1572

This article is about the year 1572.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years:	1569 1570 1571 – 1572 – 1573 1574 1575

1572 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1572 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1572 MDLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2325
Armenian calendar	1021 ԹՎ ՌԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6322
Bahá'í calendar	-272–-271
Bengali calendar	979
Berber calendar	2522
English Regnal year	14 Eliz. 1 – 15 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2116
Burmese calendar	934
Byzantine calendar	7080–7081
Chinese calendar	辛未年十二月十六日 (4208/4268-12-16) — to — 壬申年十一月廿七日 (4209/4269-11-27)
Coptic calendar	1288–1289
Ethiopian calendar	1564–1565
Hebrew calendar	5332–5333
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1628–1629
- Shaka Samvat	1494–1495
- Kali Yuga	4673–4674
Holocene calendar	11572
Iranian calendar	950–951
Islamic calendar	979–980
Japanese calendar	Genki 3 (元亀3年)
Korean calendar	3905
Minguo calendar	340 before ROC 民前340年
Thai solar calendar	2115

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

Events

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.
• July 29–August 2 – A large Crimean Tatar–Ottoman army which invaded Russia is routed in the battle of Molodi
• August 18 – Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries Marguerite de France, sister of King Charles, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
• August 24 – St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: 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.
• 24 August In Paris to celebrate the wedding of Marguerite of Valois, the daughter of Catherine de Medici Bourbon Huguenot, Henry of Navarre thousans of Huguenots are slaughtered with Catherine's connivance
• November 9 – Siege of Sancerre: Catholic forces of the king lay siege to Sancerre, a Huguenot stronghold in central France. The fortified city holds out for nearly eight months without bombard artillery. It was one of the last times that 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.

Date unknown

• The Muromachi period ends in Japan.
• Vilcabamba, the last independent remnant of the Inca Empire, is 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.
• Imaginary numbers defined by Rafael Bombelli.
• Harrow School founded in England.
• Portugal's national epic Os Lusíadas by Luís Vaz de Camões was first published.

Births

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

Deaths

• February 18 – Mary Gulie mistress to Henry VIII in 1538
• February 23 – Pierre Certon, French composer (b. c. 1510)
• February 28 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
• March 2 – Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil (b. c. 1500)
• March 10 – William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester (b. c. 1483)
• March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. c. 1523)
• May 1 – Pope Pius V (b. 1504)
• June 2 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1536)
• June 9 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
• July 5 – Longqing Emperor of China (b. 1537)
• July 7 – King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 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 (b. 1519)
  • Claude Goudimel, French composer (b. 1510)
  • Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (b. 1515)
  • Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1535)
• September – Denis Lambin, French classical scholar (b. 1520)
• September 24 – Túpac Amaru, last of the Incas
• September 30 – Francis Borgia, Italian Jesuit (b. 1510)
• October 24 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (b. 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 (b. 1513)
• December 22 – François Clouet, French miniaturist (b. c. 1510)
• date unknown
  • Richard Grafton, English merchant
  • Moses Isserles, rabbi and Talmudist (b. 1530)
  • Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Polish scholar (b. 1503)
  • Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese author and writer (b. 1500)
  • Yasumi Naomasa, Japanese military commander
  • Stanisław Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (b. 1519)
• probable – Christopher Tye, English composer and organist (b. 1505)