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June 17 » Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
August 28 » Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
September 8 » St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
September 8 » The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
September 11 » Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
July 4 » The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
August 18 » Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
September 6 » Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
September 12 » A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.
October 11 » The Burchardi flood kills around 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
November 11 » Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
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