The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn, opened for traffic in 1964, was named in honor of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano
In the year 1524, the Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazano’s expedition makes landfall in Cape Fear (March) and sights later as the first Europeans the island of Manhattan (April), the Swiss physician Paracelsus visits Salzburg (summer), Protestant theologians Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt dispute at Jena (Aug), the Spanish conquistador Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba founds the city of Granada, Nicaragua, the oldest Hispanic city in the mainland of the Western Hemisphere (Dec 8) - and all these fine people were born:
1524-0124 Johann Latomus* German chronicler - Frankfurt-am-Main (1598/74)
1524-0210 Albrecht Giese* German politician/diplomat - Danzig, Kingdom of Poland (1580/56)
1524-0217 Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine* French cardinal - Joinville, Kingdom of France (1574/50)
1524-0328 Abdias Prätorius* German theologian/reformer - Salzwedel, Saxony (1573/48)
1524-0528 Selim II* Ottoman Sultan/son of Suleiman the Magnificent - Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (1574/50)
1524-0612 [Achilles Statius](http://June 12 – Achilles Statius, Portuguese humanist (1581/xxxx))* Portuguese humanist - Vidigueira, Kingdom of Portugal (1581/57)
1524-0623 Johann Stössel* German theologian/reformer - Kitzingen (1576/51)
1524-0815 Michael Teuber* German lawyer - Eisleben, Saxony (1586/62)
1524-0823 François Hotman* Protestant lawyer/writer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1590/65)
1524-0907 Thomas Erastus* Swiss physician/theologian - Baden, Canton of Aargau (1583/59)
1524-0911 Pierre de Ronsard* poet - Couture-sur-Loir, Kingdom of France (1585/61)
1524-1004 Francisco Vallés* physician/ teacher - Covarrubias, Spanish Empire (1592/67)
1524-1005 Rani Durgavati * Queen of Gond/defended her kingdom against the Mughal Empire - Kalinjar Fort (1564/39)
1524-1009 Ottavio Farnese* Duke of Parma - Valentano, Papal States (1586/61)
1524-1014 Elizabeth of Denmark* Danish princess/Duchess of Mecklenburg - Denmark-Norway (1586/62)
1524-1016 Nicholas, Duke of Mercœur* Catholic bishop - Bar-le-Duc, Kingdom of France (1577/52)
1524-1017 Adolf Occo* German physician - Augsburg (1606/82)
1524-1019 Thomas Tusser* poet/ writer - Rivenhall, Essex, England (1580/55)
1524-1112 Diego de Langa* Bishop of the Yucatán - Cifuentes, Spanish Empire (1579/54)
1524-1219 Johannes Vischer* German physician/university teacher - Wending (1587/62)
Updated 15.5.2023
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