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Events
June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated.
November 6 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot on Texas.
Andrea Doria revolts against the French and establishes the independence of Genoa.
Montenegro gains autonomy under Turk power.
Maya people drive Spanish Conquistadors out of Yucatán.
Spain takes direct control of Acapulco.
Bubonic plague breaks out in England.
Major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England, speads to much of the continent.
St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle completed.
Chateau Fontainebleau in France begun.
Cardinal Wolsey founds a college at Ipswich.
Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on fortifications of Florence.
Baldassare Castiglione publishes The Book of the Courtier.
Births
Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (+ 1572)
Paolo Boi, Italian chessmaster
July 8 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (+ 1580)
October 4(?) - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer
Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord
Deaths
April 6 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer and mathematician
Giovanni da Verrazzano, explorer
Category:1528
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