What is 1572?
{{Year nav|1572}} {{Year in various calendars|1572}} '''1572''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXXII]]) was a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] in the [[Julian calendar]] and a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] in the [[proleptic Gregorian calendar]]. == 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 [[Gorinchem|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 IV of France|Henry III of Navarre]] with [[Marguerite de Valois|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 of France|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 (weapon)|bombard artillery]]. It was one of the last time slings were used in European history. * December – The [[Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva|Duke of Alva]], Spanish commander in the [[Netherlands]], lays [[Siege of Haarlem|siege to Haarlem]]. * Ending of the [[Muromachi period]] in [[Japan]] * [[Tycho Brahe]] observes the [[supernova]] [[SN 15