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16th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






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






3. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






4. The southern part (historical core) of the Kingdom of Navarre is invaded by Castile and Aragon.






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






6. Gonzalo Jim






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






8. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. First reported African slaves in The New World






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






16. The Portuguese mariner Jorge






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






18. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






19. After heavy losses on both sides the Siege of Haarlem ends in a Spanish victory.






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






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






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






23. Copernicus writes Commentariolus - and moves the sun to the center of the solar system.






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






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






26. Francis Drake circles the world.






27. Henry VIII crush the French at the Battle of the Spurs.






28. First reported African slaves in The New World






29. Gonzalo Jim






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






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






32. Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery and treason.






33. The Sweating sickness epidemic hits Tudor England.






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






35. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






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






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38. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






39. Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France.






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






41. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






42. Spanish navigator Andres de Urdaneta discovers the maritime route from Asia to the Americas across the Pacific Ocean - also known as the tornaviaje.






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






44. William Shakespeare baptized 26 April






45. John Stow reports 10 -675 plague deaths in London - a city of approximately 200000 people.






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






47. Oda Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.






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






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






50. The Polish







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