Editing 1568 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 6]] &ndash; In the [[Eastern Hungarian Kingdom]], the delegates of [[Unio Trium Nationum]] to the [[Diet (assembly)|Diet]] of [[Turda|Torda]] convene in a session that ends on January 13, during which freedom of religion is debated.
* [[January 28]] &ndash; The [[Edict of Torda]], Europe's first declaration of [[religious freedom]], is adopted by the Kingdom of Hungary.
* [[February 7]] &ndash; Members of a Spanish expedition, commanded by [[Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira]], become the first Europeans to see the [[Solomon Islands]], landing at [[Santa Isabel Island]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/mendana-queiros/mendana-queiros.html|title=Alvaro de Mendaña de Neira, 1542?–1595|publisher=Princeton University Library|access-date=8 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Solomon Islands |url=https://www.un.int/solomonislands/solomonislands/country-facts |website=www.un.int |access-date=8 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba]], governor of the [[Spanish Netherlands]] issues an edict condemning to death those who rebel against Spanish authority to combat [[Eighty Years' War|religious unrest]].
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Adrianople (1568)|Treaty of Adrianople]] (sometimes called the Peace of Adrianople): The [[Habsburgs]] agree to pay tribute to the [[Ottoman Caliphate|Ottomans]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Setton |first1=Kenneth Meyer |title=The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 |date=1984 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |isbn=978-0-87169-162-0 |page=922 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrUNi2m_qZAC&q=%22Adrianople%22%20february |access-date=5 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cîmpeanu |first1=Liviu |title=The Transylvanian-Saxon University at War: Trabanten in John Sigismund Szapolyai's Campaigns at the North-Western Borders of Transylvania (1561–1567) |journal=Acta Musei Napocensis. Historica |date=2021 |volume=58 |issue=58 |pages=11–28 |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1013179 |access-date=5 December 2023 |language=English |issn=1454-1521}}</ref>
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Akbar the Great]] of the [[Mughal Empire]] captures the massive [[Chittor Fort]] in northern India after a siege that began on October 23, 1567.<ref>Ram Vallabh Somani, ''History of Mewar, from Earliest Times to 1751 A.D.'' (Mateshwari, 1976)</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mathur |first1=R. S. |title=Relations of Hadas with Mughal Emperors, 1568-1720 A.D. |date=1985 |publisher=Deputy Publications |page=53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHYtAAAAMAAJ&q=1568%20%22chittor%22 |access-date=6 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; French [[Huguenot]]s begin the [[Siege of Chartres (1568)|Siege of Chartres]], but fail to take the walled city after 15 days.<ref>James Wood,''The King's Army: Warfare, Soldiers and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-1576'' Cambridge University Press, 2002) p.215</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Baird |first1=Henry Martyn |title=History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France |date=1880 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |page=231 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HpGx4RfOfPQC&dq=Huguenots+chartres+%221568%22&pg=PA231 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Longjumeau]] ends the Second War of Religion in France.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Penny |title=Peace and Authority during the French Religious Wars c.1560–1600 |date=2013 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-137-32675-1 |pages=29–50 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137326751_3 |access-date=5 December 2023 |language=en |chapter=Phases of Peace|doi=10.1057/9781137326751_3 }}</ref> Again [[Catherine de' Medici]] and [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]] make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.