Events

• Russia, Reforming Synod of the metropolite Macaire , Orthodoxy: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav )
• Major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England.
• Foundation of the National University of Saint Mark in Lima,_Peru.

Births

• September 19 - King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
• Boris Godunov - tsar of Russia

Deaths

• September 30 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord
• Oda Nobuhide - Japanese warlord. Father of Oda Nobunaga