* 1572 – Marriage in Paris, France of the Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.

* 1572 – Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris – St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

* 1572 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician ( d. 1632 )

* 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat ( b. 1572 )

* the bronze statue Goddess Opi ( 1572 – 75 ), Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Pius V ( pope 1566 – 1572 ), however, while sanctioning those which could show at least 200 years of existence, made the Roman obligatory in all other places.

* 12 Kings and Queens of Navarre ( 1305 – 1441, 1572 – 1792 )

** Henry III ( 1572 – 1610 )

* 1572 – Jan Campanus, Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet, and dramatist ( d. 1622 )

* 1572 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect ( b. 1512 )

** MacCaffrey Wallace T. The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime: Elizabethan Politics, 1558 – 1572 ( 1969 )

** MacCaffrey Wallace T. Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572 – 1588 ( 1988 )

* Francis II, Duke of Lorraine ( 1572 – 1632 )

* 1505 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian ( d. 1572 )

* 1572 – Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered.

* 1519 – Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader ( d. 1572 )

As state flag it first appeared around 1572 as the Prince's Flag in orange – white – blue.

* Pedro de Gante, Franciscan missionary in Mexico ( c. 1480 – 1572 )

Galeazzo Alessi ( 1512 – December 30, 1572 ) was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture.

* Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski ( 1503 – 1572 )

The most influential figure was theologian John Knox ( 1510 – 1572 ), who had lived in Switzerland and was a disciple of both Calvin and Wishart.

In 1572, the city sided with the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule and played an important role in the Eighty Years ' War.

Things went badly after the Eighty Years ' War started in 1568, but luck turned to his advantage when Protestant rebels attacking from the North Sea captured Brielle, a coastal town in present-day South Holland in 1572.

During the Eighty Years ' War between the Netherlands and Spain, the Capture of Brielle on April 1, 1572, by Protestant rebels, the Watergeuzen, marked a turning point in the conflict, as many towns in Holland then began to support William of Orange against the Spanish Duke Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba who was sent to pacify The Netherlands.

In 1572, during the Eighty Years ' War, the city was burned and sacked by the Spanish.

These dwellings were burned by the Spaniards in 1572, during the Eighty Years ' War.

In the Eighty Years ' War, the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen in 1572 provided the first foothold on land for the rebels, who would conquer the northern Netherlands and establish an independent Dutch Republic.

* 1572 – 73 Fourth War, ended by the Edict of Boulogne

There were several more creations until the famous Devereux creation in 1572, which included Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ( 1566 – 1601 ) a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I and his son Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, the general who commanded the Parliamentary army at the Battle of Edge Hill, the first major battle of the English Civil War ( for further history of the Devereux family, see the Viscount Hereford ).

A park contains the ruins of the Château de Saint-Cloud, built in 1572 and destroyed by fire in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War.

( 2008 ), The Founding of the Dutch Republic: War, Finance, and Politics in Holland 1572 – 1588, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-920911-8

He was brother to John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery ( 1572 − 1634 ) and Henry Vaughan ( 1587 − 1659 ), a well-known Royalist leader in the English Civil War.

He was included in the Act of Indemnity of 26 January 1572, and subscribed the Articles of Pacification at Perth on 23 February 1573, by one of which he was appointed one of the judges of the trial of claims for restitution of goods arising out of acts of violence committed during the Civil War ; Provost of Glasgow 1574 to 1577, and an Extraordinary Lord of Session 24 October 1573.

Dordrecht around 1565, by Jacob van DeventerIn 1572, four years into the Dutch Revolt, representatives of all the cities of Holland, with the exception of Amsterdam, as well as the Watergeuzen, represented by William II de la Marck, gathered in Dordrecht to hold the Eerste Vrije Statenvergadering (" First Assembly of the Free States "), also known as the Unie van Dordrecht (" Union of Dordrecht ").

On 1 April 1572 a band of Watergeuzen captured the city of Brielle, which had been left unattended by the Spanish garrison.

On 9 July 1572, the Watergeuzen ( Dutch rebels against Spanish rule ) conquered the city and captured 19 Catholic priests and monks because they refused to renounce their faith.

In 1572 Watergeuzen had captured the city of Brielle and claimed it for William.

Drake left Plymouth on 24 May 1572, with a crew of 73 men in two small vessels, the Pascha ( 70 tons ) and the Swan ( 25 tons ), to capture Nombre de Dios.

Clement X, on 24 November 1673, beatified nineteen Martyrs of Gorkum, taken prisoner at Gorcum, the Netherlands, and put to death in Brielle on 9 July 1572, in hatred of the Catholic faith, the primacy of the Pope, the Roman Church, and the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist.

He sailed through as a soldier of fortune to the Low Countries in 1572, and was driven by stress of weather to Brielle, which luckily for him had just fallen into the hands of the Dutch.

Silver Geuzen medal commemorating the Capture of Brielle in 1572 by the Sea Beggars ; this was produced commercially

Capture of Brielle, 1 April 1572 ( Frans Hogenberg ).

No longer having refuge, they made a desperate attack upon Brielle, which they seized by surprise in the absence of the Spanish garrison on April 1, 1572.

Silver medal commemorating the Capture of Brielle in 1572 by the Sea Beggars

Capture of Brielle, 1 April 1572 ( Frans Hogenberg )

On 1 April 1572 – the day of the Capture of Brielle – the Sea Beggars were led by De la Marck, and by two of his captains, Willem Bloys van Treslong and Lenaert Jansz de Graeff.

In 1572, however, the rebels conquered Brielle, and the rebellion resurged.