In history, year 1572 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1572.
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, a wave of Catholic mobviolence against the Huguenots, began, lasting for several months andresulting in an estimated tens of thousands deaths across France.
Eighty Years' War-Soldiers of the Spanish Tercios waded acrossthe river Scheldt at its mouth, walking overnight in water to chestheight, to relieve the siege of Goes in the Spanish Netherlands.
Famous birthdays in the year 1572:
Date/Month
Name / Profession / Country
04 April
William Strachey / Author / United Kingdom
06 August
Fakhr-al-Din II / Prince / Turkey
11 June
Ben Jonson / Poet / United Kingdom
13 November
Cyril Lucaris / Theologian / Greece
14 April
Adam Tanner / Philosopher / Austria
27 December
Johannes Vodnianus Campanus / Poet / Czech Republic