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| 1155 CE | The English plan for the conquest of Ireland is approved. | |
| 1170 CE | Ireland was attacked by the English Earl of Pembroke. | |
| 1204 CE | (Spring) Peace negotiations with France | |
| 1207 CE | Marshall inherits the lands of Leinster in Ireland. | |
| 1500 CE | The Indian population of Brasil numbered about 2.5 million before European settlement but that population today is less than 200 thousand | |
| 1500 CE | Turks conquered Modon from the Venetians and expelled the Teutonic Knights from the Peloponnesus. | |
| 1500 CE | Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan. | |
| c. 1500 CE | (Between 1500-1600) The Kalmyk people, descendants from the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan, settled in the lowlands between the Volga and Don rivers with their livestock. | |
| c. 1500 CE | (Between 1500-1900) Millions of Africans were torn from their homelands, herded into ships and sold in the New World for more than 300 years. | |
| 1501 CE | Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna. | |
| 1501 CE | France and Spain occupied Naples, and French troops entered Rome. Louis XII was declared King of Naples by the Pope. | |
| 1501 CE | Ivan III, Czar of Russia, invaded Lithuania. | |
| 1501 CE | The Turks took Durazzo from Venice. | |
| 1502 CE | Atahualpa (1502-1533), emperor of the Incas, was born. He had a fortune in gold and silver and tried to purchase his freedom from Pizarro for a chamber filled with gold. Pizarro took 124 tons of gold in ransom and then re-arrested Atahualpa for treason to the Spanish crown and had him decapitated. | |
| 1503 CE | The French in Italy were defeated by the Spaniards in the battles of Cerignola and Garigliano, and Spanish forces entered Naples. | |
| 1503 CE | Zanzibar became a Portuguese colony. | |
| 1504 CE | Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty in India, captured Kabul in Afghanistan and maintained control to 1519. | |
| 1504 CE | Louis XII of France ceded Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon in Spain with the Treaty of Lyon. Naples remained under Spanish control for the next 200 years. | |
| 1505 CE | The Portuguese settled Ceylon and their exploitation of the cinnamon forests led to a system of slavery and a monopoly on trade in this spice. | |
| 1505 CE | Ivan the Great of Moscow extends the Russian border into the Byelorussian and the Ukrainian territories, before his death. Muscovian Russia is recognized as a major Eastern-oriented power in Europe. | |
| 1506 CE | Mozambique, Africa, was colonized by the Portuguese. | |
| 12 Mar 1507 CE | Cesare Borgia died while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre, in Spain. | |
| 1507 CE | Genoa was annexed by the French. | |
| 1508 CE | The League of Cambrai was formed against Venice by Ferdinand of Aragon, Emp. Maximilian, Louis XII of France, and Pope Julius II as part of an ongoing dispute over sovereignty in Italy. | |
| 1508 CE | Ponce de Leon arrives and begins to colonise Puerto Rico. He was appointed by Spain and given a Spanish fleet which began to capture Bahamanian Tainos to work as slaves on Hispaniola. His settlement at Caparra, 2 miles south of San Juan Bay, was plagued by Taino Indians and cannibalistic Caribean Indians. | |
| 14 May 1509 CE | In the Battle of Agnadello, the French defeat the Venetians in Northern Italy. | |
| 1509 CE | The Venetian defeat at Agnadello led to the annexation of Faenza, Rimini, and Ravenna by Pope Julius II, and Otranto and Brindisi by Ferdinand of Aragon. | |
| 1509 CE | The Egyptian and Gujarat fleets were routed by the Portuguese at the Battle of Diu, which left the latter in control of the Indian seas and the spice trade. | |
| 1509 CE | Spanish armies invaded North Africa in a crusade against the Muslim rulers of Tripoli, Oran, and Bougie. | |
| 1510 CE | Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal. | |
| 1510 CE | In China Liu Jin, a eunuch of the Ming dynasty, was executed for abusing his authority. He had grown wealthy from graft. | |
| 1510 CE | War broke out between Denmark and the Hanseatic League. | |
| 1510 CE | Goa, India, was captured by the Portuguese. | |
| 1510 CE | (1510-1550) Spain took in gold shipments from the New World at 3,000 pounds a year. | |
| 1511 CE | Diego de Velazquez, Spanish commander, occupied Cuba. | |
| 11 Apr 1512 CE | The forces of the Holy League were heavily defeated by the French at the Battle of Ravenna. | |
| 27 Dec 1512 CE | The laws of Burgos gave New World natives legal protection against abuse and authorized Negro slavery. | |
| 1512 CE | Battle at Valeggio French troops beat Venetianen. | |
