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| | 1568 | Political Events: The People's Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The comte d'Egmont, the comte d'Horn, and 18 others are executed, and there is a general confiscation of the estates of those who have failed to appear before the Council of Blood, including Willem of Orange, who has left Holland along with thousands of other Netherlanders. |
 | | The Battle of Jemmingen July 21 gives Fernando, duque de Alva, a crushing victory over Louis of Nassau, whose 15,000-man rebel army suffers 7,000 killed and wounded (the 15,000-man Spanish army loses only 100 killed and wounded) but destroys the rebellion, which will not be revived for several years (see 1572). |
 | | Sweden's Erik XIV raids the Danish province of Scania together with his brothers Johan and Carl, entering the counties of Lister, Villand, and Eastern Goeinge, plundering the countryside, putting villages to the torch, and murdering the inhabitants (see 1566). |
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