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16th Century Timeline

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






2. Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca - the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.






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






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






5. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






6. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






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






8. Rising of the North in England.






9. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






10. Portuguese navigator Pedro






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






12. The Battle of Diu marks the beginning of Portuguese dominance of the Spice trade.






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






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






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






16. John Stow reports 10 -675 plague deaths in London - a city of approximately 200000 people.






17. Fifth outbreak of sweating sickness in England. John Caius of Shrewsbury writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.






18. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






19. Vasco N






20. Gonzalo Jim






21. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






23. Battle of Talikota fought between the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar and the Deccan sultanates.






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






25. First reported African slaves in The New World






26. 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.






27. Portuguese establishes Recife in Pernambuco - north-east of Brazil.






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






29. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






30. Massacre of Wassy and Battle of Dreux in the French Wars of Religion.






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






32. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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






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






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






36. Treaty of Zaragoza defined the antimeridian of Tordesillas attributing the Moluccas to Portugal and Philippines to Spain.






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






38. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






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






40. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






42. After heavy losses on both sides the Siege of Haarlem ends in a Spanish victory.






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






44. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






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






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






47. With the Peace of Cateau Cambr






48. Sir Francis Bacon is born in London.






49. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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