February 15 » While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
March 15 » Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
July 12 » Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
September 9 » Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
November 18 » Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
November 19 » Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
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.
September 5 » Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
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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