February 11 » Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
May 10 » Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
June 9 » Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
July 4 » Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
July 7 » Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
November 3 » English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
January 19 » San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
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.
February 24 » L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
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.
May 14 » Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
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