1528
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| Gregorian calendar | 1528 MDXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2281 |
| Armenian calendar | 977 ԹՎ ՋՀԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6278 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1449–1450 |
| Bengali calendar | 935 |
| Berber calendar | 2478 |
| English Regnal year | 19 Hen. 8 – 20 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2072 |
| Burmese calendar | 890 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7036–7037 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4225 or 4018 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4226 or 4019 |
| Coptic calendar | 1244–1245 |
| Discordian calendar | 2694 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1520–1521 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5288–5289 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1584–1585 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1449–1450 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4628–4629 |
| Holocene calendar | 11528 |
| Igbo calendar | 528–529 |
| Iranian calendar | 906–907 |
| Islamic calendar | 934–935 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiei 8 / Kyōroku 1 (享禄元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1446–1447 |
| Julian calendar | 1528 MDXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3861 |
| Minguo calendar | 384 before ROC 民前384年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 60 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2070–2071 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1654 or 1273 or 501 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1655 or 1274 or 502 |
Year 1528 (MDXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 12 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523.
- February
- Peasant uprising in Dalarna, Sweden: rebel campaign fails and the rebel leader, later known as Daljunkern, flees to Rostock.
- Diego García de Moguer explores the Sierra de la Plata along the Río de la Plata and begins to travel up the Paraná River.[1]
- Paracelsus visits Colmar in Alsace.
- June 19 – Battle of Landriano: A French army in Italy under Marshal Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Pol is decisively defeated.
July–December
- September 12 – Andrea Doria defeats his former allies, the French, and establishes the independence of Genoa.
- October 3 – Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón arrives in the Maluku Islands.
- October 13 – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey founds a college in his birthplace of Ipswich in England, which becomes the modern-day Ipswich School (incorporating institutions in the town dating back to 1299).
- 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.
Date unknown
- Montenegro gains autonomy under Turkish power.
- The Maya peoples drive Spanish Conquistadores out of Yucatán.
- Spain takes direct control of Acapulco.
- Bubonic plague breaks out in England.[2]
- 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.
- 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.[3]
- Paracelsus leaves Basle.
Births
- January 7 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
- February 29
- Domingo Báñez, Spanish theologian (d. 1604)
- Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1579)
- March 25 – Jakob Andreae, German theologian (d. 1590)
- June 7 – Cyriacus Spangenberg, German theologian and historian (d. 1604)
- June 21 – Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1603)
- June 29 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
- July 7 – Archduchess Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1590)
- July 8 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
- July 26 – Diego Andrada de Payva, Portuguese theologian (d. 1575)
- August 10 – Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1584)
- September 25 – Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1603)
- October 4 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (d. 1599)
- October 10 – Adam Lonicer, German botanist (d. 1586)
- November 2 – Petrus Lotichius Secundus, German Neo-Latin Poet (d. 1560)
- November 6 – Gabriel Goodman (d. 1601)
- November 12 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (d. 1588)
- November 14 – Francisco Pérez de Valenzuela, Spanish noble (d. 1599)
- November 29 – Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (d. 1592)
- date unknown
- Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (d. 1604)
- Federico Barocci, Italian painter (d. 1612)
- Adam of Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (d. 1577)
- Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (d. 1602)
- Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (d. 1583)
- George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (d. 1590)
- Phung Khac Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (d. 1613)
- Sabina, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1578)
- Thomas Whythorne, English musician and author (d. 1595)
- probable
- Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English general (d. 1590)
- Paul de Foix French diplomat
- Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg, stadtholder of the Dutch provinces of Friesland (d. 1568)
- Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1582)
- Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (d. 1601)
Deaths
- 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
- Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer (b. 1485)
- Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (b. 1487)
- Muhammad Tour, ruler of Gao
- Daljunkern, Swedish rebel leader who may have been pretender Nils Sture (b. 1512)
- Barbro Stigsdotter, Swedish noblewoman and heroine (b. 1472)
References
- ^ Los viajes de Diego García de Moguer.
- ^ "Renaissance: The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars: 1450-1700". Retrieved November 8, 2007.
- ^ Reported by local gazeteers.