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16th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






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






5. Songhai forces sack the Malian capital of Niani






6. The Elizabethan era is considered the height of the English Renaissance.






7. The Ottoman fleet of Kemal Reis defeats the Venetians at the Second Battle of Lepanto.






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






9. The reign of Abbas I marks the zenith of the Safavid dynasty.






10. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






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






12. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






13. Crimean Tatars attack and sack Moscow - burning everything but the Kremlin.






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






15. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






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






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






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






20. Philippines encountered by Ferdinand Magellan. He was later killed in battle in central Philippines in the same year.






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






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






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






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






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






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27. An Algerian military campaign by Charles V of Spain (Habsburg) is unsuccessful.






28. Rising of the North in England.






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






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






31. Korea - with the help of Ming Dynasty China - repels two Japanese invasions.






32. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






40. Spanish conquistadores apprehend the lastInca leader Tupak Amaru at Vilcabamba - Peru - and execute him in Cuzco.






41. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






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






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44. Korea - with the help of Ming Dynasty China - repels two Japanese invasions.






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






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






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






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






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






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