16th Century
- 1509 February 3 Diu - Portugal's Indian viceroy defeats a combined Egyptian-Gujarat Sultanate fleet off Gujarat, India, and controls spice trade
- 1510 - Maltese under Prégent de Bidoux defeat Venetians
- 1512? - Genoese under Andrea Doria defeat Moors at Algiers
- 1512 August 10 St Mathieu - English defeat French off Brest; Regent and Marie la Cordelière sunk
- 1526 - Swedes and Lübeckers defeat pirate fleet
- 1529 - Ottoman Turks under Khair-ad-Din (Barbarossa) defeat Spanish
- 1535 early June - 20 Swedes/Danes/Prussians defeat 9 Lübeck ships
- 1535 June? - Swedes/Danes/Prussians defeat 10 Lübeck ships at Fyen
- 1538 September 28 Preveza - Ottoman Turk fleet under Khair-ad-Din defeats Spanish-Venetian-Papal fleet
- 1545 July 18 and 19 The Solent - French attack English off Portsmouth; Mary Rose sinks
- August 15 - English fight French off Portsmouth
- 1549 early August (?) - English defeat French near Channel Islands
- 1552 Ponza - Ottoman Turks under Sinan Pasha defeat Genoese under Andrea Doria off western Italy
- 1555 August 11 - Bloody and inconclusive melée between French privateers and a Dutch merchant fleet off Calais
- 1558 - Portuguese fight English and French off Guinea
- July 13 - English under Count Egmont defeat French under Marshal de Thermes off Gravelines
- 1560 May 11 Djerba - Turkish galleys defeat Christian force near Djerba, Tunisia
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