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Events
January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England
July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
April 24 - Mary I of Scotland marries Francis II of France
November 17 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth.
Tobacco comes to France
Births
October 12 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria
Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer
Thomas Kyd, English playwright
Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed 1586)
Giovanni Bassano, Italian composer and cornettist of the Venetian school
Deaths
April 18 - Aleksandra Lisowska, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
September 21 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
October 21 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, humanist scholar
November 17 - Queen Mary I of England.
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