The 16th Century A.D. - History Summary
	Summary of Events:
	Year Event 1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches Brazil 1506 Rebuilding of St. Peter's, Rome, begins 1508 Michelangelo Buonarroti begins painting of Sistine Chapel, Vatican (to 1512) 1509 Accession of Henry VIII 1509 Watch invented in Nuremberg 1513 Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches Pacific Ocean 1513 Juan Ponce de León reaches Florida 1517 Martin Luther nails theses to church door at Wittenberg 1517 Coffee introduced to Europe 1519 Hernán Cortés begins conquest of Aztecs 1519 Death of Leonardo da Vinci 1520 Ferdinand Magellan reaches Pacific Ocean 1520 Death of Raphael 1521 Books begin to be printed at Cambridge 1525 William Tyndale's English translation of New Testament published 1526 Foundation of Mughal dynasty in India 1531 Francisco Pizarro captures Inca capital 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome 1534 Ignatius Loyola founds Society of Jesus (Jesuits) 1535 Miles Coverdale publishes first complete Bible in English 1536 Statute of Union between England and Wales 1536 Suppression of monasteries begins in England 1536 Jacques Cartier claims Canada for France 1536 Akbar the Great defeats Hindus at Panipat 1536 Death of Desiderius Erasmus 1539 Death of Nanak, founder of Sikhism 1539 Publication of the Great Bible in England 1539 Word encyclopaedia first used by Thomas Elyot 1541 John Calvin founds church at Geneva 1543 Nicolas Copernicus publishes Of the Revolution of Celestial Bodies 1545 Council of Trent begins (to 1563), initiating the Counter-Reformation 1546 Georgius Agricola makes first scientific classification of minerals 1549 Book of Common Prayer issued 1551 The theodolite is invented 1558 England loses Calais to France 1558 Accession of Elizabeth I of England 1559 Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity in England 1560 Jacques Nicot brings tobacco into France 1562 Netherlands revolt against Spain 1562 Wars of Religion begin in France (to 1598) 1564 Death of Michelangelo Bounarroti 1564 Birth of William Shakespeare 1569 Union of Lublin unites Lithuania to Poland 1569 James Fitzmaurice's rebellion in Ireland 1569 Mercator Chart introduced 1571 Turks defeated at Lepanto 1571 Thirty-Nine Articles adopted in England 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in France 1572 Beginning of Dutch rebellion against Spain 1576 First theatre opens in England, at Shoreditch 1577 Francis Drake leaves on world voyage 1581 Independence of United Provinces (Netherlands) 1582 Introduction of Gregorian Calendar in Italy 1584 Walter Raleigh sends first expedition to Virginia 1587 Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots 1587 First European Academy, in Italy 1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada by England 1589 Foundation of Bourbon dynasty in France 1594 Death of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
	Source: D. Crystal, The Cambridge Factfinder (Cambridge University Press, 1998)