1524
year
1524 (MDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1524th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 524th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 16th century, and the 5th year of the 1520s decade. As of the start of 1524, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1524 MDXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2277 |
| Armenian calendar | 973 ԹՎ ՋՀԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6274 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1445–1446 |
| Bengali calendar | 931 |
| Berber calendar | 2474 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Hen. 8 – 16 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2068 |
| Burmese calendar | 886 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7032–7033 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4220 or 4160 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4221 or 4161 |
| Coptic calendar | 1240–1241 |
| Discordian calendar | 2690 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1516–1517 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5284–5285 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1580–1581 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1445–1446 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4624–4625 |
| Holocene calendar | 11524 |
| Igbo calendar | 524–525 |
| Iranian calendar | 902–903 |
| Islamic calendar | 930–931 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiei 4 (大永４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1442–1443 |
| Julian calendar | 1524 MDXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3857 |
| Minguo calendar | 388 before ROC 民前388年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 56 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2066–2067 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1650 or 1269 or 497 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1651 or 1270 or 498 |
Events
changeJanuary–June
change- January – Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World.
- March 1 (approximate date) – da Verrazzano's expedition makes landfall at Cape Fear.
- April 17 – da Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay and sights the island of Manhattan.[1][2]
July–December
change- Summer – Paracelsus visits Salzburg. He also visits Villach during the year.
- July 8 – da Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.
- 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.
Births
change- Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580)
- Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)
Deaths
change- Pietro Perugino – Italian painter
- June 12 – Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1465)
- July 20 – Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
- December 24 – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1469)
References
change- ↑ Paine, Lincoln P. (2000). Ships of Discovery and Exploration. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 37. ISBN 0-395-98415-7.
- ↑ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 235. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.