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.
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.
March 10 » Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
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.
September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
October 5 » Assassins sent by the Pope attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
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