Briefly 1568 : Karin Månsdotter (wife of Eric XIVEric XIV Reign September 29, 1560- September 29, 1568 Coronation June 29, 1561 Royal motto "Deus dat cui vult"( God gives to whom He wishes ) Queen Karin Mansdotter Royal House Vasa Date of Birth December 13, 1533 Place of Birth Royal Castle in Stockholm) (deposed)
1568- 1583Events August 5 Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland. Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan. King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating the Toun : Catherine Jagellonica of PolandCatherine Jagiellonica of Poland ( 1526 1583), was youngest daughter of Sigismund I of Poland and Bona Sforza, mother of Sigismund I of Sweden and wife of John III of Sweden. In 1563 she was imprisoned with her husband by Eric XIV of Sweden. Released in 1 (first wife of John IIIJohan III Portrait by Johan Baptista van Uther (1582). Reign From September 29, 1568 until November 17, 1592 Coronation July 10, 1569 Royal motto "Deus protector noster"( God our protector ) Consorts Catherine of Poland Gunilla Bielke Royal House Vasa Dat)
1585Events January 12 The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar Beginning of the Eighth War of Religion in France (also known as the War of the Three Henrys) August 8 John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the North West Passage. August 17 Captur- 1592Events January 30 The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII. Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanis : Gunilla Bielke (second), d. 1597Events January 24 Battle of Turnhout. Maurice of Nassau defeats a Spanish force under Jean de Rie of Varas in the Netherlands The first opera is considered to have been written. Bali discovered by the Dutch explorer Cornelis Houtman Births Pieter Saenreda
