May 2 » Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
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.
May 19 » Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
July 21 » Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
October 20 » The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.
February 8 » Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice Judaism of his sister and her children.
May 17 » Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
August 18 » John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
August 30 » Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
September 5 » Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
October 24 » John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
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