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.