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Events

• April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
• August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.
• September 8 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta (siege started on May 18).

• Miguel López de Legaspi founds San Miguel, the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines
• Russia, beginning of the Opritchtina

• December 9 - Pope Pius IV
• Nicolaus Von Amsdorf