1522

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s
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.

Events

January 9 – Pope Adrian VI (born Adrian Dedens and sometimes referred to as Hadrian) succeeds Pope Leo X as the 218th pope.
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 – Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I begins his 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.

The first Diet of Nuremberg is held.
The third edition of the Textus Receptus of the Bible is published.
The Knight's Revolt erupts in Germany.
Chinese Ming Dynasty records indicate that the War Ministry official He Ru is the first to acquire the Portuguese breech-loading culverin, while copies of them are made by two Westernized Chinese at Beijing, Yang San (Pedro Yang) and Dai Ming.
The Habsburg-Valois Wars begin.
Costa Rica was named by the Spanish Colonizer Gil González Dávila when he found copious quantities of gold in Pacific beaches.
Some believe that Australia was sighted by a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão de Mendonça. They mapped the continent and named it Jave la Grande, meaning The Greater Java.

February 2 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
March 28 – Albert the Warlike, German prince (d. 1557)
April 23 – Catherine of Ricci, Italian prioress (d. 1590)
May 24 – John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
July 25 – Anna of Lorraine (d. 1568)
September 11 – Ulissi Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
October 14 – Lucas Maius, Lutheran Reformation pastor, theologian and playwright (d. 1598)
November 9 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (d. 1586)
November 18 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 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 (d. 1559)
possible
- Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)

February 25 – William Lilye, English classical scholar (b. c. 1468)
April – Queen Eleni of Ethiopia
June 25 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
June 30 – Johann Reuchlin, German humanist and Hebrew scholar (b. 1455)
September – Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet and bishop (b. c. 1474)
October 30 – Jean Mouton, French composer (b. c. 1459)
November 14 – Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)
date unknown
- Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Italian painter (b. 1440)
- Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1479)