Events

• March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. date).
• 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 Italy.
• August - September - Siege of Marseille by Imperial forces under the Duke of Bourbon.
• October 28 - A French army invading Italy under King Francis besieges Pavia.
• Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to sight the island of Manhattan, the future New York City.
• The Peasants' War in Germany (1524-1525).
• Quiché capital of Gumarcaj falls to the Spanish Conquistadores.

Births

• February 10 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (died 1580)
• February 17 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
• May 28 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1574)
• August 23 - François Hotman, French protestant lawyer and writer (died 1590)
• September 7 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (died 1583)
• September 11 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (died 1585)
• Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (died 1584)
• Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (died 1592)
• Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (died 1573)
• Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (died 1579)
• Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1602)
• Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1598)
• Tahmasp I, Shah of Persia
• Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (died 1580)

Deaths

• January 5 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (born 1450)
• April 30 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
• May 21 - Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and statesman (born 1443)
• May 23 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (born 1487)
• July 20 - Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (born 1499)
• December 20 - Thomas Linacre, English humanist and physician (born 1460)
• December 24 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer
• Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (born 1465)
• Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter (born 1460)
• Joachim Patinir, Flemish painter
• William Scott of Scott's Hall, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
• Andrea Solari, Italian painter

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