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French Wars of Religion: Catholic forces defeated an armed group of Huguenots attempting to capture Besançon, from which
Anglo-Scottish Wars: A dispute between Sir John Forster and Sir John Carmichael led to a Scottish raid on…
The Dutch Revolt broke out when rebels led by Louis of Nassau (pictured) invaded Friesland at the Battle of Heiligerlee
Gian Pietro Carafa became Pope Paul IV, beginning a tumultuous four-year papacy during which the Papal States suffered a
Lady Jane Grey (pictured) was proclaimed the successor to King Edward VI of England, beginning her disputed reign as…
The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Castello of Gozo to the Ottoman Empire following a brief siege, leading to the…
The first Book of Common Prayer was legally mandated by Parliament, introducing a fully vernacular Protestant liturgy to
The English warship Mary Rose sank outside Portsmouth during the Battle of the Solent; it was raised from the seabed…
During the Rough Wooing, an English army carried out the Burning of Edinburgh
King Henry VIII of England had his chief minister Thomas Cromwell executed for treason and heresy.
Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege of Cusco
War of the League of Cognac: The French army under Francis de Bourbon was destroyed in Lombardy, Italy, by the Spanish a
Ibrahim Khan Lodi, the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, was defeated and killed by Babur at the First Battle of Panipat,
Four Years' War: The combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeated a French and Venetian army at the Battle of
Edward Stafford (pictured), whose father had been beheaded for rebelling against King Richard III of England, was himsel
A revolt of citizens in Toledo, Castile, opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles I began when the royal governme
Henry Grace à Dieu, the largest warship ever built at the time, was launched from Woolwich Dockyard, England
War of the League of Cambrai: Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to with
A fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral (pictured) anchored off present-day Brazil; he later claimed the land for the
Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula