1524 Totally Explained

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

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

Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (died 1584)
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (died 1592)
Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (died 1573)
Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1602); and his twin brother, Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1598)
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

Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter (born 1460)
Andrea Solari, Italian painter (born 1460)
Tang Yin, Chinese painter (born 1470) ť See also .

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