1569

Events

January 11 - First recorded lottery in England.
March 13 - Battle of Jarnac - Royalist troops under Marshal Gaspard de Tavannes surprise and defeat the Huguenots under the Prince of CondÃÂÃÂ©, 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 - September - Huguenot forces under Coligny and 15 year-old Prince Henry of Navarre besiege Poitiers
August 24 - Battle of Orthez - Huguenot forces under Gabriel de Montgomery defeat Royalist forces under General Terride in French Navarre
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.
Gerardus Mercator devises the Mercator projection
Assemblies of 3 Lithuanian provinces, Volhynia, Ukraine and Podlasie vote to be incorporated into Poland.
Poland and Lithuania are united in the Union of Lublin. They form Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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