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Events
- March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
- April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- May 18 - The Ottoman troops landed on the island of Malta. The Great Siege of Malta began.
- June 17 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
- August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.
- September 4 - Spanish fleet of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands on modern-day Florida to oust the French under Jean Ribault. He later destroys the French colony of Fort Caroline.
- September 8 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés settles in St. Augustine, Florida.
- September 8 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish Siege of Malta (siege started on May 18).
Unknown dates
- Miguel López de Legaspi founds San Miguel, the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- Russia, beginning of the Opritchtina.
- The pencil is first documented by Conrad Gesner.
Births
- April 2 - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (died 1599)
- August 16 - Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died 1637)
- November 10 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
- Reza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (died 1635)
- Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died 1628)
- Edward Blount, English printer
- Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (died 1647)
- Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645)
- John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (died 1618)
- George Kirbye, English composer (died 1634)
- Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died 1646)
- Francis Meres, English churchman and author (died 1647)
- Pedro Fernández de Quirós, Portuguese seaman and explorer (died 1614)
- John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews (died 1639)
- Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony
- Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (died 1635)
- Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (died 1608)
- Robert Wintour, English conspirator (died 1606)
- John Mac Street, Irish captain (died 1640)
Deaths
- March 17 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)
- June 12 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (born 1512)
- June 17 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (born 1536)
- October 5 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (born 1522)
- October 12 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (born 1520)
- October 14 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (born 1521)
- October 22 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
- December 9 - Pope Pius IV (born 1499)
- December 13 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (born 1516)
- Giacomo Aconzio, Italian writer (born 1492)
- Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German protestant reformer (born 1483)
- Jacques Buus, Flemish composer and organist (born 1500)
- William Farel, French evangelist (born 1489)
- James Lainez, Jesuit theologian (born 1512)
- Yadegar Moxammad, last khan of Kazan Khanae te
- Mikolaj Czarny Radziwill, Polish magnate (born 1515)
- Mikolaj VII Radziwill, Great Chamberlain of Lithuania (born 1546)
- Cypriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)
- Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer
- Pawel Tarlo, canon of Krakow
- Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (born 1498)
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