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★17 Aug 1560
The Scottish Parliament approved a Protestant confession of faith to initiate the Scottish Reformation and disestablish Catholicism as the national religion.

★12 Jul 1561
Saint Basil's Cathedral, located at the geographic center of Moscow, was consecrated.

★18 Aug 1572
French Wars of Religion: Margaret of Valois married Huguenot King Henry of Navarre, in an attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.

★25 Jan 1573
Sengoku period: The forces of Takeda Shingen defeated those of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Mikatagahara, north of Hamamatsu, Mikawa Province, Japan.

★07 Mar 1573
A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end, transferring Cyprus from Venetian hands to Ottoman control.

★31 Jan 1578
Eighty Years' War: Spain won a crushing victory in the Battle of Gembloux, leading to a break up of the United Seventeen Provinces into the Union of Arras.

★05 Aug 1583
Explorer Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

★17 May 1590
Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen consort of Scotland in the abbey church at Holyrood Palace.

★17 Nov 1592
Sigismund III Vasa, who was already King of Poland, succeeded his father John III as King of Sweden.

★26 Oct 1597
Thirteen Korean ships commanded by Admiral Yi Sun-sin defeated a far larger Japanese invasion fleet at the Battle of Myeongnyang in the Myeongnyang Strait.

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