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16th Century Timeline

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






2. Spanish navigator Vicente Y






3. King Afonso I of Kongo wins the battle of Mbanza Kongo - resulting in Catholicism becoming Kongo's state religion.






4. War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII is allied to the Emperor - while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French.






5. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






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






7. The Spanish-led Holy League navy destroys the Ottoman Empire navy at the Battle of Lepanto.






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






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






10. Rising of the North in England.






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






12. Sir Francis Bacon is born in London.






13. Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.






14. The first recorded epidemic of smallpox in the New World occurs on the island of Hispaniola and decimates the native Ta






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






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






17. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






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






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






20. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






21. Francisco Pizarro leads the Spanish conquest of theInca Empire.






22. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






24. Mir Chakar Khan Rind captured Delhi with Emperor Humayun.






25. Affair of the Placards






26. 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.






27. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






28. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






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






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






31. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






32. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






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






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






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






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






37. Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






39. First reported African slaves in The New World






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






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






42. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






43. Gonzalo Jim






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






45. 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.






46. Battle of Uedahara - Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan - and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.






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






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






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






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