1569

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.

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