1572

Year 1572 (MDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

August 24 : St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
December 11 : start of the Siege of Haarlem
Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton
Marie Elisabeth of France
Pope Pius V
Longqing Emperor of China
King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
Gaspard de Coligny
Saint Francis Borgia