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16th Century Timeline

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1. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






2. Grand Prince Ivan the Terrible is crowned tsar of (All)Russia - thenceforth becoming the first Russian tsar.






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






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






5. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






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






7. Rhodes falls to the Ottoman Turks of Suleiman the Magnificent.






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






9. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






10. Francis Drake circles the world.






11. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






12. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






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






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






15. Battle of Talikota fought between the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar and the Deccan sultanates.






16. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






18. Spanish conquistador Miguel L






19. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






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






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






22. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






24. 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.






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






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






28. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






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






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






31. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






32. Spain repulses the English Armada.






33. Imam Ahmad Gragn defeats the Ethiopian Emperor Dawit II in the Battle of Shimbra Kure - the opening clash of the Ethiopian






34. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






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






36. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






37. Portuguese missionaries Jos






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






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






40. Sack of Rome - which is considered the end of the Italian Renaissance.






41. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






42. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






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






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






45. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






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






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






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






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






50. Sir Francis Bacon is born in London.







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