1524

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
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Years:	1521 1522 1523 – 1524 – 1525 1526 1527

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Voyage of Verrazzano.

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

Events [edit]

January – Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World.
March – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado destroys the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj, taking the capital, Quiché.
March 1 (approximate date) – da Verrazzano's expedition makes landfall at Cape Fear.
April 17 – Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay and sights the island of Manhattan.^[1]^[2]
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 battalion of Pipiles, in the neighborhoods of present day Acajutla, El Salvador

Summer – Paracelsus visits Salzburg. He also visits Villach during the year.
July 8 – Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.
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.

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)
- 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 de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580)
possible
- Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)

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)

^ Paine, Lincoln P. (2000). Ships of Discovery and Exploration. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 37. ISBN 0-395-98415-7.
^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 235. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.

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