1524

Events 
 January–June 
 January – Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World.
 March 1 (approximate date) – da Verrazzano's expedition makes landfall at Cape Fear.
 April 17 – da Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay and sights the island of Manhattan.

 July–December 
 Summer – Paracelsus visits Salzburg. He also visits Villach during the year.
 July 8 – da Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.
 August–September – Marseille is besieged by Imperial forces under the Duke of Bourbon.
 October 28 – A French army invading Italy under King Francis besieges Pavia.

 Births 
 Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580)
 Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)

 Deaths 
 Pietro Perugino – Italian painter
 June 12 – Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1465)
 July 20 – Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
 December 24 – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1469)

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