1522

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
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Years:	1519 1520 1521 - 1522 - 1523 1524 1525

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

[edit] Events of 1522

January 9 - Pope Adrian VI (born Adrian Dedens and sometimes referred to as Hadrian) succeeds Pope Leo X as the 218th pope.
February 26 - Execution by hanging of Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan under orders of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
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.

July 28 - Beginning of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I's 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.

February 2 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (died 1565)
March 28 - Albert the Warlike, German prince (died 1557)
April 23 - Catherine of Ricci, Italian prioress (died 1590)
May 24 - John Jewel, English bishop (died 1571)
July 25 - Anna of Lorraine (died 1568)
September 11 - Ulissi Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (died 1605)
November 9 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (died 1586)
November 18 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (died 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 (died 1559)

See also Category: 1522 births.

February 25 - William Lilye, English classical scholar (born c1468)
April - Queen Eleni of Ethiopia
June 25 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (born 1451)
June 30 - Johann Reuchlin, German humanist and Hebrew scholar (born 1455)
September - Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet and bishop (born c1474)
October 30 - Jean Mouton, French composer (born c1459)
November 14 - Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)
date unknown
- Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Italian painter (born 1440)
- Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1479)

See also Category: 1522 deaths.