February 8 » Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice Judaism of his sister and her children.
March 14 » Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
August 18 » John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
September 5 » Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
September 27 » Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
October 16 » Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
February 19 » England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
March 14 » The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.
May 21 » The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
September 24 » Second Tantrik Coronation of Shivaji.
November 10 » Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.
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