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August 5 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.
King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating the Tounis College - what is now the University of Edinburgh. For some unknown reason, the charter was dated a year earlier, as 1582.
First documented battle of India's independence against an European colonial ruler was fought by the Desais of Cuncolim in Goa against the Portuguese.
Births
September - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboard composer († 1643)
Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba, in what is now Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Deaths
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