18th » Marriage in Paris, France, of the Huguenot King Henry IV of France Henry III of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestantism Protestants and Catholic Church Catholics.
Famous Deaths for August 1572
20th » Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish navigator and politician, 1st Governor-General of the Philippines (b. 1502)
22nd » Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, English leader of the Rising of the North (b. 1528)
24th » Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (b. 1519)
24th » Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1535)
26th » Petrus Ramus, French philosopher and logician (b. 1515)