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16th Century Timeline

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1. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






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






4. 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






5. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






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






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






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






10. Safavid dynasty reunified Iran and ruled over it until 1736. Safavids adopt a Shia branch of Islam.






11. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed at the Battle of Alcazarquivir.






12. Guru Nanak The beginning and spreading of the 5th largest Religion in the World Sikhism.






13. Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556).






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






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






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






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






18. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






19. Spanish conquistadores apprehend the lastInca leader Tupak Amaru at Vilcabamba - Peru - and execute him in Cuzco.






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






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






22. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






23. Spanish conquistador Miguel L






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






25. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






35. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






36. The Polish






37. Portuguese navigator Pedro






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






39. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






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






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






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






43. Gonzalo Jim






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






45. Miguel L






46. Safavid dynasty reunified Iran and ruled over it until 1736. Safavids adopt a Shia branch of Islam.






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






48. After a siege of 4 months the Siege of Leiden ends in a comprehensive Dutch victory.






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






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