1528
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s |
| Years: | 1525 1526 1527 – 1528 – 1529 1530 1531 |
| 1528 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art – |
| Literature – Music – Poetry – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1528 (MDXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events of 1528
January–June
- January 12 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden. (Having already reigned since his election in 1523.)
- February – Peasant uprising in Dalarna, Sweden: rebel campaign fails and rebel leader, later known as Daljunkern, flees to Rostock.
- June 19 – Battle of Landriano: A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated.
July–December
- September 12 – Andrea Doria defeats his former allies, the French, and establishes the independence of Genoa.
- October 13 – Cardinal Wolsey founds a college at Ipswich, which later becomes Ipswich School.
- October 20 – The Treaty of Gorinchem is signed between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Charles, Duke of Guelders.
- November 6 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of what is present-day Texas.
Undated
- Montenegro gains autonomy under Turkish power.
- The Maya peoples drive Spanish Conquistadores out of Yucatán.
- Spain takes direct control of Acapulco.
- Bubonic plague breaks out in England.[1]
- The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England. This time the disease also spreads to northern Europe.
- St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle is completed.
- Chateau Fontainebleau in France is begun.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on the fortifications of Florence.
- Baldassare Castiglione publishes The Book of the Courtier.
- Ipswich School was founded in its current form by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey from older (dating back to 1299) institutions in the town.
- In Henan province of China, during the mid Ming Dynasty, a vast drought deprives the region of harvests for the next two years, killing off half the people in some communities due to starvation and cannibalism, as reported by local gazeteers.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1528 MDXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2281 |
| Armenian calendar | 977 ԹՎ ՋՀԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -316 – -315 |
| Bengali calendar | 935 |
| Berber calendar | 2478 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2072 |
| Burmese calendar | 890 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7036 – 7037 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十二月初十日 (4164/4224-12-10) — to —
戊子年十一月二十日(4165/4225-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 1244 – 1245 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1520 – 1521 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5288 – 5289 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1584 – 1585 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1450 – 1451 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4629 – 4630 |
| Holocene calendar | 11528 |
| Iranian calendar | 906 – 907 |
| Islamic calendar | 934 – 935 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiei 8Kyōroku 1 (享禄元年) |
| Korean calendar | 3861 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2071 |
- January 7 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
- July 8 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
- October 4 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (d. 1599)
- November 12 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (d. 1588)
- date unknown
- Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (d. 1604)
- Federico Barocci, Italian painter (d. 1612)
- Adam of Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (d. 1577)
- Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (d. 1602)
- Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (d. 1583)
- George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (d. 1590)
- Phung Khac Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (d. 1613)
- Thomas Whythorne, English musician and author (d. 1595)
- probable
- Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English general (d. 1590)
- Paul de Foix French diplomat
- Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg, stadtholder of the Dutch provinces of Friesland (d. 1568)
- Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1582)
- Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (d. 1601)
Deaths
- February 29 – Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1504)
- March 10 – Balthasar Hübmaier, influential German/Moravian Anabaptist leader (b. 1480)
- April 1 – Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (b. c. 1470)
- April 6 – Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (b. 1471)
- July – Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (b. 1480)
- August 15 – Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
- August 20 – Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner (b. 1473)
- August 31 – Matthias Grünewald, German artist (b. 1470)
- September – Pánfilo de Narváez, Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas (b. 1480)
- October 5 – Richard Foxe, English churchman (b. c. 1448)
- date unknown