1522
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This article is about the year 1522.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s |
| Years: | 1519 1520 1521 – 1522 – 1523 1524 1525 |
| 1522 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1522 MDXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2275 |
| Armenian calendar | 971 ԹՎ ՋՀԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6272 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -322–-321 |
| Bengali calendar | 929 |
| Berber calendar | 2472 |
| English Regnal year | 13 Hen. 8 – 14 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2066 |
| Burmese calendar | 884 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7030–7031 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年十二月初四日 (4158/4218-12-4) — to —
壬午年十二月十四日(4159/4219-12-14) |
| Coptic calendar | 1238–1239 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1514–1515 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5282–5283 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1578–1579 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1444–1445 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4623–4624 |
| Holocene calendar | 11522 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 522–523 |
| Iranian calendar | 900–901 |
| Islamic calendar | 928–929 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiei 2 (大永2年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | 1522 MDXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3855 |
| Minguo calendar | 390 before ROC 民前390年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2065 |
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Year 1522 (MDXXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events [edit]
January–June [edit]
- January 9 – Pope Adrian VI (born Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens, Dedens or Dedel;[1] Hadrianus in Latin) succeeds Pope Leo X as the 218th pope. The only Dutch pope, he will be the last non-Italian elected for more than 450 years.
- April 27 – Battle of Bicocca: French and Swiss forces under Odet de Lautrec are defeated by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Milan, and are forced to withdraw into Venetian territory.
- May – England presents an ultimatum to France and Scotland.[2]
- June 19 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor visits King Henry VIII of England and signs the Treaty of Windsor pledging a joint invasion of France, bringing England into the Italian War of 1521–1526.[3]
July–December [edit]
- July – The English army attacks Brittany and Picardy from Calais, burning and looting the countryside.[4]
- July 28 – Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I begins his siege of the Knights of St. John in Rhodes.
- September 6 – The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
- December 18 – The Turks finally break into Rhodes, but the Knights continue fierce resistance in the streets.
- December 20 – Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
Date unknown [edit]
- The first Diet of Nuremberg is held.
- The Knights' Revolt erupts in Germany.
- Costa Rica is named by the Spanish colonizer Gil González Dávila when he finds copious quantities of gold in Pacific beaches.
- The third edition of Erasmus's Greek Textus Receptus of the Bible is published.
- Martin Luther's translation of the Bible's New Testament into Early New High German from Greek is published.
- Chinese Ming Dynasty records indicate that the War Ministry official He Ru is the first to acquire the Portuguese breech-loading culverin, while copies of them are made by two Westernized Chinese at Beijing, Yang San (Pedro Yang) and Dai Ming.
- Some believe that Australia is sighted by a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão de Mendonça who maps the continent and names it Jave la Grande ("The Greater Java").
Births [edit]
- February 2 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
- March 28 – Albert the Warlike, German prince (d. 1557)
- April 23 – Catherine of Ricci, Italian prioress (d. 1590)
- May 24 – John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
- July 25 – Anna of Lorraine (d. 1568)
- September 11 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
- October 14 – Lucas Maius, Lutheran Reformation pastor, theologian and playwright (d. 1598)
- November 9 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (d. 1586)
- November 18 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
- December 28 – Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1568)
- date unknown
- Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero [RaMaK]- Jewish kabbalist from Safed, Israel [d. 1570)
- probable
- Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (d. 1559)
- possible
- Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)
Deaths [edit]
- February 25 – William Lilye, English classical scholar (b. c. 1468)
- April – Queen Eleni of Ethiopia
- April 6 – Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1479)
- June 25 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
- June 30 – Johann Reuchlin, German humanist and Hebrew scholar (b. 1455)
- September – Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet and bishop (b. c. 1474)
- October 30 – Jean Mouton, French composer (b. c. 1459)
- November 14 – Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)
- date unknown – Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Italian painter (b. 1440)
References [edit]
- ^ Collier's Encyclopedia
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 142–145. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 204–210. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Hackett, Francis (1937). Francis the First. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. p. 253.
