1524

Year '1524' (MDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1524

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1524

January - June

★ March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazzano lands near Cape Fear (approx. date).

★ April 30 - Battle of the Sesia - Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy defeat the French army in Italy under William de Bonnivet. The French now commanded by François de St. Pol, withdraw from Italy.

July - December

★ August-September - Siege of Marseille by Imperial forces under the Duke of Bourbon.

★ October 28 - A French army invading Italy under King Francis besieges Pavia.

★ December 8 - Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba founds the city of Granada, Nicaragua, the oldest Hispanic city in the mainland of the Western Hemisphere.

Undated

★ Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to sight the island of Manhattan, the future New York City.

★ The Peasants' War in Germany (1524-1525).

★ Quiché capital of Gumarcaj falls to the Spanish Conquistadores.

Births

★ February 10 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (died 1580)

★ February 17 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)

★ March 17 - Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (died 1579)

★ May 28 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1574)

★ August 23 - François Hotman, French Protestant lawyer and writer (died 1590)

★ September 7 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (died 1583)

★ September 11 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (died 1585)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (died 1584)

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★ Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (died 1592)

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★ Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (died 1573)

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★ Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1602); and his twin brother, Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1598)

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★ Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (died 1580)
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Deaths

★ January 5 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (born 1450)

★ April 30 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)

★ May 21 - Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and statesman (born 1443)

★ May 23 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (born 1487)

★ June 12 - Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (born 1465)

★ July 20 - Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (born 1499)

★ August 24 - William Scott of Scott's Hall, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports

★ October 5 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish painter (born c1480)

★ December 20 - Thomas Linacre, English humanist and physician (born 1460)

★ December 24 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (born c1469)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter (born 1460)

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★ Andrea Solari, Italian painter (born 1460)

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★ Tang Yin, Chinese painter (born 1470)
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