At the same time, we are moving forward from the mid-sixteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Pompeii - History] Reference

Charles IX in the mid-sixteenth century to its extinction by the Commune in 1871.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

By the mid-sixteenth century, Bethlem had become Bedlam, a byword for pandemonium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bedlam] Reference

The word aristocracy appeared late in our language, arriving via France in the mid-sixteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Aristocrats'] Reference

By the mid-sixteenth century, some Chinese migrants had begun to identify themselves as the Yunnanese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

In the mid-sixteenth century England England was pretty feeble, humiliated with the loss of Calais in Mary Tudor's reign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

There are still letters in Spain that claim that by the mid-sixteenth century there were more secret Jews than Catholics in Mexico City.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jews in Mexico. a struggle for survival part 3] Reference

According to its history, the statue was brought to Oaxaca in the mid-sixteenth century by Father Jordan, assigned to teach in the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [December In Oaxaca] Reference

In Bhuj, founded in the mid-sixteenth century, countless mosques, palaces, and temples, as well as a major museum, have been reduced to rubble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tremors] Reference

At the time of its creation in the mid-sixteenth century, the world was being conquered by sea, and sailors needed a map that would accurately show direction and distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgianne Nienaber: Africa is No More "Overpopulated" Than Iraq Was a Haven for WOMD: Do the Math] Reference

At least a piece of the answer can be found in the earliest uses of job.2 When it was first employed in English in the mid-sixteenth century, job was not a stand-alone word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Is Coming!] Reference

Only six letters remain of those written in Jerusalem around the mid-sixteenth century by Rachel bas Avraham of Prague, the wife of Eliezer Sussman Tzarit, to her son in Cairo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Yiddish Language and Literature.] Reference

The Crown's fierce oppression of the Catholics in the early to mid-sixteenth century is a particularly important element of Greenblatt's interpretation of Shakespeare's mentality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenblatt in the world] Reference

English Christmas poetry after the mid-sixteenth century is, then, individual rather than communal in its spirit; it is also a thing less of the people, more of the refined and cultivated few.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference

A French manuscript style in use from the late 13th to the mid-sixteenth century, Bâtarde hand was bastardized from the more laborious Gothic lettering into a cursive form, which was much faster to write.    From Wordnik.com.  [A to Z: R is for Red Letters] Reference

The small village of Cuauhtinchan ( "house of the eagle warriors") is best known in historical circles for the mid-sixteenth century Map of Cuauhtinchan, the subject of an extensive research project in the last few years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did you know? Mexico has five of the world's most endangered heritage sites] Reference

Duelling, which began in Europe in the mid-sixteenth century, was a common practice among upper-class men in parts of Europe and America, lingering even in some areas into the early twentieth century, when it finally disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

The Badianus Manuscript, an indigenous herbal written in the mid-sixteenth century, recommends a strong purge for "oppression of the chest," an ailment that makes one feel "constricted" by a "certain fullness" in the chest area. 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

By the mid-sixteenth century, it was customary to provide outlying borderlands like the Welsh and Scottish Marches with a royal viceregal figure to represent royal authority in areas where the actual sovereign would likely never visit.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

Although not Piedforts in a strict sense, thicker than normal coins were produced across Europe during the early modern period, particularly from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century, as part of the broader practice of striking prestige pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Mint to offer 2008 UK Silver Proof Piedfort Four-Coin Collection : Coin Collecting News] Reference

By the mid-sixteenth century, Sephardim began to establish communities in the Balkan hinterlands of the Ottoman Empire, including Belgrade in Serbia, Sarajevo in Bosnia, and Skopje and Bitola (Monastir) in Macedonia, as well as in Dubrovnik and Split on the Dalmatian coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yugoslavia.] Reference

Thus from the mid-sixteenth century on writers disavowed artists who displayed conspicuously a nonconforming behav - ior; instead they created and advocated a new image of the artist: the conforming, well-bred, rational phi - losopher-artist, who is richly endowed by nature with all the graces and virtues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Another kind of evidence in Greenblatt's case is the collation of knowledge of historical conditions in the mid-sixteenth century in England that we do know quite a bit about -- the availability or non-availability of books, the character and content of schooling, the history of the expulsion of the English Jews -- with the series of developmental experiences that Shakespeare certainly went through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenblatt in the world] Reference

Thomas Cranmer, referring to mid-sixteenth century religious bigots, but applicable also to early twenty-first century banking dullards.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

In the mid-sixteenth century, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto was the first known European to visit the area, and around 1860 the French established Fort Prudhomme nearby.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

The original estate had been built by one of Duke’s ancestors in the mid-sixteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entice Me at Twilight] Reference

Like the great majority of Mass setting written in the mid-sixteenth cntury, Manchicourt’s Missa Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille is based on a pre-existent polyphonic work, in this case a chanson by Jean Richafort c1480-after 1547.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Fast-forward to the mid-sixteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Meals] Reference