February 11 » Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
June 9 » Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
July 4 » Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
July 7 » Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
July 24 » French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
November 3 » English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
February 8 » Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice Judaism of his sister and her children.
March 14 » Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
May 17 » Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
August 18 » John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
October 16 » Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
October 24 » John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
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