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French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing what is now the United States, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida.
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Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar.
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Saint Teresa of Ávila dies. She is buried the next day, October 15.
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Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) open with beginning of a the Siege of Busan.
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The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by the Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, who had previously taken the city of São Luís in Maranhão from the French.
