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16th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. The Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.






5. The Ottomans capture Baghdad.






6. The Polish






7. Erzsebet Bathory is born in Nyirbator - Hungary.






8. The Spanish-led Holy League navy destroys the Ottoman Empire navy at the Battle of Lepanto.






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






10. Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian calendar.






11. Korea - with the help of Ming Dynasty China - repels two Japanese invasions.






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






13. Guido de Bres draws up the Belgic Confession of Protestant faith.






14. Francis Drake circles the world.






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






16. Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.






17. The Portuguese settle in Macau.






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






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






20. Rising of the North in England.






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






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






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






24. The Union of Utrecht unifies the northern Netherlands - a foundation for the later Dutch Republic.






25. Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish soldiers.






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






27. Elizabeth Tudor becomes Queen Elizabeth I at age 25.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.






36. Spanish conquistadores apprehend the lastInca leader Tupak Amaru at Vilcabamba - Peru - and execute him in Cuzco.






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






38. Machiavelli writes The Prince - a treatise about political philosophy






39. The Shaanxi Earthquake in China is history's deadliest known earthquake.






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






41. Tom






42. Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of England.






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. Affair of the Placards






47. Affair of the Placards






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






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






50. The French defeat an Imperial







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