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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.
• June 8 - Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado leads the Battle of Acajutla, defeating a batallion of Pipiles, in the neighborhoods of present day Acajutla, El Salvador

1524: Voyage of Verrazzano.

July - December

• August-September - Marseille is besieged 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.
• Quiché, the capital of Gumarcaj, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores.

Births

• February 10 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
• February 17 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
• March 17 - Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (d. 1579)
• May 28 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
• August 23 - François Hotman, French Protestant lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
• September 7 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d. 1583)
• September 11 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
• date unknown
  • Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (d. 1584)
  • Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (d. 1592)
  • Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
  • Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (d. 1602); and his twin brother, Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (d. 1598)
  • Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (d. 1580)
  • Luís Vaz de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. June 10, 1580)

See also Category: 1524 births.

Deaths

• January 5 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (b. 1450)
• April 30 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
• May 21 - Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and statesman (b. 1443)
• May 23 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
• June 12 - Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1465)
• July 20 - Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
• August 24 - William Scott of Scott's Hall, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
• October 5 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish painter (b. c. 1480)
• December 20 - Thomas Linacre, English humanist and physician (b. 1460)
• December 24 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1469)
• date unknown
  • Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter (b. 1460)
  • Andrea Solari, Italian painter (b. 1460)
  • Tang Yin, Chinese painter (b. 1470)

See also Category: 1524 deaths.

Ongoing Events

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

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