1516
| 1516 • Italian explorer Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, commands an expedition from Portuguese Malacca to land on the shores of mainland southern China, and trade with Chinese merchants at Guangzhou during the Ming Dynasty. |
1534
Age: 18y
marriageAntoine Du Bois France ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1534 • The first known exchange occurs between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick. |
1536
Age: 20y
birth of childCharles Du Bois II Wicres, France ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1536 • Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui, having on April 18 escaped from imprisonment in Cuzco, begins his revolt against his captors when his army begins the 10-month Siege of Cuzco against a garrison of Spanish conquistadors and Indian auxiliaries led by Hernando Pizarro. |
1560
Age: 44y
| 1560 • Charles IX (of France) succeeds his elder brother, Francis II, at the age of ten. |