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16th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






9. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






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






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






12. Treaty of Zaragoza defined the antimeridian of Tordesillas attributing the Moluccas to Portugal and Philippines to Spain.






13. John Stow reports 10 -675 plague deaths in London - a city of approximately 200000 people.






14. AmericanIndians kill Spanish missionaries in what would later be Jamestown - Virginia.






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






16. The Ming Dynasty government of China issues a decree banning all foreign trade and closes down all seaports along the coast; these Hai jin laws came during the Wokou wars with Japanese pirates.






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






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






19. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






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






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






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






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






25. Livonian War between Poland - Grand Principality of Lithuania - Sweden - Denmark and Russia.






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






27. Guido de Bres draws up the Belgic Confession of Protestant faith.






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






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






31. Foundation of the Sultanate of Sennar by Amara Dunqas - in what is modern Sudan






32. Livonian War between Poland - Grand Principality of Lithuania - Sweden - Denmark and Russia.






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






34. Rising of the North in England.






35. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






37. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






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






40. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






41. The Mali Empire is defeated at the Battle of Jenn






42. Henry VIII dies in the Palace of Whitehall on 28 January at the age of 55.






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






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






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






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






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






48. First reported African slaves in The New World






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50. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.