1580 • Battle of Alcântara: Spanish armies, led by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, defending the claim of King Philip II of Spain to the Portuguese throne, defeat the armies of Portuguese claimant António, Prior of Crato.

1605

Age: 25y

birth of child

Thomas Shelton
England ⇓
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1605 • Battle of Kircholm: Swedish armies are defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

May 20
Age: 88y

Barbados, Bermuda ⇓
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1668 • Emperor Yohannes I of Ethiopia convenes a church council in Gondar, which decides to expel all Roman Catholics in Ethiopia.