His Edict of Turda was the first decree of religious freedom in the modern history of Europe ( 1568 ).

Swedish kings Erik XIV ( 1560 – 1568 ) and Charles IX ( 1604 – 1611 ) gave themselves numerals after studying a mythological history of Sweden.

Referring to Eric of Pomerania as King Eric XIII of Sweden is a later invention, counting backwards from Eric XIV ( 1560 – 1568 ), who adopted hs numeral according to a fictitious history of Sweden.

The Battle of Langside, fought on 13 May 1568, was one of the more unusual contests in Scottish history, bearing a superficial resemblance to a grand family quarrel, in which a mother fought her brother who was defending the rights of her infant son.

He finished writing his history in 1568, almost fifty years after the events described, a work he had begun ( probably in the mid-1550s ) in response to an alternative history written by Cortés's chaplain, who had not actually participated in the campaign.

He was educated as a scholar of " Tübinger Stift " at the university of Tübingen, where in 1568 he was promoted to the chair of poetry and history.

The period in the history of Japan approximately between 1568 and 1603 is called Azuchi-Momoyama period.

John issued the Edict of Torda, the first broad decree of religious freedom in the modern history of Europe ( 1568 ), and supported the establishment of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania.

Wei Zhongxian () ( 1568 – October 19, 1627 ) is considered by most historians as the most powerful and notorious eunuch in Chinese history.

The remaining years of his life, which were spent at Granada, he devoted to the study of Arabic ( which he had learned at home when growing up ), to poetry, and to his history of the Moorish insurrection of 1568 – 1570.

Some of Thomas Aquinas ' propositions were condemned by the local Bishop of Paris ( not the Magisterium ) in 1270 and 1277, but his dedication to the use of philosophy to elucidate theology was so thorough that he was proclaimed a saint in 1328 and a Doctor of the Church in 1568.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

In 1568 Drake was again with the Hawkins fleet when it was trapped by the Spaniards in the Mexican port of San Juan de Ulúa.

Upon the death of his kinsman Albert I, Duke of Prussia in 1568, the Duchy of Prussia was inherited by the latter's underage son Albert Frederick.

The first was the Great Bible commissioned by the Church of England in the reign of King Henry VIII, and the second was the Bishop's Bible of 1568.

Elizabeth visited in 1566 and 1568, by which time Leicester had commissioned the royal architect Henry Hawthorne to produce plans for a dramatic, classical extension of the south side of the inner court.

* 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years ' War.

* 1568 – 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.

On the continent all mineral deposits belonged to the crown, and this regalian right was stoutly maintained ; but in England it was pared down to gold and silver ( of which there was virtually none ) by a judicial decision of 1568 and a law of 1688.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

The English word love for the third and greatest of the virtues, ( agapē ), was used by all of the English translators of the Bible in the 16th Century, including Tyndale ( 1534 ), the Bishops ' Bible ( 1568 ) and the Geneva Bible ( 1560 ).

The Unitarian Church in Transylvania was first recognized by the Edict of Torda, issued by the Transylvanian Diet under Prince John II Sigismund Zápolya ( January 1568 ), and was first led by Ferenc Dávid ( a former Calvinist bishop, who had begun preaching the new doctrine in 1566 ).

The first wire mill in Great Britain was established at Tintern in about 1568 by the founders of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works, who had a monopoly on this.

The war was ended by the Peace of Longjumeau of 22 – 23 March 1568, but civil unrest and bloodshed continued.

Things went badly after the Eighty Years ' War started in 1568, but luck turned to his advantage when Protestant rebels attacking from the North Sea captured Brielle, a coastal town in present-day South Holland in 1572.

What is certain is that Floris was remembered as a saint by the peasants of Holland, and that the " God of the Peasants " became a symbolic hero in the struggle for independence from Spain in the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ).

A plaque at Tintern Abbey claims that the well-known brassworks at this site began in 1568.

After that came Erika Cheetham's The Prophecies of Nostradamus, incorporating a reprint of the posthumous 1568 edition, which was reprinted, revised and republished several times from 1973 onwards, latterly as The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus.

The Danish economy benefited from the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ) in the Netherlands because a large number of skilled refugees from that area ( the most economically advanced in Europe ) came to Denmark.

Mary, Queen of Scots, ( cousin of Queen Elizabeth the 1st ) came to Sanquhar in May 1568 after her defeat at the battle of Langside.

His work was largely used by those who prepared the Great Bible ( 1539 – 40 ), and from this came the Bishops ' Bible ( 1568 ) and the King James Version.

A revival in the town's fortunes came when, in 1568, the Duchess Christine chose Friedberg castle as her seat following her husband's death.

When King Álvaro I, came to the throne in an environment of contestation in 1568, he immediately had to fight invaders from the east ( who some authorities believe were actually rebels within the country, either peasants or discontented nobles ) called the " Jagas ".

Consequently, Orissa came under Muslim control in 1568.

During Great Lent, on the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross, March 2, 1568, when the Tsar came to the cathedral for Divine Liturgy, Philip refused to bless him and publicly rebuked him for the ongoing massacre.

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

The Council entrusted to the Pope the implementation of its work ; as a result, Pope Pius IV issued the Tridentine Creed in 1565 ; and Pope Pius V issued in 1566 the Roman Catechism, in 1568 a revised Roman Breviary, and in 1570 a revised Roman Missal, thus standardizing what since the 20th century has been called the Tridentine Mass ( from the city's Latin name Tridentum ), and Pope Clement VIII issued in 1592 a revised edition of the Vulgate.

Mary escaped from Loch Leven in 1568 but after another defeat fled across the border into England, where she had once been assured of support from Elizabeth.

In 1568, despite a request from Saxony, no royal monopoly was granted because there was no yew to cut, and the next year Bavaria and Austria similarly failed to produce enough yew to justify a royal monopoly.

* 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.

* 1568 – The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.

Pope Urban VIII ( baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644 ), born Maffeo Barberini, was pope from 1623 to 1644.

A major Morisco revolt happened in 1568, and the final Expulsion of the Moriscos from Castile in 1609, and from Aragon in 1610.

His Grand Vizier, Mehmed Sokollu, a Serbian devsirme from what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, controlled much of state affairs, and two years after Selim's accession succeeded in concluding at Constantinople an honourable treaty ( 17 February 1568 ) with the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian II, whereby the Emperor agreed to pay an annual " present " of 30, 000 ducats and essentially granted the Ottomans authority in Moldavia and Walachia.

She told the Venetian ambassador in June 1568 that all one could expect from Huguenots was deceit, and she praised the Duke of Alba's reign of terror in the Netherlands, where Calvinists and rebels were put to death in the thousands.

Tuvalu was first sighted by Europeans in 1568 during the voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira from Spain who is understood to have encounted the island of Nui, which he named Isla de Jesus ( Island of Jesus ) but was unable to land.

Nevertheless, printing of books resumed from 1568 onwards, with Timofey Nevezha and his son Andronik now heading the Print Yard.

In 1568 Shrewsbury was entrusted with the custody of Mary, Queen of Scots, and brought his prisoner to Chatsworth several times from 1570 onwards.

However after the revolt of the seven northern provinces ( 1568 ), the Sack of Antwerp ( 1576 ), the Fall of Antwerp ( 1584-1585 ), and the resulting closure of the Scheldt river to navigation, a large number of people from the southern provinces emigrated north to the new republic.