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of the

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Events

January–March

January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading (871), Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred the Great, Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasi ...

– Giannandrea Giustiniani Longo is elected two a two year term as Doge of the

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in Italy, succeeding Giovanni Battista Doria. *

January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – List of Byzantine emperors, Byzantine Emperor Zeno (emperor), Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. *1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crow ...

– Treaty of Toledo: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (and Charles I of Spain) and

Francis I of France Francis I (; ; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis&nbs ...

agree to make no further alliances with

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. The treaty comes after

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's split with Rome and Pope Paul III. *

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– Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War – Battle of Naungyo,

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: The Toungoos decisively defeat the Hanthawaddys. *

February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno (emperor), Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire *1003 – Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I ...

– The first horse race is held at

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, the oldest in use in

. *

March 1 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocleti ...

– King Henry VIII of England summons Parliament to meet, with the session to start on April 28. *

March 2 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his '' bucellarii'' are almost ...

– Askia Isma'il, ruler of the

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, dies after a reign of slightly less than two years and is succeeded by Askia Ishaq I. * March 30 –

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surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons.

April–June

* April 17 – At

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in Germany, Heinrich IV of the

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, nicknamed "Heinrich der Fromme" (Henry the Pious) becomes the new Duke of Saxony within the

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upon the death of his older brother, Georg der Bärtige ("George the Bearded"). * April 19 – The Treaty of Frankfurt is signed at Frankfurt-am-Main by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor on behalf of the Empire's Roman Catholic states, and the Lutheran theologian Philip Melanchthon, representative of the Schmalkaldic League of Protestant German states.Hagenbach, p. 235. Effective May 1, the parties agree that no violent actions will be taken by either side against the other during a 15 month truce period. * April 28 – The English Parliament meets for the first time since 1536, after being summoned by King Henry VIII as his seventh Parliament. * May 5 – The English

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creates a committee, balanced between religious reformers and religious conservatives, to examine and determine doctrine, eventually forming the "Six Articles". *

May 25 Events Pre-1600 * 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. * 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes ...

– The inaugural declaration of the Protestant Reformation takes place in

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(now part of Germany) with Martin Luther present, as Duke Henry IV pledges to adopt

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as the official religion of make the

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. * May 30 –

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lands at Tampa Bay,

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with 600 soldiers, with the goal of finding

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. He also introduces pigs into

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. *

June 26 Events Pre-1600 *4 AD, 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius. * 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar (title), Caesar. * 363 – Roman emperor Julian (emperor), J ...

– Battle of Chausa in modern-day Buxar,

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: Sher Shah Suri defeats the Mughal emperor, Humayun (Sher Shah goes on to form the Sur Empire, and take control of nearly all Mughal territory). * June 28 – The Six Articles, an Act of the

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, is given

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reaffirms certain

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principles in Henry VIII's

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July–September

* July 13 – Lütfi Pasha becomes the new Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire after being appointed by the Sultan Suleiman the Great following the death of Ayas Mehmed Pasha * July 18 – The siege of Castelnuovo (now the town of Herceg Novi in

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) is started by General Hayreddin Barbarossa, leader of the Ottoman Empire's Army, after the Spanish commanding officer, Francisco de Sarmiento, rejects an offer of honorable surrender with safe passage. Spain had taken the city in war from the Ottomans in 1538, giving the Christian Europeans control of the eastern Mediterranean sea and access to the

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. With 50,000 Ottomans against less than 4,000 Spanish defenders, Castelnuovo falls in less than three weeks. *The siege of Castelnuovo ends after 19 days and the deaths of as many as 20,000 of the Ottoman attackers. After the city falls, almost all of the surviving Spanish defenders are executed, including Spain's General de Sarmiento. * August 15 – King

issues the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêt, that places the whole of

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under the jurisdiction of the royal law courts, and makes French the language of those courts, and the official language of legal discourse. * August 17 – The revolt of Ghent begins in the Spanish Netherlands (now

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) as members of the city's

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s demand the right to choose their own leaders, and the resignation of the Spanish-sponsored city leaders. Within four days, the city is under the control of nine guild leaders. * September 7 – Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the

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October–December

* October 4 – Henry VIII contracts to marry

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. * November 1 – Joachim II Hector introduces Lutheranism in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, becoming the second Prince-Elector after the Prince-Elector of Saxony to turn Protestant. * November 26 – Abbot Marmaduke Bradley and 31 monks sign the deed surrendering Fountains Abbey to the English Crown. * December 7 – Juan Pardo de Tavera, Archbishop of Toledo, begins his administration as the Grand Inquisitor of Spain. *

December 15 Events Pre-1600 * 533 – Vandalic War: Byzantine Empire, Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum. * 687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes P ...

