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1584

Feodor I succeeds his father Ivan IV as Tsar

Russia

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1583

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August 5 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England.

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1581

April 4 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.

UK

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1580

Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. They are published later the same year.

France

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1579

June 17 - Sir Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I. With an 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.


What is now the USA

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1578

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August 4 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian I of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.

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1577

The Union of Brussels was formed

Brussels

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1576

November 4 - Eighty Years' War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).

Belgium

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1575

Henry III of France was crowned

Reims, France

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1574

February 23 - The 5th holy war against the Huguenots begins

France