William of Orange (1533-1584), leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs
In the year 1568, the Habsburgs agree to pay tribute to the Ottomans (Feb 17), Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England (May 16), where she is arrested by Queen Elizabeth I (May 19), William I of Orange invades the southeastern Netherlands (Oct 5), the Palace of Charles V in Granada is completed - and all these fine people were born:
1568-xxxx Jerónimo Pujades* historian – Barcelona, Spain (1635/c.66)
1568-0106 Henri Spondanus* Catholic jurist/historian - Mauléon, Kingdom of France (1643/75)
1568-0114 Johannes Hartmann* German chemist - Amberg. Bavaria (1631/63)
1568-0128 Prince Gustav of Sweden* a wayward prince in exile/grandson of Gustav Vasa – Sweden (1607/39)
1568-0202 Péter Révay* nobleman/state officer/historian - Szklabonya, Kingdom of Hungary (1622/54)
1568-0211 Honoré d’Urfé* novelist - Marseille, Kingdom of France (1625/57)
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1568-0309 Aloysius Gonzaga* Italian aristocrat/Jesuit/saint - Castiglione delle Stiviere, Duchy of Mantua, Holy Roman Empire (1591/23)
1568-0316 Juan Martínez Montañés* sculptor - Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spanish Empire (1649/81)
1568-0328 Johannes Polyander* Dutch Calvinist theologian - Metz, Kingdom of France (1646/77)
1568-0330 Henry Wotton* diplomat/ politician/author - England (1639/71)
1568-0405 Pope Urban VIII (B) (b Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini) - Barberino Val d’Elsa, Duchy of Florence (1644/76)
1568-0417 George Brooke* nobleman/ conspirator - Cobham Hall, Kent, England (1603/35)
1568-0517 Anna Vasa of Sweden* daughter of child of King John III of Sweden - Eskilstuna, Kingdom of Sweden (1625/56)
1568-0531
1568-0606 Sophie of Brandenburg* Electress of Saxony - Zechlin Castle, Rheinsberg, Holy Roman Empire (1622/54)
1568-0625 Gunilla Bielke* Queen of Sweden/political advisor of King John III - Sweden (1597/29)
1568-0701 Philip Sigismund of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel* administrator - Hessen am Fallstein, Holy Roman Empire (1623/54)
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1568-0801
1568-0827 Hercule, Duke of Montbazon* - Kingdom of France (1654/86)
1568-0903 Adriano Banchieri* Italian organist/composer/poet - Bologna, papal States (1634/ca 66)
1568-0905 Tommaso Campanella* Dominican friar/ philosopher/astrologer - Stignano, Calabria, Kingdom of Naples (1639/70)
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1568-1002 Marino Ghetaldi* Croatian mathematician/physicist - Dubrovnik, Republic of Ragusa (1626/57)
1568-1018 Henry Wallop* politician - Farleigh House, Hampshire, England (1642/74)
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1568-1119 Augustus the Elder* nobleman/ bishop/Prince of Lüneburg - Lower Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1636/67)
1568-1217 Jonathan Trelawny* politician/High Sheriff of Cornwall - Menheniot, Cornwall, England (1604/35)
1568-1225 John Guy* merchant adventurer/colonial administrator in Newfoundland - Bristol, England (1629/60)
Updated 14.12.2022
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