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16th Century Timeline

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1. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






2. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






3. Vasco N






4. 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.






5. Valladolid debate concerning the existence of souls in Amerindians






6. Spain and Germany defeat France at the Battle of Pavia - Francis I of France is captured.






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






8. 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






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






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






11. Spanish






12. Portuguese navigator Pedro






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






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






15. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






16. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






17. Sack of Rome - which is considered the end of the Italian Renaissance.






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






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






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






21. The Polish






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






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






24. Mary Tudor becomes the first queen regnant of England.






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






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






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






28. Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Netherlands.






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






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






31. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






32. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






33. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






34. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






35. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






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






37. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






38. Battle of Sekigahara in Japan. End of the Warring States period and beginning of the Edo period.






39. Akbar the Great defeats the Sultan of Bengal at the Second battle of Panipat






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






41. The Union of Utrecht unifies the northern Netherlands - a foundation for the later Dutch Republic.






42. The Mali Empire is defeated at the Battle of Jenn






43. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






44. Songhai forces sack the Malian capital of Niani






45. Gonzalo Jim






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






47. The Union of Utrecht unifies the northern Netherlands - a foundation for the later Dutch Republic.






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






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






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