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

Events of 1568

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.

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.

Births

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)

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)
Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish religious leader (d. 1614)
Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (d. 1648)
Marino Ghetaldi, Ragusan scientist (d. 1626)
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)

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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)

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)

December 23 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England (b. 1515)

December 31 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493)

date unknown

Henry, Count of Bréderode, Dutch reformer (b. 1531)
Henry Sutton Dudley, English soldier and sailor (b. 1517)
Gherman, archbishop of Kazan and later Metropolitan of Moscow
Aben Humeya, last independent king of Granada (b. 1520)
Antoine Héroet, French poet
Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician (b. 1501)
Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian
Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (b. 1481)

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