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Year '1569' was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1569

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1569

★ January 11-May 6 - First recorded lottery in England performed nonstop at the west door of the St. Paul's Cathedral. Each share costs 10 shillings and proceeds are used to repair the harbors and for other public works

★ March 13 - Battle of Jarnac - Royalist troops under Marshal Gaspard de Tavannes surprise and defeat the Huguenots under the Prince of Condé, who is captured and murdered. A substantial proportion of the Huguenot army manages to escape under Gaspard de Coligny.

★ June 10 - German Protestant troops reinforce Coligny near Limoges

★ July 1 - The Union of Lublin unites the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a single state, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

★ July-September - Huguenot forces under Coligny and 15 year-old Prince Henry of Navarre besiege Poitiers

★ August 24 - Battle of Orthez - Huguenot forces under Gabriel de Montgomery defeat Royalist forces under General Terride in French Navarre. Catholics surrender under the condition that their lives would be spared. Huguenots agreed, but then massacred the Catholics anyway.

★ September - A Royalist army under the Duc d'Anjou and Marshal Tavannes forces Coligny to abandon the siege of Poitiers

★ October 3 - Battle of Moncountour - The Royalist forces of Tavannaes and Anjou defeat Coligny's Huguenots.

Undated

★ Gerardus Mercator devises the Mercator projection

★ Assemblies of 3 Lithuanian provinces, Volhynia, Ukraine and Podlasie vote to be incorporated into Poland.

★ Poland and Lithuania are united in the Union of Lublin. They form Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Births

★ April 10 - Emilia of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent (died 1629)

★ April 16 - John Davies, English poet and lawyer (died 1626)

★ August 31 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627)

★ September - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, one of the translators of the King James Bible (died 1626)

★ October 18 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (died 1625)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (died 1631)

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★ Tobias Hume, English composer (died 1645)

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★ Karl I of Liechtenstein, first Prince of Liechtenstein (died 1627)

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★ William Monson, British admiral (died 1643)

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★ Frans Pourbus the younger, Flemish painter (died 1622)

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★ John Suckling, English politician (died 1627)
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Deaths

★ March 13 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Protestant general (born 1530)

★ May 10 - John of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint (born 1500)

★ May 16 - Dirk Willems, Dutch Anabaptist martyr

★ September 5 - Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (born c1500)

★ September 9 - Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter

★ October 9 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)

★ December 10 - Paul Eber, theologian (born 1511)

★ December 12 - Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (b. 1507)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ António Ferreira, Portuguese poet (born 1528)
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