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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 13]] &ndash; An [[English Armada]], led by Sir [[Francis Drake]] and Sir [[John Norris (soldier)|John Norreys]], and largely financed by private investors, sets sail to attack the [[Iberian Peninsula]]'s Atlantic coast,<ref name="Cassell's Chronology 1589">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/230 230–233]}}</ref> but fails to achieve any naval advantage.
* [[May 2]] &ndash; Girolamo Bargagli's play ''The Pilgrim Woman'' is given its first performance, premiering in [[Florence]], three years after Bargagli's death.<ref>Martin Banham, ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre'' (Cambridge University Press, 1989)</ref> 
* [[May 4]] &ndash; In Spain, [[María Pita]] leads the defense of [[Siege of Coruña|La Coruña]] against the English Armada after her husband is killed by a crossbow."<ref>[http://www.culturagalega.org/album/detalle.php?id=8 "María Pita: Heroína Coruñesa Célebre pola Defensa da Cidade fronte os Ingleses]"</ref> 
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell|The Earl of Bothwell]], accused of treason against the Crown of Scotland, surrenders along with the [[George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly|Earl of Huntly]] and is imprisoned at [[Holyrood Palace]]. Convicted on May 24, the conspirators are never sentenced and set free by King James VI.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Ercole, Lord of Monaco|Ercole Grimaldi]] becomes the new [[List of rulers of Monaco|Lord of Monaco]] upon the death of his older brother [[Charles II, Lord of Monaco|Charles II]].
* [[June 28]] &ndash; On the island of [[Sumatra]] in what is now Indonesia, the Sultan of [[Aceh Sultanate|Aceh Darussalam]], [[Sultan Buyung|Ali Ri'ayat Syah II]], is assassinated by a group of nobles dissatisfied with his rule. He becomes the fourth Sultan in a row to be murdered.<ref>''Dagh-Register 1673'' (Martinus Nijhoff, 1901) p.162</ref> [[Alauddin Ri'ayat Syah Sayyid al-Mukammal|Sayyid al-Mukammal]] is approved by the nobles as the new Sultan of Aceh.<ref>''Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch Indië'' (Nijhoff & Brill, 1917) p.74</ref>