1528

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s

Years: 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 - 1528 - 1529 1530 1531 1532 1533

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated.
• November 6 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot on Texas.
• Andrea Doria revolts against the French and establishes the independence of Genoa
• Montenegro gains autonomy under Turk power.
• Maya people drive Spanish Conquistadors out of Yucatán.
• Spain takes direct control of Acapulco.
• Bubonic plague breaks out in England.
• St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle completed.
• Chateau Fontainebleau in France begun.
• Cardinal Wolsey founds a college at Ipswich.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on fortifications of Florence.
• Baldassare Castiglione publishes The Book of the Courtier.

• July 8 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (+ 1580)
• Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (+ 1572)

• April 6 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer and mathematician
• Giovanni da Verrazzano, explorer