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| Years: 1566 1567 1568 - 1569 - 1570 1571 1572 | |
| Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- January 11 - First recorded lottery in England.
- March 13 - Battle of Jarnac - Royalist troops under Marshal Gaspard de Tavannes surprise and defeat the Huguenots under the Prince of Condé, who is captured and murdered. A substantial proportion of the Huguenot army manages to escape under Gaspard de Coligny.
- June 10 - German Protestant troops reinforce Coligny near Limoges
- July - September - Huguenot forces under Coligny and 15 year-old Prince Henry of Navarre besiege Poitiers
- August 24 - Battle of Orthez - Huguenot forces under Gabriel de Montgomery defeat Royalist forces under General Terride in French Navarre
- September - A Royalist army under the Duc d'Anjou and Marshal Tavannes forces Coligny to abandon the siege of Poitiers
- October 3 - Battle of Moncountour - The Royalist forces of Tavannaes and Anjou defeat Coligny's Huguenots.
- Gerardus Mercator devises the Mercator projection
- Assemblies of 3 Lithuanian provinces, Volhynia, Ukraine and Podlasie vote to be incorporated into Poland.
- Poland and Lithuania are united in the Union of Lublin. They form Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Births
- August 31 - Jahangir, ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1605 until 1627
- October 18 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (died 1625)
- Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (died 1631)
- John Davies, English poet and lawyer (died 1626)
- Alexandre Hardy, French dramatist (died 1631)
- Tobias Hume, English composer (died 1645)
- Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, one of the translators of the King James Bible (died 1626)
- Karl I of Liechtenstein, first Prince of Liechtenstein
- William Monson, British admiral (died 1643)
- Frans Pourbus the younger, Flemish painter (died 1622)
- John Suckling, English politician (died 1627)
Deaths
- March 13 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French protestant general (born 1530)
- May 16 - Dirk Willems, Dutch Anabaptist martyr
- September 5 - Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London
- John of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painteraf:1569
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