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Years:	1565 1566 1567 – 1568 – 1569 1570 1571

1568 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1568 (MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1568 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

[edit] Events of 1568

• January 6–13 – In the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom the Diet of Torda declares religious freedom firstly in Europe.
• March 23 – The Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de' Medici and Charles IX make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.
• May 2 – Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
• May 13 – Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
• May 16 – Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.
• May 19 – Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Mary Queen of Scots.
• May 23 – Battle of Heiligerlee: Troops under Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat a smaller loyalist force under the Duke of Arenberg in an attempt to invade the Northern Netherlands.
• July 21 – Battle of Jemmingen: The main Spanish army of the Duke of Alva utterly defeats Louis of Nassau's invading army in the Northeastern Netherlands.
• August 18 – The Third War of Religion begins in France after an unsuccessful attempt by the Royalists to capture Condé and Coligny, the Huguenot leaders.

• September 29 – The Swedish king Eric XIV is dethroned and succeeded by his half-brother John III.
• October 5 – William of Orange invades the Southeastern Netherlands.
• October 20 – Battle of Jodoigne. Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva destroy Orange's rearguard. Orange abandons his offensive.

[edit] Undated

• The Russo-Ottoman War in Astrakhan begins.
• The Azuchi-Momoyama period begins in Japan.
• The Eighty Years' War begins.
• Peace of Adrianople: The Ottomans agree to pay tribute to the Habsburgs.
• Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire besieges and captures the massive Chittorgarh Fort in northern India.
• Polybius' "The Histories" first translated in to English by Christopher Watson.^[1]
• Huguenots besieged Chartres.
• A Spanish expedition under Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira discovers the Solomon Islands

[edit] Births

1568 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1568 MDLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2321
Armenian calendar	1017 ԹՎ ՌԺԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-276 – -275
Bengali calendar	975
Berber calendar	2518
Buddhist calendar	2112
Burmese calendar	930
Byzantine calendar	7076 – 7077
Chinese calendar	丁卯年十二月初三日 (4204/4264-12-3) — to — 戊辰年十二月十四日 (4205/4265-12-14)
Coptic calendar	1284 – 1285
Ethiopian calendar	1560 – 1561
Hebrew calendar	5328 – 5329
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1623 – 1624
- Shaka Samvat	1490 – 1491
- Kali Yuga	4669 – 4670
Holocene calendar	11568
Iranian calendar	946 – 947
Islamic calendar	975 – 976
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 11 (永禄11年)
Korean calendar	3901
Thai solar calendar	2111
v • d • e

• February 11 – Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625)
• March 9 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and saint (d. 1591)
• April – Pope Urban VIII (d. 1644)
• September 3 – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)
• September 5 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet (d. 1639)
• October 2 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian scientist (d. 1626)
• date unknown
  • Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (d. 1634)
  • John Welsh of Ayr, Scottish Presbyterian leader
  • Barnabe Barnes, English poet (d. 1609)
  • Teodosio II, Duke of Braganza (d. 1630)
  • Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (d. 1648)
  • Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military leader (d. 1592)
  • Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, Mexican historian (d. 1648)
  • Gervase Markham, English poet and writer (d. 1637)
  • Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (d. 1628)
  • Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat (d. 1639)
  • Wei Zhongxian, Grand Secretary of China (d. 1627)

[edit] Deaths

• January 15 – Catherine Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1526)
• January 20 – Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (b. c. 1488)
• January 21 – Amato Lusitano, Portuguese physician (b. 1511)
• January 26 – Lady Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (b. 1539)
• February 15 – Henry, Count of Bréderode, Dutch reformer (b. 1531)
• March 20 – Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490)
• May 23 – Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg (b. 1528)
• June 3 – Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Friar (b. 1498)
• June 5
  • Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish statesman (b. 1522)
  • Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn (b. c. 1524
• July 7 – William Turner, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1508)
• July 24 – Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
• August 23 – Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (b. 1495)
• September 22 – Jöran Persson, Swedish politician (b. c. 1530) (executed)
• October 3 – Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
• October 14 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (b. 1504)
• October 28 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1538)
  • November 6 – Metropolitan German, archbishop of Kazan and later Metropolitan of Moscow
• December 23 – Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England (b. 1515)
• December 31 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493)
• date unknown
  • Henry Sutton Dudley, English soldier and sailor (b. 1517)
  • Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician (b. 1501)
  • Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian
  • Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (b. 1481)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Polybius: "The Rise Of The Roman Empire", Page 36, Penguin, 1979.