Events

• March 23 - 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 - Beginning of the Third War of Religion in France after an unsuccessful attempt by the Royalists to capture Condé and Coligny, the Huguenot leaders.
• 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.
• Beginning of the Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.
• Start of Eighty Years' War.
• Peace of Adrianople: The Ottomans agree to pay tribute to the Habsburgs.

Births

• February 11 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625)
• March 9 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and saint (died 1591)
• September 3 - Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (died 1634)
• September 5 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet (d. 1639)
• Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (died 1634)
• John Welsh of Ayr, Scottish Presbyterian leader
• Barnabe Barnes, English poet (died 1609)
• Teodosio II, Duke of Braganza (died 1630)
• Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish religious leader (died 1614)
• Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (died 1648)
• Marin Getaldic, Croatian scientist (died 1626)
• Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military leader (died 1592)
• Gervase Markham, English poet and writer (died 1637)
• April - Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)
• Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (died 1628)
• Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat (died 1639)
• Wei Zhongxian, Grand Secretary of China

See also Category: 1568 births.

Deaths

• January 15 - Catherine Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I of England
• January 20 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator
• January 21 - Amato Lusitano, Portuguese physician (born 1511)
• March 20 - Duke Albert of Prussia (born 1490)
• June 5 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish statesman (born 1522)
• July 7 - William Turner, British ornithologist and botanist
• July 24 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (born 1545)
• September - Jöran Persson, Swedish politician (born c. 1530)
• October 3 - Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (born 1545)
• October 14 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (born 1504)
• October 28 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (born 1538)
• December 23 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England (born 1515)
• December 31 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (born 1493)
• Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Friar (born 1498)
• Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg (born 1528)
• Henry, Count of Bréderode, Dutch reformer (born 1531)
• Henry Sutton Dudley, English soldier and sailor (born 1517)
• Lamoraal Egmond, Flemish general and political figure (born 1522)
• Gherman, archbishop of Kazan and later Metropolitan of Moscow
• Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (born 1539)
• Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn
• Aben Humeya, last independent king of Granada (born 1520)
• Antoine Héroet, French poet
• Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician (born 1501)
• Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian
• Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (born 1481)
• Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (born 1495)

See also Category: 1568 deaths.

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