1569

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s

Years: 1564 1565 1566 1567 1568 - 1569 - 1570 1571 1572 1573 1574

• 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 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
• Poland and Lithuania are united in the Union of Lublin[?]

Births

Deaths

• March 13 - Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé - Prince of the Blood, leader of the Huguenots in France