1524
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This article is about the year 1524.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s |
| Years: | 1521 1522 1523 – 1524 – 1525 1526 1527 |
| 1524 by topic |
| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial governors - State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1524 MDXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2277 |
| Armenian calendar | 973 ԹՎ ՋՀԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -320 – -319 |
| 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 | 癸未年十一月廿六日 (4160/4220-11-26) — to —
甲申年十二月初七日(4161/4221-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 1240 – 1241 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1516 – 1517 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5284 – 5285 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1580 – 1581 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1446 – 1447 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4625 – 4626 |
| Holocene calendar | 11524 |
| Iranian calendar | 902 – 903 |
| Islamic calendar | 930 – 931 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiei 4 (大永4年) |
| Korean calendar | 3857 |
| Minguo calendar | 388 before ROC 民前388年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2067 |
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Year 1524 (MDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- March – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado destroys the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj
- March 1 – Giovanni da Verrazzano lands near Cape Fear (approx. date).
- 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
[edit] July–December
- 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.
[edit] Date unknown
- Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to sight the island of Manhattan, the future New York City.
- Quiché, the capital of the K'iche' Maya Kingdom, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores.
- Paracelsus visits Villach.
- Summer - Paracelsus visits Salzburg.
[edit] Births
- 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)
- Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
- 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 Vaz de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. June 10, 1580)
- possible
- Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)
[edit] Deaths
- 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)
