April 27 » Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
May 18 » The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
June 17 » Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
June 23 » Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta.
September 8 » St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
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.
April 23 » The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
May 30 » Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
June 28 » Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
July 28 » In the Eighty Years' War the Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.
July 30 » Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
October 9 » Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
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