The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Vol. 2: 1530s-1600

Keyword List of Contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Sidebars
Maps of the Renaissance & Early Modern Era
1530’s (continued)
	1534-1535, Ottomans Claim Sovereignty over Mesopotamia
	April 20, 1534-July, 1543, Cartier and Roberval Search for a Northwest Passage
	August 15, 1534, Founding of the Jesuit Order
	December 18, 1534, Act of Supremacy
	December 23, 1534-1540, Parmigianino Paints Madonna with the Long Neck
	July, 1535-March, 1540, Henry VIII Dissolves the Monasteries
	1536, Turkish Capitulations Begin
	1536 and 1543, Acts of Union Between England and Wales
	March, 1536, Calvin Publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
	October, 1536-June, 1537, Pilgrimage of Grace
	1537, Pope Paul III Declares Rights of New World Peoples
	September 27-28, 1538, Battle of Preveza
	1539, Jiajing Threatens Vietnam
	May, 1539, Six Articles of Henry VIII
	May 28, 1539-September 10, 1543, De Soto’s North American Expedition
1540’s
	1540-1545, Sher Shah Sur Becomes Emperor of Delhi
	February 23, 1540-October, 1542, Coronado’s Southwest Expedition
	October 20-27, 1541, Holy Roman Empire Attacks Ottomans in Algiers
	1542-1543, The New Laws of Spain
	June 27, 1542-c. 1600, Spain Explores Alta California
	July 15, 1542-1559, Paul III Establishes the Index of Prohibited Books
	1543, Copernicus Publishes De Revolutionibus
	1543, Vesalius Publishes On the Fabric of the Human Body
	Autumn, 1543, Europeans Begin Trade with Japan
	1544-1628, Anglo-French Wars
	1545-1548, Silver Is Discovered in Spanish America
	1545-1563, Council of Trent
	February 27, 1545, Battle of Ancrum Moor
	1546, Fracastoro Discovers That Contagion Spreads Disease
	January 16, 1547, Coronation of Ivan the Terrible
	January 28, 1547-July 6, 1553, Reign of Edward VI
	1548-1600, Siamese-Burmese Wars
	1549, Kett’s Rebellion
	1549-1552, Father Xavier Introduces Christianity to Japan
	1549-1570’s, La Pleiade Promotes French Poetry
	Mid-16th century, Development of the Caracole Maneuver
1550’s
	1550’s, Tartaglia Publishes The New Science
	1550’s-1567, Japanese Pirates Pillage the Chinese Coast
	1550’s-c. 1600, Educational Reforms in Europe
	1550-1571, Mongols Raid Beijing
	1550-1593, Japanese Wars of Unification
	January-May, 1551, The Stoglav Convenes
	1552, Las Casas Publishes The Tears of the Indians
	1552, Struggle for the Strait of Hormuz
	1553, Servetus Describes the Circulatory System
	July, 1553, Coronation of Mary Tudor
	September, 1553, First Battle of Kawanakajima
	January 25-February 7, 1554, Wyatt’s Rebellion
	1555-1556, Charles V Abdicates
	September 25, 1555, Peace of Augsburg
	1556-1605, Reign of Akbar
	January 23, 1556, Earthquake in China Kills Thousands
	Summer, 1556, Ivan the Terrible Annexes Astrakhan
	1557-1582, Livonian War
	1558-1593, Burmese-Laotian Wars
	1558-1603, Reign of Elizabeth 1
	January 1-8, 1558, France Regains Calais from England
	1559- 1561, Suleyman’s Sons Wage Civil War
	April 3, 1559, Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis
	May, 1559-August, 1561, Scottish Reformation
1560’s
	c. 1560’s, Invention of the “Lead” Pencil
	April or May, 1560, Publication of the Geneva Bible
	June 12, 1560, Battle of Okehazama
	March, 1562-May 2, 1598, French Wars of Religion
	1563-1584, Construction of the Escorial
	January, 1563, Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England
	January 20, 1564, Peace of Troyes
	June, 1564, Tintoretto Paints for the Scuola di San Rocco
	1565, Spain Seizes the Philippines
	May 18-September 8, 1565, Siege of Malta
