1569

Year 1569 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1569

* January 11-May 6 - The first recorded lottery in England is performed nonstop at the west door of the St. Paul's Cathedral. Each share costs 10 shillings and proceeds are used to repair the harbors and for other public works.
* 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 1 - The Union of Lublin unites the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a single state, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
* 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. Catholics surrender under the condition that their lives will be spared. Huguenots agree, but then massacre the Catholics anyway.
* 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.

Undated

* 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, forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
* The trade compact of 1536 is renewed, exempting French merchants from Ottoman law and allowing them to travel, buy and sell throughout the sultan's dominions and to pay low customs duties on French imports and exports.
* Akbar founds Fatehpur Sikri to honor the Muslim holy man Shaikh Salim Chisti, who has foretold the birth of Akbar's son and heir, Jahangir.

Births

* April 10 - Emilia of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent (d. 1629)
* April 16 - John Davies, English poet and lawyer (d. 1626)
* August 31 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627)
* September - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, one of the translators of the King James Bible (d. 1626)
* October 18 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
*"date unknown"
**Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (d. 1631)
**Tobias Hume, English composer (d. 1645)
**Karl I of Liechtenstein, first Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1627)
**William Monson, British admiral (d. 1643)
**Frans Pourbus the younger, Flemish painter (d. 1622)
**John Suckling, English politician (d. 1627)

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Deaths

*January 15 - Catherine Carey lady in waiting to Elizabeth I (b.1524)
* March 13 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Protestant general (b. 1530)
* May 10 - John of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1500)
* May 16 - Dirk Willems, Dutch Anabaptist martyr
* September 5 - Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (b. c. 1500)
* September 9 - Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter
* October 9 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
* December 10 - Paul Eber, theologian (b. 1511)
* December 12 - Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (b. 1507)
*"date unknown"
**António Ferreira, Portuguese poet (b. 1528)

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