Events

• March 17 - formation of the Cathay Company to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold
• September 17 - Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots
• The church in San Pedro in the Atacama Desert in Chile was built.

Births

• February 6 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (d. 1599)
• April 12 - King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway
• June 12 - Habbakkuk Guldin later known as Paul Guldin, Swiss Jesuit mathematician
• June 28 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter
• November 25 - Piet Hein (Netherlands), Dutch naval officer and folk hero

Deaths

• June 11 - king John III of Portugal
• August 27 - Titian, artist
• November 19 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord
• November 29 - Saint Cuthbert Mayne, Roman Catholic martyr