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 October | Marie Elisabeth of France / Princess / France |
| 27 December | Johannes Vodnianus Campanus / Poet / Czech Republic |