1528

Jan. 12: Gustav

Year 1528 (MDXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1528

[edit] January - June

• January 12 - Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden.
• June 19 - Battle of Landriano: A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated.

[edit] July - December

• September 12 - Andrea Doria defeats his former allies, the French, and establishes the independence of Genoa.
• October 13 - Cardinal Wolsey founds a college at Ipswich, which later becomes Ipswich School.
• October 20 - The Treaty of Gorinchem is signed between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Charles, Duke of Guelders.
• November 6 - Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of what is present-day Texas.

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• Montenegro gains autonomy under Turkish power.
• The Maya peoples drive Spanish Conquistadores out of Yucatán.
• Spain takes direct control of Acapulco.
• Bubonic plague breaks out in England.^[1]

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• The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England. This time the disease also spreads to northern Europe.
• St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle is completed.
• Chateau Fontainebleau in France is begun.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on the fortifications of Florence.
• Baldassare Castiglione publishes The Book of the Courtier.
• In Henan province of China, during the mid Ming Dynasty, a vast drought deprives the region of harvests for the next two years, killing off half the people in some communities due to starvation and cannibalism, as reported by local gazeteers.

[edit] Births

• January 7 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
• July 8 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
• October 4 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (d. 1599)
• November 12 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (d. 1588)
• date unknown
  • Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (d. 1604)
  • Federico Barocci, Italian painter (d. 1612)
  • Adam of Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (d. 1577)
  • Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (d. 1602)
  • Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (d. 1583)
  • George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (d. 1590)
  • Phung Khac Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (d. 1613)
• probable
  • Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg, stadtholder of the Dutch provinces of Friesland (d. 1568)
  • Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1582)
  • Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (d. 1601)
  • John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (d. 1554)
  • Paul de Foix French diplomat

See also Category: 1528 births.

[edit] Deaths

• February 29 - Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1504)
• March 10 - Balthasar Hübmaier, influential German/Moravian Anabaptist leader (b. 1480)
• April 1 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (b. c. 1470)
• April 6 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (b. 1471)
• July - Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (b. 1480)
• August 15 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
• August 20 - Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner (b. 1473)
• August 31 - Matthias Grünewald, German artist (b. 1470)
• September - Pánfilo de Narváez, Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas (b. 1480)
• October 5 - Richard Foxe, English churchman (b. c. 1448)
• date unknown
  • Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (b. 1487)
  • Muhammad Tour, ruler of Gao

See also Category: 1528 deaths.

[edit] References