1572

Year 1572 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1572

January - June

• January 16 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
• April 1 - The Sea Beggars, Netherlandish Calvinist rebels, capture the port city of Brielle. This leads to a wave of uprisings in Holland and Zealand, leaving most of those provinces (with the exception of Amsterdam), under rebel control.
• May 13 - Pope Gregory XIII succeeds Pope Pius V as the 226th pope.
• June 25 - The Sea Beggars capture the city Gorkum. Several Roman Catholic priests are put into a prison.

July - December

• July 9 - The Sea Beggars hang 19 previously imprisoned Roman Catholic priests at Brielle.
• August 18 - Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre with Marguerite de France, sister of King Charles, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
• August 24 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris. Catholics in Paris murder thousands of Protestants, including Gaspard de Coligny, at the order of King Charles IX. Henry of Navarre and the Prince of Condé barely escape the same fate. This brings about the Fourth War of Religion in France.
• November 9 - Siege of Sancerre Catholic forces of the king lay siege to Sancerre, a Huguenot stronghold in central France. The fortified city held out for nearly eight months without bombard artillery. It was one of the last time slings were used in European history.
• November 11 - Tycho Brahe first observes the supernova SN 1572 in Cassiopeia.
• December - The Duke of Alva, Spanish commander in the Netherlands, lays siege to Haarlem.

Undated

• End of the Muromachi period in Japan.
• Vilcabamba, last independent remnant of the Inca Empire, conquered by Spanish.
• Geronimo Mercuriali from Forlì (Italy) writes the work De morbis cutaneis ("On the diseases of the skin"), well known as the first scientific tract about dermatology.

Births

• February 27 - Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (died 1632)
• April 14 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1632)
• June 11 - Ben Jonson, English dramatist (died 1637)
• November 8 - John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, (died 1619)
• December 31 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (died 1617)
• date unknown
  • Francis van Aarssens (died 1641)
  • Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania and of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1613)
  • Johann Bayer, German astronomer (died 1625)
  • Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish diplomat (died 1655)
  • Arend Dickmann, Dutch admiral in the Polish Navy (died 1627)
  • John Donne, English writer and prelate (died 1631)
  • John Floyd, English Jesuit (died 1649)
  • Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer (died 1607)
  • Cyril Lucaris, Greek prelate and theologian (died 1637)
  • James Mabbe, English scholar and poet (died 1642)
  • Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (died 1656)
• probable - Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter (died c.1645)

See also Category: 1572 births.

Deaths

• February 23 - Pierre Certon, French composer (born c1510)
• February 28 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
• March 2 - Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil (born c1500)
• March 10 - William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester (born c1483)
• March 27 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (born c1523)
• May 1 - Pope Pius V (born 1504)
• June 2 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1536)
• June 9 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (born 1528)
• July 5 - Longqing Emperor of China (born 1537)
• July 7 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (born 1520)
• August 5 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)
• August 20 - Miguel López de Legaspi, Spanish conquistador of the Philippines (born 1510)
• August 24 - August 31 - Victims of the 'St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre':
  • Gaspard de Coligny, French Protestant leader (born 1519)
  • Claude Goudimel, French composer (born 1510)
  • Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (born 1515)
  • Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (born 1535)
• September - Denis Lambin, French classical scholar (born 1520)
• September 24 - Túpac Amaru, last of the Incas
• September 30 - Francis Borgia, Italian Jesuit (born 1510)
• October 24 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (born 1508)
• October 29 - John Erskine, 17th Earl of Mar, regent of Scotland
• November 23 - Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)
• November 24 - John Knox, Scottish religious reformer (born 1513)
• December 22 - François Clouet, French miniaturist (born c1510)
• December 23 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (born 1512)
• date unknown
  • Richard Grafton, English merchant
  • Moses Isserles, rabbi and Talmudist (born 1530)
  • Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Polish scholar (born 1503)
  • Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese author and writer (born 1500)
  • Yasumi Naomasa, Japanese military commander
  • Stanisław Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (born 1519)
• probable - Christopher Tye, English composer and organist (born 1505)

See also Category: 1572 deaths.af:1572

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