Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent
Ottoman power peaks, from Mohács to the gates of Vienna
Under Sultan Suleiman I the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith, taking Belgrade and Rhodes, crushing Hungary at Mohács and besieging Vienna. At home he was called Kanuni, 'the Lawgiver', for codifying the empire's laws.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — 12 years earlier
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — 3 years earlier
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — 14 years later
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — 6 years later
Africa
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — 9 years later
Asia
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 22 years earlier
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — 9 years earlier
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — 6 years later
Americas
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — 1 year earlier
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — 1 year later
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 12 years later
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 22 years later
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 47)
- Michelangelo (aged 45)
- Martin Luther (aged 37)
- Moctezuma II (aged 54)
- Guru Nanak (aged 51)
- Vasco da Gama (aged 51)
- Selim I the Grim (aged 50)
- Vasily III (aged 41)
- Ferdinand Magellan (aged 40)
- Babur (aged 37)