Some Of The Greatest Events From 1501-1600
1. 1502: First reported African slaves in the New World.
2. 1503: Battle of Cerignola, the first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms.
3. 1503: Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa.
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4. 1507: The first recorded epidemic of smallpox.
5. 1517: The Sweating sickness epidemic in England.
6. 1518: Beginning of the dancing plague in Strasbourg.
7. 1523: Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.
8. 1526: Foundation of Mughal Empire
9. 1536: Foundation of Buenos Aires
10. 1541: Amazon River is encountered and explored by Francisco de Orellana.
11. 1543: Copernicus publishes his theory that the Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun.
12. 1547: Grand Prince Ivan the Terrible is crowned tsar of Russia, becoming the first Russian tsar.
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13. 1548: In Battle of Uedahara, frearms were used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan
14. 1548: Establishment of public libraries in Timbuktu.
15. 1555: The Muscovy Company is the first major English joint stock trading company.
16. 1556: The Shaanxi earthquake occurred in China which is history's deadliest known earthquake.
17. 1562: Mughal Emperor Akbar tried to reconcile the Muslims and Hindus by marrying into the powerful Hindu rajput caste.
18. 1563: Plague outbreak claimed 80,000 lives in England.
19. 1565: Establishment of Rio de Janeiro.
20. 1577–80: Francis Drake circles the world.
21. 1583: Denmark builds the world's first theme park.
22. 1597: Romeo and Juliet is published.
23. 1600: Elizabeth I grants a charter to the British East India Company beginning the English advance in Asia.
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