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Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, has members of the clan O'Neill killed at Banbridge.
March 16 - Edmund O'Donnell is hanged, drawn and quartered in Cork as a traitor, the first Jesuit executed by the English government.
May–August - Drought.^[1]
May 22 - Elizabeth I of England orders Essex to break off his enterprise of the plantation of Antrim.^[2] He will return to England at the end of the year.
June - Essex builds a bridge and fort at Blackwater (north of Armagh).^[2]
June 27 - Turlough Luineach O'Neill submits to the English authorities and receives extensive grants of lands and permission to employ 300 Scottish mercenaries.
July 20–26 - Rathlin Island Massacre: English adventurers Francis Drake and John Norreys, acting for the Earl of Essex, lead an expedition that culminates in the massacre of 500 of the clan MacDonnell in a surprise raid on Rathlin Island.^[2]^[3]
August–September - Plague in Leinster.^[2]
August 5 - Sir Henry Sidney is reappointed Lord Deputy of Ireland^[4] following the resignation of Sir William FitzWilliam.

Approximate date - The manuscript now known as Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 is copied at Ballycumin, County Roscommon, by Aodh, Dubhthach and Torna of the Ó Maolconaire family.

↑ Annals of the Four Masters.
1 2 3 4 Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
↑ Kelsey, Harry (September 2004). "Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online, May 2007 ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2012-12-20. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Wagner, John (1999). Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America. Phoenix: Oryx. p. 278. ISBN 1573562009.

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