16. Century

16. Century began at the 1. January 1501 and ended to 31. December 1600.

With the reformation Luther in the year 1517 ended the late Middle Agesin Europe, and it with it the epoch of the early modern times began.

events/developments

• large reformation of the church
• king Heinrich VIII. breaks with the catholic church (1533)
• Begins Religionskrieg between catholics and Huguenot in
• France the time of large European witch pursuit toward end of the century
• first Erdumseglung of Ferdinand Magellan expedition.
• The Turks strike Hungary (battle with Mohács, 1526) and besiege Vienna (First Viennese Turk FE storage, 1529)
• Kopernikus publishes his theory of the heliozentrischen conception of the world (1543)
• the Gregorian calendar inserted in many catholic countries (1582)
• the British fleet under Sir Francis Drake strikes the Spanish Armada destroying (1588)

personalities

• Martin Luther, religious Reformator († 1546)
• Michelangelo Buonarotti, painter and sculptor († 1564)
• Thomas More, English politician and writer († 1535)
• Miguel de Cervantes, more SpanishWriter († 1616)
• Elizabeth I., English queen († 1603)
• Philip II., Spanish king († 1598)
• Nostradamus, physician, became famous for its prophecies († 1566)
• Nikolaus Kopernikus, Astronom († 1543)
• Mary Queen OFScots, queen of Scotland and nut/mother James I OF England and VI OF Scotland († 1587)
• William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist († 1616)

inventions and discoveries

• gun powder
• mechanical clocks (Zeitmesser)

Web on the left of

• http://www.publius-historicus.com/indexa.html (English one)