May 12 – KIng
Henry III of France, who had been selected in 1573 by the nobles of Poland and Lithuania to be King of Poland as Henryk Walezy, is stripped of his Polish and Lithuanian titles after failing to return to
Kraków by the deadline imposed by the Polish nobility.[6]
May 24 – In an attempt to reform the
Eastern Orthodox Church, Lutheran missionaries meet with
Jeremias II Tranos, the Ecumenical Patriarch, at his residence in
Constantinople, and present him with a Greek translation of the
Augsburg Confession.[7] Jeremias sends the missionaries,
Jakob Andreae and
Martin Crusius, three rebuttals to define the objections he has to the Lutheran document, declaring the reasons why the Eastern Orthodoxy has no desire for reformation.
Paulo Dias de Novais becomes the first Portuguese Governor of Angola.[11]
Ottoman forces led by
Ferhad Pasha Sokolović defeat the Austrian Army, led by
Herbard VIII von Auersperg, in the Battle of Budačka. Auersperg is decapitated and Ferhad Pasha leaves Croatia with the head as a trophy.
September 1 –As a result of the Eighty Years' War, the government of the Kingdom of Spain is in bankruptcy and stops paying its troops, beginning in March.[12]
September 26 – Future Spanish author and playwright
Miguel de Cervantes, then 28, is taken hostage by the Ottoman Albanian pirate
Arnaut Mami after an attack on the Spanish
galleySol off of the Catalan coast. Cervantes spends the next five years as a slave in Algeria before his family pays a ransom to free him.[13]
November 9 – Ferhad Pasha Sokolović returns to Constantinople in triumph with the head of General Auersperg as a trophy after his September 22 victory at Budecka.
December 12 – Under pressure from Papal nuncio
Vincenzo Lauro when a majority of the Sejm has still not agreed on a candidate, the
Primate of Poland,
Jakub Uchański, declares Maximilian II new King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
^Lingna Nafafé, José (2022). Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press.
^María Antonia Garcés, Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005) p.222
^Donald P. McCrory, No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes (Dover Publishing, 2006) pp.65-68
May 12 – KIng
Henry III of France, who had been selected in 1573 by the nobles of Poland and Lithuania to be King of Poland as Henryk Walezy, is stripped of his Polish and Lithuanian titles after failing to return to
Kraków by the deadline imposed by the Polish nobility.[6]
May 24 – In an attempt to reform the
Eastern Orthodox Church, Lutheran missionaries meet with
Jeremias II Tranos, the Ecumenical Patriarch, at his residence in
Constantinople, and present him with a Greek translation of the
Augsburg Confession.[7] Jeremias sends the missionaries,
Jakob Andreae and
Martin Crusius, three rebuttals to define the objections he has to the Lutheran document, declaring the reasons why the Eastern Orthodoxy has no desire for reformation.
Paulo Dias de Novais becomes the first Portuguese Governor of Angola.[11]
Ottoman forces led by
Ferhad Pasha Sokolović defeat the Austrian Army, led by
Herbard VIII von Auersperg, in the Battle of Budačka. Auersperg is decapitated and Ferhad Pasha leaves Croatia with the head as a trophy.
September 1 –As a result of the Eighty Years' War, the government of the Kingdom of Spain is in bankruptcy and stops paying its troops, beginning in March.[12]
September 26 – Future Spanish author and playwright
Miguel de Cervantes, then 28, is taken hostage by the Ottoman Albanian pirate
Arnaut Mami after an attack on the Spanish
galleySol off of the Catalan coast. Cervantes spends the next five years as a slave in Algeria before his family pays a ransom to free him.[13]
November 9 – Ferhad Pasha Sokolović returns to Constantinople in triumph with the head of General Auersperg as a trophy after his September 22 victory at Budecka.
December 12 – Under pressure from Papal nuncio
Vincenzo Lauro when a majority of the Sejm has still not agreed on a candidate, the
Primate of Poland,
Jakub Uchański, declares Maximilian II new King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
^Lingna Nafafé, José (2022). Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press.
^María Antonia Garcés, Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005) p.222
^Donald P. McCrory, No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes (Dover Publishing, 2006) pp.65-68