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16th Century Timeline

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1. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






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






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






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






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






7. Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556).






8. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






9. England repulses the Spanish Armada.






10. Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica.






11. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






12. Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca - the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.






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






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






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






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






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






18. Nostradamus was born on either December 14 - or December 21.






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






20. Foundation of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza






21. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






23. First reported African slaves in The New World






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






25. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






26. Sir Francis Bacon is born in London.






27. Vasco N






28. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






29. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






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






31. 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.






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






33. The Ottoman Empire wrests Eastern Anatolia from the Safavids after the Battle of Chaldiran.






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






35. Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.






36. Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.






37. The first European diplomatic mission to Ethiopia - sent by the Portuguese - arrives at Massawa 9 April - and reaches the imperial encampment of Emperor Dawit II in Shewa 9 October.






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






39. The first European diplomatic mission to Ethiopia - sent by the Portuguese - arrives at Massawa 9 April - and reaches the imperial encampment of Emperor Dawit II in Shewa 9 October.






40. Tahmasp I - Safavid king - died.






41. Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.






42. Morisco Revolt in Spain.






43. Rising of the North in England.






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






45. Portuguese navigator Pedro






46. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






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






48. Elizabeth Tudor is born.






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






50. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






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