Events March 8 - Naples bans kissing in public in the penalty of death June 22 - Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World September 10 - The Battle of Kawanakajima Ottoman Turks invade Malta Modern pencil becomes common in England Spanish found a colony in the Philippines Births February 6 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist February 15 - Galileo Galilei born in Pisa. March 9 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer. April 23 - William Shakespeare,born in Stratford-upon-Avon, later famous poet and dramatist September 24 - William Adams, English navigator and Japanese samurai Deaths February 18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti May 27 - John Calvin
