1522
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1522 (MDXXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1522nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 522nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1520s decade. As of the start of 1522, 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: | 1519 1520 1521 – 1522 – 1523 1524 1525 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1522 MDXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2275 |
| Armenian calendar | 971 ԹՎ ՋՀԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6272 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1443–1444 |
| Bengali calendar | 929 |
| Berber calendar | 2472 |
| English Regnal year | 13 Hen. 8 – 14 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2066 |
| Burmese calendar | 884 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7030–7031 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4218 or 4158 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4219 or 4159 |
| Coptic calendar | 1238–1239 |
| Discordian calendar | 2688 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1514–1515 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5282–5283 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1578–1579 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1443–1444 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4622–4623 |
| Holocene calendar | 11522 |
| Igbo calendar | 522–523 |
| Iranian calendar | 900–901 |
| Islamic calendar | 928–929 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiei 2 (大永２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1439–1440 |
| Julian calendar | 1522 MDXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3855 |
| Minguo calendar | 390 before ROC 民前390年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 54 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2064–2065 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1648 or 1267 or 495 — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1649 or 1268 or 496 |
Events
change- January 9 – Adrian Dedens becomes Pope Adrian VI.
- February 26 – Execution by hanging of Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan under orders of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
- April 22 – Battle of Bicocca – French and Swiss forces under Odet de Lautrec are defeated by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Milan, and are forced to withdraw into Venetian territory.
- July 28 – Beginning of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I's siege of the Knights of St. John in Rhodes.
- September 6 – The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
- December 18 – The Turks finally break into Rhodes, but the Knights continue fierce resistance in the streets.
- December 20 – Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
- First Diet of Nuremberg.
- The third edition of the Textus Receptus of the Bible published.