1524

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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 western sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
* March – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado destroys the Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, 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.
* 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 the Italian Peninsula.
* May 26 – Atiquipaque, the most important city of the Xinca people is conquered by the Spanish resulting in a significant reduction in the Xinca population.
* June 8 – Battle of Acajutla: Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado defeats 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.
* 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.

* The first Dalecarlian rebellions break out in Sweden.

Births

* February 10 – Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
* February 17 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, French cardinal (d. 1574)
* 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 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 9 – Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1586)
* October 14 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Danish princess (d. 1586)
* October 16 – Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur, French Catholic bishop (d. 1577)
* November 12 – Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (d. 1579)
* ''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)
** Joseph Nasi, Portuguese Sephardi diplomat and administrator (d. 1579)
** Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (d. 1580)
** Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580)
** Plautilla Nelli, Italian painter (d. 1588)
**Wenceslaus III Adam, Duke of Cieszyn (d. 1579)
**Catherine Carey, cousin of Elizabeth I of England (d. 1569)
**Guyonne de Laval, French Huguenot magnate (d. 1567)
* ''possible''
** Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England, (b. between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)

Deaths

* January 5 – Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (b. 1450)
* January 6 – Amalie of the Palatinate, duchess consort of Pomerania (b. 1490)
* February 10 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1468)
* February 11 – Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples (b. 1470)
* February 20 – Tecun Uman, Kʼicheʼ Mayan ruler (b. c. 1500)
* March 28
** Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg (b. 1451)
** Ingrid Persdotter, Swedish nun and letter writer
* April 14 – William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers, English baron (b. 1468)
* April 30 – Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
* May 17 – Francesco Soderini, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1453)
* May 21 – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and statesman (b. 1443)
* May 23 – Ismail I, Safavid dynasty Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
* May 31 – Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian Roman Catholic nun and saint (b. 1458)
* June 12 – Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1465)
* July 9 – Sibylle of Brandenburg, Duchess of Jülich and Berg (b. 1467)
* July 20 – Claude of France, queen consort of Francis I of France (b. 1499)
* August 4 – Helen of the Palatinate, Duchess of Pomerania (b. 1493)
* August 24 – Sir William Scott, English Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1459)
* September 18 – Charlotte of Valois, French princess (b. 1516)
* October 5 – Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter (b. c. 1480)
* October 20 – Thomas Linacre, English humanist and physician (b. 1460)
* October 26 – Philip II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1486–1524) (b. 1453)
* November 12 – Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca, Spanish archbishop and courtier (b. 1451)
* 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

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