1524

March 21 — April 17 –: Giovanni da Verrazzano and the crew of La Dauphine reach the North American eastern coast and sail northward.
1524 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1524
MDXXIV
Ab urbe condita2277
Armenian calendar973
ԹՎ ՋՀԳ
Assyrian calendar6274
Balinese saka calendar1445–1446
Bengali calendar930–931
Berber calendar2474
English Regnal year15 Hen. 8 – 16 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2068
Burmese calendar886
Byzantine calendar7032–7033
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
4221 or 4014
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4222 or 4015
Coptic calendar1240–1241
Discordian calendar2690
Ethiopian calendar1516–1517
Hebrew calendar5284–5285
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1580–1581
 - Shaka Samvat1445–1446
 - Kali Yuga4624–4625
Holocene calendar11524
Igbo calendar524–525
Iranian calendar902–903
Islamic calendar930–931
Japanese calendarDaiei 4
(大永４年)
Javanese calendar1442–1443
Julian calendar1524
MDXXIV
Korean calendar3857
Minguo calendar388 before ROC
民前388年
Nanakshahi calendar56
Thai solar calendar2066–2067
Tibetan calendarཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Water-Sheep)
1650 or 1269 or 497
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Monkey)
1651 or 1270 or 498
Start of the German Peasants' War.

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

Events

January–March

April–June

  • April 17 – Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay, and sights the island of Manhattan.[4][5]
  • 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 23 – Tahmasp I becomes the ruler of the Safavid Empire, following the death of his father, Shah Ismail I.
  • 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.[6]

July–September

  • July 8 – Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.
  • August 5 – Two days before his coronation in Denmark, Frederick I is elected King of Norway.
  • August 7 – The coronation of Frederick I of Denmark takes place in Copenhagen.
  • August 20 – The French city of Marseille is besieged by Holy Roman Empire forces commanded by the Charles III, Duke of Bourbon and lasts until September 26.[7]
  • August 22 – Protestant theologians Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt dispute at Jena.[8]
  • September 1 – By the Treaty of Malmö signed on Sweden withdraws from the Kalmar Union with Denmark, Norway and Sweden.[9]
  • September 5 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives on the island of Goa to become the new Viceroy of Portuguese India but dies three months later.
  • September 13 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, Hernando de Luque and Diego de Almagro all set off on the first of three expeditions to conquer Peru, taking along 80 men and 40 horses, but the venture is halted in Colombia.
  • September 23 – The Bundesbrief is adopted by the members of the Three Leagues of Switzerland (the League of God's House, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions, and the Grey League) as a common constitution.[10]

October–December

  • October 28 – A French army invading Italy, under King Francis, besieges Pavia, months before the Battle of Pavia.
  • November 1 – John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming, Lord Chancellor of Scotland since 1517, is assassinated by John Tweedie of Drummelzier (chief of Clan Tweedie) and others.[11]
  • November 15 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed between representatives of Honoré I, Lord of Monaco and of King Charles of Spain, and places Monaco under the protection of Spain.[12]
  • December 8 – Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba founds the city of Granada, Nicaragua, the oldest Hispanic city in the mainland America.


Births

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)[15]
  • date unknown
    • Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter (b. 1460)
    • Andrea Solari, Italian painter (b. 1460)
    • Tang Yin, Chinese painter (b. 1470)

References

  1. ^ Sharer, Robert J.; Loa P. Traxler (2006). The Ancient Maya (6th ed.). Stanford, California, US: Stanford University Press. p. 764. ISBN 0-8047-4817-9. OCLC 57577446.
  2. ^ "Introduction", in Allen J. Christenson, to Popul Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012) p.31
  3. ^ Verrazano's Voyage Along the Atlantic Coast of North America, 1524, translation of letters by Giovanni da Verrazzano (University of the State of New York, 1916) p.6 ("The XXIIII day of February we suffered a tempest as severe as ever a man who has navigated suffered... In XXV more days we asailed more than 400 leagues where there appeared to us a new land.")
  4. ^ Paine, Lincoln P. (2000). Ships of Discovery and Exploration. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 37. ISBN 0-395-98415-7.
  5. ^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 235. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
  6. ^ James Stuart Olson (1991). The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-313-26387-3.
  7. ^ Janine Garrisson and Emmanuel Haven, A History of Sixteenth Century France, 1483-1598: Renaissance, Reformation and Rebellion (Macmillan Education UK, 1995) p.145
  8. ^ Amy Nelson Burnett, Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy: A Study in the Circulation of Ideas (Oxford University Press, 2011) p.143
  9. ^ Lars-Olof Larsson, Gustav Vasa – Landsfader eller tyrann? (Prima, 2005) ISBN 978-9151839042
  10. ^ "Vasco da Gama's Voyage of 'Discovery' 1497". South African History Online. March 21, 2011. Archived from the original on March 3, 2022. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  11. ^ George Way and Romily Squire, Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia (Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, 1994). pp. 387-388.
  12. ^ Smith, Adolphe (1912). Monaco and Monte Carlo. Grant Richards. p. 76.
  13. ^ Edward Bourbeau (1983). Three Centuries of Bourbeaus in North America: From Pierre Bourbeau (1648) to Louis-Ludger Bourbeau (1939). p. 193.
  14. ^ A. J. Hoenselaars (1999). The Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-8386-3786-9.
  15. ^ Sanjay Subrahmanyam (October 29, 1998). The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama. Cambridge University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-521-64629-1.
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