1524 - Events.
March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. date).
April 30 - Battle of the Sesia - Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy defeat the French army in Italy under William de Bonnivet. The French, now commanded by François de St. Pol, withdraw from Italy.
August - September - Siege of Marseille by Imperial forces under the Duke of Bourbon.
October 28 - A French army invading Italy under King Francis besieges Pavia.
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Diego de Landa Calderón (1524 – 1579) was Bishop of Yucatán. De Landa was in charge of bringing the Roman Catholic faith to the Maya peoples after the Spanish conquest of Yucatán. He presided over a spiritual monopoly granted to the Catholic order of Franciscans by the Spanish crown, and worked dilligently to buttress the order's power while converting the indigenous Maya. He left future generations with a mixed legacy in his writings which contain much valuable information on pre-Columbian Maya civilization, and his actions which destroyed much of tha ...
1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
1587 - Events.
February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she is implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
July 22 - Colony of Roanoke: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
August 19 - Polish and Lithuanian noble ...
1469 - Events.
July 26 - Battle of Edgecote Moor
October 17 - Prince Ferdinand of Aragon wed princess Isabella of Castile. This event would lead to a unified Spain in 1516.
Sigismund of Austria sells upper-Elsass (Alsace) to the Charles the Bold in exchange of aid in a war against the Swiss
Uzun Hassan wins in Persia and defeats Abu Said
Lorenzo de' Medici takes power in Florence
Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
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