Mediterranean 1550-1650

Mediterranean
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  Kings of Spain (Sicily included)
 Philip II 1556-1598
 Philip III 1598-1621
 Philip IV 1621-1665
 Charles II 1665-1700
 Viceroys in Sicily
 Carlos de Aragòn 1566-1568
 Francesco Fernando d'Àvalos 1568-1571
 Giuseppe Francesco Landriano 1571
 Carlos de Aragòn 1571-77
 Marcantonio Colonna 1577-84
 Juan Alfonso Bisbal 1584-85
 Diego Enriquez de Guzmàn 1585-92
 Enriquez de Guzmàn 1592-95
 Giovanni Ventimiglia 1595-98
 Bernardino de Cárdenas y Portugal 1598-1601
 Jorge de Cárdenas 1601-02
 Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba 1602-06
 Giovanni Ventimiglia 1606-07
 Juan Fernández Pacheco 1607-10
 Giovanni Doria 1610-11
 Pedro Téllez-Girón 1611-16
 Francisco Ruiz de Castro 1616-22
 Philibert of Savoy 1622-1624
 English Monarchs
  Edward VI 1547-53
  Lady Jane Grey-1553
 Mary I 1553-58
 Elizabeth I 1558-1603
 James I 1603-25
 Charles I 1625-49
 Cromwell 1649-60
 Charles II 1660-85
 James II 1685-88
 Mary II 1689-94
 William III 1689-1702
 French Kings
 Henry II 1547-59
 Francis II 1559-60
 Charles IX 1560-1574
 Henry III 1574-89
 Henry IV 1589-1610
 Louis XIII 1610-43
 Louis XIV 1643-1715
 Popes
 Julius III 1550-55
 Marcellus II 1555
 Paul IV 1555-65
 St. Pius V 1566-72
 Gregory XIII 1572-85
 Sixtus V 1585-90
 Urban VII 1590
 Gregory XIV 1590-91
 Innocent IX 1591
 Clement VIII 1592-1605
 Leo XI 1605
 Paul V 1605-21
 Gregory XV 1621-23
 Urban VIII 1623-44
 Innocent X 1644-55
 Poets
 Antonio Veneziano (1543-1593)
 Cervantes (1547-1616)
 Gabriello Chiabrera 1552-1638
 Shakespeare 1564-1616
 Fudduni c1600-1670
 La Fontaine 1621-95
 Wars
 Italian Wars of 1551-59
 Spain and Venice defeat the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto 1571
 French civil war 1580
 Anglo-Spanish War 1585-1604
 Spanish Armada 1588
 Thirty Years War 1618-48
 Invention of Nitric Acid 1649
 Maps
    Maps of the Mediterranean, topographical, historical, and political    
 General
 Portugal dominates E. Africa 1500-1650
 Italian Renaissance 1300-1550 Peaked by 1550 and spread north to France and England
 French Renaissance 1453-1598
 Councils of Trent 1545-1563
 Akbar expands Mogul Empire 1556-1605
 English Renaissance 1558-1603
 Great Seige of Malta 1565
 Spain and Venice defeat the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto 1571
 Portuguese found Angola 1571
 Plague in Europe, Malta, Sicily 1575-80
 Dutch United Provinces declare independence 1581
 Spanish Armada 1588
 Plague in England 1592-99
 French Grand Siecle 1598-1715
 Ottoman Sultans supported the Barbary Pirates and set them against Christian ships and coastal towns
 Sultan Suleiman I 1520-1566 Conquered Middle East, North Africa, Hungary, Belgrade
 Sultan Selim II 1566-74
 Sultan Murad III 1574-1595
 Sultan Mehmed III 1595-1603
 Sultan Ahmad I 1603-17
 Sultan Mustafa I 1617-18
 Sultan Osman II 1618-22
 Sultan Mustafa I 1622-23
 Sultan Murad IV 1623-40
 Sultan Ibrahim 1640-48
 Sultan Mehmed IV 1648-87
 Pirates
 1551 Pirates raid Maltese island of Gozo and take 5-6000 slaves.
 1554 Pirates take 4,000 prisoners from Ischia.
 1554 Pirates take 9,000 inhabitants from Lipari.
 1554 Pirates sack Vieste and take 7,000 slaves.
 1555 Turgut Reis sacked Bastia, Corsica taking 6,000 prisoners.
 1558 Barbary corsairs destroyed Minorca, slaughtered inhabitants and took 3,000 slaves.
 1563 Turgut Reis took 4,000 prisoners from Almuñécar.
 1607 Order of Malta with a force of 45 galleys pillaged Bona Algeria.
 1609-16 England lost 466 merchant ships to Barbary pirates.
 1677-80 160 Eng. ships.

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