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16th Century Timeline

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1. Due to high debts - Habsburg Spain declares bankruptcy. Philip II of Spain had to declare four state bankruptcies in 1557 - 1560 - 1575 and 1596.






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






3. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






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






5. Russia descends into anarchy during the Time of Troubles.






6. The Nanban trade period begins after Portuguese traders make contact with Japan.






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






8. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






9. Belgrade is captured by the Ottoman Empire.






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






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






12. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






13. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






14. Battle of the Shirts in Scotland. The Frasers and Macdonalds of Clan Ranald fight over a disputed chiefship; reportedly - 5 Frasers and 8 Macdonalds survive.






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






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






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






18. The Ottomans defeat the Mamluks and gain control of Egypt - Arabia - and the Levant.






19. Mary - Queen of Scots - is imprisoned by Elizabeth I.






20. Francis Drake circles the world.






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22. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






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






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






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






26. Emperor Charles V decisively dismantles the Schmalkaldic League at the Battle of M






27. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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






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






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






31. Mary - Queen of Scots - is imprisoned by Elizabeth I.






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






33. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






34. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






35. Ottoman navy defeats the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Djerba.






36. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






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






38. 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.






39. The Ottoman fleet of Kemal Reis defeats the Venetians at the Second Battle of Lepanto.






40. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






41. Portuguese navigator Pedro






42. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






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






45. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






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






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






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






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