Events Treaty of Nagyvarad. ... Events May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. ... Events January 6 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort. ... Events War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII of England is allied to the Emperor, while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French. ... // Events February 21 - Battle of Wayna Daga - A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeat the armies of Adal led by Ahmed Gragn. ... Events April 11 - Battle of Ceresole - French forces under the Comte dEnghien defeat Imperial forces under the Marques Del Vasto near Turin. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... ---- Events and Trends Template:Stub:hist Categories: 1510s ... Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s Years: 1520 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 Events and Trends Fall of Tenochtitlán and conquest of Spanish. ... Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s Years: 1530 1531 1532 1533 1534 1535 1536 1537 1538 1539 Events and Trends Spanish conquest of Peru Beginning of colonization of Brazil Categories: 1530s ... Events and Trends 1541 Hernando de Soto is the first European to see the Mississippi River. ... Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s Years: 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558 1559 1560 Events and Trends Categories: 1550s ... Events and Trends In 1564 William Shakespeare was born. ... Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s Years: 1570 1571 1572 1573 1574 1575 1576 1577 1578 1579 Significant Events and Trends Transition from the Muromachi to the Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan Categories: 1570s ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...

Events

• The first official translation of the entire Bible in Swedish
• February 12 - Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.
• May 8 - Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River naming it Rio de Espiritu Santo.
• May 23 - Jacques Cartier departs Saint-Malo France on his third voyage.
• July 9 - Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlockmen and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to assist the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire.
• August 29 - The Janissaries of Suleiman the Magnificent take Buda by ruse, hiding themselves as tourists.
• Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent seals off The Golden Gate in Jerusalem.
• Irish Parliament declares Ireland to be a kingdom

Jump to: navigation, search The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Pedro de Valdivia Pedro de Valdivia (c. ... Santiagos Metropolitan Cathedral Santiago (officially in Spanish Santiago de Chile) is Chiles capital and largest city. ... Jump to: navigation, search May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search Hernando de Soto (alexisgay Hernando de Soto (born 1496 in the Spanish province of cheese, went shoping for rubber ducks and Extremadura, and died 21 May 1542, probably on a branch of the Mississippi river near present-day Lake City, Arkansas) was a Spanish navigator and... Length 6,270 km Elevation of the source 450 m Average discharge Saint Louis¹: 5,500 m³/s Vicksburg²: 16,800 m³/s Baton Rouge³: 12,800 m³/s Area watershed 2,980,000 km² Origin  Lake Itasca Mouth  Gulf of Mexico Basin countries United States (98. ... Jump to: navigation, search May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491 – September 1, 1557), baptized Jakez Karter, was a French explorer who is popularly thought of as one of the major discoverers of Canada, or more specifically, the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country. ... Categories: France geography stubs | Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine ... Jump to: navigation, search July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... Estevão da Gama (flourished 16th century) was a Portuguese admiral. ... Massawa in the 19th century Massawa or Mitsiwa (15° 36′ 33″ N 39° 26′ 43″ E) is a port on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea. ... The Matchlock was the first firearm to have a trigger mechanism for firing. ... The Emperor of Ethiopia (Amharic ንጉሠ ነገሥት, niguse negest, King of Kings) was the hereditary ruler of Ethiopia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975. ... Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. ... Jump to: navigation, search August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... The Janissaries (or janizaries; in Turkish: Yeniçeri, meaning New Troops) comprised infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultans household troops and bodyguard. ... Jump to: navigation, search This is a current Biography collaboration of the week! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ... The Osmanli Dynasty, also the House of Osman, ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1923, beginning with Osman I (not counting his father, Ertuğrul), though the dynasty was not proclaimed until 1383 when Murad I declared himself sultan. ... Jump to: navigation, search This is a current Biography collaboration of the week! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ... This article is about the gate in Jerusalem. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jerusalem (31°46′ N 35°14′ E; Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם [â–¶]; Yerushalayim; Arabic: القُدس [â–¶] al-Quds; see also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ...

Births

• January 26 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
• March 25 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1587)
• April 8 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (died 1593)
• Pierre Charron, French philosopher (died 1603)
• Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (died 1576)
• El Greco, Greek-born artist (died 1614)
• Hatano Hideharu, Japanese samurai (died 1579)
• Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (died 1600)
• Guðbrandur Þorláksson, mathematician

January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Florent Chrestien (January 26, 1541 - October 3, 1596) was a French satirist and Latin poet. ... Events February 5 - 26 catholics crucified in Nagasaki, Japan. ... Jump to: navigation, search March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search Francesco I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (25 March 1541 – 19 October 1587) was the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruling from 1574 to 1587. ... 1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... Categories: Stub | 1541 births | 1593 deaths | Archaeologists ... Events May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyds accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. ... Pierre Charron (1541-1603) was a French philosopher. ... King James I of England/VII of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time Events March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England April... Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (1541 - 1576), an English nobleman, was the eldest son of Sir Richard Devereux. ... Events May 5 - Peace of Beaulieu or Peace of Monsieur (after Monsieur, the Duc dAnjou, brother of the King, who negotiated it). ... Baptism of Christ, painted 1596–1600 El Greco (medieval Castilian for the Greek) is the name by which Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος Domênikos Theotokópoulos (1541,Heraklion, Crete,Greece – April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain), a Greek-Spanish painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish school, is best known. ... Events April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. ... Hatano Hideharu(波多野 秀治 Hatano Hideharu, 1541-June 25, 1579) is the eldest son of Hatano Harumichi and the head of Hatano clan. ... Events January 6 - The Union of Atrecht united the southern Netherlands under the Duke of Parma, governor in the name of king Philip II of Spain. ... Mizuno Tadashige (1541 - 1600) was the son of Mizuno Tadamasa and the brother of Mizuno Nobumoto. ... // Events January January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Years Day February February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned at the stake for heresy July July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert in a battle on the coastal dunes. ... Guðbrandur Þorláksson Guðbrandur Þorláksson (1541–1627) was a mathematician, cartographer and bishop in Hólar, Iceland. ...

Deaths

• May 27 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (executed) (born 1473)
• June 26 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador
• July 4 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (born 1495)
• August 1 - Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (born 1493)
• September 24 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)
• November 24 - Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489)
• Francisco Alvarez, Portuguese missionary and explorer (born 1465)
• Wolfgang Fabricius Capito, German reformer
• Jean Clouet, French miniature painter
• Thomas Culpeper, English courtier
• Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (born 1480)
• Andreas Karlstadt, Christian theologian and reformer
• Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama
• Jerzy Radziwill, Polish nobleman (born 1480)
• Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord
• Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)