1524
*
March 1, 1524/
5 -
Giovanni da Verrazano 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.
* August - September - Siege of
Marseille by Imperial forces under the
Duke of Bourbon.
*
October 28 - A French army invading Italy under King
Francis besieges Pavia.
*
Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to sight the island of
Manhattan, the future
New York City.
*
The Peasants' War in
Germany (1524-1525).
*
Quiché capital of
Gumarcaj falls to the
Spanish Conquistadores.
*
February 10 -
Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (died
1580)
*
February 17 -
Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d.
1574)
*
May 28 -
Selim II,
Ottoman Sultan (died
1574)
*
August 23 -
François Hotman, French protestant lawyer and writer (died
1590)
*
September 7 -
Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (died
1583)
*
September 11 -
Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (died
1585)
*
Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (died
1584)
*
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (died
1592)
*
Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (died
1573)
*
Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (died
1579)
*
Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (died
1602)
*
Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (died
1598)
*
Tahmasp I,
Shah of Persia*
Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (died
1580)
*
January 5 -
Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (born
1450)
*
April 30 -
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b.
1473)
*
May 21 -
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and statesman (born
1443)
*
May 23 -
Ismail I,
Shah of Persia (born
1487)
*
July 20 -
Claude of France, queen of
Louis XII of France (born
1499)
*
December 20 -
Thomas Linacre, English humanist and physician (born
1460)
*
December 24 -
Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer
*
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (born
1465)
*
Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter (born
1460)
*
Joachim Patinir, Flemish painter
*
William Scott of Scott's Hall, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
*
Andrea Solari, Italian painter
