1528

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s
Years:	1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 1530 1531

1528 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1528 MDXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2281
Armenian calendar	977 ԹՎ ՋՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	6278
Balinese saka calendar	1449–1450
Bengali calendar	935
Berber calendar	2478
English Regnal year	19 Hen. 8 – 20 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2072
Burmese calendar	890
Byzantine calendar	7036–7037
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4225 or 4018     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4226 or 4019
Coptic calendar	1244–1245
Discordian calendar	2694
Ethiopian calendar	1520–1521
Hebrew calendar	5288–5289
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1584–1585
- Shaka Samvat	1449–1450
- Kali Yuga	4628–4629
Holocene calendar	11528
Igbo calendar	528–529
Iranian calendar	906–907
Islamic calendar	934–935
Japanese calendar	Daiei 8 / Kyōroku 1 (享禄元年)
Javanese calendar	1446–1447
Julian calendar	1528 MDXXVIII
Korean calendar	3861
Minguo calendar	384 before ROC 民前384年
Nanakshahi calendar	60
Thai solar calendar	2070–2071
Tibetan calendar	阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1654 or 1273 or 501     — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1655 or 1274 or 502

Bubonic plague breaks out in England.

Events

January–June

• January 12 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523.^[1]
• February
  • Peasant uprising in Dalarna, Sweden: The 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.^[2]
• April 28 – Battle of Capo d'Orso: The French fleet, under mercenary captain Filippino Doria, crushes the Spanish squadron trying to run the blockade of Naples.^[3]
• May (end) – The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness appears in London, rapidly spreading to the rest of England and, on this occasion, to northern Europe.

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, 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 Ottoman power.
• Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo attempts an invasion of the Yucatán, but is driven out by the Maya peoples.
• Spain takes direct control of Acapulco.
• Bubonic plague breaks out in England.^[4]
• 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, 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.^[5]
• Perak Sultanate and Johor Sultanate were established, both states being ruled by the sons of Mahmud Shah of Malacca.

Births

 

Jeanne III of Navarre

• February 29
  • Domingo Báñez, Spanish theologian (d. 1604)
  • Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1579)
• March 10 – Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1582)
• 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, Dean of Westminster (d. 1601)
• November 12 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (d. 1588)
• November 14 – Francisco Pérez de Valenzuela, Spanish noble (d. 1599)
• November 16 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)^[6]
• November 29 – Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (d. 1592)
• date unknown
  • Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (d. 1604)
  • Adam von Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (d. 1577)
  • Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (d. 1602)
  • Andrey Kurbsky, Russian writer (d. 1583)
  • George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (d. 1590)
  • Phùng Khắc Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (d. 1613)
  • Sabina, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1578)
  • Tanegashima Tokitaka, Japanese daimyō (d. 1579)
  • Thomas Whythorne, English musician and author (d. 1595)
• probable
  • Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English general (d. 1590)
  • Paul de Foix, French diplomat (d. 1584)
  • Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, stadtholder of the Dutch provinces of Friesland (d. 1568)
  • Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (d. 1601)

Deaths

 

Albrecht Dürer

• January 30 – Maharana Sangram Singh, Rana of Mewar (b. 1484)
• 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)^[7]
• 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 23 – Louis, Count of Vaudémont, Italian bishop (b. 1500)
• 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)
• October 18 – Michele Antonio, Marquess of Saluzzo (b. 1495)
• October 21 – Johann of Schwarzenberg, German judge and poet (b. 1463)
• November 17 – Jakob Wimpfeling, Renaissance humanist (b. 1450)
• December 7 – Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1469)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer (b. 1485)
  • Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (b. 1487)
  • Mahmud Shah of Malacca, Malaccan sultan
  • Daljunkern, Swedish rebel leader who may have been pretender Nils Sture (b. 1512)
  • Barbro Stigsdotter, Swedish noblewoman and heroine (b. 1472)
  • Guru Ravidas, (b. 1377)

References

1. Lillie Rollins Crawford; Robert Junious Crawford (1996). Roos Af Hjelmsäter: A Swedish Noble Family with Allied Families and Emigrants. Gateway Press. p. 420.
2. Los viajes de Diego García de Moguer.
3. Cristina Acidini; Cristina Acidini Luchinat; Palazzo Strozzi (January 1, 2002). The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence. Yale University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-300-09495-4.
4. . Archived from the original on July 20, 2008. Retrieved November 8, 2007.
5. Reported by local gazetteers.
6. Jo Eldridge Carney (2001). Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-313-30574-0.
7. Richard Ford Heath (1929). Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528. S. Low, Marston. p. 87.