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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 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 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
.
Births
Deaths
March 13
-
Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé
,
Huguenot
general (b.
1530
)
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
-
Flemish
painter
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