1568
*
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.
*
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.*
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.
