March 27 » Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
April 30 » Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
June 6 » Battle of Novara. In the Italian Wars, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing them to abandon Milan; Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
August 16 » Battle of the Spurs (Battle of Guinegate): King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who are then forced to retreat.
September 25 » Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
October 7 » War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice.
January 20 » Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.
February 10 » Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
March 13 » The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
May 24 » Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
July 24 » Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
July 29 » The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
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