1572 in History – What happened in year 1572

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.

Top Historical Events of the Year 1572:

Date/Month	Event / Incidence / Incident
01 april	Spanish general and governor Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba lost his glasses in the town of Brielle, enabling sea beggars to move in.
09 july	Nineteen Catholic friars and clerics were hanged in Gorkumduring the 16th century religious wars in the Low Countries.
23 august	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.
20 october	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
27 October	Marie Elisabeth of France / Princess / France