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16th Century Timeline

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1. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






3. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






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






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






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






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8. The Anglo-Spanish War is fought on both sides of theAtlantic.






9. 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.






10. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






11. Spanish expedition commanded by Magellan and Elcano first to circle Earth






12. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






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






14. Francis Drake circles the world.






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






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






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






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






21. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






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






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24. The French defeat an Imperial






25. The Sweating sickness epidemic hits Tudor England.






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






27. Spain repulses the English Armada.






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






29. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






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






31. The southern part (historical core) of the Kingdom of Navarre is invaded by Castile and Aragon.






32. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






33. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






34. The Battle of Flodden Field in which invading Scots are defeated by Henry VIII's forces.






35. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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37. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






38. Mughal leader Akbar reconciles the Muslim and Hindu factions by marrying into the powerful Rajput Hindu caste.






39. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. Battle of the Shirts in Scotland. The Frasers and Macdonalds of Clan Ranald fight over a disputed chiefship; reportedly - 5 Frasers and 8 Macdonalds survive.






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






46. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






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






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






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






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