April 20 » Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
May 10 » Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
June 29 » Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
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.
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.
August 30 » Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
September 5 » Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
September 27 » Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
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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