Timeline / 1500 to 1675 /

Date Country | Description

1527 A.D. Croatia

Croatia forms a state union with . By a decision of the Croatian Assembly, the dynasty of Habsburg comes to the Croatian throne.

1537 A.D. Croatia

Defeat of the Klis, the last southern fortress. Ottomans constitute the San#ak of Klis.

1538 A.D. Croatia

Founding of the Ottoman governing unit in Middle Slavonia with the centre in Požega. For more than 40 years the governor was Hadži Mehmed-aga who supported Sulayman during the siege of Siget.

1556 A.D. Croatia

Nikola Zrinski defeats the Pasha of Budim near Bobocsa. The fall of Kostajnica and the arrival of Ottomans in Turopolje.

1565 A.D. Croatia

On the initiative of the Council of Trent the Bishop of , Juraj Draškovi#, establishes the Zagreb Seminary (Seminarium Clericorum) to promote theology.

1566 A.D. Croatia

The siege of Siget. Nikola Šubi# Zrinski holds out against the army of the Sultan Sulayman I and falls during the last attack.

1599 A.D. Croatia

Zagreb and a major part of Croatia are stricken by plague of epidemic proportions.

1606 A.D. Croatia

Arrival of Jesuits in Zagreb. In 1607 they established the Classical Gymnasium, the first gymnasium (high school) that still exists today. Arrival of the first pharmacist J. Gasparini in Zagreb.

1609 A.D. Croatia

King Matyas II approves the new Statute of the Zagreb Gradec.

1615 A.D. Croatia

Venice conquers Karlobag attacking Novi Vinodolski, the city of the Frankopans. This marks the beginning of the Austro-Venetian war, at this stage known as the Uskok war. Date Country | Description

1618 - 1648 A.D. Croatia

Around 30,000 Croatian soldiers, mainly cavalry, participate in the Thirty Years’ War. Croatian troops fight against Miklós Bethlen (1642–1716) in Bohemia and .

1620 A.D. Croatia

Jesuits build the Church of St Catherine in Zagreb, from its architecture and inventory one of the most outstanding Jesuit churches in Croatia.

1638 A.D. Croatia

Jesuits build their church in . Dedicated to St Vitus it is the first and the biggest circular Baroque building in Croatia.

1642 A.D. Croatia

Jesuits build their church in Varaždin dedicated to the Assumption of Virgin. The church is considered to follow the style of the Roman church Il Gesù.

1656 A.D. Croatia

Governor Camilio Gonzaga establishes the city of Split. He proposed to the Venetian Senate to build a bulwark to defend the town. The Paulist School of philosophy was established.

1670 A.D. Croatia

In the church of Our Lady of Pirates in Komiža on the island of Vis Stjepan Killarevich from Krakow builds one of three preserved 17th-century organs in Croatia.

1671 A.D. Croatia

Petar Zrinski and executed in (Be#ko Novo Mjesto). Building of Dubrovnik Cathedral after the plan of A. Buffalini from Urbino which displays features of developed Roman Baroque.

1673 A.D. Croatia

Jesuit Stjepa Glava#, a professor of the Zagreb Academy, publishes the first domestic geographic map of Croatia, which meets the high standards of cartography of that time in Europe.