March 24 » James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
March 24 » Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
July 25 » James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
November 17 » English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
January 19 » San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
January 30 » An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
March 10 » Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
April 26 » English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
May 24 » One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America.
September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
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