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 by Luís de Camões appears for the first time. |
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| 1572 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1020/21 (July turn of the year) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1564/65 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2115/16 (Southern Buddhism); 2114/15 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 71st (72nd) cycle
Year of the Water Monkey壬申 ( at the beginning of the year Metal Sheep 辛未) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 934/935 (New Year's April) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 3905/06 (October 2nd/3rd) |
| Iranian calendar | 950/951 |
| Islamic calendar | 979/980 (New Year May 13th/14th) |
| Jewish calendar | 5332/33 (September 7th/8th) |
| Coptic calendar | 1288/89 |
| Malayalam calendar | 747/748 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1882/83 (April turn of the year)
Syria: 1883/84 (October turn of the year) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 1628/29 (April turn of the year) |
events
politics and world affairs
France
- August 18: The Huguenot Henry of Navarre marries the Catholic Margaret of Valois in Paris .
- August 22: The influential Huguenot Gaspard II de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon , is assassinated, but he survives unharmed.
- August 24: St. Bartholomew 's Day : pogrom by Catholics against the Calvinists ( Huguenots ) in France, murdering thousands.
England / Spanish Empire
- May 24: Vice-Admiral Francis Drake sets out on two ships with 72 followers on his second great raid in the Caribbean .
- July 28: Francis Drake attacks the town of Nombre de Dios in present-day Panama in the early hours of the morning and, after a brief skirmish, captures it. However, he suffers a gunshot wound in the leg and collapses from the loss of blood, after which his people call off the action and retreat to the island of Bastimentos .
- August 15: Francis Drake sails into the port of Cartagena and captures two ships. He then makes contact with the Cimarrones , with whom he forms an alliance and besieges Cartagena for several months.
- Autumn: A yellow fever epidemic breaks out among Drake's crew, killing 40% of his people.
Netherlands
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- 1 April: First insurgent conquest in the Netherlands ( Brielle by the Geuses ). See: Eighty Years' War
- July 15: Estates meeting in Dordrecht : The cities of the Netherlands declare their independence from Spain .
- 19 July: The Dordrecht Estates Assembly recognizes William of Orange as "their" governor of the Netherlands. The affront to Spain promotes the Eighty Years' War with the independence efforts of the Protestant provinces.
Poland-Lithuania
With the death of the childless Sigismund II August on July 7, the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland-Lithuania came to an end, and the country became a noble republic with a king elected by the nobility .
Holy Roman Empire
- With the Erfurt partition according to the Erfurt Partition Treaty of November 6, 1572, Thuringia was divided into the new Duchy of Saxe-Weimar and the new Principality of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach .
- December 23: Johannes Sylvanus is executed on the Heidelberg market square on charges of Unitarian heresy .
- The Franconian Reichskreis is the only Reichskreis to issue its own police regulations.
Russia
- August 8: Days of fighting at the Battle of Molodi between a Russian army and the invading army of the Crimean Khanate , supported by Janissaries , ends in Russian success.
Asia
- July 5: Chinese Emperor Longqing of the Ming Dynasty dies unexpectedly after five years in office . On July 19, his eight-year-old son Zhu Yijun ascends the dragon throne under the name Wanli . At the urging of Empress Dowager Xiaoding, he is under the influence of Zhang Juzheng , who is appointed tutor to the young emperor. This marks the beginning of a fruitful era characterized by economic upswing and social change.
- Phra Nga Sen Sulintara Lusai deposes his one-year-old grandson , No Keo Kuman , for whom he has been the regency since the previous year, and makes himself the new king of Lan Xang .
Inca Empire
- July 24: The Spaniards , led by Captain Martín García Óñez de Loyola , conquer the Inca fortress of Vilcabamba and arrest the last Inca ruler , Túpac Amaru , who is taken to Cusco .
- September 24th: With the execution of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru , on the Plaza de Armas in Cusco, the Inca empire that has existed in Perú for centuries is finally destroyed by the Spaniards.
business
- With the oak shelf, the Princely House of Anhalt-Dessau secured the unrestricted right to use and replant oak and beech trees .
science and technology
- April 5: Duke Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel founds the Ducal Library in Wolfenbüttel by issuing a Liberey order with printed works he has collected himself .
- Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe discovers supernova 1572 with an apparent magnitude of −4 mag on November 11 in the constellation Cassiopeia . Believing it to be a new star , he coined the term “ nova ”.
- L'Algebra , a summary of the mathematical knowledge of his time and his own discoveries, is published by Rafael Bombelli .
