1522

Year '1522' (MDXXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1522

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1522

January - June

★ January 9 - Pope Adrian VI (born Adrian Dedens and sometimes referred to as Hadrian) succeeds Pope Leo X as the 218th pope.

★ April 27 - Battle of Bicocca - French and Swiss forces under Odet de Lautrec are defeated by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Milan, and are forced to withdraw into Venetian territory.

July - December

★ July 28 - Beginning of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I's siege of the Knights of St. John in Rhodes.

★ September 6 - The ''Vittoria'', one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

★ December 18 - The Turks finally break into Rhodes, but the Knights continue fierce resistance in the streets.

★ December 20 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.

Undated

★ First Diet of Nuremberg.

★ The third edition of the Textus Receptus of the Bible published.

★ Knight's Revolt in Germany.

Births

★ February 2 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (died 1565)

★ March 28 - Albert the Warlike, German prince (died 1557)

★ April 23 - Catherine of Ricci, Italian prioress (died 1590)

★ May 24 - John Jewel, English bishop (died 1571)

★ July 25 - Anna of Lorraine (died 1568)

★ September 11 - Ulissi Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (died 1605)

★ November 9 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (died 1586)

★ November 18 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (died 1568)

★ December 28 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1568)

★ ''date unknown''

★
★ Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero [RaMaK]- Jewish kabbalist from Safed, Israel [d. 1570)

★ ''probable''

★
★ Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (died 1559)
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Deaths

★ February 25 - William Lilye, English classical scholar (born c1468)

★ April - Queen Eleni of Ethiopia

★ June 25 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (born 1451)

★ June 30 - Johann Reuchlin, German humanist and Hebrew scholar (born 1455)

★ September - Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet and bishop (born c1474)

★ October 30 - Jean Mouton, French composer (born c1459)

★ November 14 - Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)

★ ''date unknown''

★
★ Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Italian painter (born 1440)

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★ Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1479)
: ''See also .''