Jan. 12: Gustav

Year 1528 (MDXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1528

January - June

• January 12 - Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden.
• June 19 - Battle of Landriano: A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated.

July - December

• September 12 - Andrea Doria defeats his former allies, the French, and establishes the independence of Genoa.
• October 13 - Cardinal Wolsey founds a college at Ipswich, which later becomes Ipswich School.
• 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.

Undated

• 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.^[1]

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• 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, as reported by local gazeteers.

Births

• January 7 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
• July 8 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
• October 4 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (d. 1599)
• November 12 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (d. 1588)
• 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)
• probable
  • 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)
  • John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (d. 1554)
  • Paul de Foix French diplomat

See also Category: 1528 births.

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
  • Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (b. 1487)
  • Muhammad Tour, ruler of Gao

See also Category: 1528 deaths.

References

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