1524

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

1524 in other calendars

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

January–June

• 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.

July–December

• 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

• 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

• 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)