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 15 » Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
May 24 » Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
July 25 » Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
July 29 » The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
January 28 » The Edict of Torda prohibited the persecution of individuals on religious ground in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
May 2 » Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
May 13 » Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
May 16 » Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
May 19 » Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
October 20 » The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.
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