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March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England
April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey
July 17 or July 19 - Sir Walter Raleigh arrested for treason.
July 25 - Coronation of James I of England. By some criteria this was the start of the modern Great Britain
November 17 - Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great hall of Winchester Castle
December 22 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.
Johann Bayer's Uranometria, an atlas of the southern sky, is published.
Tokugawa Ieyasu granted title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan and establishes the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan. This ends the Azuchi-Momoyama period and begins the Edo period.
Accademia dei Lincei founded
Huguenot Pierre de Gua is granted royal permission to settle in North America
Rebellion in Transylvania
Plague in England
English crush Irish rebellion. Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone surrenders.
Births
Denis Gaultier - A French lutenist and composer. (d. 1672)
March 18 - King John IV of Portugal (d. 1656)
Abel Janszoon Tasman - Dutch Explorer (d. 1659)
Deaths
March 24 - Queen Elizabeth I of England, Wales and Ireland.
December 22 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor
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