WHAT HAPPENED IN 16. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the 16. century

Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia. (16. January 1547)

Philip II becomes King of Spain. (16. January 1556)

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. (16. January 1572)

The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism. (16. January 1581)

Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean. (17. January 1524)

France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain. (17. January 1562)

Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. (17. January 1595)

Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru. (18. January 1535)

Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. (18. January 1562)

King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day. (18. January 1591)

Mirandola surrenders to the French. (19. January 1511)

Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund. (19. January 1520)

Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway. (20. January 1523)

Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro. (20. January 1567)

The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza. (20. January 1576)

The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. (21. January 1525)

Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris (21. January 1535)

The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican. (22. January 1506)

The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya. (22. January 1517)

Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms (22. January 1521)