	September, 1565, St. Augustine Is Founded
	1566-1574, Reign of Selim II
	July 22, 1566, Pius V Expels the Prostitutes from Rome
	1567, Palestrina Publishes the Pope Marcellus Mass
	1567-1572, Reign of Longqing
	July 29, 1567, James VI Becomes King of Scotland
	1568, Oda Nobunaga Seizes Kyoto
	c. 1568-1571. Ottoman-Russian War
	1568-1648, Dutch Wars of Independence
	February 23, 1568, Fall of Chitor
	1569, Mercator Publishes His World Map
	November 9, 1569, Rebellion of the Northern Earls
1570’s
	February 25, 1570, Pius V Excommunicates Elizabeth I
	July, 1570-August, 1571, Siege of Famagusta and Fall of Cyprus
	October 7, 1571, Battle of Lepanto
	1572-1574, Tycho Brahe Observes a Supernova
	August 24-25, 1572, St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
	1573-1620, Reign of Wanli
	1574-1595, Reign of Murad III
	Mid-1570’s, Powhatan Confederacy Is Founded
	1575, Tallis and Byrd Publish Cantiones Sacrae
	March 3, 1575, Mughal Conquest of Bengal
	November, 1575, Stephen Bathory Becomes King of Poland
	1576, James Burbage Builds The Theatre
	1576-1612, Reign of Rudolf II
	June 7, 1576-July, 1578, Frobisher’s Voyages
	1577, Ram Das Founds Amritsar
	1578, First Dalai Lama Becomes Buddhist Spiritual Leader
	1578-1590, The Battle for Tabriz
	August 4, 1578, Battle of Ksar el-Kebir
	June 17, 1579, Drake Lands in Northern California
1580’s
	1580’s-1590’s, Galileo Conducts His Early Experiments
	1580-1581, Spain Annexes Portugal
	1580-1587, Rebellions in Bihar and Bengal
	1580-1595, Montaigne Publishes His Essays
	c. 1580-c. 1600, Siamese-Cambodian Wars
	1581-1597, Cossacks Seize Sibir
	July 26, 1581, The United Provinces Declare Independence from Spain
	1582, Gregory XIII Reforms the Calendar
	July 21, 1582, Battle of the Tobol River
	1583-1600, Bruno’s Theory of the Infinite Universe
	1583-1610, Matteo Ricci Travels to Beijing
	1584-1613, Russia’s Time of Troubles
	July 4, 1584-1590, Lost Colony of Roanoke
	July 7, 1585-December 23, 1588, War of the Three Henrys
	September 14, 1585-July 27, 1586, Drake’s Expedition to the West Indies
	February, 1586, Annexation of Kashmir
	1587, Toyotomi Hideyoshi Hosts a Ten-Day Tea Ceremony
	1587-1629, Reign of cAbbas the Great
	April, 1587-c. 1600, Anglo-Spanish War
	1588-1602. Rise of the English Madrigal
	July 31-August 8, 1588, Defeat of the Spanish Armada
	1589, Russian Patriarchate Is Established
	1589, Second Janissary Revolt in Constantinople
	c. 1589-1613, Shakespeare Writes His Dramas
	August 2, 1589, Henry IV Ascends the Throne of France
1590’s
	1590’s, Birth of Opera
	1590, Odawara Campaign
	1591, Fall of the Songhai Empire
	1592, Publication of Wu Chengen’s The Journey to the West
	1592-1599, Japan Invades Korea
	1593-1606, Ottoman-Austrian War
	1594-1595, Taiko Kenchi Survey
	1594-1600, King Michael’s Uprising
	1596, Ralegh Arrives in Guiana
	October, 1596-February, 1597, San Felipe Incident
	1597-September, 1601, Tyrone Rebellion
	October 31, 1597, John Dowland Publishes Ayres
	1598, Astrakhanid Dynasty Is Established
	January, 1598-February, 1599, Onate’s New Mexico Expedition
	April 13, 1598, Edict of Nantes
	May 2, 1598, Treaty of Vervins
	December, 1598-May, 1599, The Globe Theatre Is Built
	1599, Castrati Sing in the Sistine Chapel Choir
	1600, William Gilbert Publishes De Magnete
	October 21, 1600, Battle of Sekigahara
	December 31, 1600, Elizabeth I Charters the East India Company
Appendices
	Time Line
	Glossary
	Bibliography
	Electronic Resources
	Chronological List of Entries
	Geographical Index
	Category Index
Indexes
	Personages Index
	Subject Index