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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s Years: 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 - 1528 - 1529 1530 1531 1532 1533 Events June 19 - Battle of Landriano[?] - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated. Andrea Doria[?] revolts against the French and establishes the independence of Genoa Montenegro gains autonomy under Turk power. Mayans drive Spanish Conquistadors out of Yucatan. Spain takes direct control of Acapulco. Bubonic plague breaks out in England. 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. Births July 8 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (+ 1580) Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (+ 1572) Deaths April 6 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer and mathematician Giovanni da Verrazzano, explorer
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s
Years: 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 - 1528 - 1529 1530 1531 1532 1533
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