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.
August 5 » The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak.
September 16 » Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower.
November 8 » The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
November 9 » Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
November 11 » The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
November 21 » Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.)
April 28 » Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
May 2 » The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
June 23 » The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
October 29 » Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
November 1 » Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
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