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16th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Spanish navigator Vicente Y






4. The Hospitallers defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Malta (1565).






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






6. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






8. With the Peace of Cateau Cambr






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






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






11. Gonzalo Jim






12. Sir Francis Bacon is born in London.






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






14. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






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






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






17. Songhai forces sack the Malian capital of Niani






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






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






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






21. Birth of Ren






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






23. Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.






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






25. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






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






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






28. The Spanish-led Holy League navy destroys the Ottoman Empire navy at the Battle of Lepanto.






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






30. Mir Chakar Khan Rind leaves Baluchistan and settled in Punjab.






31. French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.






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






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






34. Belgrade is captured by the Ottoman Empire.






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






36. Copernicus writes Commentariolus - and moves the sun to the center of the solar system.






37. Pope Pius V completes the Holy League as a united front against the Ottoman Turks.






38. In Mali - Moroccan forces of the Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire at the Battle of Tondibi.






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






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






41. Francis Drake circles the world.






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






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






44. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






45. The reign of Abbas I marks the zenith of the Safavid dynasty.






46. Rising of the North in England.






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






48. German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.






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






50. The Mali Empire is defeated at the Battle of Jenn