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16th Century Timeline

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1. Oda Nobunaga is assassinated by his general - Akechi Mitsuhide.






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






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






4. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






6. Birth of Ren






7. Spanish conquistador Miguel L






8. Sir Francis Bacon is born in London.






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






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






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






12. Abbas I moved Safavids capital from Qazvin to Isfahan in 1598.






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






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






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16. 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.






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






18. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






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






20. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






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






22. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






23. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






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






25. Due to high debts - Habsburg Spain declares bankruptcy. Philip II of Spain had to declare four state bankruptcies in 1557 - 1560 - 1575 and 1596.






26. North African pirates enslave the entire population of the Maltese island Gozo - between 5000 and 6000 - sending them to Libya.






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






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






29. With the Peace of Cateau Cambr






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






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






32. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






33. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






34. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






35. Rhodes falls to the Ottoman Turks of Suleiman the Magnificent.






36. The Ottomans capture Massawa - all but isolating Ethiopia from the rest of the world.






37. Elizabeth Tudor becomes Queen Elizabeth I at age 25.






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






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






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






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42. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






43. Ethiopian/Portuguese troops decisively defeat the Muslim army at the Battle of Wayna Daga; Imam Ahmad Gragn killed.






44. The Battle of Chaldiran - the Ottoman Empire gains decisive victory against Safavid dynasty.






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






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






47. Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica.






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






49. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






50. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.