1522

Year 1522 (MDXXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1522nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 522nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1520s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1522 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1522
MDXXII
Ab urbe condita2275
Armenian calendar971
ԹՎ ՋՀԱ
Assyrian calendar6272
Balinese saka calendar1443–1444
Bengali calendar929
Berber calendar2472
English Regnal year13 Hen. 8  14 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2066
Burmese calendar884
Byzantine calendar7030–7031
Chinese calendar辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4218 or 4158
     to 
壬午年 (Water Horse)
4219 or 4159
Coptic calendar1238–1239
Discordian calendar2688
Ethiopian calendar1514–1515
Hebrew calendar5282–5283
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1578–1579
 - Shaka Samvat1443–1444
 - Kali Yuga4622–4623
Holocene calendar11522
Igbo calendar522–523
Iranian calendar900–901
Islamic calendar928–929
Japanese calendarDaiei 2
(大永2年)
Javanese calendar1439–1440
Julian calendar1522
MDXXII
Korean calendar3855
Minguo calendar390 before ROC
民前390年
Nanakshahi calendar54
Thai solar calendar2064–2065
Tibetan calendar阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
1648 or 1267 or 495
     to 
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1649 or 1268 or 496

Events

3rd Textus Receptus.

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

  • July The English army attacks Brittany and Picardy from Calais, burning and looting the countryside.[5]
  • July 28 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I begins his siege to expel the Knights of St. John in Rhodes.
  • August The Knights' Revolt erupts in Germany.
  • September 6 The Victoria (nao Vittoria), one of the surviving ships of the Magellan expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
  • September 21 Luther Bible: Martin Luther's translation of the Bible's New Testament into Early New High German from Greek, Das newe Testament Deutzsch, is published in Germany, selling thousands in the first few weeks.
  • September 22 1522 Almería earthquake: A major 6.8 to 7.0 Mw earthquake occurs in the capital of Almeria and the Andarax Valley, near Alhama de Almería. It has a maximum felt intensity of X–XI (extreme), and kills about 2,500 people, making it the most destructive earthquake in Spanish history. The city of Almería is totally destroyed, and there is serious destruction in 80 other towns; in Granada, large cracks are observed in various walls and towers.[6]
  • October 2122 The 1522 Vila Franca earthquake takes place in the municipality of Vila Franca do Campo, at this time the provincial capital, located on São Miguel Island, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
  • November The Diet of Nuremberg opens.
  • December 18 The Ottomans 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 in Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta, and become known as the Knights of Malta.

Date unknown

  • The third edition of Erasmus's Greek Textus Receptus of the New Testament, Novum Testamentum (with parallel Latin text), is published in Basel.
  • Chinese Ming dynasty 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.
  • Australia is sighted by a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão de Mendonça, who maps the continent and names it Jave la Grande ("The Greater Java"), according to the theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia.
  • The Portuguese ally with the Sultanate of Ternate and begin the construction of Fort Kastela.
  • The Portuguese, allied with King Ilato of the Goratalo kingdom, construct the Otanaha Fortress.

Births

Dirck Coornhert
Mihrimah Sultan
  • January 22 Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, (d. 1545)
  • February 2
    • Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
    • Francesco Alciati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1580)
  • March 10 Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Japanese samurai and daimyō (d. 1564)
  • March 22 Daniel Brendel von Homburg, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1582)
  • March 28 Albert Alcibiades, German prince (d. 1557)[7]
  • April 23 Catherine of Ricci, Italian prioress (d. 1590)
  • May 24 John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
  • June 1 Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer and scholar (d. 1590)
  • July 5 Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1586)
  • July 13 Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1575)
  • July 25 Anna of Lorraine (d. 1568)
  • July 31 Charles II de Croÿ, Belgian duke (d. 1551)
  • August 4 Udai Singh II, King of Mewar (d. 1572)
  • August 28 Severinus of Saxony, Prince of Saxony; died young (d. 1533)
  • September 11 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
  • October 4 Gabriele Paleotti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1597)
  • October 14 Lucas Maius, Lutheran Reformation pastor, theologian and playwright (d. 1598)
  • November 1 Andrew Corbet, English landowner and politician (d. 1578)
  • November 4 Albert de Gondi, Marshal of France (d. 1602)
  • November 9 Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (d. 1586)
  • November 18 Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
  • December 16 Honoré I, Lord of Monaco (d. 1581)
  • date unknown
    • Mihrimah Sultan, Ottoman princess (d. 1578)
    • Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Spanish Jewish rabbi and kabbalist (d. 1570)
    • Philothei, Greek saint (d. 1589)
    • Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (d. 1590)[8]
  • probable
    • Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (d. 1559)
  • possible

Deaths

Johann Reuchlin
  • January 25 Raffaello Maffei, Italian theologian (b. 1451)
  • January 29 Wolfgang I of Oettingen, German count (b. 1455)
  • February 25 William Lilye, English classical scholar (b. c. 1468)
  • April Queen Eleni of Ethiopia
  • April 10 Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, Italian philosopher (b. 1466)
  • June 13 Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman (b. 1450)[9]
  • June 24 Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Landgravine of Hesse, German noble (b. 1483)
  • June 25 Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
  • June 30 Johann Reuchlin, German humanist and Hebrew scholar (b. 1455)
  • August 28- Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, sculptor, engineer and architect
  • 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)[10]
  • date unknown Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Italian painter (b. 1440)

References

  1. Collier's Encyclopedia
  2. André Biéler (2006). Calvin's Economic and Social Thought. World Alliance of Reformed Churches, World Council of Churches. p. 34. ISBN 978-2-8254-1445-3.
  3. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 142–145. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 204–210. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. Hackett, Francis (1937). Francis the First. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. p. 253.
  6. "1522: El año en el que Almería fue destruida por un gran terremoto" (in Spanish). Víctor Hernández Bru. July 11, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  7. "Albert II Alcibiades | margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  8. "Jacques Cujas". Oxford Reference. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  9. John F. D'Amico (1993). Roman and German Humanism, 1450-1550. Variorum. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-86078-388-6.
  10. "Anne Of France | regent of France | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
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