1572

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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1572 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1572
MDLXXII
Ab urbe condita2325
Armenian calendar1021
ԹՎ ՌԻԱ
Assyrian calendar6322
Balinese saka calendar1493–1494
Bengali calendar979
Berber calendar2522
English Regnal year14 Eliz. 1  15 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2116
Burmese calendar934
Byzantine calendar7080–7081
Chinese calendar辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4268 or 4208
     to 
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
4269 or 4209
Coptic calendar1288–1289
Discordian calendar2738
Ethiopian calendar1564–1565
Hebrew calendar5332–5333
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1628–1629
 - Shaka Samvat1493–1494
 - Kali Yuga4672–4673
Holocene calendar11572
Igbo calendar572–573
Iranian calendar950–951
Islamic calendar979–980
Japanese calendarGenki 3
(元亀3年)
Javanese calendar1491–1492
Julian calendar1572
MDLXXII
Korean calendar3905
Minguo calendar340 before ROC
民前340年
Nanakshahi calendar104
Thai solar calendar2114–2115
Tibetan calendar阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
1698 or 1317 or 545
     to 
阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
1699 or 1318 or 546

Events

December 11: start of the Siege of Haarlem

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

  • July 9 The Sea Beggars hang 19 previously imprisoned Roman Catholic priests (the Martyrs of Gorkum) at Brielle.
  • July 11 Humphrey Gilbert leads 1,500 volunteers from England, on an expedition to assist the Sea Beggars.[1]
  • July 19 Wanli Emperor of China ascends the throne at the age of nine; he will rule for 48 years.
  • July 29August 2 Battle of Molodi: A large Crimean TatarOttoman army which invaded Russia is routed.
  • August 18 Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries Margaret of Valois, sister of King Charles and daughter of Catherine de' Medici, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France.[4]
  • August 24 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre: Catholics in Paris murder thousands of Protestants, including Gaspard de Coligny and Petrus Ramus, at the order of King Charles IX, with Catherine de Medici's connivance. Henry of Navarre and the Prince of Condé barely escape the same fate. This brings about the Fourth War of Religion in France.[5]
  • October 20 Eighty Years' War Relief of Goes: Soldiers of the Spanish Tercios wade across the estuary of the Scheldt, to relieve the siege of Goes in the Spanish Netherlands.
  • 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. This is one of the last times that slings are used in European warfare.
    • Supernova SN 1572 is first observed in the constellation Cassiopeia, by Cornelius Gemma. Tycho Brahe, who notes it two days later, will use it to challenge the prevailing view that stars do not change.[6] The supernova remnant remains visible through 1574.
  • December The Siege of Haarlem is begun by the Duke of Alva, Spanish commander in the Netherlands.

Date unknown

  • The Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba, Peru, the last independent remnant of the Inca Empire, is conquered by Spain.
  • Girolamo Mercuriale from Forlì (Italy) writes the work De morbis cutaneis ("On the diseases of the skin"), the first scientific tract on dermatology.
  • Imaginary numbers are defined by Rafael Bombelli.
  • Portugal's national epic Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões is first published.[7]
  • Georg Braun begins publication of his urban atlas, Civitates orbis terrarum, in Cologne.

Births

Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton
Marie Elisabeth of France
  • January 7 Antoine de Gaudier, French Jesuit writer (d. 1622)
  • January 11 Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, English countess (d. 1655)
  • January 22 John Donne (d. 1631)
  • February 1 Ellen Marsvin, Danish noble, landowner and county administrator (d. 1649)
  • February 14 William Cooke, English politician (d. 1619)
  • February 27 Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1632)
  • February 29 Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon, English viscount (d. 1638)
  • March 4 István Esterházy, Hungarian noble (d. 1596)
  • March 10 Tommaso Caracciolo, Field Marshal of Spanish forces in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1631)
  • March 20 Otto III, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1641)
  • April 4 William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621)
  • April 14 Adam Tanner, Austrian Jesuit professor of mathematics and philosophy (d. 1632)
  • May 20 John Davenant, English Anglican bishop (d. 1641)
  • May 25 Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, German musician (d. 1632)
  • June 8 Honorat de Porchères Laugier, French writer (d. 1653)
  • June 10 Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera, Lord of Gera, Lobenstein and Oberkranichfeld (1572–1635) (d. 1635)
  • June 11 Ben Jonson, English dramatist (d. 1637)
  • July 16 Teimuraz I, Prince of Mukhrani, Georgian prince (d. 1625)
  • July 25 Theodorus Schrevelius, Dutch Golden Age writer and poet (d. 1649)
  • August 6 Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman Emir of Chouf (d. 1635)
  • September 11 Daniyal, Imperial Prince of the Royal House of Timur, Viceroy of Deccan (d. 1604)
  • September 27 Francis van Aarssens, Dutch diplomat (d. 1641)
  • September 30 Denis-Simon de Marquemont, French cardinal and archbishop (d. 1626)
  • October 27 Marie Elisabeth of France, French princess (d. 1578)
  • November 4 William Whitmore, English politician (d. 1648)
  • November 7 Johannes Saeckma, Dutch Golden Age magistrate and judge of Leeuwarden (d. 1636)
  • November 8 John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1619)
  • November 23 Albret Skeel, State Admiral of Denmark (d. 1639)
  • November 25 Daniel Sennert, German physician, chemist (d. 1637)
  • December 1 Vilem Slavata of Chlum, Czech nobleman (d. 1652)
  • December 20 Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford, son of Sir Francis Russell (d. 1627)
  • December 22 Juan López de Agurto de la Mata, Spanish Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Coro (later Bishop of Caracas) (1634–1637) and Bishop of Puerto Rico (1630–1634) (d. 1637)
  • December 27 Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet and dramatist (d. 1622)
  • date unknown
    • Johann Bayer, German astronomer (d. 1625)
    • Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1655)
    • Arend Dickmann, Dutch admiral in the Polish Navy (d. 1627)
    • John Floyd, English Jesuit (d. 1649)
    • Regina Basilier, German-Swedish merchant banker (d. 1631)
    • 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

Longqing Emperor of China
King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland
Saint John of Cologne and Martyrs of Gorkum died on July 7, 1572
Gaspard de Coligny
Saint Francis Borgia

References

  1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 226–229. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. Tyerman, Christopher (2000). A History of Harrow School. Oxford University Press. pp. 8–17. ISBN 0-19-822796-5.
  3. Mircea Eliade (1987). The Encyclopedia of Religion. Macmillan. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-02-909820-2.
  4. St James Press; Anthony Levi; Retired Professor of French Anthony Levi (1992). Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789. St. James Press. p. 1012. ISBN 978-1-55862-159-6.
  5. St. John's University (New York, N.Y.) (1960). Saint Vincent de Paul: A Tercentenary Commemoration of His Death, 1660-1960. St. John's University Press. p. 78.
  6. University of Otago Library exhibition note for The Earth & Beyond Archived February 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine; Allen, R. H. Star Names: their Lore and Meaning, Bill Thayer's edition at LacusCurtius, "Cassiopeia."
  7. "The Lusiads". World Digital Library. 1800–1882. Retrieved August 31, 2013.
  8. "Saint Pius V | pope | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  9. Jasper Godwin Ridley (1968). John Knox. Oxford University Press. p. 517. ISBN 978-0-19-821373-4.
  10. "1572". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German).
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