1505
| 1505 • Vasili III succeeds Ivan III as Grand Prince of Muscovy. |
1535
Age: 30y
birth of childThomas Hygebed Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, England ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1535 • Battle of Bornholm: Combined Swedish and Danish fleets defeat the Hanseatic navy. |
1548
Age: 43y
| 1548 • The Ming Dynasty government of China issues a decree banning all foreign trade and closes down all seaports along the coast; these Hai jin laws came during the Wokou wars with Japanese pirates, while the Portuguese began regular trade missions to China in 1549, and the ban on maritime trade was fully lifted in 1567. |