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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…
Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to…
The first Book of Common Prayer was legally mandated by Parliament, introducing a fully vernacular Protestant liturgy to
Forces of the Burmese Toungoo dynasty led by King Tabinshwehti (depicted) departed Martaban to begin an invasion of…
Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
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
Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts: During the Battle of Wofla, the Portuguese commander Cristóvão da Gama was captured by…
King Henry VIII of England had his chief minister Thomas Cromwell executed for treason and heresy.
The Honourable Artillery Company, now the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was granted a royal charter…
The Honourable Artillery Company, now the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was granted a royal charter…
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
Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The siege of Vienna ended with Austrian forces repelling the invading Turks, turning the tide…
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