What is 1569?
{{Year nav|1569}} {{Year in various calendars|1569}} '''1569''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXIX]]) was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] in the [[Julian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] in the [[proleptic Gregorian calendar]]. == Events == *[[January 11]]-[[May 6]] – First recorded [[lottery]] in [[England]] performed nonstop at the west door of the [[St. Paul's Cathedral]]. Each share costs 10 [[shilling]]s and proceeds are used to repair the harbors and for other public works *[[March 13]] – [[Battle of Jarnac]] – Royalist troops under Marshal [[Gaspard de Tavannes]] surprise and defeat the Huguenots under the [[Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé|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 – September – Huguenot forces under Coligny and 15 year-old Prince [[Henry IV of France|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. Catholics surrender under the condition that their lives would be spared. Huguenots agreed, but then massacred the Catholics anyway. *September – A Royalist army under the [[Henry III of France|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]]. [[Category:1569| ]]