1572
*
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.
*
June 25 - The
Sea Beggars capture the city
Gorkum. Several Roman Catholic priests are put into a prison.
*
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.
* December - The
Duke of Alva, Spanish commander in the
Netherlands, lays
siege to Haarlem.
* Ending of the
Muromachi period in
Japan*
Tycho Brahe observes the
supernova SN 1572 in
Cassiopeia*
Vilcabamba, last independent remnant of the
Inca Empire, conquered by
Spanish*
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)
*
December 31 -
Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (died
1617)
*
Francis van Aarssens (died
1641)
*
Sigismund Bathory, 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)
*
Johann Sigismund, Duke of Prussia (died
1619)
*
Thomas Tomkins, English composer (died
1656)
See also :Category: 1572 births.*
February 23 -
Pierre Certon, French composer
*
February 28 -
Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b.
1505)
*
March 2 -
Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil
*
March 10 -
William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester*
March 27 -
Girolamo Maggi, Italian
Renaissance man*
May 1 -
Pope Pius V (born
1504)
*
June 9 -
Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (born
1528)
*
August 5 -
Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b.
1534)
*
August 24 - Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
**
Gaspard de Coligny, French protestant leader (born
1519)
**
Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (born
1515)
**
Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (born
1535)
*
August 27 -
Claude Goudimel, French composer (killed) (born
1510)
*
September 24 -
Tupac Amaru, last of the Incas
*
October 24 -
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (born
1508)
*
November 23 -
Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b.
1503)
*
November 24 -
John Knox, Scottish religious reformer (born
1513)
*
December 23 -
Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (born
1512)
*
Francis Borgia, Italian Jesuit (born
1510)
*
François Clouet, French miniaturist
*
Longqing Emperor of China
*
Matthias Flacius, Lutheran reformer (born
1520)
*
Richard Grafton, English merchant
*
James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (born
1516)
*
Moses Isserles, rabbi and Talmudist (born
1530)
*
Denis Lambin, French classical scholar (born
1520)
*
Miguel López de Legaspi, Spanish conquistador of the Philippines (born
1510)
*
John Erskine, 1st Earl of Mar, regent of Scotland
*
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Polish scholar (born
1503)
*
Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese author and writer (born
1500)
*
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born
1536)
*King
Sigismund II of Poland (born
1520)
*
Christopher Tye, English composer and organist (born
1505)
*
Yasumi Naomasa, Japanese military commander
*
Stanislaw Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (born
1519)
See also :Category: 1572 deaths.
