Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Stephen Bateman, The Travayled...

conteyning the life of Cambises King of Percia ("Cambyses", publication) See 1569 in poetry Alonso de Ercilla – La Araucana, part 1 January 2 – Heribert Rosweyde...

playwright, actor 1571 in poetry 1570 in poetry 1569 in poetry 1568 in poetry 1567 in poetry 1566 in poetry 1565 in poetry 1564 in poetry Birth of William Shakespeare...

in 1569 accepted a formal, short-lived suzerainty over Moldavia. In the 16th century the Grand Duchy of Lithuania became increasingly interested in extending...

Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) was the first woman in England to assert herself as a professional poet, through her volume Salve Deus...

nova for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first book to set the poetry of Giovanni Battista Guarini Tiburtio Massaino – First book of madrigals...

Sir John Davies (16 April 1569 (baptised) – 8 December 1626) was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times...

Commonwealth (1569–1648) covers a period in the history of Poland and Lithuania, before their joint state was subjected to devastating wars in the mid-17th...

designation as the father of Polish prose Mikołaj Rej (1505–1569); first Polish author to write exclusively in Polish and described as a "father of Polish literature"...

February 1505 – between 8 September/5 October 1569) was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages...