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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.
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 remnant of the Inca Empire , conquered by Spanish
Births
February 27 - Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (died 1632 )
April 14 - Adam Tanner , Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1632 )
June 11 - Ben Jonson , English dramatist (died 1637 )
December 31 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (died 1617 )
Francis van Aarssens (died 1641 )
Sigismund Bathory , Prince of Transylvania and of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1613 )
Johann Bayer , German astronomer (died 1625 )
Alonso de la Cueva , Spanish diplomat (died 1655 )
Arend Dickmann , Dutch admiral in the Polish Navy (died 1627 )
John Donne , English writer and prelate (died 1631 )
John Floyd , English Jesuit (died 1649 )
Bartholomew Gosnold , English lawyer and explorer (died 1607 )
Cyril Lucaris , Greek prelate and theologian (died 1637 )
James Mabbe , English scholar and poet (died 1642 )
Johann Sigismund , Duke of Prussia (died 1619 )
Thomas Tomkins , English composer (died 1656 )
Deaths
February 23 - Pierre Certon , French composer
February 28 - Aegidius Tschudi , Swiss historian (b. 1505 )
March 2 - Mem de Sá , Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil
March 10 - William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester
May 1 - Pope Pius V (born 1504 )
June 9 - Jeanne d'Albret , Queen of Navarre (born 1528 )
August 5 - Isaac Luria , Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534 )
August 24 - Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
August 27 - Claude Goudimel , French composer (killed) (born 1510 )
September 24 - Tupac Amaru , last of the Incas
October 24 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby , English politician (born 1508 )
November 23 - Agnolo di Cosimo , Italian artist and poet (b. 1503 )
November 24 - John Knox , Scottish religious reformer (born 1513 )
December 23 - Galeazzo Alessi , Italian architect (born 1512 )
Francis Borgia , Italian Jesuit (born 1510 )
François Clouet , French miniaturist
Longqing Emperor of China
Matthias Flacius , Lutheran reformer (born 1520 )
Richard Grafton , English merchant
James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (born 1516 )
Moses Isserles , rabbi and Talmudist (born 1530 )
Denis Lambin , French classical scholar (born 1520 )
Miguel López de Legaspi , Spanish conquistador of the Philippines (born 1510 )
John Erskine, 1st Earl of Mar , regent of Scotland
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski , Polish scholar (born 1503 )
Francisco de Moraes , Portuguese author and writer (born 1500 )
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1536 )
King Sigismund II of Poland (born 1520 )
Christopher Tye , English composer and organist (born 1505 )
Yasumi Naomasa , Japanese military commander
Stanislaw Zamoyski , Polish nobleman (born 1519 )
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