. Mir Chakar Khan Rind captured Delhi with Emperor Humayun.






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






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






38. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






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






40. Hern






41. During his reign - Akbar expands the Mughal Empire in a series of conquests.






42. The Polish






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. The Austrians defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Vienna.






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