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16th Century Timeline

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1. Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three or four years later.






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






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






4. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






5. Rising of the North in England.






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






7. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






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






9. After building fortifications at Tuen Mun - the Portuguese attempt to invade Ming Dynasty China - but are expelled by Chinese naval forces.






10. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






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






14. Pope Pius V completes the Holy League as a united front against the Ottoman Turks.






15. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






16. Mughal Empire - founded by Babur - rulesIndia until 1857.






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






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






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






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






21. North African pirates enslave the entire population of the Maltese island Gozo - between 5000 and 6000 - sending them to Libya.






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






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






24. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






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






26. Spain repulses the English Armada.






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






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






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






30. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






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






32. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






33. The 'great plague' afflicts various parts of Tudor England.






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






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36. Spanish navigator Andres de Urdaneta discovers the maritime route from Asia to the Americas across the Pacific Ocean - also known as the tornaviaje.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. The first European diplomatic mission to Ethiopia - sent by the Portuguese - arrives at Massawa 9 April - and reaches the imperial encampment of Emperor Dawit II in Shewa 9 October.






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






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






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