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16th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






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






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






6. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






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






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






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






10. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






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






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






13. Spanish conquistador Miguel L






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






15. The Council of Trent meets for the first time in Trent.






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






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






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






19. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






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






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






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






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






24. Spanish navigator Vicente Y






25. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






27. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






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






29. Henry VIII dies in the Palace of Whitehall on 28 January at the age of 55.






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






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






32. Amazon River is encountered and explored by Francisco de Orellana.






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






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






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






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






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






38. William Tyndale's partial translation of the Bible into English is published - which would eventually be incorporated into the King James Bible.






39. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






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






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






42. Guido de Bres draws up the Belgic Confession of Protestant faith.






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






44. The Ottomans capture Massawa - all but isolating Ethiopia from the rest of the world.






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






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






47. 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.






48. Wang Yangming - the Chinese philosopher and governor of Jiangxi province - describes his intent to use the firepower of the fo-lang-ji - a breech-loading Portuguese culverin - in order to suppress the rebellion of Prince Zhu Chen-hao.






49. The Elizabethan era is considered the height of the English Renaissance.






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