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Events
February 8
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Mary, Queen of Scots
is executed.
July 22
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Colony of Roanoke
: A group of English settlers arrive on
Roanoke Island
off of
North Carolina
to re-establish the deserted colony.
August 19
-
Polish
and
Lithuanian
nobles elect
Sigismund Vasa
as their king
October 20
- Battle of Coutras - Huguenot forces under
Henry of Navarre
defeat Royalist forces under Anne, Duc de Joyeuse, favorite of
King Henry
. Joyeuse is killed.
The Rose (theatre)
is founded in
London
by
Philip Henslowe
.
Births
January 6
-
Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar
August 18
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Virginia Dare
, granddaughter of Gov.
John White
of the
Colony of Roanoke
, becomes the first
English
child born in the
Americas
.
Deaths
February 8
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Mary, Queen of Scots
October 20
- Anne, Duc de Joyeuse, favorite of
Henry III of France
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