* In 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered the United States of America's east coast.

* 1524 – Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.

** Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist ( b. 1524 )

** Pietro Perugino, Italian painter ( d. 1524 )

The area was first described in detail by Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian navigator, in 1524.

In 1524, the Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano and his crew visited Narragansett Bay.

In 1524, Marot accompanied King Francis on his disastrous Italian campaign.

* August 12-Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer ( born c. 1524 )

* November 21-Cipriano Piccolpasso, Italian poet and author ( born 1524 )

* April 21-Girolamo Parabosco, Italian poet and musician ( born c. 1524 )

In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer in the service of the French crown, explored the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay.

:# Credited to Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano, who first named a region around Chesapeake Bay Archadia ( Arcadia ) in 1524 because of " the beauty of its trees ", according to his diary.

It is accepted by most historians that first contact by Europeans was made by Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer who entered the bay in his ship La Dauphine in 1524 after visiting New York Bay.

Giovanni da Verrazzano, the Italian explorer sailing for France, made landfall after crossing the Atlantic at or near Cape Fear on March 1, 1524.

The Mandrake ( Italian: La Mandragola ; written in 1518 and first printed in 1524 ) is a satirical play by Italian Renaissance writer Niccolò Machiavelli.

When the Italian captain Giovanni de Verrazano sailed into Narragansett Bay in 1524, natives, most likely Pokanokets, appeared on the shores.

Fazio Cardano ( 1444 – August 28, 1524 ) was an Italian jurist and mathematician.

Andrea Cesalpino ( Latinized as Andreas Cæsalpinus ) ( 1524 or 1525 – February 23, 1603 ) was an Italian physician, philosopher and botanist.

In 1524 the great Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European to discover Cape Cod Bay, his claim proved by a map of 1529 which clearly outlined Cape Cod.

* Giovanni Battista Fontana ( painter ) ( 1524 – 1587 ), an Italian painter and engraver

In 1524, the Florentine navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano, working for Italian bankers in France, explored the American coast from Florida to Cape Breton.

Don Joseph Nasi ( or Nassi ; also known as João Miques / Micas and Don João Migas Mendes in a Portuguese variant, Giuseppe Nasi in Italian, and as Yasef Nassi in Ottoman Turkish ; 1524, Portugal – 1579, Constantinople ) was a Jewish diplomat and administrator, member of the House of Mendes / Benveniste, and a nephew of Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi, and influential figure in the Ottoman Empire during the rules of both Sultan Suleiman I and his son Selim II.

Ambrogio Borgognone ( variously known as Ambrogio da Fossano, Ambrogio di Stefano da Fossano, Ambrogio Stefani da Fossano or as il Bergognone, c. 1470s – 1523 / 1524 ) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school.

* The explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, in 1524 noted the presence of an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay, which he likened to the Greek island of Rhodes.

* probable – Vasco da Gama, explorer ( d. 1524 )

D. Vasco da Gama () ( c. 1460 or 1469 – 24 December 1524 ), 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.

The king had previously invited ( although not formally commissioned ) the Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano to explore the eastern coast of North America on behalf of France in 1524.

* Vasco da Gama ( c. 1469 – 1524 ) – Portuguese explorer.

The first recorded contact between the indigenous people of the New York City region and Europeans was with the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 when he anchored at the approximate location where the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge touches down in Brooklyn today.

The first European contact was in 1524, when the explorer Giovanni de Verrazano visited Narragansett Bay.

In 1524, the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano noted the presence of an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay, which he likened to the Greek island of Rhodes.

It was first mentioned as a " white grape " in a written logbook by the Florentine explorer Giovanni de Verrazzano while exploring the Cape Fear River Valley in 1524.

The explorer Hernán Cortés and his men were familiar with the book ; Cortés quoted it in 1524.

The Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama, died in Kochi in 1524 when he was on his third visit to India.

The Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama, died in Kochi in 1524 when he was on his third visit to India.

* 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.

* 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.

The first European explorers to visit Westchester were Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 and Henry Hudson in 1609.

In 1524, Francis sent Italian-born Giovanni da Verrazano to explore the region between Florida and Newfoundland for route to the Pacific Ocean.

French interest in the New World began with Francis I of France, who in 1524 sponsored Giovanni da Verrazzano to navigate the region between Florida and Newfoundland in hopes of finding a route to the Pacific Ocean.

The information supposedly came from Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage in 1524.

Within a period of 112 years, 1497 – 1609, four European explorers claimed this land for their sponsors: John Cabot, 1497, for England ; Giovanni de Verrazano, 1524, for France ; Estevan Gomez, 1525, for Spain, Henry Hudson, 1609, for Holland.

The Lenape Native Americans were known to inhabit the region, including the area now known as Berkeley Heights, dating back to the 1524 voyage of Giovanni da Verrazzano to what is now the lower New York Bay.

The first European to mention the mountain was Giovanni da Verrazzano, in 1524, from the Atlantic Ocean, as " high interior mountains ".

In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano anchored in what is now called The Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and Long Island that connects the Upper and Lower New York Bay, where he received a canoe party of Lenape.

He married Filiberta ( 1498 – 1524 ), daughter of Philip II, Duke of Savoy, on 22 February 1515, at the court of France, thanks to the intercession of his brother Giovanni, now Pope as Leo X, in the same year Francis I of France ( Filiberta's nephew ) invested him with the title of Duke of Nemours ( which had recently reverted once again to the French crown ) on the occasion.

He was not the first to discover the estuary, though, as it had been known since the voyage of Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524.

The first European to discover the area was Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524.

The first recorded European entrance into the Narrows was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, who set anchor in the strait and was greeted by a group of Lenape, who paddled out to meet him in the strait.

It was also twice occupied by Spain: 1521 – 1524 & 1551 – 31 July 1560 ; again there were governors: 1521 – 1524 ..., 1560 Giovanni Andrea Doria.