16th Century Events Five Overall Largest Mass Killings Of The

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600.

1.1 Five overall largest mass killings of the 16th century

Note that the numbers given here are estimations

Spanish conquests in the Americas, 20 million deaths (estimates vary widely, large parts of casualties died from desease)
Persecution of Huguenots, 3 million deaths
Persecution of the Waldensians, 1 million deaths
Russo- Tatar war, 500.000 deaths
Japanese Invasion of Korea, 260.000 deaths

Slave trade and Thuggee also caused probably millions of victims during the 16th century, but the number of them is far too unknown to be listed.

2 Significant people

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter and sculptor ( 1475 - 1564).
Thomas More, English politician and author ( 1478 - 1535).
Martin Luther, German religious reformer ( 1483 - 1546).
Hernán Cortés, Spanish Conquistador ( 1485 - 1547).
King Henry VIII of England, founder of Anglicanism ( 1491 - 1547).
King Francis I of France, considered the first Renaissance monarch of his Kingdom ( 1494 - 1547).
Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Conqueror and legal reformer ( 1494 - 1566).
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the first to reign as King of Spain. Involved in almost constant conflict with France and the Ottoman Empire while promoting the Spanish colonization of the Americas ( 1500 - 1558).
King Philip II of Spain, self-proclaimed leader of Counter-Reformation ( 1527 - 1598).
Queen Elizabeth I of England, central figure of the Elizabethan era ( 1533 - 1603).
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author ( 1547 - 1616).
King Henry IV of France and Navarre, ended the French Wars of Religion and reunited the kingdom under his command ( 1553 - 1610).
William Shakespeare, English author ( 1564 - 1616).

3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Introduction of the spinning wheel revolutionizes textile production.
New world crops such as maize corn, potatoes, chocolate, and tomatoes, become known to Europeans.

4 Decades and years

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