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==Events==
*[[January 6]] - The [[Union of Atrecht]] united the southern [[Spanish Netherlands|Netherlands]] under the [[Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza|Duke of Parma]], governor in the name of king [[Philip II of Spain]].
*[[January 23]] - The [[Union of Utrecht]] united the northern Netherlands in a confederation called the [[United Provinces]]. [[William I of Orange]] becomes Stadtholder, and the [[François, Duke of Anjou|Duc d'Anjou]], younger brother of [[Henry III of France]] is invited to become hereditary sovereign.
* [[March]] - Capture of [[Maastricht]] by the Spanish under Parma.
* [[June 17]] - [[Sir Francis Drake]], during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now [[California]], which he claims for [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]]. With an [[England|English]] claim here and in [[Newfoundland]], it becomes the basis for English colonial charters which will claim all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from "sea to sea." Drake's claim is called "Nova Albion" (meaning, ''New England''), and subsequent maps will show all lands north of New Spain and New Mexico under this name.

==Births==
* [[July 13]] - [[Arthur Dee]], English physician and alchemist (died [[1651]])
* [[August 1]] - [[Luís Vélez de Guevara]], Spanish dramatist and novelist (died [[1644]])
* [[December 9]] - [[Martin de Porres]], Peruvian monk and saint (died [[1639]])
* [[Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading]], royalist commander in the English Civil War (died [[1652]])
* [[François de Bassompierre]], French courtier (died [[1646]])
* [[Guido Bentivoglio]], Italian cardinal (died [[1644]])
* [[Thomas Dempster]], Scottish scholar and historian (died [[1625]])
* December - [[John Fletcher (playwright)|John Fletcher]], English writer (died [[1625]])
* [[Andreas Gryphius]], German lyric poet and dramatist (died [[1664]])
* [[Tokugawa Hidetada]], Japanese shogun (died [[1632]])
* [[Johannes Meursius]], Dutch classical scholar and antiquary (died [[1639]])
* [[Janusz Radziwill (1579-1620)|Janusz Radziwill]], Polish nobleman (died [[1620]])
* [[Henri, duc de Rohan]] (died [[1638]])
* [[Franz Snyders]], Flemish painter (died [[1657]])
* [[Richard Whitbourne]], English colonist (died [[1628]])

==Deaths==
* [[February 20]] - [[Nicholas Bacon]], English politician (born [[1509]])
* [[June 25]] - [[Hatano Hideharu]], Japanese samurai (born [[1541]])
* [[June 30]] - [[Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic]], Turkish Janissary (born [[1505]])
* [[August 5]] - [[Stanislaus Hosius]], Polish cardinal (born [[1504]])
* [[November 15]] - [[Francis David]], Hungarian religious reformer (born [[1510]])
* [[November 21]] - [[Thomas Gresham]], English merchant and financier (born [[1519]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Vicente Masip]], Spanish painter
* [[Giovanni Battista Adriani]], Italian historian
* [[John Stuart, 4th Earl of Atholl]]
* [[Henry Balnaves]], Scottish politician and religious reformer (born [[1512]])
* [[Diego de Landa]], Bishop of the Yucatán (born [[1524]])
* [[François de Montmorency]], French nobleman (born [[1530]])
* [[Katarzyna Ostrogska (1560-1579)|Katarzyna Ostrogska]], Polish noblewoman (born [[1560]])
* [[Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada]], Spanish explorer (born [[1509]])
* [[Hieronim Jarosz Sieniawski]], Polish nobleman
* [[Mehmed Sokollu]], Grand Vizier of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II (born [[1505]])
* [[Hans Staden]], German adventurer
* [[William Whittingham]], English Biblical scholar and religious reformer (born [[1524]])

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