1569

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15th century - 16th century - 17th century\n|}\nEvents\n*January 11 - First recorded lottery in England.\n*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.\n*June 10 - German Protestant troops reinforce Coligny near Limoges\n*July - September - Huguenot forces under Coligny and 15 year-old Prince Henry of Navarre besiege Poitiers\n*August 24 - Battle of Orthez - Huguenot forces under Gabriel de Montgomery defeat Royalist forces under General Terride in French Navarre\n*September - A Royalist army under the Duc d'Anjou and Marshal Tavannes forces Coligny to abandon the siege of Poitiers\n*October 3 - Battle of Moncountour - The Royalist forces of Tavannaes and Anjou defeat Coligny's Huguenots.\n* Gerardus Mercator devises the Mercator projection\n* Assemblies of 3 Lithuanian provinces, Volhynia, Ukraine and Podlasie vote to be incorporated into Poland.\n* Poland and Lithuania are united in the Union of Lublin. They form Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. \nBirths\n* Deaths\n*March 13 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé - Prince of the Blood, leader of the Huguenots in France\n*Pieter Brueghel the Elder - Flemish painter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n