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November 19 - Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist is imprisoned.
The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan.
William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor.
Luis Barahona de Soto publishes Primera parte de la Angélica.
William Camden publishes Britannia.
Simon Stevin, a Dutch mathematician demonstrates that two objects of different weight fall with the same speed.
Roanoke, the first English colony in the New World, is founded.
St. Augustine, Florida, and Santo Domingo in the modern day Dominican Republic are plundered and burned by English sea captain Sir Francis Drake.
Jacobus Gallus composes his motet O magnum mysterium.
Caesar Baronius publishes a new edition of Roman martyrology.
The first HMS Vanguard is launched in England.
Thomas Cavendish, English explorer, begins his circumnavigation of the globe.
Births
Johann Valentin Andrea, theologian
Axel Oxenstierna's half-brother, Gabriel Bengtsson
Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Surrey
Cornelis van Poelenburgh, a Dutch painter of Italian landscapes
Jacob Revius, poet who also worked also on the new bible translation known as the Statenbijbel
October 9 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria, Regent of Tyrol
Deaths
January 25 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, painter
March 26 - Joan Naylor, mother of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
June 28 - Primoz Trubar, the author of the first printed book in Slovenian
September 20 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed)
October 17 - Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier and soldier (killed in battle)
Sir Anthony Babington, conspirator (executed)
Stefan Batory, King of Poland
Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer
Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma
Joachim Ernest, united the whole of Anhalt under his rule
Peter Symonds, will established funding for the Peter Symonds College
Theoleptus II, Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople
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