1568 - What happened in 1568 ?

March 1568

Saturday 23:

Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de Medici and Charles IX of France make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.

May 1568

Thursday 02:

Mary I of Scotland escapes from Loch Leven Castle.

Monday 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.

Thursday 16:

Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.

Sunday 19:

Queen Elizabeth I of England has Mary Queen of Scots arrested.

Thursday 23:

Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.

July 1568

Sunday 21:

Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau