Editing 1569 (section)

=== April–June ===
* [[April 15]] – [[Burmese–Siamese War (1568–1569)|Burmese–Siamese War]]: In what is now Thailand, [[Mahinthrathirat]] reclaims the throne of the [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]] upon the death of King [[Maha Chakkraphat]].
* [[May 6]] – England's St. Paul Cathedral lottery ends with the selection of a winner.<ref name="lottery" />
* [[May 8]] – King [[Bayinnaung]] of Burma puts down the revolt by Setthathirath of [[Lan Xang]] (now Laos), and ending Lan Xang's attempt to rescue Thailand's Ayutthaya Kingdom from conquest.<ref name=my-2-319>Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 319</ref>
* [[May 31]] – Kasim Pasha of the Ottoman Empire begins the Ottoman attempt to conquer Astrakhan with tens of thousands of troops and a plan to build a canal between the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea to send Ottoman ships on the conquest.<ref name="turks">{{cite journal |last1=Kurat |first1=A. N. |title=The Turkish Expedition to Astrakhan' in 1569 and the Problem of the Don-Volga Canal |journal=The Slavonic and East European Review |date=1961 |volume=40 |issue=94 |pages=7–23 |jstor=4205320 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4205320 |access-date=13 December 2023 |issn=0037-6795}}</ref> The attempt to build a canal proves to be unfeasible.
* [[June 10]] – German Protestant troops reinforce Coligny, near [[Limoges]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Malte-Brun |first1=Victor Adolfe |title=La France illustrée: geographie, histoire, administration et statistique |date=1855 |publisher=G. Barba |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tG_p2ueqIfoC&dq=Protestants+de+Coligny+%2210+juin+1569%22&pg=RA41-PA14 |access-date=13 December 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>