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Events
March 14 - Battle of Ivry - Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne.
May - August - Unsuccessful siege of Paris by Henry IV of France. Henry is forced to raise the siege when the Duke of Parma comes to its relief with a Spanish army.
May 17 - Anne of Denmark is crowned queen of Scotland.
August 18 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
September 15 - Pope Urban VII succeeds Sixtus V.
December 5 - Pope Gregory XIV succeeds Urban VII.
Coptic Pope Gabriel VIII succeeds Yoannis XIV.
Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Meletius I succeeds Silvester.
Japan is united by Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Births
April 18 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (+ 1617)
July 13 - Pope Clement X (+ 1676)
August 19 - baptize of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English nobleman
William Bradford, leader of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Gerald van Honthorst, painter.
Simon Vouet, painter.
Richard Zouch, English jurist (d. 1661)
Deaths
July 10 - Archduke Charles II of Austria, Regent of Inner Austria
August 27 - Pope Sixtus V
September 27 - Pope Urban VII
Francis Walsingham, English spy
Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter.
Per Brahe, Gustavus Vasa Privy Councillor.
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