1524
Years:
1521 1522 1523 - 1524 - 1525 1526 1527Decades:
1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550sCenturies:
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.
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- 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