1528

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Years: 1525 1526 1527 - 1528 - 1529 1530 1531

Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s

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

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.
• Fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England. This time the disease also spreads to northern Europe
• 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.

Births

• January 7 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (died 1572)
• July 8 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (died 1580)
• October 4 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (died 1599)
• November 12 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (d. 1588)
• Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (died 1604)
• Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg, stadtholder of the Dutch provinces of Friesland (died 1568)
• Federico Barocci, Italian painter (died 1612)
• Adam of Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (died 1577)
• Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (died 1602)
• Andrey Kurbsky, Russian writer (died 1583)
• Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1582)
• Girolamo Muziano, Italian painter (died 1592)
• Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (died 1601)
• George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (died 1590)
• John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (died 1554)

Deaths

• February 29 - Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (born 1504)
• April 1 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer
• April 6 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (born 1471)
• August 15 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (born 1485)
• October 5 - Richard Fox, English churchman
• Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (born 1473)
• Matthias Grünewald, German artist (born 1470)
• Balthasar Hubmaier, influential German/Moravian Anabaptist leader (born 1480)
• Pánfilo de Narváez, Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas (born 1480)
• Palma Vecchio, Italian painter
• Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (born 1487)