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16th Century Timeline

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






2. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






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






4. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






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






6. Sahib I Giray of Crimea invade Russia.






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






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






9. Rising of the North in England.






10. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






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






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






13. Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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15. Battle of Uedahara - Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan - and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.






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






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






18. Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton Castle.






19. Wang Yangming - the Chinese philosopher and governor of Jiangxi province - describes his intent to use the firepower of the fo-lang-ji - a breech-loading Portuguese culverin - in order to suppress the rebellion of Prince Zhu Chen-hao.






20. The Protestant Reformation begins when Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses in Saxony.






21. Drake's royal reception after his attacks on Spanish possessions - influences Philip II of Spain to build up the Spanish Armada. English ships in Spanish harbours are impounded.






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






23. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






24. Henry VIII dies in the Palace of Whitehall on 28 January at the age of 55.






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26. The Sweating sickness epidemic hits Tudor England.






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






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






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






30. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






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






32. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






33. Mongols led by Altan Khan invade China and besiege Beijing.






34. The Ming Dynasty government of China issues a decree banning all foreign trade and closes down all seaports along the coast; these Hai jin laws came during the Wokou wars with Japanese pirates.






35. Sultan Selim I ('The Grim') orders the massacre of Shia Muslims in Anatolia.






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






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






38. Massacre of Wassy and Battle of Dreux in the French Wars of Religion.






39. Mughal leader Akbar reconciles the Muslim and Hindu factions by marrying into the powerful Rajput Hindu caste.






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






41. 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.






42. Galileo Galilei born on February 15






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






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






45. During his reign - Akbar expands the Mughal Empire in a series of conquests.






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






47. Barbary pirates led by Hayreddin Barbarossa raid Provence and Toulon in southern France.






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






49. Battle of Uedahara - Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan - and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.






50. Oda Nobunaga is assassinated by his general - Akechi Mitsuhide.