1568

1568 (MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1565 1566 1567 – 1568 – 1569 1570 1571

1568 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1568 MDLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2321
Armenian calendar	1017 ԹՎ ՌԺԷ
Assyrian calendar	6318
Balinese saka calendar	1489–1490
Bengali calendar	975
Berber calendar	2518
English Regnal year	10 Eliz. 1 – 11 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2112
Burmese calendar	930
Byzantine calendar	7076–7077
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4264 or 4204     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4265 or 4205
Coptic calendar	1284–1285
Discordian calendar	2734
Ethiopian calendar	1560–1561
Hebrew calendar	5328–5329
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1624–1625
- Shaka Samvat	1489–1490
- Kali Yuga	4668–4669
Holocene calendar	11568
Igbo calendar	568–569
Iranian calendar	946–947
Islamic calendar	975–976
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 11 (永禄１１年)
Javanese calendar	1487–1488
Julian calendar	1568 MDLXVIII
Korean calendar	3901
Minguo calendar	344 before ROC 民前344年
Nanakshahi calendar	100
Thai solar calendar	2110–2111
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 1694 or 1313 or 541     — to — ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1695 or 1314 or 542

Events

• January 16 - Álvaro de Mendaña discovers the Tuvaluan 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)