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16th Century Timeline

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1. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






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






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






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






5. The Battle of Diu marks the beginning of Portuguese dominance of the Spice trade.






6. The Battle of Diu marks the beginning of Portuguese dominance of the Spice trade.






7. Spain defeats France at the Battle of Cerignola. Considered to be the first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms.






8. Yermak Timofeyevich conquers the Siberia Khanate on behalf of the Stroganovs.






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






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






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






12. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






13. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






14. First edition of the epic The Lusiads of Lu






15. Mir Chakar Khan Rind captured Delhi with Emperor Humayun.






16. Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






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






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






19. Yermak Timofeyevich conquers the Siberia Khanate on behalf of the Stroganovs.






20. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






21. Fifth outbreak of sweating sickness in England. John Caius of Shrewsbury writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.






22. Capture of Buda and the absorption of the major part of Hungary by the Ottoman Empire.






23. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. TheInca Civil War is fought between the two brothers -Atahualpa and Hu






29. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






30. Spanish navigator Vicente Y






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






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






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






34. After 45 years' reign - Jiajing Emperor died in theForbidden City - Longqing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






35. 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.






36. The Sweating sickness epidemic hits Tudor England.






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






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






39. Birth of Ren






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






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






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






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






44. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






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






46. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






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






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






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






50. After building fortifications at Tuen Mun - the Portuguese attempt to invade Ming Dynasty China - but are expelled by Chinese naval forces.