1524

Years: 1521 1522 1523 - 1524 - 1525 1526 1527
Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

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.

May 28 - Selim II, Ottoman Emperor (died 1574)
September 11 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (died 1585)
Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (died 1587)
Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (died 1573)
February 10 - Albrecht Giese IV, Polish merchant (died 1580)
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, celebrated French soldier (died 1592)
Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (died 1579)
August 23 - François Hotman, French protestant lawyer and writer (died 1590)
Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (died 1584)
Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1602)
Miguel López de Legaspi, Spanish Conquistador who led the conquest of the Philippine Islands (died 1572)
Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1598)
Tahmasp I, influential Shah of Persia of the Safavid Dynasty
September 7 - Thomas Erastus, German-Swiss theologian (died 1583)
Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (died 1580)