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16th Century Timeline

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






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






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4. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed at the Battle of Alcazarquivir.






5. Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






6. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






7. The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Catholic Church and recognizes King Henry VIII as the head of the Church.






8. The Council of Trent meets for the first time in Trent.






9. 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.






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






11. Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.






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






13. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






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






16. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






17. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






19. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






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






21. A period of drought - with famine in all of Spain.






22. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






23. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






24. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






25. The Long War between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Turks.






26. 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.






27. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






28. A period of drought - with famine in all of Spain.






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






30. Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.






31. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






32. 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.






33. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






34. Belgrade is captured by the Ottoman Empire.






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






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






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






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






43. Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid - Spain.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Catherine de' Medici instigates the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre which takes the lives of Protestant leader Gaspard de Coligny and thousands of Huguenots. The violence spreads from Paris to other cities and the countryside.