Editing 1567 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Battle of Rio de Janeiro (1567)|Battle of Rio de Janeiro]]: Portuguese forces under the command of [[Estácio de Sá]] definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.
* [[January 23]] &ndash; After 45 years' reign, the [[Jiajing Emperor]], Zhu Houcong, dies in the [[Forbidden City]] of China.
* [[January]] &ndash; A Spanish force under the command of Captain [[Juan Pardo (explorer)|Juan Pardo]] establishes [[Fort San Juan (Joara)|Fort San Juan]], in the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] settlement of [[Joara]]. The fort is the first European settlement in present-day [[North Carolina]].
* [[February 4]] &ndash; Prince Zhu Zaiji, son of the Jiajing Emperor, becomes the ascends the throne of [[Ming Dynasty]] China as the Longqing Emperor.<ref>L. Carington Goodrich and Fang Chaoying, ''Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644'' (Columbia University Press, 1976)</ref>
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]], husband of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], is [[murder of Lord Darnley|murdered at the Provost's House]] in [[Kirk o' Field]], [[Edinburgh]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Weir|first=Alison|author-link=Alison Weir|year=2008|orig-year=2003|title=Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley|publisher=Random House|location=London|isbn=978-0-09-952707-7|page=255|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Battle of Oosterweel]]: A Spanish mercenary army surprises and kills a band of rebels near [[Antwerp]] in the [[Habsburg Netherlands]], beginning the [[Eighty Years' War]].