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30th of April 1524. Battle of Sesia. Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard was killed by an arquebus shot while protecting the retreat of the rearguard of the French army at the crossing of the Sesia at Romagnano.
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2024/04/30
20:48 UTC
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30th of April 1524. France's iconic Chevalier Bayard, "the knight without fear and beyond reproach", dies while fighting in Italy.
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2024/04/30
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17th of April 1524. Giovanni da Verrazzano and his crew become the first known Europeans to explore the bay of New York. (Pictured: a statue honoring him in New York City)
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2024/04/17
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21st of March 1524. Giovanni da Verrazzano and the crew of "La Dauphine" reach the North American eastern coast. The expedition makes landfall at or near Cape Fear at what is later the U.S. state of North Carolina, and then sails northward.
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2024/03/21
13:24 UTC
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17th of January 1524. The ‘birth of the French Empire’. Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sets off to find a western route to the Pacific Ocean for France.
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2024/01/17
11:05 UTC
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1524, Ireland. Storm and destruction of cattle at the beginning of the year.
Annála Connacht:
1524 First of January, the age of the Lord one thousand five hundred and twenty-four years.
Much storm and destruction of cattle at the beginning of this year.
Annals of Ulster:
Kalends of Jan. on Fri., and a Bissextile, 23rd of moon, A.D. 1524.
Great inclemency and destruction on cattle in the beginning of this year.
Annals of Loch Cé:
The kalends of January on Friday, and a bissextile year; the age of the Lord one thousand, five hundred, and twenty-four years.
Great inclemency of weather, and mortality of cattle, in the beginning of the year.
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2024/01/02
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1523. Lorenzo Lotto paints the “Portrait of Marsilio Cassotti and His Bride Faustina” in oil on wood.
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2023/12/12
21:03 UTC
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