January 26 » Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
March 1 » The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
May 18 » The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
June 23 » Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta.
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.
October 18 » Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.
February 10 » Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
March 13 » The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
May 15 » Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
May 24 » Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
July 24 » Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
July 29 » The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
May 12 » French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise, enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
July 19 » Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
July 29 » Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
July 31 » The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
August 8 » Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
February 13 » Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
March 1 » Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
June 18 » Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
June 22 » The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
October 22 » The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
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