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16th Century Timeline

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1. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






2. Guru Nanak The beginning and spreading of the 5th largest Religion in the World Sikhism.






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






4. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






5. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






6. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Spain unifies with Portugal under Philip II. The struggle for the throne of Portugal ends the Portuguese Empire. The Spanish and Portuguese crowns are united for 60 years - i.e. until 1640.






14. The Council of Trent meets for the first time in Trent.






15. Mary Tudor becomes the first queen regnant of England.






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






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






18. Publication in Venice of Delle Navigiationi et Viaggi (terzo volume) by Giovanni Battista Ramusio - secretary of Council of Ten - with plan La Terra de Hochelaga - an illustration ofIndian village Hochelaga. See






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






20. Spain unifies with Portugal under Philip II. The struggle for the throne of Portugal ends the Portuguese Empire. The Spanish and Portuguese crowns are united for 60 years - i.e. until 1640.






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22. Sultan Selim I ('The Grim') orders the massacre of Shia Muslims in Anatolia.






23. Machiavelli writes The Prince - a treatise about political philosophy






24. Leonardo da Vinci dies of natural causes at May 2.






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






26. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






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






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






29. Francis Drake circles the world.






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






31. 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.






32. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






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






35. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






36. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






37. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






38. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






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






40. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






42. Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






44. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






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






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






48. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






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