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 • Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River. |
1536
Age: 20y
birth of childCharles Du Bois II Wicres, France ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1536 • Trade compact exempts French merchants from Ottoman law and allows them to travel, buy and sell throughout the sultan's dominions and to pay low customs duties on French imports and exports. The compact is renewed in 1569. |
1560
Age: 44y
| 1560 • A Spanish-led expedition, commanded by Juan de la Cerda, 4th Duke of Medinaceli, overruns the Tunisian island of Djerba. |