March 3 » The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
July 7 » The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
August 8 » John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
August 10 » The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
August 17 » A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
August 17 » Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.
March 6 » The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.
April 8 » English colonial patents are granted for the establishment of the Monmouth Tract, for what would eventually become Monmouth County in northeastern New Jersey.
June 3 » James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
June 12 » Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
October 5 » The University of Kiel is founded.
December 10 » The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
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