Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s  1500s  1510s  – 1520s –  1530s  1540s  1550s
Years:	1519 1520 1521 – 1522 – 1523 1524 1525

1522 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

Contents 1 Events of 1522 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1522

[edit] 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.

[edit] July–December

• July 28 – Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I begins his 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.

[edit] Undated

• The first Diet of Nuremberg is held.
• The third edition of the Textus Receptus of the Bible is published.
• The Knight's Revolt erupts in Germany.
• Chinese Ming Dynasty records indicate that the War Ministry official He Ru is the first to acquire the Portuguese breech-loading culverin, while copies of them are made by two Westernized Chinese at Beijing, Yang San (Pedro Yang) and Dai Ming.
• The Habsburg-Valois Wars begin.
• Costa Rica was named by the Spanish Colonizer Gil González Dávila when he found copious quantities of gold in Caribbean beaches.
• Some believe that Australia was sighted by a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão de Mendonça. They mapped the continent and named it Jave la Grande, meaning The Greater Java.

[edit] Births

1522 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1522 MDXXII
Ab urbe condita	2275
Armenian calendar	971 ԹՎ ՋՀԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-322 – -321
Bengali calendar	929
Berber calendar	2472
Buddhist calendar	2066
Burmese calendar	884
Byzantine calendar	7030 – 7031
Chinese calendar	辛巳年十二月初四日 (4158/4218-12-4) — to — 壬午年十二月十四日 (4159/4219-12-14)
Coptic calendar	1238 – 1239
Ethiopian calendar	1514 – 1515
Hebrew calendar	5282 – 5283
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1577 – 1578
- Shaka Samvat	1444 – 1445
- Kali Yuga	4623 – 4624
Holocene calendar	11522
Iranian calendar	900 – 901
Islamic calendar	928 – 929
Japanese calendar	Daiei 2 (大永2年)
Korean calendar	3855
Thai solar calendar	2065
v • d • e

• February 2 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
• March 28 – Albert the Warlike, German prince (d. 1557)
• April 23 – Catherine of Ricci, Italian prioress (d. 1590)
• May 24 – John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
• July 25 – Anna of Lorraine (d. 1568)
• September 11 – Ulissi Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
• November 9 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (d. 1586)
• November 18 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 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 (d. 1559)

See also Category: 1522 births.

[edit] Deaths

• February 25 – William Lilye, English classical scholar (b. c. 1468)
• April – Queen Eleni of Ethiopia
• June 25 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
• June 30 – Johann Reuchlin, German humanist and Hebrew scholar (b. 1455)
• September – Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet and bishop (b. c. 1474)
• October 30 – Jean Mouton, French composer (b. c. 1459)
• November 14 – Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)
• date unknown
  • Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Italian painter (b. 1440)
  • Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1479)

See also Category: 1522 deaths.