- The University of Nancy is founded.
- Henricus Stephanus (II) publishes the first comprehensive dictionary of the Greek language, the Thesaurus linguae Graecae .
- In his work L'art de la tragédie , Jean de La Taille describes the basic features of the structure of tragedy with reference to Aristotle and Scaliger .
Culture
literature
From 1572 Georg Braun published the city views work Civitates Orbis Terrarum . The six-volume work up to 1618, presumably inspired by Sebastian Münster 's Cosmographia , clearly based in format and layout on Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum , published in 1570 , sets completely new standards and acts as a model and a treasure trove for templates for well over a hundred years . The city views are given inside on double pages, while the respective historical and topographical descriptions are printed on the outside. Frans Hogenberg is essentially the creator of the plates in the first volume. Other people involved include the Dutch miniature painter Georg Hoefnagel and the painter and cartographer Daniel Freese , who supplied templates commissioned by Heinrich Rantzau . Works by Jacob van Deventer , Sebastian Münster and Johannes Stumpf are also used .
The early New High German poet Johann Fischart published the works Eulenspiegel rhyme weis , an adaptation of the Eulenspiegel theme in verse, artliches praise of the lute , all practice grandmother and a preparation in the "Amadis" in the publishing house of his brother-in-law Bernhard Jobin in Strasbourg . In most of his works he uses the art of wordplay and doggerel verse .
The epic Os Lusíadas ( The Lusiads ) by Luís de Camões appears for the first time. Dedicated to King Sebastian of Portugal , the work depicts in verse form (adapted from Homer 's Odyssey ) the idealized history of Portugal from its beginnings to the time of Camões, particularly the Portuguese discoveries and conquests in Asia. Because of its quality, but also because of its great patriotism, it is considered the greatest testimony of Portuguese literature and makes Camões the Portuguese national poet to this day . The Lusiads are the inhabitants of Lusitania , the Roman name for Portugal said to derive from Lusus , a companion of Bacchus . The work consists of 10 cantos, each containing a different number of stanzas . The 1,102 stanzas contain a total of 8,816 verses .
painting
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo creates the second series of The Four Seasons while staying at the Prague court . The works, three of which survive today, are painted in oil on canvas.
society
- The alchemist Leonhard Thurneysser has a glass ball filled with water made by the Grimnitz glassworks , in which birds swim. This is considered to be the forerunner of the first snow globes .
religion
On February 24th, Archduke Karl II granted the estates of Inner Austria full freedom of conscience and freedom of religion in the Libell of Graz , subject to the condition of due obedience to him.
On May 13, in less than 24 hours, the conclave elected Ugo Buoncompagni, a consistent representative of the Counter-Reformation , as the successor to Pope Pius V , who died on May 1. The new pope took the name Gregory XIII. on. Gregor is a supporter of science and education. On October 7, he renames the feast of Our Lady of Victories , introduced by his predecessor on the occasion of the won naval battle of Lepanto , to Our Lady of the Rosary .
Born
date of birth saved
- January 22: John Donne , English novelist and metaphysical poet (died 1631)
- January 23: Johanna Franziska von Chantal , French noblewoman, founder of the Sisters of the Visitation of Mary (Salesians), Catholic saint (died 1641)
- February 1: Ellen Marsvin , influential mother-in-law of the Danish king Christian IV (d. 1649)
- March 20: Otto III. , Duke of Brunswick-Harburg († 1641)
- May 25: Moritz , Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel († 1632)
- 10 June: Heinrich II Reuss (younger line) , lord of Gera, Lobenstein and Ober-Kranichfeld († 1635)
- June 11(?): Ben Jonson , English playwright and poet (died 1637)
- July 4: Ludwig Jungermann , German botanist and physician († 1653)
- August 22: Rudolf Goclenius the Younger , German physician and professor of physics († 1621)
- September 13: Daniel Heider , German jurist and legal historian († 1647)
- September 15: Erasmus Widmann , German organist and composer († 1634)
- September 22: Siegfried von Kollonitsch , imperial general († 1624)
