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1522

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

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Events of 1522

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January - June

July 28: Knights of St. John.

• 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.

December 20: Knights of Malta.

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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.

3rd Textus Receptus.

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• 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 golf in Caribbean beaches.

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Births

• 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.

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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.