1568 - Wikipedia

Events

March 23 - Peace of Longjumeau[?] ends the Second War of Religion[?] in France. Again Catherine de Medici and Charles IX make substantial concessions to the Huguenots
May 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.
May 16 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.
May 19 - Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Mary Queen of Scots.
May 23 - Battle of Heiligerlee[?] - Troops under William of Orange's younger brother, Louis of Nassau, defeat a small loyalist force under the Duke of Arenberg in an attempt to invade the Northern Netherlands.
July 21 - Battle of Jemmingen[?] - The main Spanish army of The Duke of ALva utterly defeats Louis of Nassau's invading army in the Northeastern Netherlands.
August 18 - Beginning of the Third War of Religion in France after an unsuccessful attempt by the Royalists to capture Condé and Coligny, the Huguenot leaders.
Octobert 5[?] - William of Orange invades the Southeastern Netherlands
October 20 - Battle of Jodoigne[?]. Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva destroy Orange's rearguard. Orange abandons his offensive.
Beginning of the Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.

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