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16th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






4. Gazi Giray leads a huge Tatar expedition against Moscow.






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






6. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






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






8. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






9. Birth of Ren






10. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






11. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






12. Spain unifies with Portugal under Philip II. The struggle for the throne of Portugal ends the Portuguese Empire. The Spanish and Portuguese crowns are united for 60 years - i.e. until 1640.






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






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






15. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






17. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






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






19. Crimean Tatars attack and sack Moscow - burning everything but the Kremlin.






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






21. The Ottomans defeat the Kingdom of Hungary at the Battle of Moh






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






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






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






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






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






29. Foundation of the Sultanate of Sennar by Amara Dunqas - in what is modern Sudan






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






31. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






32. Livonian War between Poland - Grand Principality of Lithuania - Sweden - Denmark and Russia.






33. Establishment of theInquisition in Portugal






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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






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






44. The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent marks the zenith of the Ottoman Empire.






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






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






47. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






48. Plague outbreak claimed 80000 people in Elizabethan England.In London alone - over 20000 people died of the disease.






49. By winning the Battle of Okehazama - Oda Nobunaga becomes one of the pre-eminent warlords of Japan






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