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1528

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

Contents

January–June

  • January 12 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523.
  • February
  • Peasant uprising in Dalarna, Sweden: rebel campaign fails and the rebel leader, later known as Daljunkern, flees to Rostock.
  • Diego García de Moguer explores the Sierra de la Plata along the Río de la Plata and begins to travel up the Paraná River.
  • Paracelsus visits Colmar in Alsace.
  • June 19 – Battle of Landriano: A French army in Italy under Marshal Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Pol is decisively defeated.

    • July–December

  • September 12 – Andrea Doria defeats his former allies, the French, and establishes the independence of Genoa.
  • October 3 – Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón arrives in the Maluku Islands.
  • October 13 – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey founds a college in his birthplace of Ipswich in England, which becomes the modern-day Ipswich School (incorporating institutions in the town dating back to 1299).
  • 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.

    • Date unknown

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Paracelsus leaves Basle.

    • Births

  • January 7 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
  • February 29
  • Domingo Báñez, Spanish theologian (d. 1604)
  • Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1579)
  • March 25 – Jakob Andreae, German theologian (d. 1590)
  • June 7 – Cyriacus Spangenberg, German theologian and historian (d. 1604)
  • June 21 – Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1603)
  • June 29 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
  • July 7 – Archduchess Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1590)
  • July 8 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
  • July 26 – Diego Andrada de Payva, Portuguese theologian (d. 1575)
  • August 10 – Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1584)
  • September 25 – Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1603)
  • October 4 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (d. 1599)
  • October 10 – Adam Lonicer, German botanist (d. 1586)
  • November 2 – Petrus Lotichius Secundus, German Neo-Latin Poet (d. 1560)
  • November 6 – Gabriel Goodman (d. 1601)
  • November 12 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (d. 1588)
  • November 14 – Francisco Pérez de Valenzuela, Spanish noble (d. 1599)
  • November 29 – Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (d. 1592)
  • 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)
  • Sabina, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1578)
  • Thomas Whythorne, English musician and author (d. 1595)
  • probable
  • Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English general (d. 1590)
  • Paul de Foix French diplomat
  • 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)

    • 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
  • Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer (b. 1485)
  • Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (b. 1487)
  • Muhammad Tour, ruler of Gao
  • Daljunkern, Swedish rebel leader who may have been pretender Nils Sture (b. 1512)
  • Barbro Stigsdotter, Swedish noblewoman and heroine (b. 1472)

    • References

    1528 Wikipedia
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