1568

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 Hapsburgs.

January 15 - Catherine Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I of England
January 20 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (born 1488)
January 21 - Amato Lusitano, Portuguese Jewish physician (born 1511)
March 20 - 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, Franco-Flemish composer (born 1504)
October 28 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (born 1538)
December 23 - Roger Ascham, Elizabeth I's tutor (born 1515)
December 31 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (born 1493)
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)af:1568