Editing Timeline of Polish history (section)

== 16th century ==
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! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 1501 || June 17 || Death of Jan I Olbracht
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| October 3 || [[Union of Mielnik]]
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| December 12 || Coronation of [[Alexander Jagiellon]]
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| 1505 || May 3 || Signing of act of [[Nihil novi]]
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| 1506 || August 19 || Death of Alexander Jagiellon
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| 1507 || January 24 || Coronation of [[Sigismund I the Old]]
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| 1513 || || [[Hortulus Animae, polonice]] published.
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| 1515 || July || [[First Congress of Vienna]].
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| 1519–1521 || || [[Polish–Teutonic War (1519–1521)|Polish–Teutonic War]].
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1525 || April 8 || Signing of the [[Treaty of Kraków]]
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| April 10 || [[Prussian Homage]]
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| 1526 || || Annexation of [[Duchy of Masovia]]
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| 1530 || February 20 || Coronation of [[Sigismund II Augustus]]
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| 1537 || || [[Chicken War]]
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| 1543 || || [[De revolutionibus orbium coelestium]] published
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| 1548 || April 1 || Death of Zygmunt I the Old
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| 1558 || || [[Livonian War]] begins
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| 1561 || November 28 || Signing of [[Wilno Pact]]
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| 1563 || || [[Northern Seven Years' War]] begins
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| 1569 || July 1 || Signing of the [[Union of Lublin]]
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1570 || || Signing of [[Sandomierz Agreement]]
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| December 13 || Signing of the [[Treaty of Stettin (1570)|Treaty of Stettin]] concludes the Northern Seven Years' War
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| 1572 || July 7 || Death of Zygmunt II August
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1573 || January 28 || Signing of the [[Warsaw Confederation]]
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| May 11 || Election of [[Henry III of France|Henry of Valois]]
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1574 || February 21 || Coronation of Henry Valois
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| June 18 || Flight of Henry Valois
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| 1575 || December 9 || Election of [[Stephen Báthory]]
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| 1576 || 1 May || Coronation of Stephen Batory and [[Anna Jagiellon]]
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| 1579 || || Founding of [[Vilnius University]]
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1582 || January 15 || Signing of the [[Truce of Jam Zapolski]] concludes Commonwealth participation in the Livonian War
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| October 15 || [[Adoption of the Gregorian calendar]]
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| 1586 || December 12 || Death of Stefan Batory
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1587 || August 19 || Election of [[Sigismund III Vasa]]
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| December 27 || Coronation of Sigismund III Waza
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| 1591 || || [[Kosiński uprising|Kosiński Uprising]] begins.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Serczyk |first=Władysław Andrzej |title=Na dalekiej Ukrainie: dzieje Kozaczyzny do 1648 roku |date=1984 |publisher=Wydawnictwo Literackie |isbn=978-83-08-01214-7 |location=Kraków}}</ref>
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| 1593 || || Kosiński Uprising ends
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| 1594 || || [[Nalyvaiko Uprising]] begins
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 1596 || || Nalyvaiko Uprising ends
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| || Transfer of capital from [[Kraków]] to [[Warsaw]]
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| || [[Union of Brest]] concludes
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