The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

Such was the case with Elizabeth's rival, Mary, Queen of Scots, whom she imprisoned in 1568 and eventually had executed in 1587.

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.

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.

None of them were based on the original editions: Roberts had based his writings on that of 1672, Cheetham and Hogue on the posthumous edition of 1568.

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.

It had been sung on many official occasions and at many important events since 1568, such as the siege of Haarlem in 1573 and the ceremonial entry of the Prince of Orange into Brussels on 18 September 1578.

Collecting a large army Maximilian marched to defend his territories ; but no decisive engagement had taken place when a truce was made in 1568, and the emperor continued to pay tribute to the sultan as the price of peace in the western and northern areas of the Hungarian kingdom still under Habsburg control.

After Mary Stuart's flight into England ( 1568 ) Leicester was, unlike Cecil, in favour of restoring her as Scottish queen under English control, preferably with a Protestant English husband — as long as he himself would not be the intended bridegroom ( which had been suggested ).

Around 1568, German miners working in the Mines Royal near Keswick had knowledge of tub railways, as archaeological work at the Mines Royal site at Caldbeck in the English Lake District has now confirmed the use of " hunds ", as track fragments have been found.

John further initiated peace talks with Denmark and Lübeck to end the Scandinavian Seven Years ' War, but rejected the resulting Treaties of Roskilde ( 1568 ) where his envoys had accepted far-reaching Danish demands.

Between 1568 and 1648, during the course of what by its weary end had become the War of Dutch Independence, the surviving lands of Zuid-Beveland were frequently in the military theatre of operations.

The castle had been slighted ( deliberately ruined ) in 1568 but the town flourished as an agricultural centre and fishing port despite tempestuous times in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

The Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Empire had begun in 1568, and although England and France were both supporting the Dutch, they had officially remained neutral for fear of angering the Spanish.

Earlier attempts had been made by the Spanish in what is now Georgia ( San Miguel de Gualdape, 1526 – 27 ; several Spanish missions in Georgia between 1568 and 1684 ), South Carolina ( Santa Elena, 1566 – 87 ), North Carolina ( Joara, 1567 – 68 ) and Virginia ( Ajacán Mission, 1570 – 71 ); and by French in South Carolina ( Charlesfort, 1562 – 63 ).

The Duke of Norfolk, a cousin to the Queen and the wealthiest landowner in the country, had been proposed as a possible husband for Mary since her imprisonment in 1568.

The absence of an effective central authority in the capital of Japan had lasted until the warlord Oda Nobunaga's armies entered Kyoto in 1568, re-establishing the Muromachi Shogunate under the puppet shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki to begin the Azuchi-Momoyama period.

In 1568 an inquiry into the disposition of William Breton's property with a view to the protection of the children's rights was instituted before the Lord Mayor, but the matter was probably settled in a friendly manner, for Gascoigne continued to hold the Walthamstow estate, which he had from his wife, until his death.

The feast of Saint Denis was added to the Roman Calendar in the year 1568 by Pope Pius V, though it had been celebrated since at least the year 800.

The technical merit and artistic impression reached an acme in the Azuchi-Momoyama period ( 1568 – 1614 ) when crockery for tea ceremony had been produced there.

A New Boke on the Natures and Properties of all Wines, also published in 1568, had pharmacological intent behind it, as also the included Treatise of Triacle.

The people who had remained Muslim were expelled from Almería after the War of Las Alpujarras in 1568 and scattered across Spain.

Indeed, two of his children were married to two of hers in a double ceremony in February 1568: Bess's daughter Mary Cavendish, aged 12, was given in marriage to Shrewsbury's eldest son Gilbert, aged 16 ; while Bess's son, Sir Henry Cavendish, aged 18, married Shrewsbury's daughter Lady Grace Talbot, aged 8.

Although a start date of 1573 is often given, in more broad terms, this period begins with Nobunaga's entry into Kyoto in 1568, when he led his army to the imperial capital in order to install Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th, and ultimately final, shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, and lasts until the coming to power of Tokugawa Ieyasu after his victory over supporters of the Toyotomi clan at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

( Abul Faz ' l has given a true account of the event as seen by Akbar in his biography in 1568 AD.

The church is often popularly called Our Lady of the Snows, a name given to it in the Roman Missal from 1568 to 1969 in connection with the liturgical feast of the anniversary of its dedication on 5 August, a feast that was then denominated Dedicatio Sanctae Mariae ad Nives ( Dedication of Saint Mary of the Snows ).

In 1568, the Jews of Kerala constructed the Paradesi Synagogue adjacent to Mattancherry Palace, Cochin, now part of the Indian city of Ernakulam, on land given to them by Paraja, the Raja of Kochi.

During her incarceration, Catherine gave birth first to her eldest daughter Isabella of Finland in 1564 ( died 1566 ), then to her son Sigismund in 1566, and finally her youngest child Anna Vasa of Sweden on 17 May 1568.

Maria died soon after she gave birth to Infante Carlos of Spain ( 1545 – 1568 ) on 12 August 1545 in Valladolid, Spain.

He married secondly to Anna Maria ( 1532 – 20 March 1568 ), daughter of Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, in 1550.

Four years later, on 9 October 1518 at Kiel, Frederick married Sophie of Pomerania ( 20 years old ; 1498 – 1568 ), a daughter of Duke Bogislaw " the Great " of Pomerania.

In 1568, Antoinette, Lady Soubise, married her daughter Catherine to Baron Charles de Quellenec and Vieta went with Lady Soubise to La Rochelle, where he mixed with the highest Calvinist aristocracy, leaders like Coligny and Condé and Queen Jeanne d ’ Albret of Navarre and her son, Henry of Navarre, the future Henry IV of France.

Secondly, Henri married his second cousin once removed, Charlotte Catherine de La Tremoille ( 1568 – 1629 ), daughter of Louis III de La Trémoille and granddaughter of Anne de Montmorency.

* Sir John Seymour ( 1535 – before August 1599, will probated 4 August 1599 ), married firstly in 1568 Jane or Joan Poyntz, daughter of Sir Nicholas Poyntz and Joan Berkeley, and married secondly Dyzary Porter, and had issue.

Elisabeth of France ( also known as Elizabeth of Valois ; French: Élisabeth de France or Élisabeth de Valois, Spanish: Isabel de Valois ; 2 April 1545 – 3 October 1568 ) was the eldest daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

On November 26, 1568 he was engaged to the 16-year-old Lutheran Elisabeth of Saxony, a daughter of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and his first wife Anne of Denmark.

Virginia de ' Medici ( 29 May 1568 – 15 January 1615 ) was an illegitimate daughter of Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Camilla Martelli.

He did not marry but had a natural son by Yolande ( Violante ) Gomes, a Pelicana ( the she-pellican ), a New Christian, who is said to have died a Nun in Almoster, Santarém, on 16 July 1568, daughter of Pedro Gomes, from Évora.

His second marriage was on 24 February 1555 at Fontainebleau, to Joanna of Savoy ( 1532 – 1568 ), daughter of Philippe, Duke of Nemours.

One of the earliest examples of this form of scenic change was recorded in 1568 for a performance of the Fabii produced to celebrate the baptism of a daughter of Francesco de ' Medici.