1528
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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
[edit] 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 (Michelangelo Buonarroti) begins work on fortifications of Florence.
- Baldassare Castiglione publishes The Book of the Courtier.