– In the Spanish colony of Nueva Granada (now the Republic of

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, Spanish conquistador Baltasar Maldonado and his troops fight a final battle at Duitama (now the Boyacá Department) against the indigenous armies of the

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, led by Tundama. * December 27 –

arrives in

in fulfillment of the October 4 contract for marriage to King Henry VIII and the payment of a dowry of 100,000 florins to her brother. The Anne and Henry are married 10 days later, but the marriage is annulled on July 12.

Undated

* Protestant Reformation **

is forcibly introduced into

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, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason. **

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, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey, Newstead Abbey, St Albans Abbey, St Mary's Abbey, York and Hartland Abbey (the last) fall prey to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England. ** The first edition of the

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'' Genevan Psalter'' is published. * In

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province,

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, a severe drought with swarms of locusts is made worse, by a major epidemic outbreak of the plague. * The first printing press in

is set up in

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. * Teseo Ambrogio's ''Introductio in Chaldaicam lingua, Syriaca atq Armenica, & dece alias linguas'', published in

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, introduces several Middle Eastern languages to western Europe for the first time.

Births

January 28 Events Pre-1600 *AD 98, 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany. * 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accessi ...

– Nicolò Donato, Doge of Venice (d. 1618) *

February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I and Pope Pope John XII, John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1258 – Siege of Baghdad (1258), Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Kh ...

– Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine by marriage (1576-1582) (d. 1582) *

February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone o ...

** Henry XI of Legnica, thrice Duke of Legnica (d. 1588) ** Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire as a wife of Emperor Akbar (d. 1613) *

February 27 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantin ...

– Franciscus Raphelengius, Dutch printer (d. 1597) *

March 5 Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. * 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Easte ...

– Christoph Pezel, German theologian (d. 1604) * March 18 – Maria of Nassau, Countess of Nassau (d. 1599) *

April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921), second Fatimid invasion of Medieval Egypt, Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, Al-Qa'im (Fa ...

– George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1603) * April 6 – Amalia of Neuenahr, German noble (d. 1602) *

April 7 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town. * 529 – First '' Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Em ...

** Tobias Stimmer, Swiss artist (d. 1584) ** Strange Jørgenssøn, Norwegian businessman (d. 1610) * April 30 – Archduchess Barbara of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1572) * May 22 – Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (d. 1621) * May 29 – Thomas Pounde, English Jesuit lay brother (d. 1613) *

June 6 Events Pre-1600 * 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointe ...

– Catherine Vasa, Regent of East Frisia (1599-1610) (d. 1610) *

June 13 Events Pre-1600 * 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. * 1325 – Ibn ...

– Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591) * June 23 – William Darrell of Littlecote, English politician (d. 1589) * July 4 – Louis VI, Elector Palatine (d. 1583) * September 18 – Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Italian-French dignitary and diplomat (d. 1595) * October 1 – Peter Vok, Czech noble (d. 1611) * November 1 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596) * December 5 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604) * December 20 – Paulus Melissus, German composer (d. 1602) * December 31 – John Radcliffe, English politician (d.

1568 Year 1568 ( MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 6 – In the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, the delegates of Unio Trium Nationum to the Diet of Torda convene i ...

) * ''date unknown'' ** José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (d. 1590) ** Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (d. 1610) ** Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist (d. 1608) ** Humphrey Gilbert, English adventurer, explorer, member of Parliament and soldier (d. 1583)

Deaths

January 24 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula. * 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt. * 1438 – The Co ...

– Anneke Esaiasdochter, Dutch Anabaptist writer (b. 1509) * February – Narapati of Prome, king of Prome in Burma. *

February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Hormizd IV, king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown and blinded by his brothers-in-law Vistahm and Vinduyih. * 1579 – The Diocese of Manila is erected by papal bull, with Domingo de Salazar appointe ...

– John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491) *

– Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474) *

– Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487) *

March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of th ...

– Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b. 1477) *

March 19 Events Pre-1600 * 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire. * 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen en ...

– Lord Edmund Howard, English nobleman (b. c. 1478)) * April 17 – George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471) * April 19 – Katarzyna Weiglowa, Jewish martyr (b. 1460) * April 30 – John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (b. 1470) * May 1 – Isabella of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1503) * May 7 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466) * May 7 or September 22 – Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469) *

June 20 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory. * 1180 – First Battle of Uji, startin ...

– Philip III, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1524–1539) (b. 1486) * July 5 – St Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502) * July 9 – Adrian Fortescue, English Roman Catholic martyr (b. 1476) * August – Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (b.

1480 Year 1480 ( MCDLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * March 6 – Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso V of Portugal, ...

) * September 8 – John Stokesley, English prelate (b. 1475) * November 14 – Hugh Cook Faringdon, English Abbot of Reading * December 12 – Bartolomeo degli Organi, Italian musician (b. 1474) * December 20 – Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. c.

1506 Year 1506 (Roman numerals, MDVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 14 – The Classical antiquity, classical statue of ''Laocoön and His Sons'' is unearthed in Rome. ...

) * ''date unknown'' ** James Beaton, Scottish church leader (b. 1473) ** Cura Ocllo, Inca queen

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