1524

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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 – Poetry – 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.

Events of 1524

March 1524 – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado destroys the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj
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.
June 8 – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado leads the Battle of Acajutla, defeating a battalion of Pipiles, in the neighborhoods of present day Acajutla, El Salvador

1524: Voyage of Verrazzano.

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.

Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to sight the island of Manhattan, the future New York City.
Quiché, the capital of the K'iche' Maya Kingdom, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores.

See also Category: 1524 births.

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.