April 27 » Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
June 17 » Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
June 23 » Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta.
August 28 » Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
September 11 » Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
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 » In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
August 23 » French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
October 20 » Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the relief of Goes.
November 11 » Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.
December 23 » Theologian Johann Sylvan is executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.
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