1572
year
1572 (MDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1572 MDLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2325 |
| Armenian calendar | 1021 ԹՎ ՌԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6322 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1493–1494 |
| 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 (Metal Goat) 4268 or 4208 — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4269 or 4209 |
| Coptic calendar | 1288–1289 |
| Discordian calendar | 2738 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1564–1565 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5332–5333 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1628–1629 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1493–1494 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4672–4673 |
| Holocene calendar | 11572 |
| Igbo calendar | 572–573 |
| Iranian calendar | 950–951 |
| Islamic calendar | 979–980 |
| Japanese calendar | Genki 3 (元亀３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1491–1492 |
| Julian calendar | 1572 MDLXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3905 |
| Minguo calendar | 340 before ROC 民前340年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 104 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2114–2115 |
| 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
change- 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 part of the Inca Empire, conquered by Spanish