1568
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s – 1560s – 1570s 1580s 1590s |
| 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 |
May 19: Mary, Queen of Scots, is arrested.
Year 1568 (MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
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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.
Eighty Years' War (The Relief of Leiden).
- 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.
- 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
Births
| 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 | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1624 – 1625 |
| - 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 |
- 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)
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
- 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
Notes
- ↑ Polybius: "The Rise Of The Roman Empire", Page 36, Penguin, 1979.