- September 27: François van Aerssen , Dutch statesman and diplomat (died 1641)
- September: Virginio Orsini , Duke of Bracciano (died 1615)
- October 23: Konrad Bachmann , German literary scholar, historian and librarian († 1646)
- November 2: Henri I de Savoie-Nemours , Duke of Nemours, Peer of France († 1632)
- November 8: Johann Sigismund , Elector of Brandenburg († 1620)
- November 10: Kaspar Friederich , Mayor of St. Gallen († 1655)
- November 22: Guilielmus Alardus , lyric poet and hymn composer († 1645)
- November 25: Daniel Sennert , German physician (died 1637)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Juan Carlos Amat , Spanish physician and musician (died 1642)
- Johannes Bayer , German astronomer and jurist († 1625)
- Matthias Martinius , German theologian († 1630)
Born around 1572
- Thomas Dekker , English dramatist (died 1632)
Died
First half of the year
- January 1: Paul Crusius , German Protestant theologian, mathematician and historian (b. 1525)
- 13 January: Jan Augusta , Bishop of the Unity of Bohemian Brethren (b. c. 1535)
- January 13: William Petre , English politician (b. 1505/1506)
- January 22: Henry VI. von Plauen , Burgrave of Meissen and Lord of Plauen (b. 1536)
- January 23: Johann von Munchausen , Bishop of Courland and Ösel-Wiek
- February 16: Georg Silberschlag the Elder , German Lutheran theologian (b. 1535)
- February 28: Catherine of Austria , Queen of Poland and Duchess of Mantua (b. 1533)
- February 28: Aegidius Tschudi , Swiss historian and politician (b. 1505)
- March 5: Giulio Campi , Italian painter (b. c. 1500)
- March 10: Jacob von Zitzewitz , statesman of Pomerania (b. 1507)
- March 12: Mem de Sá , Portuguese nobleman, jurist and Governor-General of Brazil (b. 1500 or 1504)
- March 17: Marcantonio Amulio , Italian cardinal (b. 1506)
- March 20: Hieronymus Weller , German Protestant theologian and reformer (b. 1499)
- 22 March: Catherine of Pfalz-Simmern , abbess at Kumbd Monastery (b. 1510)
- March 28: Annecke Lange , victim of the witch hunts in Neustadt am Rübenberge
- 2 April: Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Duchess of Geldern (b. 1494)
- April 12: Jean Crespin , Geneva jurist of French origin, author and printer (b. c. 1520)
- May 1: Antonio Michele Ghislieri, under the name Pius V Pope (b. 1504)
- May 1: Moses Isserles , Polish rabbi (b. c. 1525)
- 5 May: Margaret Erskine , Scottish noblewoman
- May 13: Johann Argentier , Italian physician (b. 1513)
- May 17: Albrecht von Rosenberg , Frankish Imperial Knight (b. c. 1519)
- 2 June: Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk , English nobleman (b. 1538)
- June 5: Ulrich von Mordeisen , Saxon politician and diplomat (b. 1519)
- June 9: Jeanne III. of Navarre , Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
- June 30: Jacob Curio , German physician and mathematician (b. 1497)
Second half of the year
- July 5: Longqing , Chinese emperors of the Ming dynasty (b. 1537)
- 7 July: Sigismund II August , King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, last king of the Jagiellonians (b. 1520)
- August 5: Isaac Luria , rabbi and religion teacher (b. 1534)
- August 20: Miguel López de Legazpi , Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
- August 24: Gaspard II de Coligny, Seigneur de Châtillon , French admiral (b. 1519)
- August 24: Claude Goudimel , French composer (b. c. 1500)
- August 24: Petrus Ramus , French philosopher and humanist (b. 1515)
- August 25: Christoph Lasius , German Protestant theologian (b. 1504)
- September 22: François Clouet , French painter (b. 1510)
- September 24: Túpac Amaru , last ruler of the Inca Empire (b. 1545)
- September 30: Francisco de Borja , third general of the Jesuits (b. 1510)
- 6 October: Clemens Leusser , abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Bronnbach, mayor of Wertheim and merchant (b. 1518)
- 18 October: John Erskine, 18th Earl of Mar , Scottish nobleman
- 12 November: Heinrich zu Stolberg , German regent (b. 1509)
- November 23: Agnolo Bronzino , Italian painter (b. 1503)
- November 24: John Knox , Scottish preacher (b. 1505)
- 13 December: Jachiam Tütschett Bifrun , Swiss notary, Landammann, judge and Bible translator (b. 1506)
- December 23: Johannes Sylvanus , German theologian (born 16th century)
Exact date of death unknown
- May: Guttormur Andrasson , Faroese Prime Minister
- Wulff von Ahlefeldt , hereditary lord of Haselau and the Kaden estate
- Jean Goujon , French sculptor (b. c. 1510)
- John Hales , English politician (b. c. 1516)
