1528

Years: 1525 1526 1527 - 1528 - 1529 1530 1531
Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

January 12 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated.
November 6 - Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of what is present-day Texas.
Andrea Doria revolts against the French and establishes the independence of Genoa.
Montenegro gains autonomy under Turk power.
Maya peoples drive Spanish Conquistadores out of Yucatán.
Spain takes direct control of Acapulco.
Bubonic plague breaks out in England.
Fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England. This time the disease also spreads to northern Europe.
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.

January 7 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (died 1572)
July 8 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (died 1580)
October 4 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (died 1599)
November 12 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (d. 1588)
Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (died 1604)
Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg, stadtholder of the Dutch provinces of Friesland (died 1568)
Federico Barocci, Italian painter (died 1612)
Adam of Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (died 1577)
Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (died 1602)
Andrey Kurbsky, Russian writer (died 1583)
Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1582)
Girolamo Muziano, Italian painter (died 1592)
Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (died 1601)
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (died 1590)
John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (died 1554)
Phung Khac Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (died 1613)

February 29 - Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (born 1504)
April 1 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer
April 6 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (born 1471)
August 15 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (born 1485)
October 5 - Richard Fox, English churchman
Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (born 1473)
Matthias Grünewald, German artist (born 1470)
Balthasar Hubmaier, influential German/Moravian Anabaptist leader (born 1480)
Pánfilo de Narváez, Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas (born 1480)
Palma Vecchio, Italian painter
Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (born 1487)