1568
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| Years: 1565 1566 1567 - 1568 - 1569 1570 1571 | |
| Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- 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.
Births
- 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
Deaths
- 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)
- 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)
