January 28 » The Edict of Torda prohibited the persecution of individuals on religious ground in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
March 23 » The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
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.
September 23 » Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
October 20 » The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.
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.
April 25 » Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
April 26 » English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
May 14 » Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
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