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.
April 27 » Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
July 29 » The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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.
September 8 » The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
September 11 » Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
January 18 » King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Mingyi Swa of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
March 13 » At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
January 17 » Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
March 18 » Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
May 14 » The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states.
June 3 » Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
September 10 » John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Robert Bremer, "Family tree Bremer", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-bremer/I2233.php : accessed June 8, 2024), "Francis Tompson alias Hunt (1565-1608)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.