1572

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

1572 in other calendars

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

• 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