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    Year 1568 (MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 6 – In the Eastern Hungarian...
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    Isabel de Valois; French: Élisabeth de Valois) (2 April 1546 – 3 October 1568), was Queen of Spain as the third wife of Philip II of Spain. She was the...
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    Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate...
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  • 1560s BC (redirect from 1568 BC)
    Seventeenth Dynasty, start of Eighteenth Dynasty. Reuben, son of Jacob (1568–1445 BC). Ahmose I, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1570–1546...
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  • The Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570) or Don-Volga-Astrakhan campaign of 1569 (referred to in Ottoman sources as the Astrakhan Expedition) was a war between...
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    war between the Austrian and Ottoman empires was reached on 17 February 1568, after five months of negotiations with Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (also known...
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    Württemberg, from 1568 until his death. The only surviving son of Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, he succeeded him on his death on 28 December 1568. His reign...
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    immigrant. Eric XIV married Karin morganatically in 1567, and officially in 1568, when she was ennobled and crowned queen under the name Katarina Magnusdotter...
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    1526 to 1568. The Habsburgs and the Ottomans engaged in a series of military campaigns against one another in Hungary between 1526 and 1568. While overall...
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    The siege of Chittorgarh (23 October 1567 – 23 February 1568) was the military expedition of the Mughal Empire under Akbar against the Mewar kingdom that...
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  • The Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1998 is an Alabama statute that criminalizes the sale of sex toys. The law has been the subject of extensive litigation...
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  • Elizabeth's seizure of gold from Spanish ships in English ports in November 1568. Chased by pirates in the English channel, five small Spanish ships carrying...
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    Stanisław Kostka S.J. (28 October 1550 – 15 August 1568) was a Polish novice of the Society of Jesus. He is venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Stanislaus...
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    William Turner (1509/10 – 13 July 1568) was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called "The father of English...
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    attributed to a charter of Duke Trpimir I of Croatia, dated to 852 in a 1568 copy of a lost original, but it is not certain if the original was indeed...
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    there are many competing historiographies for its end date, ranging from 1568, the date of Oda Nobunaga's march on Kyoto, to the suppression of the Shimabara...
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    15th and final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573 when he staged a revolt and was overthrown. His father, Ashikaga...
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    of present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of France and Germany. In 1568, under Phillip II, the Eighty Years' War between the Provinces and their...
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    The following events occurred in the year 1568 in Sweden. Monarch – Eric XIV then John III January - The Danes under Daniel Rantzau march toward Stockholm...
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    Christian Moriscos. About four decades after the War of the Alpujarras (1568–1571), over 300,000 moriscos were expelled, settling primarily in North Africa...
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    Gustav (January 28, 1568 – February, 1607) was a Swedish prince, the son of Eric XIV and Karin Månsdotter. The infant Gustav was present at his mother's...
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    Sheffield Wingfield Chatsworth Buxton Chartley Tixall Fotheringhay On 2 May 1568, Mary escaped from Lochleven Castle with the aid of George Douglas, brother...
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    1521–1546 Ashikaga Yoshiteru, r. 1546–1565 Ashikaga Yoshihide, r. 1568 Ashikaga Yoshiaki, r. 1568–1573 History of Japan Kantō kubō Ashikaga clan Japanese missions...
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    (1568), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The Peasant Dance (1568), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, oil on oak panel The Beggars (The Cripples) (1568)...
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  • Zygmunt Grudziński (1568 or 1572 – 1653) was a Polish noble (szlachcic) of Grzymała coat of arms. He held the titles of castellan of Nakło (from 1615)...
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  • Nicholas Walshe (d. 1568) of Little Sodbury and Olveston, Gloucestershire was an English politician. He was a younger son of Maurice Walshe of Little Sodbury...
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    Livonian War Russian Conquest of Siberia (1580–1747) Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570) Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595) Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) and...
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    mixing and producing the modern indigenous Solomon Islanders population. In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to visit...
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    Island, South Carolina, then a center of Spanish Florida. In the spring of 1568, natives killed all but one of the Spaniards and burned the six forts in...
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