1524
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| Gregorian calendar | 1524 MDXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2277 |
| Armenian calendar | 973 ԹՎ ՋՀԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6274 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1445–1446 |
| Bengali calendar | 931 |
| Berber calendar | 2474 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Hen. 8 – 16 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2068 |
| Burmese calendar | 886 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7032–7033 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4221 or 4014 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4222 or 4015 |
| Coptic calendar | 1240–1241 |
| Discordian calendar | 2690 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1516–1517 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5284–5285 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1580–1581 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1445–1446 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4624–4625 |
| Holocene calendar | 11524 |
| Igbo calendar | 524–525 |
| Iranian calendar | 902–903 |
| Islamic calendar | 930–931 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiei 4 (大永４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1442–1443 |
| Julian calendar | 1524 MDXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3857 |
| Minguo calendar | 388 before ROC 民前388年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 56 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2066–2067 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1650 or 1269 or 497 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1651 or 1270 or 498 |
Year 1524 (MDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 17 – Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World to seek out a westabout sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
- 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
July–December
- 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.
- Late August – Protestant theologians Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt dispute at Jena.
- 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.
Births
- February 10 – Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
- February 17 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, French cardinal (d. 1574)
- February 24 – Wenceslaus III Adam, Duke of Cieszyn (d. 1579)
- March 17 – Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (d. 1579)
- May 28 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
- June 12 – Achilles Statius, Portuguese humanist (d. 1581)
- June 24 – Johann Stössel, German theologian (d. 1576)
- August 14 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Danish princess (d. 1586)
- 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)
- October 4 – Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician (d. 1592)
- October 5 – Rani Durgavati, Queen of Gond (d. 1564)
- October 16 – Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1577)
- 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)
Deaths
- January 5 – Marko Marulić, 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)
References
- ^ 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.