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=== January–March ===
* [[January 11]] — The first recorded [[lottery]] in [[Kingdom of England|England]] begins and continues, nonstop, at the west door of [[Old St Paul's Cathedral|St Paul's Cathedral]] for almost five months.<ref name="lottery">{{cite thesis |last=PS |first=Ball |date=2018 |title=Gambling in Elizabethan England : perspectives on England's 'Lotterie Generall' of 1567'Äö-69 |url=https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Gambling_in_Elizabethan_England_perspectives_on_England_s_Lotterie_Generall_of_1567_-69/23237831 |degree=PhD |pages=6,120 |publisher=University of Tasmania |access-date=13 December 2023}}</ref> Each share costs ten [[shilling]]s, and proceeds are used to repair harbours, and for other public works.
* [[February 26]] — [[Pope Pius V]] issues a papal bull expelling all Jews from Italian and French territories.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maifreda |first1=Germano |title=A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Milan |date=1 January 2014 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-28412-8 |pages=380–405 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004284128/B9789004284128_017.xml |access-date=13 December 2023 |language=en |chapter=15 The Jews: Institutions, Economy, and Society}}</ref>
* [[March 13]] – [[Battle of Jarnac]]: Royalist troops under Marshal Gaspard de Tavannes surprise and defeat the Huguenots under the [[Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569)|Prince of Condé]], who is captured and murdered. A substantial proportion of the Huguenot army manages to escape, under [[Gaspard II de Coligny|Gaspard de Coligny]].<ref name="PressLevi1992">{{cite book|author1=St James Press|author2=Anthony Levi|author3=Retired Professor of French Anthony Levi|title=Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqkRAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-159-6|page=725}}</ref>