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.
May 24 » One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America.
September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
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