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

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Events of 1528

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1528

January - June

★ January 12 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.

★ June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated.

July - December

★ September 12 - Andrea Doria defeats his former allies, the French, and establishes the independence of Genoa.

★ 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.

Undated

★ Montenegro gains autonomy under Turk power.

★ Maya peoples drive Spanish Conquistadores 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, which later became Ipswich School.

★ Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on fortifications of Florence.

★ Baldassare Castiglione publishes ''The Book of the Courtier''.

Births

★ January 7 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (died 1572)

★ July 8 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (died 1580)

★ October 4 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (died 1599)

★ November 12 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (d. 1588)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (died 1604)

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★ Federico Barocci, Italian painter (died 1612)

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★ Adam of Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (died 1577)

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★ Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (died 1602)

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★ Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (died 1583)

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★ George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (died 1590)

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★ Phung Khac Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (died 1613)

★ ''probable''

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★ Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg, stadtholder of the Dutch provinces of Friesland (died 1568)

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★ Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1582)

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★ Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (died 1601)

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★ John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (died 1554)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ February 29 - Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (born 1504)

★ March 10 - Balthasar Hübmaier, influential German/Moravian Anabaptist leader (born 1480)

★ April 1 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (born c1470)

★ April 6 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (born 1471)

★ July - Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (born 1480)

★ August 15 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (born 1485)

★ August 20 - Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (born 1473)

★ August 31 - Matthias Grünewald, German artist (born 1470)

★ October 5 - Richard Foxe, English churchman (born c1448)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Pánfilo de Narváez, Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas (born 1480)

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★ Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (born 1487)
: ''See also .''