What is 1524?
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Year nav|1524}} {{Year in various calendars|1524}} {{Year article header|1524}} == Events == === January&ndash;June === * January &ndash; [[Giovanni da Verrazzano]], on board ''[[La Dauphine]]'' in the service of [[Francis I of France]], sets out from [[Madeira]] for the [[New World]]. * [[March 1]] ''(approximate date)'' &ndash; [[Giovanni da Verrazzano|da Verrazzano]]'s expedition makes landfall at [[Cape Fear]]. * [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Giovanni da Verrazzano|da Verrazzano]]'s expedition makes the first European entry into [[New York Bay]] and sights the island of [[Manhattan]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kpMGlc-cvAoC&dq=%22La+Dauphine%22+verrazano&pg=PA37|last=Paine|first=Lincoln P.|title=Ships of Discovery and Exploration|location=New York|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2000|isbn=0-395-98415-7|page=37}}</ref><ref name=tt>{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist00grun_0|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=0-671-74919-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist00grun_0/page/235 235]}}</ref> === July&ndash;December === * Summer &ndash; [[Paracelsus]] visits [[Salzburg]]. He also visits [[Villach]] during the year. * [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Giovanni da Verrazzano|da Verrazzano]]'s expedition returns to [[Dieppe]]. * August&ndash;September &ndash; [[Marseille]] is besieged by Imperial forces under the [[Duke of Bourbon]]. * [[October 28]] &ndash; A French army invading Italy under King [[Francis I of France|Francis]] besieges [[Pavia]]. == Births == * [[Luís de Camões]], Portuguese poet (d. [[1580]]) * [[Catherine Howard]], Fifth Queen of [[Henry VIII of England]], (born in between [[1518]] and 1524; d. [[1542]]) == Deaths == * [[Pietro Perugino]] – Italian painter * [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar]], Spanish conquistador (b. [[1465]]) * [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Claude of France]], queen of [[Louis XII of Fr