May 12 » French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise, enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
May 30 » The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
July 29 » Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
July 31 » The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
August 8 » Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
April 9 » Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos".
May 20 » Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
July 25 » The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
August 25 » Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
September 12 » Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
September 13 » Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.
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