18 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
Japan (4)
Komaki-Nagakute: Ieyasu, seeing his two sons-in-law (Ikeda and Mori) defeated, shouted "Strike the father (Hideyoshi)!" and sent his whole army charging. (Rai Sanyō, Nihon Gaishi 卷之二十 L186)
In the 4th month Ieyasu and Nobukatsu ambushed and killed Hideyoshi's men Ikeda Nobuteru and Mori Nagayoshi at Nagakute. (Rai Sanyō, Nihon Gaishi 卷之十五 · part_05.txt L214)
Nobukatsu joined 20,000 troops with Ieyasu and camped at Komaki, while Hideyoshi, with 120,000, was stationed at Inuyama. (Rai Sanyō, Nihon Gaishi part_07.txt 줄 9 (卷之十四))
In the 11th month, when Hideyoshi entered Ise with 80,000 and stood face to face with him, Nobukatsu accepted peace and swore a pact below Kuwana Castle. (Rai Sanyō, Nihon Gaishi part_07.txt 줄 11 (卷之十四))
Sub-Saharan Africa (2)
El-Hajj of Korminapari leaves Tendirma and goes to Gao to start a rebellion (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XVII-XVIII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 8898))
El-Hajj arrives at Gao wearing a breastplate, with trumpets and drums at the front (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XVII-XVIII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 8931))
Eastern Europe & Russia (12)
At Lent, on March 12, Karacha surrounded Sibir with a great army, camped at South Khan Cape and harassed the Cossacks until May. (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.94)
On the night of May 9 Yermak went out of the fort and raided Karacha's camp, killing two of his sons; the siege was lifted and Karacha fled. (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.95–96)
On August 1, hearing that Kuchum was blocking Bukharan merchants, Yermak led fifty men up the Irtysh, dug in at Cape Agit and reached the mouth of the Bagai, but did not meet any Bukharans. (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.98)
Yermak went up the Irtysh with 300 men and fought a great battle at Prince Begish's fortress against the joint Tatar and Karacha forces; the two cannons brought from Kazan fell into the Irtysh, and he won. (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.99)
At the mouth of the Ishim they fought bare-handed at close quarters; five Cossacks died, and the Tatars made a refrain of it, singing 'янымъ, янымъ, бинть казакъ' (five dead) and calling the song 'Царицынъ плачь' (the queen's lament). (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.100)
They besieged the Kulary fortress for five days without breaking in, and turned back saying they would collect it on the way home. (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.101)
On the night of August 6 Kuchum ambushed the careless Cossacks in their camp at the mouth of the Bagai; only one escaped and carried the word to Sibir. (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.105)
Yermak, still wearing two suits of armor, leapt into a boat and drowned in the Irtysh (August 6). (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.106)
The remaining 150 Cossacks left Sibir on August 15 and went back to Russia over the Urals along the Ob and the Irtysh. (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.107)
Kuchum's son Aley, having moved into the vacated Kashlyk, was driven out by Seydyak, son of Bekbulat, who avenged his father and took Sibir. (Remezov Siberian Chronicle 레메조프본 ст.103)