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Events
1500s
- 1500: The Battle of Novara (April)
- The Battle of Lepanto (August)
- 1501: Arthur Tudor weds Catherine of Aragon (November 14)
- Michelangelo begins sculpting David and The Madonna of Bruges
- 1502: Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa
- Death of Arthur Tudor (April 2)
- 1503: Michelangelo paints the Doni Tondo
- The Battle of Ruvo (February 23)
- The Battle of Cerignola (April 21)
- The Battle of Garigliano (December 29)
- 1504: Death of Isabella of Castile (November 26)
- 1506: Death of Christopher Columbus (May 20)
- 1508: Crossbows banned (in England?) to increase the practise of using the longbow
- 1509: The Battle of Diu (February 2-3)
- Death of Henry VII of England (April 21)
- The Battle of Agnadello (May 14)
- Henry VIII of England weds Catherine of Aragon (June 11)
- Coronation of Henry VIII of England (June 28)
- The Siege of Padua (July 17)
- The Battle of Polesella (December 22)
1510s
- 1511: Birth of the first Henry, Duke of Cornwall (January 1)
- Death of the first Henry, Duke of Cornwall (February 11)
- Birth of Giorgio Vasari (July 30)
- 1512: The Sack of Brescia (February 18)
- The Battle of Ravenna (April 11)
- The Battle of St. Mathieu (August 10)
- 1513: Michelangelo begins work on Moses
- Jorge Álvares reaches China (May)
- The Battle of Novara (June 6)
- The Battle of Guinegate (August 16)
- James IV of Scotland dies at the Battle of Flodden Field (September 9); coronation of James V (September 21)
- The Battle of La Motta (October 7)
- 1514: The Battle of Chaldiran (August 23)
- The Battle of Orsha (September 8)
- Birth and death of the second Henry, Duke of Cornwall (December)
- 1515: The Battle of Marignano (September 13-14)
- Birth of Anne of Cleves (September 22)
- 1516: Death of Ferdinand II of Aragon (January 23)
- Birth of Mary I of England (February 18)
- The War of Urbino
- 1517: Martin Luther posts the Ninety-Five Theses (October 31)
- 1519: Birth of Henry II of France (March 31)
- Birth of Catherine de' Medici (April 13)
- Death of Leonardo da Vinci (May 2)
- Departure of Magellan's voyage to circumnavigate the Earth
1520s
- William Tyndale's translation of the New Testament published
- 1520: Beginning of the reign of Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire
- 1521: Michelangelo finishes the Cristo della Minerva
- Death of Magellan (April 27)
- The Battle of Pamplona (May 20)
- The Battle of Esquiroz (June 30)
- The Siege of Mézières
- Suleiman captures the fort at Belgrade and razes most of the city to the ground (August 28)
- The Siege of Tournai
- 1522: The Battle of Biocca (April 27)
- The Siege of Genoa (May 20-30)
- 1523: Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union
- 1524: The Battle of the Sesia (April 30)
- The Siege of Marseille (August-September)
- The Peasants' War (1524-May 15, 1525)
- 1525: The Battle of Pavia (February 24)
- Francis I of France signs the Treaty of Madrid, surrendering France's claims to Italy, Flanders, and Burgundy
- The Battle of Mohács (August 29)
- 1527: The Sack of Rome (May 6)
- 1529: The Siege of Vienna
- The Siege of Florence (1529-1530)
1530s
- 1530: Birth of Ivan IV of Russia (August 25)
- Death of Babur (December 26)
- 1533: Henry VIII of England weds Anne Boleyn (January 25)
- Birth of William the Silent (April 24)
- Pope Clement VII excommunicates Henry VIII of England (July)
- The Battle of Gavinana
- Birth of Elizabeth I of England (September 7)
- Henry II of France weds Catherine de' Medici (October 28)
- 1534: The Suffragan Bishops Act
- The First Act of Supremacy (November)
- The Treasons Act
- The First Succession Act
- 1535: Michelangelo begins work on The Last Judgment on the wall of the Sistine Chapel
- The Conquest of Tunis
- John Fisher executed (June 22)
- Thomas More executed (July 6)
- 1536: Anne Boleyn executed (May 19)
- Henry VIII of England weds Jane Seymour (May 30)
- William Tyndale executed (September 6)
- The Pilgrimage of Grace (October)
- 1537: Robert Aske executed (July 12)
- Birth of Lady Jane Grey
- Birth of Edward VI of England (October 12)
- Death of Jane Seymour (October 24)
- 1538: The Battle of Preveza (September 28)
- 1539: Richard Whyting, last Abbott of Glastonbury, executed (November 15)
