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16th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






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






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






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






8. Grand Prince Ivan the Terrible is crowned tsar of (All)Russia - thenceforth becoming the first Russian tsar.






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






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






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






12. Russia descends into anarchy during the Time of Troubles.






13. Imam Ahmad Gragn defeats the Ethiopian Emperor Dawit II in the Battle of Shimbra Kure - the opening clash of the Ethiopian






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






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






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






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






18. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






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30. Spain defeats France at the Battle of Cerignola. Considered to be the first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms.






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






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






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






35. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






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






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






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






39. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






40. Russia descends into anarchy during the Time of Troubles.






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






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






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44. 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.






45. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






46. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






47. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






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






49. Sir Francis Bacon is born in London.






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