1522

1522 (MDXXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1522nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 522nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1520s decade. As of the start of 1522, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1522 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1522 MDXXII
Ab urbe condita	2275
Armenian calendar	971 ԹՎ ՋՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	6272
Balinese saka calendar	1443–1444
Bengali calendar	929
Berber calendar	2472
English Regnal year	13 Hen. 8 – 14 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2066
Burmese calendar	884
Byzantine calendar	7030–7031
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4218 or 4158     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4219 or 4159
Coptic calendar	1238–1239
Discordian calendar	2688
Ethiopian calendar	1514–1515
Hebrew calendar	5282–5283
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1578–1579
- Shaka Samvat	1443–1444
- Kali Yuga	4622–4623
Holocene calendar	11522
Igbo calendar	522–523
Iranian calendar	900–901
Islamic calendar	928–929
Japanese calendar	Daiei 2 (大永２年)
Javanese calendar	1439–1440
Julian calendar	1522 MDXXII
Korean calendar	3855
Minguo calendar	390 before ROC 民前390年
Nanakshahi calendar	54
Thai solar calendar	2064–2065
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1648 or 1267 or 495     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 1649 or 1268 or 496

Events

• January 9 – Adrian Dedens becomes Pope Adrian VI.
• February 26 – Execution by hanging of Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan under orders of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
• April 22 – 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 Sanlcar 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.
• First Diet of Nuremberg.
• The third edition of the Textus Receptus of the Bible published.