April 9 – In
India, the
Battle of Thanesar is fought in what is now the Indian state of
Haryana. The Mughal Emperor Akbar, with 300 men, wins a victory over more than 7,000 warriors of the
Sanyasi Hindu sect. Akbar's army has two cannons, 400 rifles and 75 elephants.
April 12 – The
Earl of Bothwell is acquitted on charges of murder in the February 10 killing of
Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots. Upon acquittal he makes plans to become Mary's new husband.
April 20 – The
Ainslie Tavern Bond is signed by a group of Scottish clerics and nobles recommends Bothwell as an appropriate husband for Queen Mary and approves his acquittal after trial for the murder of her previous husband.[3]
April 24 – Bothwell takes Mary prisoner at his castle at Dunbar after preventing her from traveling from her palace to
Edinburgh, then rapes her.
May 15 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Earl of Bothwell, under duress. [4]
November 10 –
Battle of Saint-Denis:
Anne de Montmorency, with 16,000 Royalists, falls on Condé's 3,500 Huguenots. The Huguenots surprisingly hold on for some hours before being driven off. Montmorency is mortally wounded.[5]
December 4 –
Antão de Noronha,
Viceroy of
Portuguese India (now the Indian state of
Goa) issues decrees prohibiting the public performance of
Hindu rituals for marriages, cremations, and sacred thread wearing. Other rules require all natives 15 or older to attend
Christian religious services, upon penalty of punishment.[6]
December 12 – The Scottish Parliament votes to approve the
Act Anent the demission of the Crown in favour of our Sovereign Lord, and his Majesty's Coronation 1567, an act regarding the abdication of Mary Queen of Scots in favor of her son
James VI and the coronation of James, and confirms James as the legal ruler.[7] Mary's half brother,
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, is appointed as the regent to rule on behalf of the 18-month-old King of Scotland. In that Moray is absent from Scotland at the time, the Parliament appoints a committee of seven deputy regents to rule on behalf of Moray's power to rule on behalf of King James.
Although sparse maritime trade existed since its founding, the
Ming dynasty government of China officially revokes the haijin maritime trade ban, reinstating foreign trade with all countries except Japan.[9]
^Antonio Jose Saraiva, The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians, 1536–1765 (Brill, 2001), pp. 345–347
^The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 2007, ed. by K.M. Brown, et al. (St Andrews University, 2007)
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