March 8 » Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
March 25 » Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
July 11 » While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland".
August 8 » The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.
November 8 » Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
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