1568

events

23. May: Battle with Heiligerlee with that that eighty-year old war begins
June: Beheading thatCount Egmont and Horne in the Netherlands
the atoll Wake of Spaniards discovers
peace treaty between emperors Maximilian II. and Osmanensultan Selim II.
Maria Stuart escapes from the shank of the Scottish aristocracy and flees to England. Elizabeth I.it setsbecause of their requirements on to English throne in detention
the peace of Longjumeau between Katharina of Medici and the Huguenots only a short interruption of the war rebellion
of the Moriscos brings in Granada (until 1570)
Eric XIV.becomes from the SwedishAristocracy opposition fallen under guidance of its half brothers Johann and Karl
Johann III. as a Swedish king wedding
between duke William V. is recognized. and Renata of Lorraine

11. February: Honore d'Urfé, French writer († 1625)
9. March: Aloisius of Gonzaga, belongs to 5 to in recent years the holy ones died ( † 1591
). April: Urban VIII., Pope from 1623 to 1644 († 1644)
6. June: Sophie of Brandenburg, daughterthe cure prince Johann George of Brandenburg and wife of the cure prince († 1904)
5. September: Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher († 1639)
3. October: Adriano Banchieri, Italian monk and composer († 1904)
January Brueghel thatOlder flämischer painter († 1625)
Ōmura Yoshiaki, Japanese prince (Daimyō) († 1615)

20. March: Albrecht of Brandenburg Prussia, first duke of Prussia (* 1490)
5. June: Lamoral countexecuted by Egmond, Netherlands freedom fighter (* 1522)
11. June: Heinrich the younger one, duke to Braunschweig Lueneburg, prince of Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel (* 1489)
7. July: William Turner, British Ornithologe and Botaniker
24. July: Don Carlo, the son king (* 1545) was
15. August: Stanislaus Kostka, holy of the catholic church (* 1550)
21. August: Jean Parisot de la Valette, neunundvierzigster large master sovereigns of the Malteserritterordens (* 1494)
19. October - Johann Aurifaber, theologian (* 1517)
23. December: Friedrich IV. of Wied, archbishop of Cologne (* 1518)
28. December: Christoph, duke of Württemberg (* 1515)
30. December: Roger Ascham, BritishPaedagogue (* 1515)