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Historical Event(s)
– Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
– Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
– John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
– Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
– Alexander Farnese’s army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
– Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
– Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
– John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the “lost” colonists.
– Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
Who Were Born On ?
– Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
– William Bradford, Pilgrim and First Governor of the Plymouth Colony (d. 1657)
– Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
– Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
– Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
– Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)