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16th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






8. War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII is allied to the Emperor - while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French.






9. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






10. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






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






12. An Algerian military campaign by Charles V of Spain (Habsburg) is unsuccessful.






13. The Sweating sickness epidemic hits Tudor England.






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






15. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






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






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






18. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






19. 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.






20. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






21. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






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






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






24. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






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






26. Valladolid debate concerning the existence of souls in Amerindians






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






28. Portuguese missionaries Jos






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






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






31. Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between South Carolina and Newfoundland - Ismail I - the founder of Safavid dynasty - dead and Tahmasp I became king.






32. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






33. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






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






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






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






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






38. Brielle is taken from Habsburg Spain by Protestant Watergeuzen in the Capture of Brielle - in the Eighty Years' War.






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






40. The Shaanxi Earthquake in China is history's deadliest known earthquake.






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






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






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






44. Edward VI becomes King of England and Ireland on 28 January and is crowned on 20 February at the age of 9.






45. War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII is allied to the Emperor - while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French.






46. With the Peace of Cateau Cambr






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48. The Long War between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Turks.






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50. Francis Drake circles the world.