Major Events
- Jan 2 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
- Mar 3 The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
- Apr 5 Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
- May 19 Spain confiscates English ships
- Jun 23 Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops
- Jul 7 King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lose all freedoms
- Jul 17 English secret service discovers Anthony Babington's plot to murder plot Queen Elizabeth I
- Jul 25 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
- Jul 29 University of Franeker/ University of Friesland opens in the Netherlands
- Aug 8 John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage
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Born in 1585
- Jan 27 Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
- Feb 12 Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish physician, theologian, writer on anatomy, born in Malmö, Denmark (modern Sweden) (d. 1629)
- Feb 25 Pieter van den Broecke, Dutch merchant with East India Company who established first Dutch trade with Arabia, born in Antwerp (d. 1640)
- Mar 5 John Georg I, Elector of Saxony (1611-56, Peace of Prague), born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1656)
- Mar 13 Federico Cesi, Italian naturalist and founder of the first modern scientific society, the Accademia dei Lincei, 1603, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1630)
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