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Year 1524 (MDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= January–March =

  • January 17 – Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World, to seek out a western sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
  • February 20 – Tecun Uman, the K'iche' Maya ruler of Guatemala's highlands, is killed in a battle near Quetzaltenango between the K'iche' Maya people and the invading Spanish conquistadors led by Pedro Alvarado.{{cite book |author=Sharer, Robert J. |author-link=Robert Sharer |author2=Loa P. Traxler |year=2006 |title=The Ancient Maya |edition=6th |location=Stanford, California, US |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=0-8047-4817-9 |oclc=57577446 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/ancientmaya0006shar |page=764 }}
  • March 7 – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado destroys the Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, taking the capital, Quiché."Introduction", in Allen J. Christenson, to [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Popol_Vuh/rWr-_NXanhMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=March+1524+Quiche&pg=PA31&printsec=frontcoverPopul Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya] (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012) p.31
  • March 21 – da Verrazzano's expedition makes landfall at Cape Fear at what is later the U.S. state of North Carolina.Verrazano's Voyage Along the Atlantic Coast of North America, 1524, translation of letters by Giovanni da Verrazzano (University of the State of New York, 1916) p.6 ("The XXIIII day of February we suffered a tempest as severe as ever a man who has navigated suffered... In XXV more days we asailed more than 400 leagues where there appeared to us a new land.")

= April–June =

  • April 17 – Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay, and sights the island of Manhattan.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kpMGlc-cvAoC&q=%22La+Dauphine%22+verrazano&pg=PA37|last=Paine|first=Lincoln P.|title=Ships of Discovery and Exploration|location=New York|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2000|isbn=0-395-98415-7|page=37}}{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=0-671-74919-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun/page/235 235]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun}}
  • 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 the Italian Peninsula.
  • May 23 – Tahmasp I becomes the ruler of the Safavid Empire, following the death of his father, Shah Ismail I.
  • May 26 – Atiquipaque, the most important city of the Xinca people, is conquered by the Spanish, resulting in a significant reduction in the Xinca population.
  • June 8 – Battle of Acajutla: Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado defeats a battalion of Pipiles, in the neighborhoods of present day Acajutla, El Salvador.{{cite book|author=James Stuart Olson|title=The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=175c4xOpLtYC&pg=PA294|year=1991|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26387-3|pages=294}}

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