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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 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1524 (MDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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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.
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
| Gregorian calendar | 1524 MDXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2277 |
| Armenian calendar | 973 ԹՎ ՋՀԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -320 – -319 |
| Berber calendar | 2474 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2068 |
| Burmese calendar | 886 |
| Chinese calendar | 4160/4220-11-26 (癸未年十一月廿六日) — to —
4161/4221-12-7(甲申年十二月初七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1240 – 1241 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1516 – 1517 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5284 – 5285 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1579 – 1580 |
| - 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 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2067 |
- 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).
