Year
1524 (
MDXXIV) was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Deaths
- January 5 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (b. 1450)
- April 30 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
- May 21 - Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and statesman (b. 1443)
- May 23 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
- June 12 - Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1465)
- July 20 - Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
- August 24 - William Scott of Scott's Hall, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- October 5 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish painter (b. c. 1480)
- December 20 - Thomas Linacre, English humanist and physician (b. 1460)
- December 24 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1469)
- date unknown
- See also :Category: 1524 deaths.
Ongoing Events
Events
Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano discovers New York City.
