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1529, Jun 141564-15951595, Jan 24
ruler of Further Austria including Tirol. The son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, he was married to Philippine Welser in his first marriage. In his second marriage to Anna Juliana Gonzaga, he was the father of Anna of Tyrol, the would-be Holy Roman Empress. In 1557 he was secretly married to Philippine Welser, daughter of a patrician from Augsburg, with whom he had several children. The marriage was only accepted by Emperor Ferdinand I in 1559 under the condition of secrecy.
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07/07/1495-King Ferdinand II returns to Naples 
07/25/1564-Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as Roman Catholic emperor 
08/08/1619-Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria and Emperor Ferdinand II signs Treaty of Munchen 
08/28/1619-Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
02/04/1620-Prince Gabriel Bethlen signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II 
12/13/1621-Emperor Ferdinand II delegates first anti-Reformation decree 
12/31/1621-Hungarian King Gabriel Bethlen and Ferdinand II sign Peace of Nikolsburg (aka Treaty of Mikulov)
05/08/1624-Hungarian king Gabriel Bethlen and emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna 
12/30/1626-Emperor Ferdinand II and Transylvanian monarch Gabriel Bethlen sign the Peace of Pressburg
03/06/1628-Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict 
08/01/1628-Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism 
05/22/1629-Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck
07/03/1630-Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament 
08/13/1630-Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein 
01/24/1634-Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor 
02/18/1634-Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein's execution 
05/30/1635-Emperor Ferdinand II and Saksen sign the Peace of Prague
09/18/1635-Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France 
02/15/1637-Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor 
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Ferdinand II1529, Jun 141564
 
15951595, Jan 24

Turgut Reis14851500
 
15651565, Jun 23
 an Ottoman Greek Admiral and privateer who also served as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Medite...
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi1502 ca1528
 
15651572, Aug 20
 a Basque Spanish navigator and governor who established the first Spanish settlement in the East ...
Chan Iunknown1516
 
15661566
 one of the most illustrious Cambodian kings (reigned 1516–66) of the post-Angkor era. He succes...
Suleiman I1494, Nov 61520
 
15661566, Sep 7
  the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate, ...
Pedro de la Gasca1485, Jun1542
 
15671567, Nov 13
 a Spanish bishop, diplomat and the second (acting) viceroy of Peru, from April 10, 1547 to Januar...
Sunan Gunungjati14481479
 
15681568, Sep 19
  one of the Wali Songo, or nine saints of Islam revered in Indonesia. He founded the Sultanate of...
Lamoral of Egmont1522, Nov 181542
 
15681568, Jun 5
 a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War...
Takanobu Matsura15291540
 
15691599, Apr 1
 a 16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was on...
Maha Chakkraphat15091548
 
15691569
 king of the Ayutthaya kingdom from 1548 to 1564 and 1568 to 1569. Originally called Prince Thianr...
Matsura Takanobu15291550
 
15691599, Apr 1
  a 16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was o...
Charles IX1550, Jun 271560
 
15741574, May 30
 a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1560 until his death from tuber...
Selim II1524, May 281566
 
 
15741574, Dec 12/15
  the Sultan and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate from 1566 until his death in...
Ivan the Terrible1530, Aug 251533
 
15751584, Mar 18
 the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547, then "Tsar of All the Russias" until his death in 1...
Maximilian II1527, Jul 311564
 
15761576, Oct 12
 a member of the Austrian House of Habsburg, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death. He ...
Fernando Alvarez de Toledo1507, Oct 291524
 
15821582, Dec 11
 a Spanish noble, general, and diplomat. He was titled the 3rd Duke of Alba de Tormes, 4th Marquis...
William the Silent1533, Apr 241555
 
15841584, Jul 10
 the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' ...
John Killigrew [2]unknown1571
 
 
15841584
  the 2nd Governor of Pendennis Castle, (1568–1584) appointed by Queen Elizabeth I, as stated on...
Emperor Ogimachi 1517, Jun 181557
 
15861593, Feb 6
 the 106th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from Oct...
Sir Philip Sidney1554, Nov 301572
 
 
15861586, Oct 17
 an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent f...
Mary Stuart1542, Dec 81558
 
15871587, Feb 8
 reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567. As Mary was an infant when she inher...
Frederick II1534, Jul 11559
 
15881588, Apr 4
 King of Denmark and Norway and duke of Schleswig from 1559 until his death. He was hailed as succ...
Henry III1551, Sep 191573
 
 
15891589, Aug 2
 a monarch of the House of Valois who was elected the monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealt...
Simon Kelwayunknown1589
 
 
15891623
 of Dawlish, Devon, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England f...
Charles II of Austria1540, Jun 31564
 
15901590, Jul 10
 an Archduke of Austria and ruler of Inner Austria (Styria, Carniola and Carinthia) from 1564. He ...
Mahathammarachathirat15091569
 
 
15901590, Jun
 the first King of Ayutthaya Kingdom of the Sukhothai dynasty ruling from 1569 to 1590. As a power...
Murad III1546, Jul 41574
 
15951595, Jan 15/16
 the emperor and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. Murad's reign is ...
King Philip II1527, May 211540
 
15981598, Sep 13
  King of Spain (1556–98), King of Portugal (1581–98, as Philip I, Filipe I), King of Naples a...
Claude de La Tremoille15661587
 
16021604, Oct 25
 a sixteenth-century French nobleman of the La Tremoille family. He was the son of Louis III de La...
Queen Elizabeth I1533, Sep 71558
 
16031603, Mar 24
 Queen of England and Ireland (and Supreme Governor of the Church of England ) from 17 November 15...
Boris Godunov1551 ca1585
 
16051605, Apr 13
 ruled the Tsardom of Russia as de facto regent from c. 1585 to 1598 and then as the first non-Rur...
Opchanacanough1554 ca1500
 
16091646
 a tribal chief of the Powhatan Confederacy of what is now Virginia in the United States, and its ...
Henry IV1553, Dec 131572
 
16101610, May 14
 King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the...
Emperor Go-Yozei 1571, Dec 311586
 
16111617, Sep 25
  the 107th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Go-Yozei's reign s...
Rudolf II1552, Jul 181576
 
16121612, Jan 20
  Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King o...
Sampson Lennard15441571
 
16141615, Sep 20
 an English Member of Parliament who represented an unusually large number of different constituen...
Mary Sidney1561, Oct 271575
 
16151621, Sep 25
 one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her poetry and literary patronag...
William Parkerunknown1587
 
16171617
 an English captain and privateer, and also Mayor of Plymouth. He was born near Plymouth and wa...
Maximilian III1558, Oct 121593
 
16181618, Nov 2
 the Archduke of Further Austria from 1612 until his death. From 1585 Maximilian became the Grandm...
Farrukh Pashaunknown1593
 
16211621
 the Ottoman governor of Nablus and Jerusalem in the early 17th century, and founder of the Farruk...
Francis Bacon1561, Jan 221579
 
16261626, Apr 9
 an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author. He served both...
Henry Wotton1568, Mar 301588
 
16331639, Dec
 an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. Of 2...
HRE Ferdinand III1608, Jul 131590/1619
 
16371657, Apr 2
  Holy Roman Emperor from 15 February 1637 until his death, as well as King of Hungary and Croatia...
Christian IV1577, Apr 121588
 
16481648, Feb 28
 king of Denmark-Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 to 1648. His 59-year reign is...
Maximilian I of Bavaria1573, Apr 171591
 
16511651, Sep 27
 a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector (Kurfürst) of the Holy Roman Empire. His rei...
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