1590: Feb 26 Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda

1590: Mar 4 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda

1590: Mar 6 Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Nassau captures heavily protected city of Breda
using a small assault force hidden in a peat barge

1589: Jan 26 Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

1589: Apr 10 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg

1589: Aug 1 Assassination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément

1588: Pope Sixtus V issues bull 'Reformed Curia' (providing instruction on how to condemn or correct
literature which was against Catholic doctrine. Also permitting certain parties to read otherwise
forbidden literature).

1588: The Spanish Armada attacks England but are defeated by a smaller British fleet. [to make them
be catholics again]

1587: Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded

1587: 1st English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)

1586: Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe

1586: Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia

1584: Last day of the Julian (45AD) calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire (because of leap 3,
the Julian calendar gained a day every 134 years)

1582: Pope Gregory XIII (born Cristoforo Boncampagni) issues a papal bull outlining his calendar
reforms which remain in effect today.