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Calendar year
March 21 —
April 17 –:
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni da Verrazzano and the crew of
La Dauphine reach the North American eastern coast and sail northward.
Start of the
German Peasants' War .
Year 1524 (
MDXXIV ) was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
October 28 – A French army invading Italy, under King
Francis , besieges
Pavia , months before the
Battle of Pavia .
November 1 –
John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming ,
Lord Chancellor of Scotland since 1517, is assassinated by John Tweedie of Drummelzier (chief of
Clan Tweedie ) and others.
[11]
November 15 – The
Treaty of Tordesillas is signed between representatives of
Honoré I, Lord of Monaco and of
King Charles of Spain , and places
Monaco under the protection of Spain.
[12]
December 8 –
Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba founds the city of
Granada, Nicaragua , the oldest Hispanic city in the mainland America.
Births
February 10 –
Albrecht Giese , German politician and diplomat (d.
1580 )
February 17 –
Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine , French cardinal (d.
1574 )
May 28 –
Selim II ,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1574 )
June 12 –
Achilles Statius , Portuguese humanist (d.
1581 )
June 24 –
Johann Stössel , German theologian (d.
1576 )
August 23 –
François Hotman , French Protestant lawyer and writer (d.
1590 )
[13]
September 7 –
Thomas Erastus , Swiss theologian (d.
1583 )
September 11 –
Pierre de Ronsard , French poet (d.
1585 )
October 4 –
Francisco Vallés , Spanish physician (d.
1592 )
October 5 –
Rani Durgavati , Queen of Gond (d.
1564 )
October 9 –
Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (d.
1586 )
October 14 –
Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg , Danish princess (d.
1586 )
October 16 –
Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur , French Catholic bishop (d.
1577 )
November 12 –
Diego de Landa , Bishop of the Yucatán (d.
1579 )
date unknown
Jan Borukowski , royal secretary of Poland (d.
1584 )
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron , French soldier (d.
1592 )
Jean Pithou , French lawyer and author (d.
1602 ); and his twin brother,
Nicolas Pithou , French lawyer and author (d.
1598 )
Joseph Nasi , Portuguese Sephardi diplomat and administrator (d.
1579 )
Thomas Tusser , English poet and farmer (d.
1580 )
Luís de Camões , Portuguese poet (d.
1580 )
[14]
Plautilla Nelli , Italian painter (d.
1588 )
Wenceslaus III Adam, Duke of Cieszyn (d.
1579 )
Catherine Carey , cousin of
Elizabeth I of England (d.
1569 )
Guyonne de Laval , French Huguenot magnate (d.
1567 )
possible
Deaths
January 5 –
Marko Marulić , Croatian poet (b.
1450 )
January 6 –
Amalie of the Palatinate , duchess consort of Pomerania (b.
1490 )
February 10 –
Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (b.
1468 )
February 11 –
Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan , daughter of
King Alfonso II of Naples (b.
1470 )
February 20 –
Tecun Uman ,
Kʼicheʼ Mayan ruler (b. c.
1500 )
March 28
April 14 –
William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers , English baron (b.
1468 )
April 30 –
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard , French soldier (b.
1473 )
May 17 –
Francesco Soderini , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.
1453 )
May 21 –
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk , English soldier and statesman (b.
1443 )
May 23 –
Ismail I ,
Safavid dynasty Shah of Persia (b.
1487 )
May 31 –
Camilla Battista da Varano , Italian
Roman Catholic nun and saint (b.
1458 )
June 12 –
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar , Spanish conquistador (b.
1465 )
July 9 –
Sibylle of Brandenburg , Duchess of Jülich and Berg (b.
1467 )
July 20 –
Claude of France , queen consort of
Francis I of France (b.
1499 )
August 4 –
Helen of the Palatinate , Duchess of Pomerania (b.
1493 )
August 24 –
Sir William Scott , English Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b.
1459 )
September 18 –
Charlotte of Valois , French princess (b.
1516 )
October 5 –
Joachim Patinir , Flemish landscape painter (b. c.
1480 )
October 20 –
Thomas Linacre , English humanist and physician (b.
1460 )
October 26 –
Philip II, Count of Waldeck -Eisenberg (1486–1524) (b.
1453 )
November 12 –
Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca , Spanish archbishop and courtier (b.
1451 )
December 24 –
Vasco da Gama , Portuguese explorer (b. c.
1469 )
[15]
date unknown
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ISBN
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ISBN
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ISBN
978-9151839042
^
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Monaco and Monte Carlo . Grant Richards. p. 76.
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