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

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)

1524 Media

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  March 21 — April 17 –: Giovanni da Verrazzano and the crew of La Dauphine reach the North American eastern coast and sail northward.

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  Start of the German Peasants' War.