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Year |
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1501 |
Safavid dynasty rules Iran (1501 - 1722)
|
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1502 |
(1)
Montezuma II becomes Aztec emperor
(2) Machiavelli and the Borgas
|
|
1509 |
(1)
Henry VII dies
(2) Henry VIII
assumes English throne
|
|
1510 |
Portuguese ship slaves to the Americas
|
|
1517 |
Slavery in America
|
|
1519 |
(1)
Hernando Cortes to Tenochitlan
(2)
Spanish Conquest of Mexico begins
|
|
1520 |
Field of Cloth and Gold
|
|
1521 |
(1)
Spanish Conquest of Mexico ends
(2)
Battle of Tenochtitlan
(3) Portugal rules Bahrain 1521 - 1602
|
|
1523 |
Sweden Liberated
|
|
1524 |
German peasant revolt
|
|
1525 |
France losses Italy
|
|
1526 |
(1)
Battle of Panipat
(2)
Mogul-Afghan War
|
|
1527 |
Imperial troops sack Rome
|
|
1529 |
Decline of Cardinal Wolsey
|
|
1531 |
Spanish Conquest of Peru begins
|
|
1532 |
(1)
Battle of Cajamarca
(2) Peru captured by Pizarro
|
|
1533 |
(1)
Calvin forced from Paris
(2) Queen Elizabeth I born
(3)
Spanish Conquest of Peru ends
(4) Kabir Nanak dies
|
|
1536 |
Anne Boylen executed
|
|
1541 |
Francisco Pizarro dies
|
|
1542 |
Mary, Queen of Scots born
|
|
1547 |
(1)
Hernan Cortes dies
(2)
Henry VIII dies
|
|
1552 |
Charles V loses power
|
|
1554 |
Lady Jane Grey executed
|
|
1555 |
(1)
Peace of Augsburg
(2) Charles V abdicates
|
|
1556 |
Akbar the Mongol in India
|
|
1558 |
(1)
Battle of St. Quentin
(2) Queen Mary I dies
|
|
1559 |
(1)
Charles V dies
(2)
Queen Elizabeth coroneted
|
|
1566 |
Netherlands revolt against Spain
|
|
1571 |
Battle of Lepanto
|
|
1573 |
(1)
Siege of Leyden
(2)
Venetian-Turkish Wars begins
|
|
1581 |
Cossacks conquer Siberia
|
|
1584 |
William of Orange Assassinated
|
|
1587 |
(1)
Mary, Queen of Scots executed
(2) John Winthrop born
|
|
1588 |
(1)
Spanish Armada defeated
|
|
1591 |
Robert Devereux born
|
|
1596 |
Sir
Francis Drake dies
|
|
1599 |
Oliver Cromwell born
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