April 9 » Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
July 9 » Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
July 25 » The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
August 25 » Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
September 11 » Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
September 13 » Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.
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