1540s
- 1540: Henry VIII of England weds Anne of Cleves (January 6)
- Marriage of Henry VIII of England and Anne of Cleves annulled (July 9)
- Henry VIII of England weds Catherine Howard (July 28)
- 1541: Jacques Cartier, on his third voyage to the New World, founds the colony of Charlesbourg-Royal (near what is now Cap-Rouge, Quebec)
- 1542: Catherine Howard executed (February 13)
- The Battle of Haddon Rig (August 24)
- The Battle of Solway Moss (November 24)
- Birth of Mary I of Scotland (December 8)
- Death of James V of Scotland (December 14)
- 1543: Copernicus publishes his theory of a heliocentric solar system
- Coronation of Mary I of Scotland (September 9)
- Henry VIII of England weds Catherine Parr (July 12)
- The Siege of Nice (August)
- 1544: Ivan IV of Russia assumes power
- The Battle of Ceresole (April 11)
- The Battle of Serravalle (June 2)
- The Siege of St. Dizier
- The Siege of Boulogne (July 19-September 18)
- The Battle of Ancrum Moor (February 27)
- The Battle of the Solent (July 18-19)
- The Council of Trent (1545-1563)
- 1547: Death of Henry VIII of England (January 28)
- Coronation of Edward VI of England (February 20)
- Coronation of Henry II of France (July 10)
- The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (September 10)
- 1548: Death of Catherine Parr (September 5)
- 1549: Publication of the first Book of Common Prayer
1550s
- 1550: Giorgio Vasari's Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori published
- The Valladolid debate (1550-1551)
- 1552: The Siege of Eger
- 1553: Death of Edward VI of England (July 6)
- Coronation of Lady Jane Grey
- Coronation of Mary I of England (October 1)
- 1554: Lady Jane Grey executed (February 12)
- Birth of Sebastian I of Portugal (June 11)
- Philip II of Spain weds Mary I of England (July 25)
- The Battle of Marciano (August 2)
- The Battle of Renty (August 12)
- 1555: Construction begins on St. Basil's Cathedral
- John Rogers executed (February 4)
- Laurence Saunders executed (February 8)
- Rowland Taylor executed (February 9)
- John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, executed (February 9)
- 1557: The Battle of St. Quentin (August)
- Death of Anne of Cleves (September 22)
- 1558: Francis II of France weds Mary I of Scotland
- The Battle of Gravelines (July 13)
- Death of Mary I of England (November 17)
- 1559: Coronation of Elizabeth I of England
- The Second Act of Supremacy
- Philip II of Spain appoints William the Silent as stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, and Burgundy
- The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed by Elizabeth I of England, Henry II of France, and Philip II of Spain (April 2-3)
- Death of Henry II of France (July 10)
- The Revolt of the Northern Earls
1560s
- 1560: The Tumult of Amboise (March)
- Death of Francis II of France (December 5)
- 1561: Mary I of Scotland returns to Scotland (August 19)
- 1562: The Battle of Corrichie
- 1563: Birth of John Dowland
- Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion established
- John Foxe's Book of Martyrs published by John Day
- 1564: Birth of Galileo Galilei (February 15)
- Death of Michelangelo (February 18)
- Birth of William Shakespeare (April)
- 1565: The Siege of Malta
- Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley weds Mary I of Scotland (July 29)
- The Chaseabout Raid (August 26)
- The colony at St. Augustine founded (September 8)
- 1566: David Rizzio murdered (March 9)
- Birth of James VI of Scotland (James I of England) (June 19)
- The Battle of Szigetvar (August 6-September 8)
- Death of Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire
- Death of Diane de Poitiers (April 25)
- 1567: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley assassinated (February 10)
- The Battle of Oosterweel (March 13)
- James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell weds Mary I of Scotland (May 15)
- The Battle of Carberry Hill (June 15)
- Abdication of Mary I of Scotland; coronation of James VI of Scotland (July 24)
- 1568: The Battle of Rheindalen (April 23)
- The Battle of Langside (May 13)
- The Battle of Heiligerlee (May 23)
- Mary I of Scotland imprisoned at Carlisle (May 19)
- The Battle of Jemmingen (July 21)
- The Battle of Jodoigne (October 20)
