April 9 » Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
May 20 » Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
July 25 » The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
August 25 » Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
August 28 » Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
September 11 » Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
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