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

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Events of 1568

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1568

★ Russo-Ottoman War in Astrakhan

★ 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.


★ 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 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 (died 1591)

★ April - Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)

★ September 3 - Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (died 1634)

★ September 5 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet (d. 1639)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (died 1634)

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★ John Welsh of Ayr, Scottish Presbyterian leader

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★ Barnabe Barnes, English poet (died 1609)

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★ Teodosio II, Duke of Braganza (died 1630)

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★ Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish religious leader (died 1614)

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★ Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (died 1648)

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★ Marino Ghetaldi, Ragusan scientist (died 1626)

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★ Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military leader (died 1592)

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★ Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, Mexican historian (d. 1648)

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★ Gervase Markham, English poet and writer (died 1637)

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★ Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (died 1628)

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★ Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat (died 1639)

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★ Wei Zhongxian, Grand Secretary of China (died 1627)
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Deaths

★ January 15 - Catherine Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I of England (born c1526)

★ January 20 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (born c1488)

★ January 21 - Amato Lusitano, Portuguese physician (born 1511)

★ January 26 - Lady Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (born 1539)

★ March 20 - Duke Albert of Prussia (born 1490)

★ May 23 - Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg (born 1528)

★ June 3 - Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Friar (born 1498)

★ June 5

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★ Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish statesman (born 1522)

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★ Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn Born c1524

★ July 7 - William Turner, British ornithologist and botanist (born 1508)

★ July 24 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (born 1545)

★ August 23 - Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (born 1495)

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Henry, Count of Bréderode, Dutch reformer (born 1531)

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★ Henry Sutton Dudley, English soldier and sailor (born 1517)

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★ Gherman, archbishop of Kazan and later Metropolitan of Moscow

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★ Aben Humeya, last independent king of Granada (born 1520)

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★ Antoine Héroet, French poet

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★ Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician (born 1501)

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★ Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian

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★ Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (born 1481)
: ''See also .''