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16th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. The Polish






11. 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






12. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






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






15. After 45 years' reign - Jiajing Emperor died in theForbidden City - Longqing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






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






18. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






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






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25. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






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






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






28. Poland is invaded by Tatars from the Crimean Khanate.






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






30. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






31. The Shaanxi Earthquake in China is history's deadliest known earthquake.






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






33. Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David.






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






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






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






37. After the Siege of Antwerp - many of its merchants flee to Amsterdam.According to Luc-Normand Tellier - 'At its peak - between 1510 and 1557 - Antwerp concentrated about 40% of the world trade...It is estimated that the port of Antwerp was earning th






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






39. Portuguese navigator Pedro






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






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






42. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






43. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






44. Morisco Revolt in Spain.






45. Spain repulses the English Armada.






46. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






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






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






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