March 22 » Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
December 10 » The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
December 29 » Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.
March 3 » The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
April 9 » The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
August 8 » John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
August 10 » The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
August 17 » A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
August 17 » Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.
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