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Year 1568 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1568
Undated
Births
- February 11 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625)
- March 9 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and saint (died 1591)
- April - Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)
- September 3 - Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (died 1634)
- September 5 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet (d. 1639)
- date unknown
- Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (died 1634)
- John Welsh of Ayr, Scottish Presbyterian leader
- Barnabe Barnes, English poet (died 1609)
- Teodosio II, Duke of Braganza (died 1630)
- Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish religious leader (died 1614)
- Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (died 1648)
- Marino Ghetaldi, Ragusan scientist (died 1626)
- Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military leader (died 1592)
- Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, Mexican historian (d. 1648)
- Gervase Markham, English poet and writer (died 1637)
- Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (died 1628)
- Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat (died 1639)
- Wei Zhongxian, Grand Secretary of China (died 1627)
- See also Category: 1568 births.
Deaths
- January 15 - Catherine Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I of England (born c1526)
- January 20 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (born c1488)
- January 21 - Amato Lusitano, Portuguese physician (born 1511)
- January 26 - Lady Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (born 1539)
- March 20 - Duke Albert of Prussia (born 1490)
- May 23 - Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg (born 1528)
- June 3 - Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Friar (born 1498)
- June 5
- July 7 - William Turner, British ornithologist and botanist (born 1508)
- July 24 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (born 1545)
- August 23 - Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (born 1495)
- September 22 - Jöran Persson, Swedish politician (born c. 1530) (executed)
- October 3 - Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (born 1545)
- October 14 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (born 1504)
- October 28 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (born 1538)
- December 23 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England (born 1515)
- December 31 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (born 1493)
- date unknown
- See also Category: 1568 deaths.af:1568
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