1569

This article is about the year 1569.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1566 1567 1568 – 1569 – 1570 1571 1572

1569 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1569 MDLXIX
Ab urbe condita	2322
Armenian calendar	1018 ԹՎ ՌԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	6319
Bengali calendar	976
Berber calendar	2519
English Regnal year	11 Eliz. 1 – 12 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2113
Burmese calendar	931
Byzantine calendar	7077–7078
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4265 or 4205     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4266 or 4206
Coptic calendar	1285–1286
Discordian calendar	2735
Ethiopian calendar	1561–1562
Hebrew calendar	5329–5330
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1625–1626
- Shaka Samvat	1491–1492
- Kali Yuga	4670–4671
Holocene calendar	11569
Igbo calendar	569–570
Iranian calendar	947–948
Islamic calendar	976–977
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 12 (永禄１２年)
Julian calendar	1569 MDLXIX
Korean calendar	3902
Minguo calendar	343 before ROC 民前343年
Thai solar calendar	2111–2112

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

Events

January–June

• January 11–May 6 – The first recorded lottery in England is performed nonstop at the west door of St Paul's Cathedral. Each share costs ten shillings and proceeds are used to repair harbours 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–December

• 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 following votes in the Assemblies of three Lithuanian provinces (Volhynia, Ukraine and Podlasie) in favour of the incorporation.
• 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, comte 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.
• November–December – Rising of the North in England: Three northern Earls lead a rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I in an attempt to place the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne but are driven out of the country.

Date unknown

• The Mercator projection is first used in Gerardus Mercator's world map Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendata.
• Damcar appears on the Mercator map or Arabia.
• 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)
• July 30 – Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1627)
• August 31 – Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627)
• September 30 (bapt.) – Arthur Lake, English bishop, a translator of the King James Bible (d. 1626)
• October 18 – Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (d. 1625)
• date unknown
  • Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (d. 1631)
  • Tobias Hume, English composer (d. 1645)
  • William Monson, British admiral (d. 1643)
  • Frans Pourbus the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1622)
  • John Suckling, English politician (d. 1627)
  • Yodo-dono, Japanese concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (d. 1615)

Deaths

• January – Maha Chakkraphat Siamese King of Ayutthaya Kingdom (b.1509)
• January 15 – Catherine Carey lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I of England (b.1524)
• March 13 – Louis, Prince of Condé, French Protestant general (b. 1530)
• May 10 – John of Ávila, 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 Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
• October 9 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
• November 29 – António Ferreira, Portuguese poet (b. 1528)
• December 10 – Paul Eber, theologian (b. 1511)
• December 12 – Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1507)