- 1569: Beginning of the First Desmond Rebellion
- The Union of Lublin, uniting Poland and Lithuania, is signed (July 1)
1570s
- 1570: The Ridolfi Plot
- 1571: The Fire of Moscow
- The Battle of Lepanto (October 7)
- 1572: The Capture of Brielle (April 1)
- The Battle of Molodi (July 30-August 3)
- The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (August 24)
- The Siege of Haarlem begins (December 11)
- 1573: The Battle of Flushing (April 17)
- The Battle of Borsele (April 22)
- The Battle on the Zuiderzee (October 11)
- The Siege of Leiden begins (October)
- 1574: The Battle of Reimerswaal (January 29)
- The Battle of Mookerheyde (April 14)
- Death of Giorgio Vasari (June 27)
- Birth of Anne of Denmark (December 12)
- 1575: Birth of Arabella Stuart
- 1577: Birth of Christian IV of Denmark (April 12)
- Francis Drake sets sail on an expedition against the Spanish colonies in the New World
- 1578: The Battle of Gembloux (January 31)
- Death of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (April 14)
- Death of Sebastian I of Portugal (August 4)
- 1579: The Second Desmond Rebellion (1579-1583)
- The Wikipedia:Siege_of_Maastricht_(1579) (March 12-July 1)
- Francis Drake lands at New Albion (June 17)
1580s
- The Treaty of Plessis-les-Tours
- Death of William the Silent (July 10)
- Francis Drake returns to England after circumnavigating the Earth (September 26)
- 1581: Ivan IV of Russia kills his son
- Francis Drake knighted by Elizabeth I of England (April 4)
- 1582: Pope Gregory XIII decrees the Gregorian calendar
- The Battle of Punta Delgada (July 26)
- 1584: Death of Ivan IV of Russia
- Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony in the New World at Roanoke Island (June 4)
- The Wikipedia:Siege_of_Antwerp_(1584-1585)Siege of Antwerp]] (July 1584-August 1585)
- 1586: The Babington Plot
- The Battle of Boksum (January 17)
- The Battle of Zutphen (September 22)
- 1587: Mary I of Scotland executed (February 8)
- Christopher Marlowe's first known play performed on the London stage
- 1588: The Battle of Gravelines (defeat of the Spanish Armada) (August 8)
- The Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom (September 23-November 13)
- 1589: Death of Catherine de' Medici (January 5)
- James VI of Scotland weds Anne of Denmark (November 23)
1590s
- 1590: The North Berwick Witch Trials
- 1593: Galileo builds a thermometer
- Death of Christopher Marlowe (May 30)
- Beginning of the Thirteen Years' War (July 29)
- 1594: Birth of Henry Frederick (February 19)
- 1595: The English longbow retired as a frontline weapon
- 1596: Death of Francis Drake (January 27)
- Coronation of Christian IV of Denmark (August 29)
- The Battle of Keresztes (October 24-26)
- 1597: John Dowland's First Booke of Songs published, marking the start of "The English Lute School"
- The Battle of Turnhout (January 24)
- 1599: The Globe Theatre is built
Significant people
- Henry VIII
- Elizabeth I
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Sir Francis Drake
- Catherine de' Medici
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Martin Luther
- Christopher Marlowe
- William Shakespeare
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Roger Ascham
- Albrecht Dürer
Some Groups that Cover this Period
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External Links
- Mary of Hapsburg's Gown - http://www.virtue.to/guest_authors/hungarian.html
- Mary of Hungary's gown in photos - http://frazzledfrau.glittersweet.com/mary/index.htm
- Female Tudor dress - http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/tudor/index.html
- An Elizabethan site - http://costume.dm.net
- A Festive attire research page - http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attye/research/index.html
- Female German 16th century dress - http://frazzledfrau.glittersweet.com/
- Venetian Women's Dress Recreated - http://www.geocities.com/oonaghsown/
- The Realm of Venus - Fashion and Style in Renaissance Italy - http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/
- Turkish Women's Coat - http://www.geocities.com/oonaghsown/turkish_coat_for_venice.htm
- Spanish women's court garb - http://sayaespanola.glittersweet.com
- Atlantian A&S Links: 16th Century Clothing, 16th Century Cuisine, and 16th Century Calligraphy & Illumination