March 19 Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas April 17 Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay April 19 Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-general French Van de Holly April 24 Duke of Bourbon drives Admiral Bonnivet out of Milan May 20 Duke of Albany leaves Scotland June 27 Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess June 28 Duke van Bourbon occupies Province July 15 Emperor Karel I bans German national synode July 19 Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest July 26 James I (12) becomes king of Scotland August 19 Emperor Charles V's troops besieges Marseille September 29 Emperor Charles V's troops give siege of Marseille October 26 Spanish troops give Milan to France November 14 Pizarro's begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia December 12 Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
