PEACH

History

1524

Population: 479 Million*

Entertainment: Art includes Cranach "Judgment of Paris", Durer "Willibald Pirchkeimer" (portrait),
Geography: Petrus Apianus of Ingolstadt creates first textbook on theoretical geography
Religion: Johann Walther produces hymnal in conjunction with Martin Luther
Luther marries former nun
Tyndale flees England – possibly to Germany as "William Daltin"
Deaths: Artist Hans Holbein the Elder, Navigator Vasco de Gama, Chevalier de Bayard

North America: Giovanni da Verrazano discovers New York Bay and Hudson River
French search for NW passage - hire Giovanni da Verrazano
South America: Spanish conquest of the Maya begins

Denmark: Treaty of Malmo – Denmark confirms independence of Sweden under Gustavus I
England: London printer Jan Wynkyn de Worde publishes translation from Rome and uses first italic type in England
Turkeys from South America first eaten at English court
France: French invade Milan before invasion quelled
German States: Protestant princes of Germany meet at Ulm against Emperor Charles
Peasants' revolt in southern Germany under leadership of Thomas Munzer, Florian Geyer and Michael Gaismair
Peasant's Rebellion put down by Council of Worms
Italian States: Chevalier de Bayard mortally wounded in Italy – French driven out of Italy
Aretino expelled from Rome
Michelangelo creates Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence
Scotland: James V named king
Switzerland: Zwingli abolishes Catholic Mass in Zurich
Five Swiss cantons unite against Zurich and Zwingli