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* [[Battle of the Spoiling Dyke]] at [[Trumpan]] on the Scottish [[Isle of Skye]]: the [[Clan MacLeod]] are victorious over the [[Clan Donald|MacDonalds of Uist]] in a feud.<ref>{{cite book|first=Alexander John|last=Haddow|title=The History and Structure of Ceol Mor: A Guide to Piobaireachd, the Classical Music of the Great Highland Bagpipe: a Collection of Critical and Historical Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zk8UAQAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=M.R.S. Haddow|page=67}}</ref>
* The [[Ottoman Empire]] conquers [[Abkhazia]].
* [[Sarsa Dengel]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]], defeats and kills [[Bahr negus Yeshaq]] along with his Ottoman allies, finally ending his rebellion.
* Sonam Gyrso receives from Prince Atlan Khan the title of ''Talaï'', and becomes the third [[Dalai Lama]] of [[Tibet]].
* The last outbreak of [[sweating sickness]] occurs in England.
* The [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] assist Lord [[Ōmura Sumitada]], the first Christian Japanese daimyo, in repulsing an assault on [[Nagasaki]] by the [[Ryūzōji clan]].
* [[North American fur trade|Fur trade]] begins in Newfoundland in North America.</onlyinclude>