Year 1524 (MDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1524

January - June

• March 1, 1524/5 - 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 batallion of Pipiles, in the neighborhoods of present day Acajutla, El Salvador

1524: Voyage of Verrazzano.

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.

Undated

• Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to sight the island of Manhattan, the future New York City.
• Quiché, the capital of Gumarcaj, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores.

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)

See also Category: 1524 births.

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)

See also Category: 1524 deaths.

Ongoing Events

• The Peasants' War in Germany (1524-1525).

af:1524 am:1524 ?.?.?. ar:1524 an:1524 ast:1524 az:1524 bn:???? map-bms:1524 be:1524 be-x-old:1524 bh:???? bs:1524 br:1524 bg:1524 ca:1524 cv:1524 cs:1524 co:1524 cy:1524 da:1524 de:1524 et:1524 el:1524 es:1524 eo:1524 eu:1524 fr:1524 fy:1524 ga:1524 gd:1524 gl:1524 ko:1524? hy:1524 hi:1524 hr:1524. io:1524 bpy:???? ???? id:1524 ia:1524 os:1524 is:1524 it:1524 he:1524 jv:1524 ka:1524 sw:1524 ht:1524 (almanak jilyen) la:1524 lb:1524 lt:XVI am?iaus 3-as de?imtmetis hu:1524 mk:1524 mi:1524 mr:?.?. ???? ms:1524 nah:1524 nl:1524 new:???? ja:1524? nap:1524 no:1524 nn:1524 nrm:1524 nov:1524 oc:1524 uz:1524 pi:???? nds:1524 pl:1524 pt:1524 ksh:Joohr 1524 ro:1524 ru:1524 ??? sa:???? sq:1524 scn:1524 simple:1524 sk:1524 sl:1524 sr:1524 su:1524 fi:1524 sv:1524 tl:1524 tt:1524 th:?.?. 2067 tr:1524 uk:1524 vec:1524 vo:1524 zh-yue:1524? zh:1524?