What is 1568?
{{Year nav|1568}} {{Year in various calendars|1568}} '''1568''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXVIII]]) was a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] in the [[Julian calendar]] and a [[leap year starting on Monday]] in the [[Proleptic Gregorian calendar|proleptic Gregorian calenda]]<nowiki/>r. ==Events== *[[January 16]] - [[Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira|Álvaro de Mendaña]] discovers the [[Tuvalu]]an island of [[Nui]]. *Unknown - The [[Eighty Years War]] begins. ==Births== * [[March 9]] - [[Aloysius Gonzaga]], Italian saint (d. [[1591]]) * [[April 5]] - [[Pope Urban VIII]], 236th [[Pope]] (d. [[1644]]) * Unknown - [[Joris van Spilbergen]], Dutch explorer (d. [[1620]]) ==Deaths== * [[January 26]] - [[Lady Katherine Grey]], English noblewoman (b. [[1540]]) * [[July 24]] - [[Carlos, Prince of Asturias]], oldest son of [[Philip II of Spain]] (b. [[1545]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]], Japanese [[daimyo]] (b. [[1493]]) [[Category:1568| ]]