1524 1524 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar .Events January–June January 17 - Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano , on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France , sets out from Madeira for the New World , to seek out a western sea route to the Pacific Ocean . March - Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado destroys the K'iche' kingdom of Q'umarkaj , taking the capital, Quiché . March 1 Cape Fear . April 17 - Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay , and sights the island of Manhattan . 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 the Italian Peninsula . May 26 - Atiquipaque, the most important city of the Xinca people is conquered by the Spanish resulting in a significant reduction in the Xinca population. June 8 - Battle of Acajutla: Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado defeats a battalion of Pipiles , in the neighborhoods of present day Acajutla , El Salvador .July–December Summer - Paracelsus visits Salzburg ; he also visits Villach during the year. July 8 - Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe . August-September - Marseille is besieged by Imperial forces, under the Duke of Bourbon . August - Protestant theologians Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt dispute at Jena . 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. The first Dalecarlian rebellions break out in Sweden.Births February 10 - Albrecht Giese , German politician and diplomat February 17 - Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine , French cardinal May 28 - Selim II , Ottoman Sultan June 12 - Achilles Statius , Portuguese humanist June 24 - Johann Stössel , German theologian August 14 - Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg , Danish princess August 23 - François Hotman , French Protestant lawyer and writer September 7 - Thomas Erastus , Swiss theologian September 11 - Pierre de Ronsard , French poet October 4 - Francisco Vallés , Spanish physician October 5 - Rani Durgavati , Queen of Gond October 9 - Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma October 16 - Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur , French Catholic bishop November 12 - Diego de Landa , Bishop of the Yucatán date unknown *Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland * Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron , French soldier * Jean Pithou , French lawyer and author ; and his twin brother, Nicolas Pithou , French lawyer and author * Joseph Nasi , Portuguese Sephardi diplomat and administrator * Thomas Tusser , English poet and farmer * Luís de Camões , Portuguese poet * Plautilla Nelli , Italian painter *Wenceslaus III Adam, Duke of Cieszyn *Catherine Carey, cousin of Elizabeth I of England possible * Catherine Howard , fifth queen of Henry VIII of England ,Deaths January 5 - Marko Marulić , Croatian poet January 6 - Amalie of the Palatinate , duchess consort of Pomerania February 10 - Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria February 11 - Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan , daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples February 20 - Tecun Uman , K'iche' Mayan ruler March 28 * Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg * Ingrid Persdotter , Swedish nun and letter writer April 14 - William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers , English baron April 30 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard , French soldier May 17 - Francesco Soderini , Italian Catholic cardinal May 21 - Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk , English soldier and statesman May 23 - Ismail I , Safavid Dynasty Shah of Persia May 31 - Camilla Battista da Varano , Italian Roman Catholic nun and saint June 12 - Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar , Spanish conquistador July 9 - Sibylle of Brandenburg , Duchess of Jülich and Berg July 20 - Claude of France , queen consort of Louis XII of France August 4 - Helen of the Palatinate , Duchess of Pomerania August 24 - Sir William Scott , English Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports September 18 - Charlotte of Valois , French princess October 5 - Joachim Patinir , Flemish landscape painter October 20 - Thomas Linacre , English humanist and physician October 26 - Philip II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg November 12 - Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca , Spanish archbishop and courtier December 24 - Vasco da Gama , Portuguese explorer date unknown * Hans Holbein the Elder , German painter * Andrea Solari , Italian painter * Tang Yin , Chinese painter
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