Editing 1586 (section)

==July &ndash; September==
* [[July 6]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Berwick (1586)|Treaty of Berwick]] is signed between Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]] and King [[James VI of Scotland]].<ref name="CBH 1586"/>
* [[July 17]] &ndash; In England, the [[Babington Plot]], a scheme to murder [[Elizabeth I|Queen Elizabeth]] and to replace her with [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], is discovered. Mary is implicated when she sends a cryptogram letter to [[Anthony Babington]] giving the go-ahead for the assassination, and the correspondence is decrypted by [[Thomas Phelippes]].
* [[July 21]] &ndash; English explorer [[Thomas Cavendish]] begins the first deliberately planned [[Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation|circumnavigation]] of the globe.<ref name=TTH>{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=0-671-74919-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun}}</ref>
* [[July 22]] &ndash; Sir Francis Drake and his crew return to England, arriving at [[Portsmouth]] to heroes' welcome.<ref>John Sugden, ''Sir Francis Drake'' (Pimlico Press, 2006) pp. 189-190</ref> 
* [[August 4]] &ndash; Conspirator [[John Ballard (Jesuit)|John Ballard]] is the first person to be arrested by English security agents for the plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Under torture, he implicates Anthony Babington.
* [[August 13]] &ndash; In Germany, near [[Cologne|Köln]], the [[Siege of Rheinberg (1586–1590)|siege of Rheinberg]] by Spanish Army commander [[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma]] begins and is ultimately won by Spain, despite a defense by the [[Electorate of Cologne]] as well as Dutch and English troops.<ref>Peter Hamish Wilson, ''The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy'' (Penguin Group, 2009) p.210</ref>
* [[September 14]] &ndash; In one of the most spectacular feats of engineering up to that time, devised by [[Domenico Fontana]], the {{convert|82|ft|m}} tall, 327-ton [[Vatican obelisk]] is erected at [[St. Peter's Square]] in [[Rome]] after being transported between April 30 and May 17 from its previous location on orders of [[Pope Sixtus V]].
* [[September 20]] &ndash; The executions of the [[Babington Plot]] perpetrators begins. Over the two day period, the 14 men convicted of the a plot are [[hanged, drawn and quartered]] (the first seven being disembowelled before death) in St Giles Field, London.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology 1586">{{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}}</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2017}}
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Battle of Zutphen]]: Spanish troops defeat the Dutch rebels and their English allies. English poet and courtier Sir [[Philip Sidney]] is mortally wounded.<ref>{{cite book|title=Transactions of the Royal Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJtSxXbDq00C|year=1971|publisher=Society|page=423|language=en}}</ref>