1524

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"
**Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter (b. 1460)
**Andrea Solari, Italian painter (b. 1460)
**Tang Yin, Chinese painter (b. 1470): "See also ."

Ongoing Events

* The Peasants' War in Germany (1524-1525).

EventsItalian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano discovers New York City.