May 19: Mary Queen of Scots is arrested.

Year 1568 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1568

• 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.

Births

• 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)
• 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)
  • Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish religious leader (d. 1614)
  • Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (d. 1648)
  • Marin Getaldi?, Croatian scientist (d. 1626)
  • 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)

See also Category: 1568 births.

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)
• 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
  • Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish statesman (b. 1522)
  • Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn (b. c. 1524
• 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)
• December 23 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England (b. 1515)
• December 31 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493)
• date unknown
  • Henry, Count of Bréderode, Dutch reformer (b. 1531)
  • Henry Sutton Dudley, English soldier and sailor (b. 1517)
  • Gherman, archbishop of Kazan and later Metropolitan of Moscow
  • Aben Humeya, last independent king of Granada (b. 1520)
  • Antoine Héroet, French poet
  • Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician (b. 1501)
  • Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian
  • Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (b. 1481)

See also Category: 1568 deaths.

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