Summer (1572) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (at Denver Art Museum)
In the year 1572, the Sea Beggars, Netherlandish Calvinist rebels, capture the port city of Brielle, leading to a wave of uprisings in Holland and Zeeland against Spanish Habsburg rule (Apr 1), the Spanish commander in the Netherlands begins the victorious Siege of Haarlem, with the resistance nonetheless taken as an heroic example by the Orangists (Dec), the Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba, the last independent remnant of the Inca Empire, is conquered by Spain, Giuseppe Arcimboldo paints Summer - and all these fine people were born:
1572-xxxx Johann Bayer* lawyer/uranographer/publisher of the first atlas to cover the entire celestial sphere – Rain, Lower Bavaria, Germany (1625/c.52)
1572-0107 Antoine de Gaudier* Jesuit writer on ascetic theology - Château-Thierry, Kingdom of France (1622/50)
1572-0111 Elizabeth Wriothesley* (b Vernon) Countess of Southampton/lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I of England - England (1655/83)
1572-0122 John Donne* poet – London, England (1631/59)
1572-0201 Ellen Marsvin* Danish noble/landowner/county administrator - Landskrona, Scania, Denmark-Norway (1649/77)
1572-0214 William Cooke* landowner/ politician - Highnam Court, Gloucestershire, England (1619/47)
1572-0304 István Esterházy* nobleman/soldier - Mezőkeresztes, Kingdom of Hungary (1596/24)
1572-0310 Tommaso Caracciolo* Field Marshal/a commander of Spanish forces in the Thirty Years' War - Naples, Kingdom of Naples (1631/59)
1572-0404 William Strachey* writer/expert on English colonisation of North America - Saffron Walden, Essex, England (1621/49)
1572-0414 Adam Tanner* Jesuit theologian - Innsbruck, Archduchy of Austria (1632/60)
1572-0520 John Davenant* academic//bishop of Salisbury - London, England (1641/68)
1572-0525 Maurice of Hesse-Kassel* German musician/composer - Kassel, Hesse-Kassel (1632/59)
1572-0608 Honorat de Porchères Laugier* poet - Forcalquier, Kingdom of France (1653/81)
1572-0611 Ben Jonson* playwright/ poet - Westminster, England (1637/65)
1572-0716 Teimuraz I* Georgian prince of the House of Mukhrani - Georgia (1625/52)
1572-0725 Theodorus Schrevelius* Dutch writer/ poet- Haarlem (1649/77)
1572-0911 Daniyal Mirza* Imperial Prince of the Mughal Empire - Ajmer, Mughal Empire (1605/32)
1572-0927 Francis van Aarssens* diplomat/ statesman of the United Provinces - Brussels (1641/69)
1572-0930 Denis-Simon de Marquemont* cleric/ Archbishop of Lyon - Paris, Kingdom of France (1626/53)
1572-1027 Marie Elisabeth of France* French princess/the only child of King Charles IX of France and Elisabeth of Austria - Louvre Palace, Paris, Kingdom of France (1578/5)
1572-1101 Isaacus Rothovius* bishop of Turku - Hedenstorp, Angelstad, Swedish Empire (1652/79)
1572-1125 Daniel Sennert* physician/ academic writer (alchemy & chemistry) - Breslau, Habsburg Monarchy (1637/64)
1572-1201 Vilém Slavata of Chlum* Czech nobleman/viceregent/victim of the 1618 Defenestration of Prague - Čestín, Bohemia (1652/79)
1572-1227 Jan Vodnansky* Czech humanist/composer/pedagogue – Vodnany, Bohemia (1622/49)
Updated 14.9.2022
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