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Events

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= January–March =

= April–June =

  • April 13 – An English Armada, led by Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys, and largely financed by private investors, sets sail to attack the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast,{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/230 230–233]}} but fails to achieve any naval advantage.
  • May 2 – Girolamo Bargagli's play The Pilgrim Woman is given its first performance, premiering in Florence, three years after Bargagli's death.Martin Banham, The Cambridge Guide to Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
  • May 4 – In Spain, María Pita leads the defense of La Coruña against the English Armada after her husband is killed by a crossbow."[http://www.culturagalega.org/album/detalle.php?id=8 "María Pita: Heroína Coruñesa Célebre pola Defensa da Cidade fronte os Ingleses]"
  • May 11 – The Earl of Bothwell, accused of treason against the Crown of Scotland, surrenders along with the Earl of Huntly and is imprisoned at Holyrood Palace. Convicted on May 24, the conspirators are never sentenced and set free by King James VI.
  • May 17 – Ercole Grimaldi becomes the new Lord of Monaco upon the death of his older brother Charles II.
  • June 28 – On the island of Sumatra in what is now Indonesia, the Sultan of Aceh Darussalam, Ali Ri'ayat Syah II, is assassinated by a group of nobles dissatisfied with his rule. He becomes the fourth Sultan in a row to be murdered.Dagh-Register 1673 (Martinus Nijhoff, 1901) p.162 Sayyid al-Mukammal is approved by the nobles as the new Sultan of Aceh.Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch Indië (Nijhoff & Brill, 1917) p.74

= July–September =

  • July 1 – The English Armada, commanded by Sir Francis Drake, returns to Portsmouth after almost three months of pillaging the Spanish kingdoms. Anthony Wingfield, A True Coppie of a Discourse Written by a Gentleman Employed in the Late Voyage of Spaine and Portingale (Thomas Woodcock, 1589) p.58
  • July 4 – Jeremias II Tranos is appointed as the Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church, by Ottoman Sultan Murad III.L. Petit, "Jérémie II Tranos", in Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique (Letouzey et Ané, 1924) pp. 886–894
  • July 8 – Jan Zamoyski, the Hetman of Poland since 1581, establishes the largest family trust in the Kingdom. The Zamoyski family trust will last for more than 350 years until being abolished in 1944.
  • July 17 – (Tensho 17, 5th day of 6th month); The Battle of Suriagehara takes place in Japan between the Date and Katakura clans and the Ashina, Satake and Nikaido clans. Date Masamune leads the two clans to victory over Satake Yoshinobu.Stephen Turnbull, The Samurai Sourcebook (Cassell & Company, 1998) p.241
  • July 23 – Abbas the Great, who has recently become the Safavid Emperor of Persia, arranges the assassination of his benefactor, the Viceroy Murshid Qoli Khan at a banquet. Andrew J. Newman, Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire (I.B. Tauris, 2006) p.50
  • August 1 – King Henry III of France is assassinated by a fanatical Dominican friar Jacques Clément, who approaches the King on the pretext of delivering a secret message. Henry tells his guards to stand aside, and Clément approaches and fatally stabs the King. Clément is subsequently killed by the guards. King Henry dies the next day.Rosanne M. Baars, Rumours of Revolt: Civil War and the Emergence of a Transnational News Culture in France and the Netherlands, 1561–1598 (Brill, 2021) pp.186-187
  • August 2 – Following the death of Henry III of France, his army is thrown into confusion and an attempt to retake Paris is abandoned. Henry of Navarre succeeds to the throne as King Henry IV of France, but is not recognized by the Catholic League, who acclaim the imprisoned Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, as the rightful King of France, Charles X.
  • August 20 – King James VI of Scotland, the future James I of England, contracts a proxy marriage with the 14-year-old Anne of Denmark at Kronborg.{{cite book|author=Henry Constable|title=Poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RHFaAAAAMAAJ|year=1960|publisher=Liverpool University Press|page=234|language=en}} The formal ceremony takes place on November 23 at the Old Bishop's Palace in Oslo.
  • September 21 – Battle of Arques: King Henry IV of France's forces defeat those of the Catholic League, under Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne (younger brother of Henry I, Duke of Guise).

= October–December =

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Births

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=July–December=

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Deaths

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References

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