| 1512 CE | French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia. | |
| 1512 CE | The English began using double-deck warships. They displaced 1,000 tons and were armed with 70 guns. | |
| 1512 CE | Henry VIII claimed the throne of France and sent troops unsuccessfully into Spain. | |
| 1512 CE | The Portuguese took over control of East Timor. | |
| 1512 CE | The Spaniards conquered Navarre and annexed it to Castile. | |
| 1512 CE | Spain imported black slaves to Hispaniola to replace moribund Indian laborers. | |
| 1512 CE | Selim I deposed his father Bayazid II and became Sultan of Turkey. | |
| 1512 CE | Ponce de Leon stepped ashore on the Turks and Caicos Islands. | |
| 16 Aug 1513 CE | Henry VIII of England and Emperor Maximilian defeated the French at Guinegatte, France, in the Battle of the Spurs. | |
| 9 Sep 1513 CE | King James IV of Scotland was defeated and killed by English at the Battle of Flodden Field. The Scottish navy was sold to France. | |
| 1513 CE | Henry VIII and Maximilian defeated the French forces in Italy and Louis XII gave up Milan. | |
| 1513 CE | Christian II became King of Denmark and Norway succeeding Johan I. He later asserted his right to the Swedish throne by force of arms. | |
| 1513 CE | The Swiss completed the acquisition of the southern province of Ticino. | |
| 1514 CE | George Dozsa, soldier of fortune, instigated a peasant's revolt in Hungary. He was later captured and grilled alive. | |
| 1514 CE | At the Battle of Orsha, Lithuanian forces defeated those of Moscow. | |
| 1514 CE | Vasily III, ruler of Moscow, captured Smolensk from Poland. | |
| 1514 CE | Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, declared war on Persia. | |
| 1514 CE | Spanish soldiers conquered the natives of Cuba. | |
| 1514 CE | 1,500 Spanish settlers went to Panama. | |
| 22 Jul 1515 CE | Emperor Maximillian and Vladislav of Bohemia forged an alliance between the Hapsburg (Austria) and Jagiello (Polish-Lithuanian) dynasties in Vienna. | |
| 13 Sep 1515 CE | King Francis of France defeated the Swiss army under Cardinal Matthias Schiner at Marignano, northern Italy. Switzerland was last involved in a war. French armies defeated the Swiss and Venetians at the Battle of Marignano and Milan fell to the French. Francis I conquered Lombardy in northern Italy. | |
| 1515 CE | In the Persian Gulf the Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz. | |
| 1515 CE | Bartolome de Las Casas, Dominican priest, returned to Spain from Hispaniola to plead on behalf of the ill-treated native Indians. | |
| 1515 CE | Spanish conquistadores founded Havana, Cuba. | |
| 1515 CE | By this year the Taino Indians of what is now the Dominican Republic were practically annihilated in clashes with the Spanish. | |
| 1516 CE | The Treaty of Noyon brought peace between France and Spain. | |
| 1516 CE | Lebanon became part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1517 CE | The Mamelukes in Egypt lost power. | |
| 1517 CE | Archduke Charles left the Netherlands for Spain and entered Valladolid in triumph. | |
| 1517 CE | Bartolomeo de las Casas, the first Spanish priest to be ordained in the New World, pleaded the case of oppressed and enslaved American Indians. | |
| 1517 CE | Archduke Charles granted a monopoly in the African slave trade to Florentine merchants. | |
| 1517 CE | Cairo and Mecca were captured by the Turks and Arabia came under Turkish rule. | |
| 1518 CE | Cardinal Wolsey arranged the Peace of London between England, France, the Pope, Maximilian I and Spain. | |
| 1518 CE | Portugal and the Kingdom of Kotte, Ceylon, signed a peace treaty. | |
| 1518 CE | Lorens de Gominot obtained a license to import 4,000 African slaves into the New World colonies. | |
| 13 Mar 1519 CE | The Spaniards under Cortez landed at Veracruz. Cortez landed in Mexico with 10 stallions, 5 mares and a foal. | |
| 1519 CE | In Mexico Cortes discovered a plot by some Cholulans to assassinate him and ordered some 6,000 Cholulan men executed. | |
| 20 May 1520 CE | Hernando Cortes defeated Spanish troops sent to punish him in Mexico. | |
| 10 Jul 1520 CE | The explorer Cortes was driven from Tenochtitlan, Mexico, by Aztec leader Cuauhtemoc, and retreated to Tlaxcala. | |
| 1520 CE | Emperor Charles V and Henry VIII met at Dover and agreed to an Anglo-French commercial treaty. | |
| 1520 CE | King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeated a Swedish army at Lake Asunden and was crowned King of Sweden. He then renounced his offer of amnesty and massacred most of the Swedish leaders. | |
| 23 Apr 1521 CE | The Comuneros were crushed by royalist troops in Spain. | |
