Year
1572 (
MDLXXII) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Events of 1572
January–June
July–December
Undated
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 (died c.1645)
- See also :Category: 1572
births.
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':
- 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
- probable – Christopher
Tye, English composer and organist (b. 1505)
- See also :Category: 1572
deaths.
.
.
This leads
to a wave of uprisings in Holland and Zealand, leaving most of
those provinces (with the exception of Amsterdam
), under rebel control.
.
Several Roman Catholic priests are put into a prison.
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.
, 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.
, lays siege to Haarlem
.
.
.
(Italy
) writes the
work De morbis cutaneis ("On the diseases of the skin"),
well known as the first scientific tract about dermatology.
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