1528

	1528 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
	Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years:	1525 1526 1527 – 1528 – 1529 1530 1531

Year 1528 (MDXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1528

January 12 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden.
June 19 – Battle of Landriano: A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated.

September 12 – Andrea Doria defeats his former allies, the French, and establishes the independence of Genoa.
October 13 – Cardinal Wolsey founds a college at Ipswich, which later becomes Ipswich School.
October 20 – The Treaty of Gorinchem is signed between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Charles, Duke of Guelders.
November 6 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of what is present-day Texas.

The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England. This time the disease also spreads to northern Europe.
St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle is completed.
Chateau Fontainebleau in France is begun.
Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on the fortifications of Florence.
Baldassare Castiglione publishes The Book of the Courtier.
Ipswich School was founded in its current form by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey from older (dating back to 1299) institutions in the town.
In Henan province of China, during the mid Ming Dynasty, a vast drought deprives the region of harvests for the next two years, killing off half the people in some communities due to starvation and cannibalism, as reported by local gazeteers.

February 29 – Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1504)
March 10 – Balthasar Hübmaier, influential German/Moravian Anabaptist leader (b. 1480)
April 1 – Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (b. c. 1470)
April 6 – Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (b. 1471)
July – Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (b. 1480)
August 15 – Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
August 20 – Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner (b. 1473)
August 31 – Matthias Grünewald, German artist (b. 1470)
September – Pánfilo de Narváez, Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas (b. 1480)
October 5 – Richard Foxe, English churchman (b. c. 1448)
date unknown
- Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (b. 1487)
- Muhammad Tour, ruler of Gao