1569
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Years: 1566 1567 1568 - 1569 - 1570 1571 1572 |
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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
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Gregorian calendar | 1569 MDLXIX |
Ab urbe condita | 2322 |
Armenian calendar | 1018 ԹՎ ՌԺԸ |
Chinese calendar | 4205/4265-12-15 (戊辰年十二月十五日) — to —
4206/4266-11-24(己巳年十一月廿四日) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1561 – 1562 |
Hebrew calendar | 5329 – 5330 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1624 – 1625 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1491 – 1492 |
- Kali Yuga | 4670 – 4671 |
Iranian calendar | 947 – 948 |
Islamic calendar | 977 – 978 |
Japanese calendar | Eiroku 12 (永禄12年) |
- Imperial Year | Kōki 2229 (皇紀2229年) |
- Jōmon Era | 11569 |
Thai solar calendar | 2112 |
[edit] Events
- January 11-May 6 - First recorded lottery in England performed nonstop at the west door of the St. Paul's Cathedral. Each share costs 10 shillings and proceeds are used to repair the harbors and for other public works
- 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. Catholics surrender under the condition that their lives would be spared. Huguenots agreed, but then massacred the Catholics anyway.
- 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.
[edit] Births
- August 31 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 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 (died 1627)
- William Monson, British admiral (died 1643)
- Frans Pourbus the younger, Flemish painter (died 1622)
- John Suckling, English politician (died 1627)
See also Category: 1569 births.
[edit] 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 (born c1500)
- September 9 - Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter
- October 9 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
- December 12 - Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (b. 1507)
- John of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint (born 1500)
See also Category: 1569 deaths.