WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 16. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the first half of the 16. century

Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. (29. June 1534)

Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan. (30. June 1520)

Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre. (30. June 1521)

Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels. (1. July 1523)

Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia. (2. July 1504)

Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye. (4. July 1534)

Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. (6. July 1535)

Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba. (7. July 1520)

European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick. (7. July 1534)

French troops invade Luxembourg. (7. July 1543)

King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (9. July 1540)

Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing. (10. July 1519)

King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace. (12. July 1543)

Italian War of 1542–1546: the first Siege of Boulogne begins. (19. July 1544)

The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. (19. July 1545)

The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight. (21. July 1545)

French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France. (24. July 1534)

Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali. (25. July 1536)

The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil. (25. July 1538)

Henry II of France is crowned. (25. July 1547)