#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
Alle interessante dingen gebeurden in 1572.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
Het lijkt het er sterk op dat een aantal van de beschreven verschrikkingen geïllustreerd fysieke bewijzen hebben. De ingestorte toegangspoort, de verstoorde begravingen en de kapotgeslagen heiligenbeelden zijn stille getuigen van de rampzalige vluchtavond in 1572 van de Clarissen uit Alkmaar.
February 10, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Elected pope in May 1572, Gregory XIII celebrated the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre as a major victory against heresy later that same year.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
7 Jan 1502: b. Ugo Boncompagni in #Bologna #otd future (1572)

As Pope Gregory XIII - he introduced the eponymous Gregorian calendar, still used today.
January 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Plantin published the final volumes of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible in 1572.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025)
pims.ca/publication/...

Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
pims.ca
January 7, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The winter of 1572 was particularly harsh, as many sources attest.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
Uit historisch onderzoek van het KNMI is gebleken dat het laatste kwart van de 16e eeuw waarschijnlijk het koudste was in de afgelopen 1000 jaar. Dit is gebaseerd op meerdere bronnen, zoals dagboeken, stadsrekeningen en jaarringen van bomen. Deze periode is het dieptepunt van de Kleine IJstijd. 1/2
January 2, 2026 at 1:11 PM
1572 was the year "An Admonition to the Parliament" was published, which really made the Puritan movement in England visible for the first time.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
3 Dec 1572: Preaching at St. Mary's university church #Cambridge William Charke fellow of #Peterhouse declares that Satan introduced bishops to the Church, contrary to scripture. He was expelled from the college in Feb 1573 on his refusal to recant.

(Jean-Christophe BENOIST )
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Braudel's "Mediterranean" remains unsurpassed in its sweep, erudition and lyricism. And even this least événementiel of historians had to admit that 1572 was "une année dramatique."

#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Even in the final year of his life, Knox published ferocious polemics against the Jesuits.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
24 Nov 1572: d. John Knox, preacher, theologian, exile, shaper of reformation in #Scotland #otd
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
While touring the Royal Palace in Sintra, I came across a portrait of Sebastian, who was the 15-year old king of Portugal in 1572 and to whom Luís de Camões dedicated his epic poem "The Lusiads." An aspiring crusader, he died fighting in Morocco four years later.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Praça Luís de Camões in Lisbon. He published his epic poem The Lusiads in 1572, dedicating it to king Sebastian of Portugal. That won him a royal pension.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
First officially celebrated on this day in 1572 by pope Gregory XIII.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
7 Oct: feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Which also commemorates the battle of Lepanto in 1571.
October 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#OTD in 1571 the battle of Lepanto took place. In 1572 Giorgio Vasari, commissioned by pope Pius V, painted the event for the wall of the Sala Regia in the Vatican. The 3 figures in the left foreground are the victors: Spain, the Papal States and Venice.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
October 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In 1572 Borromeo, as archbishop of Milan, formally requested that the Ursulines become a cloistered community.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
Portrait of St Carlo Borromeo Ambrogio Giovanni Figino 1563-1608 (British Museum) This quintessential saint of Catholic reform was born #otd 2 Oct 1538.
October 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Mechelen, 2 oktober 1572. De stad gaf zich over waarna soldaten uit het Spaanse leger het vervolgens drie dagen lang vreselijk gingen plunderen en vernielen. Landvoogd Alva wilde hiermee een voorbeeld stellen in de hoop dat andere steden hun verzet tegen hem staakten.
October 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Het eerste officieel gevierde feest van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van de Rozenkrans viel op 7 oktober 1572 onder paus Gregorius XIII.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
De maand oktober staat van oudsher ook wel bekend als de 'rozenkransmaand'. Dit heeft alles te maken met een beroemde zeeslag uit 1571 waarbij een christelijke vloot het opnam tegen het islamitische Ottomaanse Rijk: de Slag bij Lepanto. historiek.net/oktober-word...
Oktober, de ‘rozenkransmaand’ | Historiek
De maand oktober staat van oudsher ook wel bekend als de ‘rozenkransmaand’. Dit heeft alles te maken met een beroemde zeeslag uit 1571 waarbij een christelijke vloot het opnam tegen het islamitische O...
historiek.net
October 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Borgia authorized the first official biography of Ignatius Loyola, written by Pedro de Ribadeneira and published in 1572.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
d. 30 Sept 1572: St. Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía third Superior General of the Society of Jesus at #Rome. #Jesuits (Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla)

Among many other things, founder of the Collegium Romanum, predecessor of the Gregorian University.
September 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
453 years ago, on the 24th of September 1572, the last Sapa Inca, Túpac Amaru, was convicted for the murder of priests in Vilcabamba and beheaded by Spanish conquistadors. Amaru became Sapa Inca in 1571, after the death of his brother. He was 27 years old when he died. #otd #history #inca 🗃️
September 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
11 Sept 1561: Edmund Daniel of #Limerick enters the #Jesuit novitiate at San' Andrea #Rome aged 19 #otd

He was executed in #Ireland 1572, the #Jesuit protomartyr of #Europe (google books)
September 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Strong Statler and Waldorf vibes in this news item from 1572 about gun shooting monks. #skystorians
September 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Bannatyne was with John Knox at his deathbed in 1572.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
27 Aug 1605: Richard Bannatyne, former secretary to #Scots reformer John Knox makes his will #otd He died on 4 Sept 1605. Bannatyne's 'Memorials of Transactions in Scotland from 1569 to 1573' are a key source for the history of reformation in Scotland (BM)
August 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
One of many, many casualties in a particularly bloodthirsty year.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
26 Aug 1572: d. Pierre de la Ramée, Petrus Ramus, logician whose work had a massive impact on European learning - one of the most prominent casualties of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Rijksmuseum)
August 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
He was imprisoned in Valladolid on suspicion of heresy in 1572.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
August 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Pope Gregory XIII has a coin struck to celebrate the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day (23-24 August 1572).
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom #earlymodern 🗃️
August 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew was a turning point in the European Reformations. Too much blood was spilled to ever reconcile Latin Christendom again.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
Après la Saint-Barthélémy, l'exposition du cadavre de l'amiral de Coligny, dans le volume 10 des collectanées du pasteur zurichois Johann Jakob Wick #earlymodern
August 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Five days after this wedding, Paris erupted in the worst bloodshed of the 16th century's religious wars. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew reverberated through Europe for decades, if not centuries.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
18 Aug 1572: Henri of Navarre, future King of #France m. Marguerite de Valois #otd
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Roermond, 23 juli 1572. Niet alleen de gevreesde hertog van Alva, maar ook de troepen van De Zwijger gebruikten veel geweld. Nadat Roermond was ingenomen, werden er geestelijken vermoord en de bevolking geterroriseerd vanwege voedselgebrek.
July 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM