Battle of Lepanto
The Holy League halts Ottoman expansion at sea
The fleet of the Holy League — Spain, Venice and the Papacy — destroyed the Ottoman fleet off Greece. The greatest galley battle checked Ottoman expansion in the Mediterranean; Cervantes was wounded in it.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — 24 years earlier
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — 16 years earlier
- 1569 Union of Lublin — 2 years earlier
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 11 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 20 years later
Asia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 15 years earlier
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 15 years earlier
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 41)
- Elizabeth I (aged 38)
- Akbar the Great (aged 29)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 28)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 24)
- William Shakespeare (aged 7)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 7)
- Selim II (aged 47)
- Philip II of Spain (aged 44)
- Yermak Timofeyevich (aged 39)